'A Garden Can Be Anywhere'
In her sumptuous new book, Lauri Kranz—garden guru to the stars—will inspire even apartment dwellers to grow their own food.
Lauri Kranz's passion was always large, but she started small, in her father's vegetable patch behind their house in Bloomfield, Connecticut. The land sloped down to the edge of a wood, and as a child she would work by his side, "talking or not," she says, "pulling weeds and watering—that was enough magic for me."
There were cucumbers on the vine, a watermelon or two, juicy tomatoes and towering sunflowers. And when she'd venture beyond the garden, into the woods, she found skunk cabbage and "low-growing shrubs, dripping with red berries. It was my entry into the
