Your photos are breathtaking ! I'm dieing to visit Brookside gardens now, after viewing your fantastic panoramic pics of the park. Also looking forward to seeing more of your work !

Marianne, how very flattering! If you are able to obtain pictures it would be wonderful if you could post them here, assuming that's allowed. I suppose they'll have many pictures that won't be in the book since they've probably taken hundreds, and those might not be copyrighted. At any rate you should be very proud that your garden was chosen. Ingrid

HI! I've just begun 2 different books. The 1st will be about private louisiana gardens. The second, Mississippi private gardens. I will be spending the next year touring and taking pictures in these states. I live in West Monroe and know of plenty of gardens around here. I need help discovering private flower gardens that will "fit" with my theme. My daughter lives in New Orleans-so got that covered as well. I'd appreciate it if you have or know of any personal flowering gardens, or unique private gardens in Louisiana or Mississippi that would be willing to allow me to photograph them. Proceeds from these books are going to be used to plant gardens at the Church,Temple,Synagogue or House of Worship with the winning draw from each state. Thank You for your help. Ginger Solberg my e-mail is gingergaia@yahoo.com Please include 'garden book' in subject.

At this stage, I hardly read anything in gardening magazines. There's a wealth of information available, on-line, about gardening and some of it in isolated articles from magazines or newspapers. In the context of gardening magazines particularly, it bothers me a bit that journalists can write, apparently authoritatively, about anything. For instance, as a student, I wrote a guide to the pheasants of Springwater Park, near Barrie On. To many, it could look like I knew a lot about pheasants, but the content was simply the result of my own research, book and visiting the site. Gardening strikes me as a very hands-on endeavour. Of course, research is necessary, from reading to visiting nurseries, but things have got to be tried out/put into practice by individual gardeners. That means my respect goes out to those that do, rather than any who just write about doing. In the matter of gardening, I'd take the advice of an experienced gardener over the word of an experienced journalist. After all, who's doing for the money?