House & garden's 26 easy little gardens / edited by Mary Jane Pool

Includes index.

1. A small garden set in a field of wildflowers -- 2. A front-walk garden that says welcome with old-fashioned flowers, evergreen ground covers -- 3. A scallop shell garden with fluted rows of easy-care herbs -- 4. A vest-pocket salad garden by a front door -- 5. An organic vegetable patch by a swimming pool -- 6. An enclosed green garden with hardy plants and a tower for looking out --7. A vertical garden on a city terrace, a leafy path in the sky -- 8. A dooryard of fragrant herbs and a walk-through herb garden in a meadow -- 9. A small green garden with a lilac walk -- 10. A whispering garden in the Japanese manner, enclosed for serenity -- 11. A casual riverside garden with her perennials his rock plants -- 12. A kitchen yard of herbs growing in wooden boxes -- 13. A green garden on a city rooftop where everything grows in pots -- 14. A well-designed cutting garden and a porch garden of house plants -- 15. A canopy of cherry trees and a paisley flower garden -- 16. A summer cottage garden of easy-to-grow flowers and climbing roses -- 17. A move-around garden that flowers wherever you put it -- 18. A perennial garden with a colonial spirit -- 19. A weekender's easy-does-it organic hay mulch vegetable garden -- 20. Pot luck: portable plants for sunny and shady terraces -- 21. A perfectionist's small round gardens and green-thumb pot-plant ideas -- 22. A miniature orchard and berry garden in boxes for easy care -- 23. A patchwork of little kitchen gardens growing from a family's love of cooking -- 24. A green and white all-season garden for a shady city backyard -- 25. An organic backyard farm of fruit trees, vegetables and flowers -- 26. An automated no-work carpet garden that never needs weeding -- Index.