In Our Life in Gardens, renowned garden designers Joe Eck and Wayne Winterrowd provide information about the cultivation of plants and their value in the landscape, discussing the various parts of their garden and particular plants--roses and lilacs, snowdrops and cyclamen--and vegetables. The authors also discuss the development of their garden over time, and the dark issue that weighs more and more on their minds: its eventual decline and demise....

A celebration of the authors' shared horticultural and culinary lives in their southern Vermont garden explores their views about living in harmony with nature while tracing a year of enjoying home-grown seasonal edibles.