Essays on Gardening in a Cold Climate

190 pp. "Many of the essays in this collection are about the 'consumption' of gardens rather than their 'production.' They are less about what went into the making of our garden, but more about what came out of it: despair and jubilation, chance successes, shifting enthusiasms, tranquility and turmoil, the ambigious poetry of a frail and temporary beauty. The decision to "make a garden" is momentous, since the consequences of that decision fill our eyes, our minds, our hearts."