Farther Afield: A Gardener's Excursions

The Story

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 plantsevening primrose, prairie gentian, sumac, coreopsis, fuchsias, gloriosa liliesin his own garden in New Jersey. Then he charts his travels to other gardens, in the United States, Spain, Switzerland, the Netherlands. Final essays inFarther Afieldinclude a discussion of garden writing, profiles of other horticulturists, and humorous pieces on cats and houseplants, and, of course, flamingoes.