Plant This!: Best Bets for Year-Round Gorgeous Gardens

by Ketzel Levine, Rene Eisenbart (Illustrator)

In her inimitable style--smart, smart-alecky, and seriously enthusiastic--Ketzel Levine describes her favorite those that offer outstanding color, fragrance, form, and performance in the garden. Known as "The Doyenne of Dirt" on NPR's "Weekend Edition," Ketzel Levine has a national reputation for unabashed gardening advice. Drawn from her popular column in "The Oregonian," here are Levine's 100 recommendations for the best perennials, grasses, shrubs, and trees. With gorgeous watercolor illustrations of every plant, this book constitutes the ultimate gardener's shopping list! Levine reveals whats so special about her picks, along with advice on how to keep them happy. So whether it is clematis cirrhosa (sounds like "feminist mimosa") or ophiopogon (rhymes with "sophie showed logan"), these plants are the best of the best, served up with a whole lot of attitude.

Genres: Gardening, Nonfiction

216 pages, Paperback

First published January 9, 2002

Reviews

[Hybridhopes · Rating 3 out of 5]

Would have given it more stars if it had more edible plants, and more warnings about which plants are poisonous.

What can I say? I'm a hippy with a toddler and a bunch of animals. This book was wonderfully written and illustrated, and kind of funny. I liked it, even though it wasn't just what I was looking for.