Eight-year-old Luz Mendez is determined to turn a run-down vacant lot into a garden like the one her grandmother had in Puerto Rico, but she must convince her neighbors to help.
Offers plans and practical advice on how to create over a dozen unique theme gardens, and includes an identification and growing guide to 250 plants, with illustrations, paintings, photographs, and landscape schemes.
An abridged adaptation of the classic story of the ten-year-old orphan who goes to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors, where she discovers an invalid cousin and the mysteries of a locked garden.
Full-color photographs and text explore the gardens featured in the 2008 television series "Around the World in 80 Gardens," including personal, spiritual, natural, botanical, historical, communal, and edible gardens.