Book excerpt: Mrs. Greenthumbs Plows Ahead shows you how to triumph over climate, garden pests, and the design cliches of the typical suburban landscape to make gardening an unrivaled entertainment. Here's how any gardener, even with limited land, money, time, or experience, can create a glorious cottage garden. Siting, enclosing, and "furnishing" a garden Using the classical rules of proportion to balance your garden plan Making the most of your garden depending upon its angle to the sun Constructing a garden path, a rusticated arbor, or a wattle fence Combining trees, shrubs, and perennials for abundance and bloom throughout the growing season Using color as a unifying theme, accent, or expression of mood Propagating shrubs and perennials simply and cheaply Plus a special section on chemical-free pest control and deer-resistant plants. "From the Trade Paperback edition.