Gardening

Gardening is the practice of growing and cultivating plants as part of horticulture. In gardens, ornamental plants are often grown for their flowers, foliage, or overall appearance; useful plants, such as root vegetables, leaf vegetables, fruits, and herbs, are grown for consumption, for use as dyes, or for medicinal or cosmetic use.

Gardening ranges in scale from fruit orchards, to long boulevard plantings with one or more different types of shrubs, trees, and herbaceous plants, to residential back gardens including lawns and foundation plantings, and to container gardens grown inside or outsi
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The Restoration Garden
The Retired Assassin's Guide to Country Gardening
Death and the Gardener
Where the Wildflowers Grow
The Last Garden in England
How to Talk to Your Succulent
The Twilight Garden
Millie Fleur's Poison Garden
Where You're Planted
The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
The Alchemy of Flowers
Good Soil: The Education of an Accidental Farmhand
The Peculiar Garden of Harriet Hunt
Don't Touch that Flower
Why Women Grow: Stories of Soil, Sisterhood and Survival
All New Square Foot Gardening
Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture
Carrots Love Tomatoes: Secrets of Companion Planting for Successful Gardening
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
Second Nature: A Gardener's Education
The Backyard Homestead: Produce All the Food You Need on Just a Quarter Acre!
The Vegetable Gardener's Bible: Discover Ed's High-Yield W-O-R-D System for All North American Gardening Regions
Seed to Seed: Seed Saving and Growing Techniques for Vegetable Gardeners
Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long
How to Grow More Vegetables: And Fruits, Nuts, Berries, Grains and Other Crops Than You Ever Thought Possible on Less Land Than You Can Imagine
Bringing Nature Home: How Native Plants Sustain Wildlife in Our Gardens
Floret Farm's Cut Flower Garden: Grow, Harvest & Arrange Stunning Seasonal Blooms
Mini Farming: Self-Sufficiency on 1/4 Acre
The Garden Primer
Grow Great Grub: Organic Food from Small Spaces
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson BurnettGarden Spells by Sarah Addison AllenThe Forgotten Garden by Kate MortonThe Enchanted April by Elizabeth von ArnimMansfield Park by Jane Austen
In the Gardens
93 books — 42 voters
All New Square Foot Gardening by Mel BartholomewFour-Season Harvest by Eliot ColemanWestern Garden Book by Kathleen Norris BrenzelBringing Nature Home by Douglas W. TallamyLasagna Gardening by Patricia Lanza
Gardening Books
369 books — 156 voters

Silent Spring by Rachel CarsonA Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There by Aldo LeopoldThe Lorax by Dr. SeussThe Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael PollanDesert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
Best Environmental Books
1,075 books — 1,204 voters
Grace's Mystery Seed by Juliet M. SampsonThe Sandwich Swap by Rania al-AbdullahLittle Mouse's Sweet Treat by Shana HollowellMy Sister, Daisy by Adria KarlssonLeft Shoe Right Shoe by Yolanda Lopez-Rettew
Best Picture Books on Friendship
36 books — 25 voters

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall KimmererProdigal Summer by Barbara KingsolverH is for Hawk by Helen MacdonaldThe Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova BaileySilent Spring by Rachel Carson
Female Naturalist Writers
284 books — 61 voters
Hidden Figures by Margot Lee ShetterlyKillers of the Flower Moon by David GrannBorn a Crime by Trevor NoahMarch by John             LewisEinstein by Walter Isaacson
Non-Fiction read in 2017
476 books — 83 voters


Shannon L. Alder
It is easier to tell a person what life is not, rather than to tell them what it is. A child understands weeds that grow from lack of attention, in a garden. However, it is hard to explain the wild flowers that one gardener calls weeds, and another considers beautiful ground cover.
Shannon L. Alder

Leigh Bardugo
Not every flower belongs in every garden.
Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House

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