The Canadian Gardener's Guide to Foliage and Garden Design

Patricia Morley is professor emeritus of English and Canadian studies at
Concordia University and the author of Margaret Laurence: The Long
Journey Home and As Though Life Mattered: Leo Kennedy’s Story.

Readers of Marjorie Harris’s national newspaper columns will know that
her advice to gardeners is always wise, witty, and down-to-earth. This
book, generously illustrated in full color with photographs of gardens
in Canada, should provide pleasure, inspiration, and information to many
northern gardeners.

Topics include the principles of design, designing with foliage plants,
seasonal planning, furnishings, pools, microclimates, and xeriscaping.
The latter concept (from xeros, Greek for dry) means organizing your
garden to survive on natural rainfall. Foliage plants are especially
important in harsh climes.

Torontonian Tim Saunders is an award-winning commercial photographer
who gardens at his cottage. Harris gardens in downtown Toronto, a
situation that may provide ample scope for the determination and
imagination her writing displays. She observes that gardening teaches us
about the nature of the planet, indeed of the universe. It breeds poets,
philosophers, and sometimes bores. Foliage and Garden Design, arguably
Harris’s best book to date, is anything but boring.