Foreword | p. 9 |
Publisher's Note: An Invitation | p. 13 |
The Curious Gardener: Gardening Virtues and Botanical Surprises | p. 15 |
The Curious Gardener | p. 17 |
Spring | p. 20 |
Geese in Pain and Pruning Wisteria | p. 20 |
The Navel of Venus | p. 23 |
Cloches of Glass and Clay | p. 24 |
A Brazilian Lady in the Frost | p. 29 |
More or Less Hardy Ones | p. 30 |
Flower Foam | p. 32 |
Morning Glory Potatoes | p. 33 |
Allium, All Sorts | p. 35 |
The Use of Shallow Tubs | p. 38 |
Summer | p. 40 |
So-called Groundcovers | p. 40 |
Butterbur and Opium Lettuce | p. 42 |
The Joys of Collecting Sempervivums | p. 46 |
Hay Scent at Bedtime | p. 48 |
Would Not Hurt a Fly? | p. 49 |
Does a Stinging Nettle Defend Itself? | p. 52 |
Risky Umbels | p. 55 |
Who Is the Queen of Flowers? | p. 56 |
True and False Asparagus | p. 57 |
A Failure to Appreciate Absinthe | p. 60 |
A Display for Patient People | p. 61 |
Notes on Pruning Things into Shape | p. 63 |
The Blue Flower from Romantic Novels | p. 65 |
Please Sow Me Right Away! | p. 67 |
July Harvest | p. 68 |
Plants in Disguise | p. 69 |
The Tolerance of Plants | p. 71 |
All Right, Then, No Greenhouse | p. 71 |
Late Bee Fodder | p. 73 |
Autumn | p. 75 |
Large and Small Fruits | p. 75 |
Tasty Things from South America | p. 77 |
Some More Things to Eat and Drink | p. 79 |
New Joys of Rhubarb | p. 82 |
Gray and Brown and New Plans | p. 83 |
Different Kinds of Horsetails | p. 84 |
Hidden Patterns | p. 85 |
Winter May Arrive Tomorrow | p. 87 |
Lost Ones | p. 88 |
Winter | p. 90 |
My Beloved Hay | p. 90 |
Some Things about Oaks | p. 92 |
Winter Bulbs | p. 103 |
... And Winter Stars | p. 103 |
The Stinking Garden or a Fascination with Opposites | p. 107 |
An Invitation to the Stinking Garden | p. 109 |
We Do Not Smell Only with Our Noses | p. 109 |
Sensitive Botanists | p. 110 |
True Stinkers and More Composites | p. 111 |
Difficulty Finding Words and Bug Plants | p. 113 |
Devil's Dung and the Scent of Wild Animals | p. 115 |
The Ambiguous Madonna Lily | p. 117 |
About Garlic | p. 119 |
Rotten Cabbage | p. 121 |
The Scent of Tar and Diesel Oil | p. 122 |
A Good Word for Sweat | p. 123 |
Even More Body Odors | p. 124 |
Scents of the Rue Family | p. 125 |
Moody Boxwood | p. 126 |
From Stinking Juniper to Stinking Rose | p. 126 |
Two Types of Elder | p. 128 |
The Mint Family | p. 129 |
Pungent Smells | p. 130 |
Carrion Smell | p. 132 |
The Use of Stench | p. 135 |
Postscript | p. 136 |
How to Eat a Lily: The Latest News from the Garden | p. 139 |
Prologue | p. 141 |
The Gardener as Plant Hunter | p. 143 |
The Library of Catalogs | p. 143 |
Buying a Tree Is Like Getting Married | p. 147 |
Edible Botany | p. 150 |
Blue Potatoes | p. 150 |
Poison and Enjoyment and Enjoyable Poison | p. 151 |
Forgotten Spices | p. 154 |
A Second Strawberry Harvest | p. 156 |
... And with It, Mustard | p. 157 |
Lots of False Capers | p. 158 |
Weeds for the Kitchen | p. 159 |
Things in the Garden | p. 165 |
Crafted Walls | p. 165 |
Eggshells and Rubble | p. 168 |
Something About Garden Tools | p. 170 |
Things and Opposites | p. 175 |
All Over the Garden | p. 179 |
Unexpected Arrivals, Arriving Daily | p. 179 |
Ninfa Is Everywhere | p. 181 |
The Meadow Does Not Exist | p. 184 |
Angelica Around the Neck | p. 189 |
The Mice Have to Go | p. 192 |
Thoughts at Bedtime | p. 195 |
Suggestions for Front Yards | p. 197 |
In Honor of Vita | p. 199 |
The Many Uses of Blackberries | p. 200 |
Of Wind and Threshing | p. 201 |
A Failure to Appreciate Rushes | p. 203 |
Long Live Pumpkin Seeds | p. 205 |
The Berry That Is Really an Apple | p. 207 |
A Fern Path | p. 208 |
Two Kinds of Mushrooms | p. 209 |
Love, Death, and Animals | p. 213 |
Where Love Shines | p. 213 |
The Garden as a Place for Courtship Displays | p. 213 |
Images of Death... | p. 216 |
... And of Continuing to Live | p. 218 |
Caterpillars in May | p. 219 |
Quarrels Around the Pond | p. 220 |
Sensitive Orloffs | p. 221 |
Earthworm Piles of the Third Kind | p. 222 |
Wintry Things | p. 224 |
Let Us Booze by the Embers | p. 224 |
The Shades of Decay | p. 226 |
Before the Frosts Arrive | p. 227 |
Roots and Horseshoes | p. 230 |
Wintergreens | p. 232 |
The Enjoyment of Papermaking | p. 233 |
Dried Beauties | p. 235 |
Winter's End | p. 237 |
Time of the Gardener | p. 239 |
Index of Plant Names | p. 251 |
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