While investigating the demise of a row of avenue trees at the estate of a former horticulture student, Rosemary gets involved in the death by car-accident of the man's partner. While staying at an inn, she offers a lift to Laura, a friend of the dead man. Laura is newly on her own thanks to her husband running off with a younger woman. And when Rosemary is notified that her job at the university has been eliminated, she, too, finds herself with no commitments. Laura is an ex-police officer and thinks someone at the estate may have a shady past, and it might be connected to the death, as well as the serious skin ailment afflicting Rosemary's friend. Written by Ron Kerrigan mvg@whidbey.com

Rosemary and Laura are working on restoring the gardens in an estate that has seen better days, but is being brought back to life by a musician and his wife. When the skeleton of a horse is dug up, the theory is that it belongs to a missing race horse (Arabica). When someone is shot and killed at the house, and a woman's skeleton turns up buried on the grounds, gardening takes a back seat to detecting as Rosemary and Laura piece together clues they have dug up. Written by Ron Kerrigan mvg@whidbey.com

The Caldecott family is turning their estate into a health spa. Rosemary and Laura are asked to restore the decayed grand water cascade of their once famous garden. When the ill-tempered matron of the family is murdered, Laura and Rosemary attempt to expose the killer by reading clues left in the flower garden by its long dead creator. Written by Anonymous

While trying to restore the lawns at a school that caters to the children of wealthy foreigners, Rosemary and Laura become involved in a murder mystery. Angelica is an attractive Polish student who spurns the advances of more than one male at the school. When one of her suitors turns up dead, she is among the suspects and the women sleuths add the death of the man to their already perplexing problem of the death of patches of grass in orderly rows. Written by Ron Kerrigan mvg@whidbey.com

When Laura and Rosemary look into the dying of crops in an urban garden, Rosemary gets to visit with an old friend, who is blind but still manages to get around the complicated garden he runs. When he falls into a deep hole on the property, Rosemary suspects foul play. When she is informed that she is sole heir to the man's fortune, she feels even more responsible for finding out what really happened. Written by Ron Kerrigan mvg@whidbey.com

Asked to restore a church garden to its former glory before an upcoming fête, Rosemary and Laura find a man killed by an arrow. As they work against the clock to restore the garden they also weed through a village full of archers to find the murderer. Written by Anonymous