Midwest Cottage Gardening

Create your own beautiful cottage garden. This practical book offers advice to help midwestern gardeners--whether novices or old pros--achieve beautiful, organic gardens drawing on age-old cottage garden traditions. Readers will learn how to plan and plant a bountiful cottage garden with ecology in mind, using a lively mixture of perennials, annuals, fruiting trees and shrubs, vegetables, and herbs.

Fran Manos provides the keys to successful gardening with a combination of experience and a lighthearted approach in bringing fun to gardening.