A year in the life of a country gardener.

As the months and the seasons go by, Fred Bernard writes, draws, and looks on with humor and sensitivity at his garden, a secret retreat teeming with life. With beautiful watercolor paintings and accurate notes, he becomes, by turns, an entomologist, a naturalist, a zoologist, and a patient gardener. Readers will enjoy losing themselves in this luxurious and marvelous oasis.