This lavishly illustrated guide to the bold foliage, exuberant colors and heady fragrances of exotic plants will inspire any local gardener to experiment with zonal denial and plant more spiky agaves, bold cannas, and hardy banana and palm trees. ... The luscious photos of these unusual plants will seduce any gardener into planting a bed of these wild and exotic specimens. If your landscape needs a wake-up call, this book will be its three-alarm siren. -- Marianne Binetti Seattle Post-Intelligencer 20071107 Here's the book for you if you're a hopelessly adventuresome 'envelope-pusher' in the garden. -- George Weigel Harrisburg Patriot-News 20071115 Drawing on his experience running the acclaimed Exotic Garden in the very temperate Norwich, England, author Will Giles demonstrates how plants that supposedly shouldn't survive in temperate areas can be persuaded to prosper in the most dubious places. -- John Akeroyd Garden Compass 20080401 A feast for gardeners who love a challenge and who embrace Giles' adventurous spirit, his sense that the garden should be a place of fun, pleasure and fulfillment. ... If his enthusiasm doesn't get you, his gorgeous color photographs will. -- Ethel Fried Manchester (CT) Journal Inquirer 20081025