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
Silent Spring by Rachel CarsonCradle to Cradle by William McDonoughThe Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael PollanThe Urban Homestead by Kelly CoyneThe Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
Being "Green"
389 books — 238 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

All New Square Foot Gardening by Mel BartholomewFour-Season Harvest by Eliot ColemanWestern Garden Book by Kathleen Norris BrenzelBringing Nature Home by Douglas W. TallamyLasagna Gardening by Patricia Lanza
Gardening Books
369 books — 156 voters
East of Eden by John SteinbeckDaughter of Eden by Jill Eileen SmithParadise Lost by John MiltonThe Diaries of Adam and Eve by Mark TwainComfort Me with Apples by Catherynne M. Valente
Adam and Eve Retellings
113 books — 39 voters


Abraham Lincoln
The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.
Abraham Lincoln

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
A weed is but an unloved flower.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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