Laura Jefferson

One of my favorite books about anything of all time. Beautiful, opinionated columns from the Washington Post by a lifelong DC-and-south gardener and writer, who is funny, very well-informed, and deeply humane. If you know a lot about gardening and plants, you'll enjoy his take; if you don't know much, you'll get some information and a lot of ways to think about learning about plants. And people. The week before he died he was leaning out his bedroom window advising his wife as she planted bulbs for the next spring. A great companion for the inside of your head.