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Horticulture Books
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The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 27 times as horticulture)
avg rating 4.06 — 59,524 ratings — published 2001
Botany for Gardeners (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as horticulture)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,420 ratings — published 1990
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as horticulture)
avg rating 4.07 — 89,458 ratings — published 2015
Basic Horticulture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as horticulture)
avg rating 3.71 — 91 ratings — published
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as horticulture)
avg rating 4.51 — 174,525 ratings — published 2013
Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as horticulture)
avg rating 4.41 — 4,934 ratings — published 2001
Latin for Gardeners: Over 3,000 Plant Names Explained and Explored (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as horticulture)
avg rating 4.25 — 235 ratings — published 2012
American Horticultural Society Pruning & Training (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as horticulture)
avg rating 4.38 — 370 ratings — published 1996
Manual of Woody Landscape Plants: Their Identification, Ornamental Characteristics, Culture, Propagation and Uses (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as horticulture)
avg rating 4.62 — 419 ratings — published 1975
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 — 11,153 ratings — published 2009
The Well-Tended Perennial Garden: Planting and Pruning Techniques (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as horticulture)
avg rating 4.32 — 847 ratings — published
Second Nature: A Gardener's Education (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as horticulture)
avg rating 3.93 — 9,116 ratings — published 1991
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as horticulture)
avg rating 4.32 — 51,473 ratings — published 2020
Planting in a Post-Wild World: Designing Plant Communities for Resilient Landscapes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as horticulture)
avg rating 4.24 — 828 ratings — published 2015
Bringing Nature Home: How Native Plants Sustain Wildlife in Our Gardens (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as horticulture)
avg rating 4.45 — 3,673 ratings — published 2007
Permaculture: A Designers' Manual (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as horticulture)
avg rating 4.49 — 1,724 ratings — published 1988
The New Organic Grower: A Master's Manual of Tools and Techniques for the Home and Market Gardener (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as horticulture)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,296 ratings — published 1989
Nature's Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation That Starts in Your Yard (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as horticulture)
avg rating 4.37 — 6,868 ratings — published 2019
Silent Spring (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as horticulture)
avg rating 4.06 — 55,137 ratings — published 1962
Teaming with Microbes: A Gardener's Guide to the Soil Food Web (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as horticulture)
avg rating 4.40 — 1,841 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 — 434 ratings — published 2010
The Orchid Thief (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as horticulture)
avg rating 3.66 — 22,057 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 — 1,790 ratings — published 1995
Dirr's Hardy Trees and Shrubs: An Illustrated Encyclopedia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as horticulture)
avg rating 4.64 — 269 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 — 247 ratings — published 1997
A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants (RHS)
by (shelved 7 times as horticulture)
avg rating 4.39 — 104 ratings — published 1996
All New Square Foot Gardening (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as horticulture)
avg rating 4.16 — 8,772 ratings — published 1981
Fundamentals of Horticulture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as horticulture)
avg rating 3.61 — 36 ratings — published
Wilding (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as horticulture)
avg rating 4.44 — 9,516 ratings — published 2018
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 — 965 ratings — published 2010
Planting: A New Perspective (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as horticulture)
avg rating 4.35 — 443 ratings — published 2013
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as horticulture)
avg rating 4.38 — 20,885 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 — 10,686 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 — 1,676 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 — 105 ratings — published 2008
The One-Straw Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as horticulture)
avg rating 4.33 — 9,194 ratings — published 1975
Perennials: Volume 2 Late Perennials (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as horticulture)
avg rating 4.33 — 36 ratings — published 1991
Miss Willmott's Ghosts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as horticulture)
avg rating 3.95 — 162 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 — 3,271 ratings — published 2021
The Well-Gardened Mind: The Restorative Power of Nature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as horticulture)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,801 ratings — published 2020
RHS Gardening Through The Year (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as horticulture)
avg rating 4.15 — 409 ratings — published 2001
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 4.50 — 184 ratings — published 1989
Down To Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as horticulture)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,453 ratings — published
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 — 811 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 — 188 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 4.34 — 241 ratings — published 2016
Paradise Lot: Two Plant Geeks, One-Tenth of an Acre, and the Making of an Edible Garden Oasis in the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as horticulture)
avg rating 4.01 — 968 ratings — published 2013
Pests, Diseases & Disorders of Garden Plants (Collins Complete Photo Guides)
by (shelved 5 times as horticulture)
avg rating 3.84 — 25 ratings — published 1981
“Years ago, when she'd studied the constructions of stem, blade, stamen, ovule, she loved the infinite possibilities of the plant kingdom- but she had been interested in color, scent, presentation: the beautiful names- cloth-of-gold crocus; ash-leaved trumpet, star-of-Bethlehem; meadow saffron- the loveliness of a blown field of asters or irises, a ring of roses to bed a wedding cake, the careful depiction of a peony in cross section on the page, a gentian constructed in icing. She knew all about beauty and almost nothing of utility.”
― Birds of Paradise
― Birds of Paradise
“As early humans moved about, they were accompanied by a whole entourage of creatures they had come to depend on, or learned to coexist with — not only their crop plants and domesticated animals, which they carried with them deliberately, but also the creatures that had adopted them during their lengthy process of developing agriculture and animal husbandry and building habitations and cities, roads and canals, seaports and fortifications. To quote Anderson [Edgar Anderson, Plants, Man, and Life:]
‘Unconsciously as well as deliberately man carries whole floras about the globe with him, he now lives surrounded by transported landscapes, and our commonest everyday plants have been transformed by their long associations with us so that many roadsides and dooryard plants are artifacts. An artifact, by definition, is something produced by man, something which we would not have if man had not come into being. That is what many of our weeds and crops really are.”
― Weeds in the Urban Landscape: Where They Come from, Why They're Here, and How to Live with Them
‘Unconsciously as well as deliberately man carries whole floras about the globe with him, he now lives surrounded by transported landscapes, and our commonest everyday plants have been transformed by their long associations with us so that many roadsides and dooryard plants are artifacts. An artifact, by definition, is something produced by man, something which we would not have if man had not come into being. That is what many of our weeds and crops really are.”
― Weeds in the Urban Landscape: Where They Come from, Why They're Here, and How to Live with Them
