Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Exploring our gardening heritage
  • The three sisters: Native American influence
  • Orange blossoms and Spanish-daggers: Spanish influence
  • Formality and order: French influence
  • Out of Africa: African influence
  • Gardening with nature: English influence
  • A garden in a wilderness: German influence
  • Classics in the garden: Italian influence
  • Plant explorers and timeless treasures: Asian influence
  • Rediscovering a wealth of southern heirloom plants
  • Natives, invasives, cemeteries, and rustling
  • 'Slips and starts': how heirloom plants were increased
  • Naturalizing daffodils and other southern bulbs
  • The fruitful garden
  • Enjoying the bounty
  • The right plant in the right place
  • Designing your own garden: basic design principles
  • Fine-tuning the garden
  • Heirloom plants of the South
  • How our gardens grew: creating your own garden traditions
  • A country cottage garden: fragilee
  • A sense of place: Emanis house.