Cuttings from a Rock Garden: Plant Portraits and Other Essays
- ISBN-10
- 088192377X
- ISBN-13
- 9780881923773
- Category
- Gardening
- Pages
- 446
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1997
- Publisher
- Timber Press (OR)
- Authors
- H. Lincoln Foster, Laura Louise Foster
Description
The heart of this book is the essay collection detailing 100 plant generations over 40 years. The soul of the book is the heartwarming story of how the Fosters came to Millstream House in 1949 and turned a woodland mountainside into an enchanting private rock garden. Color photographs, illustrations.
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