Jane Garmey is a gardener and garden writer, who lives in Cornwall, Connecticut.
When she was researching the book, Garmey looked for geographical diversity and a range of sizes and styles. Most importantly, though, she looked for gardens that reflected the sensibilities of their owners, rather than gardens that are completely left to the vision of a designer. All of the gardens, with the exception of one, have been entirely made by their owners. Many of these intrepid souls were true neophytes who had never even planted seeds before, a quality that Garmey can easily relate to. She didn’t know the first thing about gardening when she and her husband bought a small weekend place in northwest Connecticut. “People assumed,” she says, that because she is British she “must have been born with a spade in one hand and a trowel in the other. This was far from the case.” Now Garmey is a passionate gardener and recognized expert who has published five books on gardening and is living proof that a green thumb can be cultivated.
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