My garden in Fine Gardening magazine

I am thrilled to share that the December issue of Fine Gardening magazine—making it's way to newsstands now—includes a story I wrote on my garden and my plant collecting tendencies. The article is accompanied by photos from Claire Takacs. Yes, THAT Claire Takacs. The talented Australian photographer who's in the news right now because her gorgeous photos of Dan Hinkley's garden are all over the place with the publication of the book Windcliff: A Story of People, Plants, and Gardens. Hmmm... same photographer, two gardens: mine and Dan Hinkley's. I sure hope Dan is ready for my fame to rub off on him....

Hahahahahaha. Ya. So anyway...

Here's the image that went out to Fine Gardening's email list. That's the cover of the December issue and behind it you'll recognize our patio and shade pavilion...

I was a little startled to see that Andrew and I made the table of contents page (below) but also very happy they used enough of Claire's fantastic photos to make this an eight page spread...
This issue is a good one, so you really should pick it up at the newsstands if you're not a subscriber—but then again why wouldn't you be? This is one of the last real gardening magazines we've got going here! That said if you want to read the story online the good folks at Fine Gardening do make that possible. But be forewarned, clicking on this link for the main story and this link to get the spotlight on garden texture (they broke the story into two parts) will eat up both of your free articles, so click when you have time to read it. Oh but clicking through to read Steve Aitken's "Letter from the Editor" is just part of visiting the website, so definitely do that (here).