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
Millie Fleur's Poison Garden
The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
The Memory of Lavender and Sage
The Twilight Garden
The Winter Garden
The Last Garden in England
Good Soil: The Education of an Accidental Farmhand
Floriography: An Illustrated Guide to the Victorian Language of Flowers
The Alchemy of Flowers
The Well-Gardened Mind: The Restorative Power of Nature
Nice Work, Nora November: A Novel about Second Chances
Scent of a Garden
The Peculiar Garden of Harriet Hunt
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
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
New Moon by Stephenie MeyerBeastly by Alex FlinnPride & Prejudice by Jane AustenRomeo & Juliet by William ShakespeareWuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Flowers on Covers
986 books — 367 voters
The Backyard Homestead by Carleen MadiganPest Control for Organic Gardening by Amber RichardsThe Dirty Life by Kristin KimballGaia's Garden by Toby HemenwayTiny Victory Gardens by Acadia Tucker
Gardening/Farming/Sustainability
48 books — 42 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
386 books — 159 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
711 books — 1,357 voters



Charles Dowding
Keep an open mind and try some new methods.
Charles Dowding, Charles Dowding's Skills for Growing

Charles Dowding
Feed the soil, not your plants.
Charles Dowding, Charles Dowding's Skills for Growing

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