A Year at North Hill: Four Seasons in a Vermont Garden

by Joe Eck

Book Overview

Landscape designers Joe Eck and Wayne Winterrowd offer a month-by-month chronicle of their Vermont garden. Living in a difficult climate, they manage to grow a vast range of plants, many of which are not usually hardy in their cold conditions. With about five acres under cultivation, North Hill contains something of everything, from roses to vegetables to conifers. As the authors describe the joys and demands of a life lived close to the soil, a portrait...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316209163
• ISBN13: 9780316209168
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Little Brown and Company
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.8" x 10.3"

Customer Reviews

Fine and Dandy

I'm reviewing this for my wife who didn't have time to review it, so, for what it's worth, it was fine. The reliability of this review is questionable.

a wonderful wonderful book

I've worked for years in the extensive gardens of children's book author/illustrator Tomie dePaola (26 FAIRMOUNT AVENUE and other books). This book has helped me appreciate what I do and has helped me "see" the value and the beauty in plants and shrubs and colors, etc., that I never before saw or understood. It's a wonderful book.

A 12 Month Delight

Never did I expect to be so conflicted about why I love a book. This one has it all. Such a beautifully written love story about a garden and the shared lives of two people who have a vision and the courage to create a truly great landscape. The sheer volume of information about specific plants and how they are used are invaluable to me. To have all this knowledge presented in such a beautifully written book is such a gift. I've already read it twice. I've had my copy of this book for two years now and it wouldn't surprise me if I picked it up for a fresh reading sometime this winter.