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.