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
How to Talk to Your Succulent
Millie Fleur's Poison Garden
Where You're Planted
The Twilight Garden
The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
A Cup of Silver Linings (Dove Pond #2)
Don't Touch that Flower
The Someday Garden
June in the Garden
The Potting Shed Murder (Hill House Vintage Murder Mystery, #1)
The Alchemy of Flowers
Steeped in Malice (Tea by the Sea Mysteries #4)
The Peculiar Garden of Harriet Hunt
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
Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long
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
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
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 — 51 voters
Dungeon Born by Dakota KroutAncient Ruins by Benjamin MedranoThe Slime Dungeon by Jeffrey "Falcon" LogueWe Are Legion (We Are Bob) by Dennis E. TaylorDungeon Spawned by D.R. Rosier
Protagonist is a Dungeon
67 books — 165 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
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
420 books — 319 voters

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"
391 books — 240 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


Leigh Bardugo
She stood with her perfect profile turned to the glittering night sky, her hood sliding back. Snow was beginning to fall, and it caught in the dark waves of her hair. “I plant something new for every Grisha lost. Heartleaf for Marie. Yew for Sergei. Red Sentinel for Fedyor. Even Ivan has a place.” She touched her fingers to a frozen stalk. “This will blossom bright orange in the summer. I planted it for Harshaw. These dahlias were for Nina when I thought she’d been captured and killed by Fjerdan ...more
Leigh Bardugo, Rule of Wolves

Victor Hugo
A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.
Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

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