Horticulture

Horticulture has been defined as the agriculture of plants, mainly for food, materials, comfort and beauty. According to American horticulturist Liberty Hyde Bailey, "Horticulture is the growing of flowers, fruits and vegetables, and of plants for ornament and fancy." A more precise definition can be given as "The cultivation, processing, and sale of fruits, nuts, vegetables, and ornamental plants as well as many additional services". It also includes plant conservation, landscape restoration, soil management, landscape and garden design, construction and maintenance, and arboriculture. In con ...more

Horticulture Books

The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World

The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

Latin for Gardeners: Over 3,000 Plant Names Explained and Explored

Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture

Manual of Woody Landscape Plants: Their Identification, Ornamental Characteristics, Culture, Propagation and Uses

American Horticultural Society Pruning & Training

The Royal Horticultural Society Encyclopedia of Gardening

Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities

Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

The Well-Tended Perennial Garden: Planting and Pruning Techniques

Planting in a Post-Wild World: Designing Plant Communities for Resilient Landscapes

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Any Rose: Roses in Romance Novels

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Geoff Hamilton's Cottage Gardens by Geoff Hamilton

English Cottage Gardening by Margaret Hensel

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Millie Fleur's Poison Garden by Christy Mandin

How Does My Garden Grow? by Gerda Muller

A Year in Our New Garden by Gerda Muller

Picture Books for Little Gardeners

28 books — 4 voters

The Illustrated Herbal Handbook for Everyone by Juliette De Bairacli Levy

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348 books — 15 voters

The Science of Gardening by David Whiting

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4 books — 4 voters

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Quotes Tagged “Horticulture”

“ The conventions of modern human landscaping seem totally deranged. ”
― Joey Santore, Concrete Botany: The Ecology of Plants in the Age of Human Disturbance

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“ One cannot analyse the character of European gardens without looking beyond the Mediterranean. This is because horticulture, palace life and city-building developed in the Fertile Crescent before spreading, via Crete, Greece, Egypt and Italy to the forests of Europe ”
― Tom Turner, European Gardens: History, Philosophy and Design

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