Passionate Gardening: Good Advice for Challenging Climates

by Lauren Springer Ogden, Rob Proctor

The ultimate reference and inspirational guide for gardeners in challenging climates. Takes the reader through the seasons in a most comprehensive, yet pleasurable way, as the authors celebrate a diversity of plants for every site and every season. Passionate Gardening tackles every subject, from early snows to slugs, from bulbs to botanical Latin.

Genres: Gardening, Nonfiction

336 pages, Hardcover

First published June 2, 2000

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Reviews

[Jill · Rating 5 out of 5]

When I lived in Colorado eons ago, this book was featured in The Denver Post to encourage xeriscaping. I was living in an apartment at the time but have used the ideas as soon as I was in a home in high desert living.
I am now in Boise which is a lower altitude but still plant perennial plants that are either native or do well in my zones.

[Anna · Rating 4 out of 5]

Diary-ish

[David Ward · Rating 3 out of 5]

Passionate Gardening: Good Advice for Challenging Climates by Lauren Springer Ogden (Fulcrum Publishing 2000) (635 +/-). This volume contains beautiful photos and essays, but this guide is written by Northern Colorado gardeners whose gardens are the antithesis of my Upper South Zone 6b garden. I wish I had known that before I picked this book up. My rating: 7/10, finished 2002.

[Aljan · Rating 5 out of 5]

I LOVE this book. It's full of practical and useful advice and, of course, lovely photos. A must have!

[Nadine in NY Jones · Rating 5 out of 5]

Love Lauren Springer, wish she wrote more books

[Jessica · Rating 5 out of 5]

Absolutely loved it. Best gardening book I've ever read and funny to boot.

[Charlene Johnson]

I love this book and could look at the photos of her gardens over and over.