Horticulture

Horticulture has been defined as the agriculture of plants, mainly for food, materials, comfort and beauty. According to American horticulturist Liberty Hyde Bailey, "Horticulture is the growing of flowers, fruits and vegetables, and of plants for ornament and fancy." A more precise definition can be given as "The cultivation, processing, and sale of fruits, nuts, vegetables, and ornamental plants as well as many additional services". It also includes plant conservation, landscape restoration, soil management, landscape and garden design, construction and maintenance, and arboriculture. In con ...more

Horticulture Books

The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World

The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture

Manual of Woody Landscape Plants: Their Identification, Ornamental Characteristics, Culture, Propagation and Uses

American Horticultural Society Pruning & Training

Latin for Gardeners: Over 3,000 Plant Names Explained and Explored

The Royal Horticultural Society Encyclopedia of Gardening

Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities

Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

Planting in a Post-Wild World: Designing Plant Communities for Resilient Landscapes

The Well-Tended Perennial Garden: Planting and Pruning Techniques

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Pest Control for Organic Gardening by Amber Richards

In Tune with the Moon 2012 by Michel Gros

How to Grow More Vegetables by John Jeavons

Biodynamic Agriculture & Gardening

30 books — 19 voters

The Holistic Orchard by Michael Phillips

Johnny Appleseed and the American Orchard by William Kerrigan

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26 books — 9 voters

CLASSIC POISONOUS PLANTS by Ghenrietta Von Bloome

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1 book — 1 voter

Growing Perennial Foods by Acadia Tucker

The basic gardening bookshelf

28 books — 26 voters

Geoff Hamilton's Cottage Gardens by Geoff Hamilton

English Cottage Gardening by Margaret Hensel

Cottage Garden

22 books — 6 voters

Medicinal Plants of the Southern Appalachians by Patricia Kyritsi Howell

Ginseng, the Divine Root by David A. Taylor

Nieuwe flora in kleur by M. Skytte Christiansen

Pretty Botany & Gardening Books

55 books — 7 voters

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“ There is a delicate-looking plant native to North America called bleeding heart. ”
― Josh Aterovis, Bleeding Hearts

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“ Watching gardeners label their plants I vow with all beings to practice the old horticulture and let plants identify me. ”
― Robert Aitken, The Dragon Who Never Sleeps: Verses for Zen Buddhist Practice

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