Offering tips on finding your own gardening style, choosing climate-appropriate plants, creating low-maintenance landscaping and hardscaping, and weeding efficiently and effectively, Freeman understands that there's no room for scolding, but there is a real need for encouragement and good humor.

"Freeman, a master gardener,...has a wonderful conversational style that encourages the neophyte without proving too simplistic to those with years of experience in picking, planting, and pruning." - Star Tribune

"...there's a suggsetion to relax amd enjoy the results of worktje spare-time gardener as put into that delightful new garden." - The Courier-Gazette