The Garden Lover's Guide to Canada (Garden Lover's Guides To...)

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Summary: colourful and useful book
Review: This is one of an excellent series covering both North America and Europe. This particular volume is larger than the European volumes (194 pages as opposed to 144 pages in European guides), but the regional maps are very inferior and of limited use. The paper is also much thicker and therfore heavier to bring around. There are no bird's eye views of the quality one sees in the European series and while the photographs are colourful and plentiful, as we expect from this series, most are not acknowledged. There is an index but no glossary or biographies. Most of the gardens featured appear to be public parks and gardens, which is fine except that there are also first class private gardens in Canada open to the public. For example the Milner gardens in BC, created by the late Veronica Milner from the 1950s surely deserves a place in this book - I could name others. Faults notwithstanding, this is a worthwile addition to the series, all of which I possess.