Gardening category: 4300 books

You're probably already thinking to yourself If I have to read a book to grow a flower in a pot, why should I bother?! Yeah, I know –but to be honest, there are a lot of excellent things that come with being able to master at least growing one successful pot of orchids. For one thing, they're gorgeous!...

This book contains a lovely little guide to designing and constructing wooden garden furniture and accessories, including information on collecting and mounting moths and butterflies. A concise and easy to digest handbook full of detailed illustrations and diagrams, this book is perfect for the gardening...

This is volume VI of “The Modern Flower Garden” series, dealing with lilies. Lilies are a group of herbaceous flowering plants native to the temperate northern hemisphere and northern subtropics. This volume contains a wealth of information on the lily, as well as how they can be successfully...

From garden to table, the complete guide to growing, storing, and cooking your favorite vegetables. It's not hard to follow Mom's advice to eat your vegetables when you have more than 300 pages of great information to get that tasty produce from garden to table. Learn expert gardening tips...

Simple Living in the 21st Century teaches you how to live off the land in the healthiest and most natural way possible. Robert Spaccarelli is an expert in the fields of beekeeping, gardening, fruit trees, permaculture, mushrooms, and foraging for wild plants. This book gives you enough information...

A Nipper’s Tale is the delightful biography of Alan Rampling who spent most of his working life doing something he loved – gardening. Growing up in 1950s Preston, he left school with no qualifications and no idea of what he wanted to do with his life. One day he walked into the Preston parks department...

Many hate the winter.  Some people don’t like it because they miss out on their favorite plants, and sometimes they don’t know how to grow anything else.  The winter can kill off your plants, and that’s a problem that so many have.  But what if you had a way to grow them indoors?  What if...

How women changed the American landscape from planting war victory gardens to saving the redwoods, beautifying the highway to creating horticultural standards. In 1904, Elizabeth Price Martin founded the Garden Club of Philadelphia. In 1913, twelve garden clubs in the eastern and central United...

Turn your garden into a bright summer paradise with a collection of 35 projects to create stylish, fragrant and abundant displays. There are gorgeous flowering plants, lush foliage, special occasion displays, and edible fruit and vegetable harvests. The projects in Small Summer Gardens include...

Dubbed the Bulb Hunter in a 2006 New York Times feature story, Chris Wiesinger took his passion for bulbs to vacant lots, abandoned houses, cemeteries, and construction sites throughout the South in search of botanical survivors whose descendants had never seen the inside of a big-box chain store....

Countless garden books tell us what, when, where and how to plant.Few explore the reasons why gardening becomes central to so many people's lives.In Garden Voices, Carolyn Rapp explores the relationships of women with their gardens, revealing sources of joy that go far beyond the pleasure of harvesting...

Planting Tomatoes (Tips Before You Begin) is the perfect companion book for when you decide to embark on your own question of cultivating your very own tomatoes. Using a variety of tips and FAQs, this book will allow you to overcome the first hurdles that are stopping you from planting your tomato gardening, and put you on the road to your very first tomato harvest!

Country house kitchen gardens were designed as perfect ‘grow your own’ environments and ensured that households were supplied with their own fruit and vegetables throughout the year. This book offers an insight into the digging and sowing of these gardens, as well as exploring how walled gardens...