An English cottage garden -- Simply Finnish -- Black currants and window boxes -- Daisies and grape leaves -- Slovenian sweet peas -- Fine German craftsmanship -- Wild sesame and balloon flower -- A fairy cottage -- An edible backyard -- An African garden -- The tastes of a Latvian childhood -- I couldn't grow roses in Russia -- Growing peppers, growing home -- I like to make my own garden -- The Sicilian kitchen garden -- A Greek gourmet -- A meal from Michoacán -- Laos on the prairie -- Collards and community -- The bonsai master -- Smuggled roses -- A Sudanese dream -- Intensively Polish -- The shortest growing season -- When the East meets Duluth -- Havana healing -- The circle of life -- Hot! hot! hot! -- Jasmine and geraniums -- Long beans and lemongrass
Summary
Photography by John GregorThis beautiful book brings together interviews and photographs of more than thirty Minnesotans who have imported the style and tradition of their native or ancestral lands into their gardening. Susan Davis Price relates the fascinating stories of these people's lives as she explores gardening techniques and plants brought from every part of the globe. Winner of The American Horticultural Society Horticultural Book Award (2001)
