Book briefs

After a few seasons of mixed success in her first forays in Southern gardening, Roxann Hargrave Ward moved with her family to England, where for two years she “was living every American gardener’s dream.” Ward, j’81, spent her final summer overseas studying garden design at a local agricultural college and returned home to Georgia energized to become a master gardener with the skills and creative artistry worthy of the South’s flowering palettes, as seen in “botanical jewels” of Charleston’s famous window boxes and Victorian- era flowering shrubs. Now her Color-Rich Gardening for the South, a delicious new paperback and e-book from The University of North Carolina Press, delivers that expertise and eye for design with a spirited flair both inspirational and technically detailed. Ward notes that while plant materials discussed in her book are geared toward regions of mild winters, her garden designs can be adapted to any area of the country.