Gardening is an art. It is also a science. But for most people, gardening is simply a source of deep satisfaction and delight,. Here is a book for anyone who shares these pleasures. In its pages Ralph Bailey, Garden Editor of House & Garden, takes the reader, day by day, through the gardener's year. There are 366 daily readings of advice-- practical, personal, and appreciative.
Ralph Bailey is a gardener's gardener. He is an expert who loves his work, and that love of growing things shines through on every page of his new book. What also shines through are Mr. Bailey's many years of experience as a garden writer and editor. IN every daily section there are ideas and advice, tips and warnings. In January there are days devoted to winter mulching, car e of tools, and the use of light in indoor gardening; while June is for roses and lilies, seaside gardening, and growing favorite irises.
The calendar year circles through twelve months and comes back to its starting point. The gardener's year spirals and never finishes in quite the same place where it began. The general cyclic pattern, however, is reassuring, and it is comforting to know, as the Book of Genesis sets forth, that "seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease." It is equally reassuring, and much more stimulating, to know that the pattern is never the same twice, that the shape of the year to come is substantially ours to dictate.
House & Garden's Gardener's Day Book is illustrated with more than one hundred line drawings and has an index of over thirty pages which will allow the reader to return easily to subjects which have intrigued him during the passing months.
-- from inside cover