Book excerpt: This volume follows the multiple award winning first book in a series of gardening books for deer country. Even gardeners who do not have deer will value this wealth of information from an acclaimed gardener and landscaper. Volume 2 again takes the reader into the garden, detailing cultural requirements, bloom length, seasonal interest, landscape use, companion plants, maintenance, and propagation for each groundcover. Plants are evaluated for their use as a single specimen in the rock garden, or as a large or small-scale groundcover.