Vince Dooley's Garden: A Horticultural Journey of a Football Coach

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The name Vince Dooley is synonymous with football in the South. More recently, the retired University of Georgia head football coach has gained renown as one of the region's finest gardeners. Following the lead of his mentors, respected horticulturalists at the University of Georgia, Dooley has created a spectacular garden around the home that he and wife Barbara have lived in since 1964. The University of Georgia Department of Horticulture honored Dooley by naming a rose after him, along with the Dooley hydrangea, a unique variety discovered in Dooley's garden. Vince Dooley's Garden tells of the former coach's twenty-year full-time commitment to gardening. Steve Penley's exceptional paintings complement the story perfectly, along with 100 color photographs of Dooley's garden.

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Review by Midwest Book Review, 2010-05-10

Vince Dooley is best noted as the football coach for the University of Georgia Bulldogs where he led the team to play in twenty bowl games, winning six SEC championships, and being inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame. What is not so well known is that Vince Dooley is also an accomplished gardener. Written by Steven Penley and superbly illustrated with color photography and Penley's own paintings of some of Dooley's gardening achievements, "Vince Dooley's Garden: A Horticultural Journey of a Football Coach" focuses upon the former college football coaches more than twenty years of gardening activity. A fascinating read, "Vince Dooley's Garden: A Horticultural Journey of a Football Coach" is especially recommended to the legions of Dooley's fans, and will have much of exceptional appeal for the non-specialist general reader with an interest in gardening as well.

Review by Bonnie Helander, 2010-04-26

I was so thrilled to receive as a gift from the Peachtree City Garden Club my copy of Coach Dooley's new book, Vince Dooley's Garden: The Horticultural Journey of a Football Coach. My friends even got the coach to pen an inscription! As a graduate of UGA (back when Coach Dooley was head coach of the football team) and as an avid gardener, this book combined my two great loves. I was fortunate to visit Coach Dooley's garden when it was part of a garden tour last fall. The book adds to my appreciation of his garden by telling the story of how his journey in gardening began. The photos are beautiful and the paintings by Steve Penley are breathtaking. You know it has to be a great garden, with the input from famed UGA horticulturists, Michael Dirr and Allan Armitage! I have not visited the Dooley Sculpture Garden as yet at the university but the chapter in the book on this garden really makes me want to plan a trip soon! I also want to tour the campus to see all the trees in UGA's arboretum. Everyone who loves gardening will appreciate this new addition to the gardening scene. And, if you are a lucky Georgia grad, you will be doubly blessed!