Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 4
3. Introduction 6
4. Somai 10
5. Wang Xianchen 16
6. André Le Nôtre 20
7. Philip Miller 26
8. Thomas Jefferson 30
9. Sir Joseph Paxton 36
10. James Veitch, Jr. 42
11. Sir Thomas Hanbury 46
12. William Robinson 50
13. Claude Monet 54
14. Gertrude Jekyll 60
15. Henry E. Huntington 66
16. Ellen Willmott 72
17. Edward Augustus Bowles 76
18. Pierre S. du Pont 80
19. Lawrence Johnston 86
20. Beatrix Farrand 92
21. Henry Duncan McLaren 98
22. Rae Selling Berry 102
23. Sir Frederick Stern 106
24. Jacques Majorelle 110
25. Madame Ganna Walska 116
26. Vita Sackville-West 122
27. Margery Fish 128
28. Beatrix Havergal 132
29. Mildred Blandy 138
30. Roberto Burle Marx 144
31. Princess Lelia Caetani 150
32. Princess Greta Sturdza 156
33. Carl Ferris Miller 160
34. Christopher Lloyd 164
35. Beth Chatto 170
36. Geoffrey Smith 174
37. Penelope Hobhouse 180
38. Bev McConnell 186
39. Geoff Hamilton 192
40. Piet Oudolf 196
41. Jeremy Francis 202
42. Will Giles 208
43. Dan Hinkley 214
44. Bibliography 218
45. Index 220
46. Credits and Acknowledgements 224