02069cam a2200265 4500 60610004 TxAuBib 20100101120000.0 081017s2009||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2008045349 9780374160319 hardcover : alk. paper 0374160317 hardcover : alk. paper DNAL/DLC DLC YDXCP C#P BWX CDX UPZ VP@ BTCTA CQU DLC TxAuBib Eck, Joe. Our life in gardens / Joe Eck and Wayne Winterrowd ; illustrations by Bobbi Angell. 1st ed. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009. xi, 322 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Includes index. Setting out -- Agapanthus -- Annuals -- Arborvitae -- Artichokes -- Bananas -- The bay tree -- Berberis -- Biennials -- Boxwood -- Camellias -- Colchicum -- Corydalis -- Cyclamen -- The daffodil meadow -- Forcing branches -- The garden trowel -- Gentians -- Hardiness -- Hedges -- Hellebores -- Ilex -- Leucojum -- Lilacs -- Magnolias -- Native groundcovers -- Nerines -- Pea season -- The pergola walk -- Poppies -- Pots -- Primroses -- Prunus 'Hally Jolivette' -- Prunus mume -- Rampant plants -- The rock garden and planted walls -- Roses -- Sempervivums -- Snowdrops -- Sorbus alnifolia -- Stewartias -- Summer-blooming bulbs -- Tender rhododendrons -- Time -- Vegetable gardens -- Violets -- Willows -- Wisteria -- Xanthorrhoea quadrangulata -- The future. In Our Life in Gardens, renowned garden designers Joe Eck and Wayne Winterrowd provide information about the cultivation of plants and their value in the landscape, discussing the various parts of their garden and particular plants--roses and lilacs, snowdrops and cyclamen--and vegetables. The authors also discuss the development of their garden over time, and the dark issue that weighs more and more on their minds: its eventual decline and demise. 20100101. Gardening Anecdotes. Winterrowd, Wayne.