51 books
—
21 voters
Discover new books on Goodreads
Meet your next favorite book
Horticulture Books
Showing 1-50 of 3,127
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 27 times as horticulture)
avg rating 4.06 — 60,756 ratings — published 2001
Botany for Gardeners (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as horticulture)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,462 ratings — published 1990
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as horticulture)
avg rating 4.06 — 94,274 ratings — published 2015
Basic Horticulture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as horticulture)
avg rating 3.76 — 99 ratings — published
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as horticulture)
avg rating 4.49 — 193,510 ratings — published 2013
Latin for Gardeners: Over 3,000 Plant Names Explained and Explored (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as horticulture)
avg rating 4.26 — 240 ratings — published 2012
Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as horticulture)
avg rating 4.42 — 4,986 ratings — published 2001
Manual of Woody Landscape Plants: Their Identification, Ornamental Characteristics, Culture, Propagation and Uses (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as horticulture)
avg rating 4.62 — 422 ratings — published 1975
American Horticultural Society Pruning & Training (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as horticulture)
avg rating 4.38 — 375 ratings — published 1996
The Royal Horticultural Society Encyclopedia of Gardening (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as horticulture)
avg rating 4.41 — 181 ratings — published 1992
Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as horticulture)
avg rating 3.82 — 11,462 ratings — published 2009
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as horticulture)
avg rating 4.31 — 56,414 ratings — published 2020
The Well-Tended Perennial Garden: Planting and Pruning Techniques (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as horticulture)
avg rating 4.33 — 859 ratings — published
Planting in a Post-Wild World: Designing Plant Communities for Resilient Landscapes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as horticulture)
avg rating 4.23 — 881 ratings — published 2015
Second Nature: A Gardener's Education (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as horticulture)
avg rating 3.93 — 9,309 ratings — published 1991
The New Organic Grower: A Master's Manual of Tools and Techniques for the Home and Market Gardener (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as horticulture)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,315 ratings — published 1989
Nature's Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation That Starts in Your Yard (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as horticulture)
avg rating 4.36 — 7,533 ratings — published 2019
Silent Spring (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as horticulture)
avg rating 4.07 — 57,730 ratings — published 1962
Bringing Nature Home: How Native Plants Sustain Wildlife in Our Gardens (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as horticulture)
avg rating 4.44 — 3,924 ratings — published 2007
Wilding (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as horticulture)
avg rating 4.43 — 10,213 ratings — published 2018
Teaming with Microbes: A Gardener's Guide to the Soil Food Web (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as horticulture)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,888 ratings — published 2006
Creating a Forest Garden: Working with Nature to Grow Edible Crops (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as horticulture)
avg rating 4.44 — 444 ratings — published 2010
The Orchid Thief (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as horticulture)
avg rating 3.66 — 23,317 ratings — published 1998
Seed to Seed: Seed Saving and Growing Techniques for Vegetable Gardeners (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as horticulture)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,796 ratings — published 1995
Dirr's Hardy Trees and Shrubs: An Illustrated Encyclopedia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as horticulture)
avg rating 4.64 — 270 ratings — published 1997
The American Horticultural Society A to Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as horticulture)
avg rating 4.47 — 249 ratings — published 1997
Permaculture: A Designers' Manual (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as horticulture)
avg rating 4.49 — 1,736 ratings — published 1988
A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants (RHS)
by (shelved 7 times as horticulture)
avg rating 4.39 — 106 ratings — published 1996
All New Square Foot Gardening (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as horticulture)
avg rating 4.16 — 8,828 ratings — published 1981
Fundamentals of Horticulture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as horticulture)
avg rating 3.67 — 39 ratings — published
RHS Gardening Through The Year (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as horticulture)
avg rating 4.14 — 414 ratings — published 2001
Weeds: How Vagabond Plants Gatecrashed Civilisation and Changed the Way We Think About Nature (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as horticulture)
avg rating 3.82 — 985 ratings — published 2010
Planting: A New Perspective (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as horticulture)
avg rating 4.34 — 463 ratings — published 2013
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as horticulture)
avg rating 4.37 — 23,429 ratings — published 2003
The Drunken Botanist: The Plants That Create the World's Great Drinks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as horticulture)
avg rating 4.02 — 10,956 ratings — published 2013
Worms Eat My Garbage: How to Set Up and Maintain a Worm Composting System (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as horticulture)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,689 ratings — published 1982
Plant-Driven Design: Creating Gardens That Honor Plants, Place, and Spirit (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as horticulture)
avg rating 4.04 — 104 ratings — published 2008
The Secret Life of Plants: A Fascinating Account of the Physical, Emotional and Spiritual Relations Between Plants and Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as horticulture)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,431 ratings — published 1973
The Complete Gardener: A Practical, Imaginative Guide to Every Aspect of Gardening (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as horticulture)
avg rating 4.55 — 960 ratings — published 2003
RHS Resilient Garden: Sustainable Gardening for a Changing Climate (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as horticulture)
avg rating 4.08 — 65 ratings — published
Perennials: Volume 2 Late Perennials (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as horticulture)
avg rating 4.35 — 37 ratings — published 1991
Miss Willmott's Ghosts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as horticulture)
avg rating 3.94 — 186 ratings — published 2020
The Nature of Oaks: The Rich Ecology of Our Most Essential Native Trees (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as horticulture)
avg rating 4.35 — 3,721 ratings — published 2021
The Well-Gardened Mind: The Restorative Power of Nature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as horticulture)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,061 ratings — published 2020
Glaustas Horticulture (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 5 times as horticulture)
avg rating 3.88 — 57 ratings — published
RHS Encyclopedia of Plants and Flowers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as horticulture)
avg rating 4.51 — 189 ratings — published 1989
Down To Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as horticulture)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,791 ratings — published 2017
Grow a Little Fruit Tree: Simple Pruning Techniques for Small-Space, Easy-Harvest Fruit Trees (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as horticulture)
avg rating 4.54 — 873 ratings — published 2014
Practical Botany for Gardeners: Over 3,000 Botanical Terms Explained and Explored (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as horticulture)
avg rating 4.36 — 198 ratings — published 2013
Garden Revolution: How Our Landscapes Can Be a Source of Environmental Change (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as horticulture)
avg rating 4.33 — 256 ratings — published 2016
“I want you to understand what you are doing, not just perform tasks because I say so.”
― Charles Dowding's Skills for Growing
― Charles Dowding's Skills for Growing
“Note what the catalogue says about colour and height and time of flowering, choose the appropriate shade of crayon and mark position of plant on plan. You will soon see what would make good neighbours nd what would be fatal. Last year I dumped a lot of seeds haphazardly in a hurry and got mesembryanthemums and a new ‘electric orange’ calendula mingled with a scarlet eschscholtzia and even the thought of it makes me shudder yet. The conjunction of paralytic pink, blinding blood-orange and genuine clear scarlet was practically un-lookable at. I expected it to blow up at any moment, …”
―
―
