• A Gardener’s Credo
• Foreword
• Fresh Ground
  • Into the Plot
  • Heartwood
  • As Good as Your Tools
  • One Good Turn
  • Old-Lady Flowers
  • All Hail the Queen
  • Spring Training
  • Pasque flower
  • Garden Dwarfs
  • One Crocus
  • Dances with Daffodils
  • Moving Day
  • Grassplot
  • Heartsease
• One Year’s Seeding
  • The Perfect Weed
  • The Shirley Show
  • Asking the Earth to Say
        Beans
  • Garden Sums
  • Forget-Me-Not
  • Home-Ground Invasion
  • Wonder
  • Living Colour
• Full Bloom
  • A Means of Support
  • Vegetable Love
  • Summer Solstice
  • Order of the Day
  • Love Plant
  • Seven Years Weeding
  • What the Farmer Knows
  • Memory Sticks
  • On the Fly
  • Reading a Garden
  • Lost and Found
  • Touch-Me-Not
• Bounty
  • Lives of Trees
  • Playing Chicken
  • Light in August
  • Hollyhocks
  • Gypsies
  • Garden Trials
  • Hide and Seek
  • Of Necessity
  • Fungus Among Us
  • Icebergs and Italians
  • Thanks Giving
  • Old King Cole
  • What Survives
  • Last Song
• After the Fall
  • Leavings
  • Evergreen
  • Three French Hens
  • Cold Comfort
  • Balancing Scale
  • Mary Hart and the Countess Vandal
  • A Dry Season
• Stirrings
  • Hooked
  • Losing It
  • Inspiration
  • Acts of Love

ove quickly, I tell myself. Disturb as little as you can.