The GARDENER'S ESSENTIAL COMPANION: Proven Advice and Lively Information to Help You Garden Smarter, Not Harder

Hundreds of Ideas on Improving Your Garden "Since a garden is an attempt to impose our human sense of order and beauty on nature, it is also the perfect place to discover what a ridiculous idea that really is." As readers of her popular New York Times column know, Dora Galitzki seamlessly combines solid gardening how-to with wry and knowing observations about the gardener's life. Organized in an easy-to-useformat, The Gardener's Essential Companion provides tips on what to do when plants succumb to disease or weather; the basics of selecting the best plants for a garden and keeping them healthy; great ideas for growing unusual plants (like chicory for coffee or night-fragrant flowers); creating a garden to attract butterflies; and much more. Galitzki's gardening-with-an-attitude approach encourages readers to improve their skills, to find creative solutions to gardening problems, and to learn what works best in their own garden or yard. Beautifully illustrated, The Gardener's Essential Companion is an invaluable reference and an inspiring guide for novice and experienced gardeners alike.

Dora Galitzki is a gardening columnist for The New York Times. For more than ten years she was also the Plant Information Officer at The New York Botanical Garden. She is a horticultural consultant for Garden Design magazine, and her work appears in Martha Stewart Living. She lives in Rockport, Maine.