In her first book, NPR's celebrated gardening correspondent, Ketzel Levine, answers this perennial question: How does a thinking gardener decide what to plant? In this deliciously naughty but entirely legit collection of 100 plant profiles, our Doyenne of Dirt sticks her slightly smudged neck out and picks her favorite gotta-have plants: trees with trunks that glow in the moonlight, shrubs with magic blue beans, and perennials you'll have to beg to stop flowering. Each lusciously illustrated pin-up,combined with Ketzel's infectious love of plants, makes a great gift for any gardener -- if you can bear to give it away!