This is a book about the spiritual and emotional rewards of gardening. Murray, a garden designer, painter, and author of Monet's Passion: Ideas, Inspiration and Insights from the Painter's Gardens (Pomegranate, 1989), divides the book into four sections (for each season) and covers a different aspect in each section. The first, Winter, examines the gardener's relationship with nature and profiles seven paintings...
(more)