Of Leaf and Flower: Stories and Poems for Gardeners

This beautiful collection of stories and poems brings together twelve short stories and twelve poems celebrating the joys, humor, passions, and heartaches of gardening.

Featuring works by celebrated authors, it explores the deep and sometimes obsessive bond between gardeners and their plants. Read about the desire to nurture a beloved flower and about the determination to keep a tree alive against the odds. Paired with twelve elegant black-and-white sumi paintings, this anthology offers a thoughtful and charming look at our enduring connection with nature.

Winner of the 2002 Garden Writers Association of America's Garden Globe Award for Illustration.

• Editor(s): Charles Dean and Clyde Wachsberger
• Publisher: Microcosm
• Publication Year: 2001
• Hardcover
• 182 pages
• Product Dimensions: 5.8" x 0.8" x 8.6"

About the Editor(s): Charles Dean co-edited the anthology, Of Leaf and Flower, with his partner, Clyde Wachsberger, with whom he shares a lifelong love of gardening. Clyde Phillip Wachsberger (1941–2011) was an artist, gardener, and writer who lived in Orient, on Long Island’s North Fork. He created the elegant black-and-white sumi paintings for Of Leaf and Flower, which won the Garden Writers Association of America’s 2002 Garden Globe Award for Illustration. Together, Charles and Clyde also chronicled their life and love of gardening in Into the Garden with Charles.