CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION: A Manifesto for Modern Gardening

ENVIRONMENT: Planting at the Intersection of Place and Ecology

Embrace: Planting with What Grows Around You

Create: Making the Garden with What You Have

STRUCTURE: Living Framework

Trees

Shrubs

Big and Herbaceous

Going Up

Ground Floor

EMBLEMS: Keeping Pace with the Seasons

Winter

Spring

Summer

Autumn

VIGNETTES: Expressing Yourself in the Garden

The Distraction of Color

Contrast in Everything

In Leaves We Trust

Maximizing Plant Personalities

Sweet Endings

ESSENTIAL KITSCH: Horticultural Odds and Ends

Garden Oddities

Containing Yourself

Lean In

Weedy and Reseedy

CONCLUSION: Last Call

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

USEFUL CONVERSIONS AND HARDINESS ZONES

INDEX