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 Last Garden in England
Millie Fleur's Poison Garden
How to Talk to Your Succulent
A Cup of Silver Linings (Dove Pond #2)
The Twilight Garden
The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
Where You're Planted
The Peculiar Garden of Harriet Hunt
June in the Garden
Nice Work, Nora November: A Novel about Second Chances
The Potting Shed Murder (Hill House Vintage Murder Mystery, #1)
Why Women Grow: Stories of Soil, Sisterhood and Survival
The Alchemy of Flowers
The Gardener's Plot
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
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
Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long
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
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson BurnettThe Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix PotterRebecca by Daphne du MaurierTom's Midnight Garden by Philippa PearcePride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Novels About Gardens
350 books — 53 voters
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane SetterfieldRebecca by Daphne du MaurierThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónThe Historian by Elizabeth KostovaThe Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
Modern Gothic
726 books — 1,388 voters

Miss Rumphius by Barbara CooneyThe Curious Garden by Peter  BrownThe Gardener by Sarah StewartPlanting a Rainbow by Lois EhlertThe Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter
Best Picture Books About Gardens
390 books — 178 voters
Death at SeaWorld by David  KirbyBorn Free by Joy AdamsonThe Love of a Dog by Jo ProutyThe Spotted Sphinx by Joy AdamsonAll Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot
Adult Nonfiction Animal Books
600 books — 178 voters


Charles Dowding
Your soil and plants are friends that benefit from constant care and attention to the details I explain.
Charles Dowding, Charles Dowding's Skills for Growing

Charles Dowding
Small seedlings are often stronger when they grow with company rather than isolation.
Charles Dowding, Grow Together: 50 Planting Partnerships to Boost Your Harvests

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