Tending Your Garden: A Year-round Guide To Garden Maintenance

Once again the Haywards teach us by example. Lovely photographs and detailed illustrations, sound advice and their usual pervasive combination of hard work and humor make reading and owning this book compulsory for anyone who gardens in the Northeast. Somehow they are able to communicate the endless possibilities of a gardening life without overwhelming the "garden dreamer".

How to keep any garden looking its best, through the seasons and through the years.

Gardening is the primary recreational activity of Americans. Since the 1980s, when gardening caught fire as a national passion, we have spent billions of dollars on what we grow for our own pleasure; and in all that time, not one book has been published on the broad subject of garden maintenance.

For twenty-five years, the Haywards, expert horticultural consultants and authors of many books and articles, have been tending their own garden in Vermont. Here, beautiful photographs illustrate how and what the Haywards do in their garden from earliest spring until snowfall: pruning trees and shrubs; planting, staking, and dividing perennials; and edging, deadheading, and weeding. They also include many tips for reducing maintenance. Their advice can be put to work in the reader's garden, regardless of size or location. Line drawings by Elayne Sears give more details on specific techniques. Anecdotal, encouraging, and crammed with information, this is a gorgeous treatment of a very practical subject. 237 photographs, 16 drawings.

Gordon Hayward, an acclaimed garden designer and lecturer, is the author of five previous books. His wife, Mary Hayward, grew up gardening in the Cotswolds in England. They live and garden in Westminster, Vermont. Their previous books include The Intimate Garden, Your House, Your Garden, and Stone in the Garden.

Publisher: W. W. Norton
Distributor: W. W. Norton
Publication Date: 02-26-2007
Pages: 224
Measurements: 11in X 9in