In Love with a Hillside Garden
Seattle is a treasure trove of hidden stairways, pocket parks and garden niches. Its up-and-down topography creates all sorts of oddball corners that local gardeners treat as a blank canvas. Most engage with their loving task under cover of anonymity. But with the Streissguth Gardens on North Capitol Hill, the floral casebook has been thrown wide open."In Love with a Hillside Garden" by Ann, Daniel and Benjamin Streissguth (University of Washington Press, 118 pp., $22.50) goes into every detail of brush-clearing, soil-tilling, plant-placing and watering regime. For Ann and Daniel and their son, Benjamin, the garden is a living, protean creature -- almost a member of the family. -- Seattle Times, October 8, 2009