W riting in Pacific Horticulture (Summer 2024), Mary Bagazinski calls Shrouded in Light a horticultural meditation as much as a book — a deeper case for what beauty in planting can be.
Bagazinski — arborist in training and self-described plant gremlin at Devil Mountain Nursery — places Kevin Philip Williams and Michael Guidi's Shrouded in Light not among the season's design books but alongside its essays: a long, careful argument for letting wild shrublands inform what we plant in cultivated ground.
Her review keeps returning to what the book asks of its reader: an attention to woody plants that goes beyond ornament, and a willingness to expand what beauty means once you start looking.
Shrouded in Light is not so much of a book as a deep artistic and horticultural meditation. It is simultaneously an intense rollercoaster of a rock album while also a calm, quiet nod to the energy that flows in the Earth.
— Mary Bagazinski, Pacific Horticulture
The full review is at Pacific Horticulture. Our thanks to Mary Bagazinski and to the editors there.