Americans today hunger for a return to the comfort and loveliness of hearth, home, and garden. With A Year in the Garden they can find that all year-round. This exquisite visual study of the home garden's seasonal evolution, stands alone in its balance of design, practicality, and cultural roots. Its anecdotal text and hands-on guidance to seasonal plant, color, and texture combinations are peppered with the history-from Tuscan to English-of this overarching approach. Veteran or novice, active gardener or aficionado can reach at any time for this key to all of nature's glorious variety-season after season.