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
Where You're Planted
Millie Fleur's Poison Garden
The Twilight Garden
The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
How to Talk to Your Succulent
Don't Touch that Flower
The Peculiar Garden of Harriet Hunt
The Memory of Lavender and Sage
Under the Henfluence: Inside the World of Backyard Chickens and the People Who Love Them
A Cup of Silver Linings (Dove Pond #2)
June in the Garden
The Potting Shed Murder (Hill House Vintage Murder Mystery, #1)
How Can I Help?: Saving Nature with Your Yard
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
Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long
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
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
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
1,092 books — 1,240 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
37 books — 26 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
601 books — 177 voters
Find Me by Ashley N. RostekWhen Secrets Bloom by Patricia  FurstenbergThrone of the Fallen by Kerri ManiscalcoHating the Player by Rebecca JenshakCorrupt Vow by Eva Ashwood
Purple Flowers - Covers
264 books — 26 voters

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara KingsolverThe Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael PollanThis Changes Everything by Naomi KleinStories on the Trail of a Yankee Millwright Seeing the Past by James T.  PowersSaving the Farm by James T.  Powers
Best Sustainability Nonfiction
420 books — 319 voters
East of Eden by John SteinbeckDaughter of Eden by Jill Eileen SmithParadise Lost by John MiltonThe Diaries of Adam and Eve by Mark TwainComfort Me with Apples by Catherynne M. Valente
Adam and Eve Retellings
113 books — 39 voters


Frances Hodgson Burnett
Sometimes since I've been in the garden I've looked up through the trees at the sky and I have had a strange feeling of being happy as if something was pushing and drawing in my chest and making me breathe fast. Magic is always pushing and drawing and making things out of nothing. Everything is made out of magic, leaves and trees, flowers and birds, badgers and foxes and squirrels and people. So it must be all around us. In this garden - in all the places. ...more
Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

Henry James
...It often seemed to her that she thought too much about herself, you could have made her blush any day of the year, by telling her she was selfish. She was always planning out her own development, desiring her own perfection, observing her own progress. Her nature had for her own imagination a certain garden-like quality, a suggestion of perfume and murmuring bows, of shady bowers and of lengthening vistas, which made her feel that introspection was, after all, an exercise in the open air, and ...more
Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

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