Presents twenty-seven of the most important and influential women garden designers and their gardens from around the world. Gertrude Jekyll (English) Beatrix Farrand (American) Norah Lindsay (English) Marian Coffin (American) Florence Yoch (American) Vita Sackville-West (English) Edna Walling (Australian) Brand Colvin (English) Nancy Lancaster (American) Herta Hammerbacher (German) Sylvia Crowe (English) Maria Parpagliolo Shephard (Italian) Joane Pim (South African) Mien Ruys (Dutch) Ulla Bodorff (Swedish) Rosemary Verey (English) Cornelia Hahn Oberlander (Canadian) Beth Chatto (English) Rosemarie Weisse (German) Penelope Hobhouse (English) Niki de Saint Phalle (French) Isabelle Greene (American)- Arabella Lennox-Boyd (Italian) Nancy Goslee Power (American) Topher Delaney (American) Isabel Duprat (Brazilian) Petra Blaisse (Dutch) Teresa Moller (Chilean) Monida Gora (Swedish) Haruko Seki (Japanese) Jinny Blom (Englipsh).