Eleven years ago, Leah Chester-Davis founded Extention"s Successful Gardener, a newsletter published by the North Carolina Cooperative Extention to address the high demand for gardening information across the state. Toby Bost, extention agent and acclaimed garden-book author, joined her team. Together, they worked with horticulture experts statewide to deliver a top-quality gardening publication to North Carolinians. The newsletter has won numerous awards throughout the years, including the Garden Writers Association Award. The Successful Gardener Guide is a compliation of the best material from 10 years of research for the Extention"s Successful Gardener newsletter. Novice and expert gardeners alike will find useful information in this book"s six color-coded, easy to reference chapters. Readers can rely on the information in The Sucessful Gardener Guide as scientifically accurate and written for gardens in their region. Thousands of North Carolina gardeners have benefitted from the research of extention agents. Now, they have the best and most useful information in one accessible volume.