What do you do when a young moose calf wants to dine on your freshly planted Lady's Mantle for lunch? What plants can handle a summer of nearly endless sun? How do you harness the wild beauty of the north for your own backyard? There's a Moose in My Garden is the first book to tackle these questions and more with practical, user-friendly advice from an award-winning gardener. Adams provides helpful tips for Far Northern gardeners on how to design and implement successful landscape environments. The book outlines the entire planning and planting process, covering such aspects as handling low-angled sun, soft light, expansive vistas, and a cool climate.

Leberecht Migge (1881-1935) was one of the most innovative landscape architects of the early 20th century. With work ranging from large urban parks to housing settlements with allotment gardens, he sought to create functional green spaces that would not only meet the environmental challenges of the industrial metropolis but also improve the social conditions of modern life. The nationalistic rhetoric of 'Garden Culture of the Twentieth Century' marks it as a political tract of the late Kaiserreich, and its deep influence within the Siedlung communities of the Weimar era attests to its lasting cultural impact.