This first-of-its kind collection of poems is intended for gardeners who cannot, even in season, get enough of flower gardening through eyes, nose, fingertips, knees or backs, and who, out of season, feel restless and uprooted. The setting in most of these poems, by such poets as Jane Kenyon, Gerald Stern, Raymond Carver, Sylvia Plath, James Schuyler, Anneliese Wagner, Marge Piercy, and others, is the flower garden. The images are botanically and horticulturally accurate. The order of the poems reflects a gardener's ear.