Farther Afield

In this splendid collection of short essays gardener writer and professor Allen Lacy takes readers on a series of garden excursions beginning at home. Lacy writes of his experiences with a variety of plants--evening primrose prairie gentian sumac coreopsis fuchsias gloriosa lilies--in his own garden in New Jersey. Then he charts his travels to other gardens in the United States Spain Switzerland the Netherlands. Final essays in Farther Afield include a discussion of garden writing profiles of other horticulturists and humorous pieces on cats and houseplants and of course flamingoes.