CONTENTS

 

INTRODUCTION

SIGNS OF SPRING

DAFFODIL

TULIP

RHODODENDRON & AZALEA

LILAC

ALLIUM

PEONY

SUMMER’S BOUNTY

ROSE

POPPY

CLEMATIS

DELPHINIUM

HYDRANGEA

LILY

EARLY AUTUMN

SUNFLOWER & RUDBECKIA

DAHLIA

ARRANGING FLOWERS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

PHOTOGRAPH CREDITS

INDEX

I am standing in my Summer House garden at Cantitoe Farm, a boxwood-enclosed area featuring a grove of several types of Cotinus (smoke bush), hostas, ferns, Albizia julibrissin (chocolate mimosa or silk tree), tree peonies, and lilies.