DIANA SECKER TESDELL is the editor of fifteen Everyman's Pocket Classics anthologies, including New York Stories, Christmas Stories, Love Stories, Stories of Art and Artists, Dog Stories, Cat Stories, Stories of the Sea, Horse Stories, Bedtime Stories, Stories of Fatherhood, Stories of Motherhood, Shaken and Stirred: Intoxicating Stories, Wedding Stories, and Stories from the Kitchen, as well as the Pocket Poets anthology Lullabies and Poems for Children.

Avid Gardeners
Jamaica Kincaid, “The Garden I Have in Mind”
Elizabeth von Arnim, from Elizabeth and Her German Garden
Doris Lessing, “Flavours of Exile”
Henry David Thoreau, from Walden
L. P. Hartley, “Up the Garden Path”
William Maxwell, “The French Scarecrow”

Garden Pleasures and Sorrows
Colette, “Bygone Spring”
Virginia Woolf, “Kew Gardens”
Katherine Mansfield, “The Garden-Party”
D. H. Lawrence, “The Shadow in the Rose Garden”
Willa Cather, from My Antonia
Jane Gardam, “Blue Poppies”

Wild Gardens
Frances Hodgson Burnett, from The Secret Garden
Sandra Cisneros, “The Monkey Garden”
Daphne du Maurier, from Rebecca
Jean Stafford, “The Lippia Lawn”
Meir Shalev, “A Night in the Garden”

Humor in the Garden
Saki, “The Occasional Garden”
W. W. Jacobs, “A Garden Plot”
O. Henry, “Roses, Ruses and Romance”
Joan Aiken, “The Serial Garden”
John Collier, “Green Thoughts”

Gardens of the Imagination
Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Rappaccini’s Daughter”
Italo Calvino, “The Enchanted Garden”
J. G. Ballard, “The Garden of Time”
Matsuda Aoko, “Planting”