Thomas J. Mickey is Professor Emeritus of Communication Studies at Bridgewater State University, Bridgewater, Massachusetts. He is a graduate of Boston University, the University of Iowa, and the Landscape Institute at the Boston Architectural College, and has been a garden columnist for the "Brockton Enterprise, Quincy Patriot Ledger, " and Portsmouth, New Hampshire's "Seacoast Media." His other books include "Best Garden Plants for New England" (with Alison Beck, 2006), "Deconstructing Public Relations" (2003), and "Sociodrama: An Interpretive Theory for the Practice of Public Relations" (19...