"There's something about vintage garden photos: moments of beauty preserved from gardens long gone. Iowa gardens of the past features more than 250 color and grayscale images of beautiful Iowa gardens from mid-19th century to 1980, ornamented by Iowa seed catalog art. From impresive mansion grounds to flower-filled farmsteads, these gardens include: formal rose gardens, Victorian-style flower bedding, Japanese-inspired gardens, naturalistic pond and...

"Each of the 12 months in this 176-page journal features weekly journal pages with a "tickler" to-do list for noting future garden needs, and two or more grid pages for garden design sketches and photos."--Intro., p. [1].