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 Last Garden in England
The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
Where You're Planted
How to Talk to Your Succulent
The Twilight Garden
June in the Garden
The Peculiar Garden of Harriet Hunt
Millie Fleur's Poison Garden
How to Read a Tree: Clues and Patterns from Bark to Leaves
Nice Work, Nora November: A Novel about Second Chances
The Memory of Lavender and Sage
Steeped in Malice (Tea by the Sea Mysteries #4)
The Potting Shed Murder (Hill House Vintage Murder Mystery, #1)
The Gardener's Plot
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
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
Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long
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
A Muddied Murder by Wendy TysonFor Whom the Bluebell Tolls by Beverly  AllenThyme of Death by Susan Wittig AlbertFlowerbed of State by Dorothy St. JamesThe Potted Gardener by M.C. Beaton
Gardening Mysteries
50 books — 20 voters
Death at SeaWorld by David  KirbyBorn Free by Joy AdamsonThe Love of a Dog by Jo ProutyThe Spotted Sphinx by Joy AdamsonAll Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot
Adult Nonfiction Animal Books
600 books — 178 voters

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. MontgomeryThe Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson BurnettThe Hobbit by J.R.R. TolkienGarden Spells by Sarah Addison AllenThe Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien
All Things Green & Growing
103 books — 36 voters
H is for Hawk by Helen MacdonaldBraiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall KimmererProdigal Summer by Barbara KingsolverThe Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova BaileySilent Spring by Rachel Carson
Female Naturalist Writers
287 books — 65 voters

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara KingsolverThe Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael PollanThis Changes Everything by Naomi KleinStories on the Trail of a Yankee Millwright Seeing the Past by James T.  PowersSaving the Farm by James T.  Powers
Best Sustainability Nonfiction
421 books — 322 voters
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson BurnettThe Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix PotterRebecca by Daphne du MaurierTom's Midnight Garden by Philippa PearcePride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Novels About Gardens
350 books — 52 voters


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

J.M. Coetzee
He even knew the reason why: because enough men had gone off to war saying the time for gardening was when the war was over; whereas there must be men to stay behind and keep gardening alive, or at least the idea of gardening; because once that cord was broken, the earth would grow hard and forget her children. That was why.
J.M. Coetzee, Life & Times of Michael K

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