Table of Contents
Introduction 9
Preface 13
1 Taking Care and Making More 17
Hardwood Cuttings 17
Aids to Rooting 22
When Kindness Kills 24
Unusual Ways with Rose Cuttings 26
Some Reactions to Cutting Back 30
Pruning the Hydrangeas 47
Maintaining Mature Hedging 49
Top-dressings and Root Pruning 51
The Art of Compromise 53
For Autumn, Read Spring 56
Youth at the Helm 59
2 Mainly Woody 63
After the Elms 63
The Flowering of Non-flowering Trees 73
Evergreen Broadleaves: the Few Precious Trees 76
Among the Crabs 79
Shrubs in Mixed Borders 82
Roses Take Their Place 87
Late-flowering Shrubs 91
Attending to a Shrubbery 98
3 Seasons and Situations 107
Small Gardens, Large Trees 107
Dry Wall Free-for-All 115
No Mutual Antagonism 119
Spring Meetings 122
Experiments in Bedding 128
The Garden in the Heat 140
4 People, Plans and Plants 145
Planning a Border 145
Paths, Plants and People 149
Another Look at Miss Jekyll 153
Visitors 161
With Farrer for Reference 167
Uneasy Status 170
Prickles and Spines 172
These Flower Non-stop 175
Programme for the Greys 184
Sorting through Eryngiums 190
The Pampas at Home and Abroad 195
Flower of the Sentimentalists 199
Violets 202
Bulbs to Plant Green 205
Naked and Unashamed 209
Index 214
