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
Death and the Gardener
Where You're Planted
The Last Garden in England
The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
The Twilight Garden
Millie Fleur's Poison Garden
How to Talk to Your Succulent
Nice Work, Nora November: A Novel about Second Chances
A Cup of Silver Linings (Dove Pond #2)
The Peculiar Garden of Harriet Hunt
Good Soil: The Education of an Accidental Farmhand
Don't Touch that Flower
Tomatoes on Trial: The Fruit v. Vegetable Showdown
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
Grow Great Grub: Organic Food from Small Spaces
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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

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

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