Perennials behaving like annuals, dead and gone after just one season. Neighbors" tomatoes that always come in a week earlier than yours. Fickleness, hard work and ethical dilemmas (you"ve live-trapped the woodchuck -- now what?). It"s gardening, Abby Adams loves it, and in a book as perceptive as it is funny she shares a lifetime"s obsessions with its mysterious ways.