Ann Lovejoy's Organic Garden Design School: A Guide to Creating your own Beautiful, Easy-Care gGrden - Winter Books - Review

National Catholic Reporter, Oct 26, 2001 by Lorna Corpus Sullivan

ANN LOVEJOY'S ORGANIC GARDEN DESIGN SCHOOL: A GUIDE
TO CREATING YOUR OWN BEAUTIFUL, EASY-CARE GARDEN
By Ann Lovejoy
Rodale, 280 pages, $35

This book is for those who desire beautiful, livable garden spaces but have little patience for pruning, shearing and other control-oriented tasks. One of the country's leading garden experts, author Lovejoy, a busy mother of two teenage boys, writes that her goal is to create gardens "that don't need me very much."

Noteworthy is a chapter on "sandwich planting" -- choosing plants that share the same spot of earth and that "sequence effortlessly throughout the year." With encouraging words, a useful design workbook, and in photos of her own successful garden school on Bainbridge Island in Washington state, Lovejoy demonstrates the wisdom of selecting plants for their natural attributes.