This time around, noted garden writer Loewer ( A Year of Flowers ) lends his expertise to transforming traditional problem spots into spaces flourishing with green. Loewer stubbornly--and charmingly--refuses to give up on areas that seem forbidding to plants. As usual, he is completely practical while also offering expansive, inventive, and prolific information. And, also as usual, he takes us on a tour of individual plants and gardens so personably that readers will feel as though they know these intimately. Whether the problem is heat, shade, dry soil, rocky soil or no soil (he discusses creating gardens in such places as Manhattan apartments), Loewer has a plant or a plan. He assesses 101 flowering plants, ornamental grasses, bulbs, ground covers, ferns, vines, shrubs and small trees, including detailed descriptions and care information for each.
