My two favorite gardeners in Vermont put down their trowels and take up their pens to provide a wonderful and idiosyncratic tour of their Readsboro garden.  Taking one chapter for each topic from roses to primroses, pergolas to wisteria, etc these author-diggers provide useful practical tips as well as philosophy, history, and personal anecdotes.  The work is particularly poignant because Winterrowd died shortly after this book was published.  A continuing inspiration for my gardening.