Guess What's in My Garden!

Guess What’s in My Garden! is an eclectic look at John’s gardening experience, his successes and failures, his joys and disappointments, memories of family and friends, his ideas and strong opinions, and his love for plants. It is an entertaining bedside reader for gardeners, old and new.

Guess What’s in My Garden! is an eclectic look at John’s gardening experience, his successes and failures, his joys and disappointments, memories of family and friends, his ideas and strong opinions, and his love for plants. It is an entertaining bedside reader for gardeners, old and new. How else can one learn about Grammy’s bench, John's famous soil recipe, the ongoing battle with critters, the Thug Hall of Fame, the Victory Garden, Grandma’s sweetheart rose, the Ten Commandments of the Garden Police, the perfect gift for that special gardening friend, the Veggie Fairy, the attack of The Birds, and a foolproof method for protecting hosta from various critters? There are even garden inspired poems and a short short story.

After seventeen moves in 24 years in the U. S. Navy, John Viccellio finally had time and place to become a serious gardener. He became a Master Gardener in 1992, and designed and built his two North Carolina gardens from the ground up, one of which was featured in a regional garden magazine. He wrote a monthly garden column for his Chapel Hill community for ten years and is a lecturer and regular contributor to Carolina Gardener magazine. John has visited many of the renown gardens in America, Europe and Japan and studied bonsai under Toshio Kawamoto in Tokyo. He volunteered as a tour guide for eight years at the North Carolina Botanical Gardens in Chapel Hill.