Table of Contents
Introduction 7
1 Prepare 12
Dust to Dust
Cover Your Soil
Cosmos: The Best Thing About Poor Soil
Roses Part One: Dreams Really Do Come True
The (Almost) instant Flower Garden
2 Dream 36
Garden Dreams and Designs
Garden Styles
Let There Be Light
Catalog of Dreams
Daffodil Songs
3 Sow 60
Seeds: Ready, Set, Grow
Supplies for Growing Flowers from Seed
Plant a Zinnia, Plant Return
Wonder Flowers and Super Plants
4 Tend 82
The Eternal Weed
The Care and Keeping of Gardens
Dahlia Trouble
Roses Part Two: All Hail the Queen
5 Celebrate 106
Garden Parties
Elderflower "Champagne"
Peonies: Celebration and Commemoration
Flower Crowns
Lily Lanterns
6 Harvest 134
Flowers of Importance
My Easiest Bouquet Recipes
Superhero Shrubs
Self-Sowing Salvation
7 Multiply 156
Higher-Level Math
Loaves and Fishes
Love Returns
Fluff and Filler and Other VIPs
8 Anticipate 178
Story Maker
Putting the Garden to Bed
Tulips: The Now and the Not Yet
Next Year 197
About the Author 203
Black Barn Garden Club 204
Acknowledgments 207