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Review title: A Florid Disaster
Product review: As a devoted gardener, I looked forward to reading Ackerman's book. It was all I could do to bring myself to finish it. The only order imposed on this tangle of reflections appears to have been a seasonal one; the book opens in spring and ends in winter. Otherwise, it is too long, too heavily reliant on adjectives, and highly repetitious. In particular, all the author's sniffing, arranging, and swooning over her roses began to make me wish the Japanese beetles would win. I do think that gardens are difficult to write about, but Ackerman's descriptions proliferate like an invasive plant---purple loosestrife, perhaps. The prose of "Cultivating Delight" could have used a good pruning.M. Feldman
