Laura Cerwinske, a native of Miami, was the founding editor of Florida Home Garden magazine and writes articles on garden design for numerous magazines including Garden Design, Southern Accents, and Veranda. She is the author of The Book of the Rose and A Passion for Roses, as well as a long list of books on architecture and design. This is her first book with Pelican. She describes her own gardenoa wooded acre of exaggerated botanyoas a subtropical Giverny.
