Contents -- Introduction -- Bringing Home the Regal Lily (Ernest H. Wilson) -- The Transvaal Daisy ( Vita Sackville-West) -- Monet's Garden (Jamaica Kincaid) -- The Green Shroud ( Tim Smit) -- On Reading a Garden (Douglas Chambers) -- Untitled -- Right Good Ground (Pliny the Elder) -- Preparations (Karel Caper) -- A German Garden (Elizabeth Von Arnim) -- Captive Gardens (Colette) -- Blitz Flowers (Lewis Gannett) -- The Purest of Pleasures (Francis Bacon) -- On Supplanting Rampant Nettledom with a Wonderous Watery Realm (Elizabeth Smart) -- A Snake in the Garden (Emily Lawless) -- Invasion of the Sumac (Allen Lacy) -- The Revolting Garden (Germaine Greer) -- On the Rootedness of Plants (Jennifer Bennett) -- Thomas Hardy in His Garden (Bertie Norman Stephens) -- On Beauty (Henri Gueco) -- Sex, Sex, Sex (Sharman Apt Russell) -- Peonies (Eleanor Perenyi) -- Poppycock (Des Kennedy) -- A Few Hints on Gardening (Catharine Parr Traill) -- Skyrrets of Peru (John Gerard) -- Letters to a Gardening Friend (Katherine S. White and Elizabeth Lawrence) -- The Lamentation Tree (Stanley Kunitz) -- Patience and Grace (Patrick Lane) -- A Gardener's Credo (Gertude Jekyll) -- Acknowledgments -- The David Suzuki Foundation.