Landscape designers Joe Eck and Wayne Winterrowd offer a month-by-month chronicle of their Vermont garden. Living in a difficult climate, they manage to grow a vast range of plants, many of which are not usually hardy in their cold conditions. With about five acres under cultivation, North Hill contains something of everything, from roses to vegetables to conifers. As the authors describe the joys and demands of a life lived close to the soil, a portrait emerges of both a beloved landscape and a focused, rhythmic existence reminiscent of a bygone age. Their account begins with the mud of April when the earth starts to thaw and proceeds to the glory of a summer filled with roses and a final burst of colour in September, followed by New England's fiery October and the gray days when the plants under glass provide a respite from the cold November and December days.
- ISBN10 0805046143
- ISBN13 9780805046144
- Publish Date 15 May 1996 (first published 1 February 1995)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 16 June 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Henry Holt & Company Inc
- Edition Owl Book ed.
- Format Paperback
- Pages 224
- Language English