title: A New Leaf: Growing With My Garden

A Gardener’s Credo
Foreword
Fresh Ground
- Into the Plot
- Heartwood
- As Good as Your Tools
- One Good Turn
- Old-Lady Flowers
- All Hail the Queen
- Spring Training
- Pasque flower
- Garden Dwarfs
- One Crocus
- Dances with Daffodils
- Moving Day
- Grassplot
- Heartsease
One Year’s Seeding
- The Perfect Weed
- The Shirley Show
- Asking the Earth to Say
  Beans
- Garden Sums
- Forget-Me-Not
- Home-Ground Invasion
- Wonder
- Living Colour
Full Bloom
- A Means of Support
- Vegetable Love
- Summer Solstice
- Order of the Day
- Love Plant
- Seven Years Weeding
- What the Farmer Knows
- Memory Sticks
- On the Fly
- Reading a Garden
- Lost and Found
- Touch-Me-Not
Bounty
- Lives of Trees
- Playing Chicken
- Light in August
- Hollyhocks
- Gypsies
- Garden Trials
- Hide and Seek
- Of Necessity
- Fungus Among Us
- Icebergs and Italians
- Thanks Giving
- Old King Cole
- What Survives
- Last Song
After the Fall
- Leavings
- Evergreen
- Three French Hens
- Cold Comfort
- Balancing Scale
- Mary Hart and the Countess Vandal
- A Dry Season
Stirrings

ou can’t herd chickens,” I say. “They’re too smart. They want to be seduced.”