The timber house, gardens and an interactive archaeology exhibit are open to visitors.
With its medieval English-style, red-tiled roofs, turrets, dormers and Tudor half-timbering, Forest Hills Gardens is virtually unchanged from 1909 when Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. designed it as a "suburban town built on business principles".
Couples who want more information on the joys and sorrows of conjugal gardening should read the recently reissued version of "We Made a Garden" (Timber Press, 1995).
Equally delicious, and deliciously dirt-filled, is THE BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO GROWING HEIRLOOM VEGETABLES: The 100 Easiest-to-Grow, Tastiest Vegetables for Your Garden (Timber Press, paper, $19.95), by Marie Iannotti.
These are a few of the plants among the hundreds that Ms. Bussolini tested over four years for the book "Elegant Silvers: Striking Plants for Every Garden" (Timber Press, 2005), which she wrote with Jo Ann Gardner.
The exhibition includes the throne Tennyson had made, of timber from the garden, for the widowed Queen Emma of Hawaii when she came to stay for four days in 1865.
From Lloyd, you turn to DREAM PLANTS FOR THE NATURAL GARDEN (Timber Press, $34.95), by Henk Gerritsen and Piet Oudolf, who also approve of A. europaeum and note that its leaves are "shaped like human ears".
Graham Rice is Editor-in-Chief of the Royal Horticultural Society's 'Encyclopedia of Perennials' and has grown a huge number of plants searching for those to include in his new book, 'Planting the Dry Shade Garden' (Timber Press) and killed many of them in the process.
But Pamela J. Harper, author of TIME-TESTED PLANTS: Thirty Years in a Four-Season Garden (Timber Press, $39.95), prefers A. shuttleworthii "Callaway," which is hardy to Zone 5 and looks less like a groundcover of shiny human ears and more like a form of cyclamen.
Like Munch, I was seduced by its timber cabins, intoxicating gardens and tangible history.
