How the Garden Grew

The narrator recounts transforming a neglected flower garden through seasonal attention, organized into winter, spring, summer, and autumn, blending practical horticultural advice with personal anecdotes. She learns plant identification and propagation, experiments with bulbs and borders, and draws on help and hindrance from a local gardener, a reverend, his curate, and a skilled neighbor. The account emphasizes observing plants' rhythms, adapting techniques to local conditions, and the pleasures and small domestic dramas that accompany cultivating flowers across the year.