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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Plant Lady
The Restoration Garden
The Skeleton and the Cat
Millie Fleur's Poison Garden
The Last Garden in England
June in the Garden
The Twilight Garden
The Peculiar Garden of Harriet Hunt
Don't Touch that Flower
Prunella
The Memory of Lavender and Sage
The Green Kingdom
Where You're Planted
Ephemera
The Forbidden Garden: The Botanists of Besieged Leningrad and Their Impossible Choice
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
Beastly by Alex FlinnNew Moon by Stephenie MeyerPride & Prejudice by Jane AustenRomeo & Juliet by William ShakespeareWuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Flowers on Covers
997 books — 369 voters
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 — 54 voters

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara KingsolverThis Changes Everything by Naomi KleinThe Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael PollanCradle to Cradle by William McDonoughThe Only Possible Solution by Fons Burger
Best Sustainability Nonfiction
442 books — 362 voters
A Muddied Murder by Wendy TysonFor Whom the Bluebell Tolls by Beverly  AllenThyme of Death by Susan Wittig AlbertFlowerbed of State by Dorothy St. JamesThe Potted Gardener by M.C. Beaton
Gardening Mysteries
51 books — 21 voters

When Secrets Bloom by Patricia  FurstenbergFind Me by Ashley N. RostekThrone of the Fallen by Kerri ManiscalcoHating the Player by Rebecca JenshakCorrupt Vow by Eva Ashwood
Purple Flowers - Covers
265 books — 28 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 PollanThe Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert
Best Environmental Books
1,138 books — 1,349 voters


Charles Dowding
“ Gardening is easier than it is often made out to be. ”
― Charles Dowding, Charles Dowding's Skills for Growing

William Goldman
“ Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high. ”
― William Goldman, The Princess Bride

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