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 Skeleton and the Cat
The Last Garden in England
Millie Fleur's Poison Garden
Where You're Planted
The Twilight Garden
The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
June in the Garden
The Potting Shed Murder (Hill House Vintage Murder Mystery, #1)
Steeped in Malice (Tea by the Sea Mysteries #4)
A Thousand Feasts: Small Moments of Joy… A Memoir of Sorts
Forget Me Never
The Memory of Lavender and Sage
The Alchemy of Flowers
Something, Someday
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
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
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
51 books — 21 voters
Johann Sebastian Bach by Christoph WolffHidden Figures by Margot Lee ShetterlyA Guide to Running Your First Marathon by Doug LimbrickKillers of the Flower Moon by David GrannBorn a Crime by Trevor Noah
Non-Fiction read in 2017
483 books — 109 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


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

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― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

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