Foreword by Douglas Kelbaugh
Introduction
Daniel's Guiding Principles in Developing a Garden
1. The Setting: Open Space in the City / Ann and Daniel
2. Inside-Outside Rooms: The Streissguth Houses and Their Gardens / Daniel
3. The Public Hillside Gardens: Developing a Deciduous Woodland, the
Perennial Banks, a Winter Dell, and Combining Ornamentals and
Food-Producing Plants / Daniel and Ann
4. Techniques and Tools: Making Gardens Out of Steep Wooded Hillsides, Clay
and Sand Banks, and Bogs / Daniel
5. Plants Who Do Their Share of the Work / Ann
6. Where Gardens Come From: The Garden's Many Contributors / Ann
7. On Collections: Our Special Interests Reflected in Our Gardens / Daniel
8. Growing Up in the Garden, and Getting Educated to Maintain It / Benjamin
9. Looking Back, Looking Ahead / Daniel, Ann, and Benjamin
Appendix 1 Useful and Indispensable Tools
Appendix 2 Useful Books in the Streissguths' Library
Appendix 3 Plants Discussed in the Book, by Botanical / Common and Common /
Botanical Names
Photographic Credits and Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Index
