For most of us, gardening season runs from April until August. We don’t usually think about gardening in December or January. However, with expert gardener Steve Whysall’s latest book, The Vancouver Sun’s Best Plant Picks, you can keep your garden blooming all year long.

In Best Plant Picks, Steve compiles the most useful columns from his Best Plant Picks columns from the past 15 years. Brimming with tips, techniques, handy to-do lists, and over 200 photos, the book is sure to bring inspiration to your garden every month of the year.

Organized in a month-by-month sequence, featuring plants that either have great flowers, excellent foliage or attractive structure (or all three!), you can use Best Plant Picks in a variety of ways:

• Look up a plant using the index. Read about its characteristics and learn how to make the best use of it in your garden.
• Study your garden and decide the months of the year that it needs just a little more umph. Then consult the appropriate months for plant suggestions that will bring your garden back to life for those months.
• Use the book to plan a new garden, selecting top performance plants for each month, guaranteeing the wow factor of your garden all year round.