This title takes us on a procession through time, from the hidden secrets of winter, the first shoots of spring and the fecundity of summer right through the slow retreat of autumn and the preparation for rebirth. The reader journeys through the year with Carol Klein to see the wonder of the garden and how it all works.

"To see a meadow in bloom is a great delight it s alive and teeming with life, mysterious, dynamic and seemingly out of our control . . ."
So Christopher Lloyd began his book on meadows, first published in 2004. No one knew more about meadow gardening than Lloyd, who spent much of his long life developing the flowering tapestries in his garden at Great Dixter, in the UK. In "Meadows," he imparted that lifetime s learning, exploring the development and management of meadow areas, explaining how to establish a meadow in a garden setting, and describing the hundreds of beautiful grasses,...