Super Hints for Ontario Gardeners

Pleasance Crawford is a Canadian landscape and garden-history researcher
and writer and the co-author of Garden Voices: Two Centuries of Canadian
Garden Writing.

Wendy Thomas is a freelance writer and editor and an amateur gardener.
Her first book, The Ontario Gardener’s Resource Guide (1992), was a
valuable compendium of places to go and experts to phone for
horticultural advice. For this book, she contacted both professionals
and amateurs throughout the province, asking everyone to send her their
favorite gardening tips. She then categorized the responses, added
commentary of her own, arranged the categories alphabetically,
cross-referenced and indexed the key words, and produced a user-friendly
book full of advice.

Ontario gardeners have a long tradition of sharing their discoveries.
Thomas’s contributors range in age from 11 to 95, and in locale from
Northern Ontario to the Niagara Peninsula. Many are members of local
horticultural societies and specialist gardening organizations; a few
are professional growers and landscape designers. Their advice is worth
reading.

At the end of the book is a form that readers can mail to Thomas with
their own garden hints. Could a sequel be in the works?