Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Prologue: The Lure of the Porch in Summer: Privacy and Pleasure -- Chapter One: Landscape Architects and Designers -- Designing Women: In-Depth View of Twentieth-Century Women Landscape Designers -- Beatrix Farrand and The Bulletins of Reef Point Gardens -- The Private World of a Great Gardener: Rachel Lambert Mellon -- "Make the Land Work for You": Russell Page in America -- Profile of Dan Kiley -- Grounded in History: Deborah Nevins's Landscapes -- Private Visions: The Gardens of Michael Van Valkenburgh -- A Cultivated Civilization: Barbara Stauffacher Solomon's Drawings of Classical Gardens -- Planting Plastic: Martha Schwartz Looks to Art for Inspiration -- Resurrection: The Built Landscapes of George Hargreaves -- A Twinkling Terrace that Reaches for the Stars: Kathryn Gustafson in New York and France -- Landform Future: Laurie Olin and the Integration of Architecture and Landscape -- A Feminist View of Landscapes: A Partnership with Nature -- Chapter Two: Parks and Public Places -- A Bouquet of British Parks: Liverpool, Edinburgh, and London -- Central Park's Bethesda Terrace and Its Restoration -- Summer in Central Park -- For This Movie, Step into the Garden -- Rooftop Formal Gardens at Rockefeller Center -- Hortus Conclusus: The Gardens at the Cloisters -- The IBM Garden Plaza -- A Crystal Palace: Final Portrait of the Palm House -- Gardens Fit for a Queen -- Hartford's 1896 Rose Garden, Whose Ancestors Were Born in France -- 2,700 Roses Re-create Old Garden: The Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden -- A Victorian Gem Restored: The Enid A. Haupt Conservatory -- A Centennial Bouquet: The Botanic Garden of Smith College, 1895-1995 -- The Rose Garden at the White House.

A New Memorial Squanders a Sparkling Opportunity -- The Green Gardens of Jerusalem: Parks, Squares, and Promenades -- Garden Letter from Greece: The Agora -- The Moonlight Garden at the Taj Mahal -- A Rare Garden in Barbados: Andromeda Gardens -- Along a Nature and Garden Trail in Bermuda -- A Walk in the Park Around Jinji Lake -- Chapter Three: American -- The Poetics of the American Garden -- 1680 Formal Garden Discovered in the South -- A Historic Colonial Plantation Recovered from the Rough -- Fairsted: At Home with Frederick Law Olmsted -- At Old Westbury, Gracious Gardens -- Stately Views: A 1920s Garden Inspired by the Villa d'Este -- Mediterranean Light: A Classic Italian Garden in California -- Wethersfield: In the Style of an Italian Villa Garden -- The American Academy in Rome -- The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Garden: A Blend of Far Eastern and English Inspiration -- Far East, Down East: A Classic Asian Landscape -- A Cultivated Coast: The Garden at Somes Meadow -- On Maine's Coast, Vistas Are Cast in Stone -- Autumn in New England -- Chapter Four: British -- The Painted Garden: William Kent's Rousham -- Painshill Park: Charles Hamilton's Folly Garden -- The Waterways of Castle Howard -- Reclaiming Noble Gardens of the Towy Valley -- Classic Garden Tames a Fierce Welsh Crag: Powis Castle -- Buckhurst Park: From Humphry Repton to Edwin Lutyens and Gertrude Jekyll -- Lanning Roper's English Gardens with a U.S. Flavor -- Machine in the Garden: Charles Jencks's Garden of Scottish Worthies -- Sitting in the Garden: A History -- Chapter Five: French -- The Gardens of Versailles -- An Echo of a Memory: Recultivating the Tuileries -- The Formal Farm: Pascal Cribier's Vision of Rural Geometry -- The Désert de Retz: Cultural History Through Architecture -- Chapter Six: Japanese -- Autumn in Japan.

Japanese Screens and the Gardens of Kyoto -- Balancing Act: A Contemporary Garden for Kyoto's Oldest House -- Tea and Empathy: The Japanese House, Shofuso, in Fairmount Park -- Rice Paddy in the Sky: Rooftop Garden at the Mori Center -- Plum Blossoms: The Third Friend of Winter -- Chapter Seven: Flower Shows -- Courson: French International Flower Sale -- At Chelsea Flower Show: Gardens in Romantic Ruins -- Free to Grow Bluebells in England: British Prisoners Win Gold Medal -- A Garden Festival in Lausanne -- Epilogue. A Winter Garden of Yellow -- Afterword John Dixon Hunt -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- Photography Credits.