Of Leaf and Flower: Stories and Poems for Gardeners

The answers to many gardening questions can be found in practical books and essays, but how to explain the passions behind the obsession? Why do we get down on our hands and knees in the mud in March? What lures us back to the garden for one last look before dark? Only storytellers and poets can tell us.

In this anthology of twelve stories and twelve poems, major American and British authors celebrate the powerful emotions that plants and gardening inspire. H. E. Bates writes about a man so s…