Our Life in Gardens [Paperback]

This is the third book we have written together, though separately we have written others . . . But to say written separately' makes no sense, for when two lives have been bent for so many years on one central enterprisein this case, gardeningthere really is no such thing as separately.

With these words, the renowned garden designers Joe Eck and Wayne Winterrowd begin their entertaining, fascinating, and unexpectedly moving book about the life and garden they share. The book contains much sound information about the cultivation of plants and their value in the landscape, and invaluable advice about Eck and Winterrowd's area of expertise: garden design. There are chapters about the various parts of their garden, and sections about particular plantsroses and lilacs, snowdrops and cyclamenand vegetables. The authors also discuss the development of their garden over time, and the dark issue that weighs more and more on their minds: its eventual decline and demise.Our Life in Gardensis a deeply satisfying perspective on gardening, and on life.

Joe EckandWayne Winterrowdare the co-authors ofThe Year at North Hill: Four Seasons in a Vermont GardenandLiving Seasonally: The Kitchen and the Table at North Hill. They are co-founders of the garden design firm North Hill, and live in Vermont.

Joe Eck and Wayne Winterrowd have collaborated on another fine book.Our Life inGardensis a charming, helpful, and confident text, a guiding hand that turns into a reassuring hug. Ken Druse, author of The Passion for Gardening

For more than thirty years, Joe Eck and Wayne Winterrowd have been gardening with extraordinary, indeed legendary, results. Part memoir, part omnium-gatherum of horticultural wisdom and practical advice,Our Life in Gardensis at once literate, learned, sensible, and, often, sheer luscious poetry. There are delights to be sampled on every page. From a cultivated life, they have blÓ%