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A poignant, visual ode to the natural world’s power to sustain, inspire, and regenerate
Oprah Daily
From an award-winning artist, designer, and the host of the podcast Design Matters, this book tells the visual story of falling in love with gardening—and the philosophies that work conjures.
Debbie Millman always thought of herself as a bad gardener. Nevertheless, she kept trying. Over the years she came to realize that no one is a bad gardener—a garden is a journey that develops over time, through space, and evolves along with our hearts. In Love Letter to a Garden, Debbie Millman shares her journey to make and grow a garden—and the plants she has collected along the way—a process that started with handed-down houseplants from beloved friends and a lone peony.
Spread throughout are simple recipes using the garden’s ingredients from Millman’s wife, bestselling author Roxane Gay. Love Letter to a Garden is a little gem of a book—an inspiring, impulse-friendly story that can be read in one setting, then shared, experienced, pollinated, and perpetuated.
Designing the Lush Dry Garden is more than an instruction manual. It is a font of visual inspiration as well.
Gardenista
“Drawing on the wisdom of the late Ruth Bancroft, this book shows how to adapt her renowned dry garden principles to modern landscapes. It demonstrates how these ideas can transform real-life spaces into thriving, beautiful sanctuaries.” ―The American Garden
The Ruth Bancroft Garden, known as one of the finest dry gardens in the world, is a pioneering example of resilient design with a focus on water conservation. Ruth Bancroft (1908-2017) was a self-taught gardener and designer whose eclectic methods encourage richly textured, bold, and colorful layers of regionally climate-appropriate flowers, shrubs, trees, and succulents. These include her favorite aloes, agaves, yuccas, and echeverias that she collected and experimented with for over 60 years, and which the garden has continued to steward.
Designing the Lush Dry Garden is the first guide to lay out Ruth Bancroft’s methods for the home gardener and designer. With gorgeous photographs by Caitlin Atkinson, and detailed portraits of 20 gardens inspired by the Garden, discover how to create a design that suits your vision, including:
- How to choose the right plants for your site, including Ruth’s favorites
- The appropriate methods for adapting your garden to climate change
- Advice on integrating paths and structures in a waterwise design
- Tips for low-water container gardens and designs
Brenna is the pansy queen and her love for these precious flowers shines through every page. Pansies is the first book of its kind and is a must-add to your garden library.
Erin Benzakein
Pansies is the big idea flower book we’ve all been waiting for. While working at the famed Floret Flower Farm, Brenna Estrada was so inspired by the pansies being grown that she began to trial hundreds of varieties of pansies and violas on her own farm. Her innovative approach to growing in full sun results in pansies with long stems, breathtaking fragrance, and unique color.
Filled with stunning photography, Pansies is perfect for growers, florists, artists, and collectors. Readers will discover:
·The fascinating history of pansies and violas, from their origination as a wildflower to a necessary adornment in every household garden
·Everything you need to know about growing pansies (and how to save pansy seeds!)
·How to keep pansies healthy and resilient all year round
·Inspiration for incorporating pansies in crafts, recipes, and in the apothecary
·Inspiring examples of knockout bouquets and arrangements
·Lush profiles on 50 varieties of pansies and violas available today
great gifts for gardeners
The Gardens of Mien Ruys
The Modern Japanese Garden
Casting Flowers
The Curious Kitchen Gardener
Love Letter to a Garden
The Heirloom Gardener
All the Presidents’ Gardens
Beatrix Potter’s Gardening Life
Emily Dickinson’s Gardening Life
Unearthing The Secret Garden
Botanical Art Techniques
The Insect Artist
Creating Sanctuary
Everyday Sanctuary
A Garden Miscellany
The Earth in Her Hands
The Lifelong Gardener
Just getting started? These books can help.
The Month-by-Month Gardening Guide
The New Gardener’s Handbook
The Beginner’s Guide to Growing Great Vegetables
Small-Space Vegetable Gardens
Grow Your Own Herbs
The Know Maintenance Perennial Garden
Pruning Simplified
all about flowers
The Essential Guide to Bulbs
Casting Flowers
Pansies
Black Flora
Orchid Modern
Peony
The Proven Winners Garden Book
The Ultimate Flower Gardener’s Guide
Growing Bulbs in the Natural Garden
The Gardener’s Palette
The Well-Tended Perennial Garden
herbs
Herbs in Every Season
Grow Your Own Herbs
Lavender for All Seasons
Grow Your Own Tea
The Heirloom Gardener
Iwigara
Native American Medicinal Plants
Native American Ethnobotany
A celebration of gardeners around the country taking a more-is-more approach to planting.
Better Homes & Gardens
Having a maximalist garden is a bold aesthetic choice—yet it also brings vitality back to the earth, in an abundant expression of more. Garden to the Max celebrates gardens across the US that embrace maximalism through joy and wonder, nonstop blooms, and abundant layers. The book is a feast of gorgeous photography by Bob Stefko, showcasing individual quirkiness, wild collections, and bold, personality-packed plant combinations that amplify the grandeur of each garden’s unique vision, packing in plants for their exuberant style and ecological benefits.
Featured gardeners include an amateur ornithologist seeking to attract more birds, an event planner’s tropical paradise, a pair of city dwellers reducing their carbon footprint, an urban garden pioneer promoting pollinator gardens, and a life-long biophilic propagating endangered plants to nurture insects. Longtime garden writer Teresa Woodard shares stories of each garden and its fearless designers, the inspirations for their plant collections, and their hopes for our earth’s future.
Information-packed sidebars full of standout plants and growing tips will inspire dreamers and gardeners to embrace their own passions. Garden to the Max gives everyone permission to bring the exuberant interior style into the garden and develop a spirited reverence for plants, celebrating joy and personality in the garden—to the max!
design & inspiration
Planting the Natural Garden
Planting
Planting in a Post-Wild World
The Layered Garden
A Year at Brandywine Cottage
Garden to the Max
Designing the Lush Dry Garden
My Garden
The Modern Cottage Garden
Derek Jarman’s Garden
A Way to Garden
The Garden in Every Sense and Season
Uprooted
The Garden Refresh
The Less Is More Garden
The 30-Minute Gardener
Creating Sanctuary
The Magical World of Moss Gardening
Garden Revolution
Succulents Simplified
Designing with Succulents
Glorious Shade
Designing with Palms
garden-in-place collection
The Gardens of Mien Ruys
Gardens of Texas
The Modern Japanese Garden
Derek Jarman’s Garden
My Garden
Designing the Lush Dry Garden
The Bold Dry Garden
The Layered Garden
A Year at Brandywine Cottage
Adventures in Eden
Gardenlust
Windcliff
American Roots
Under Western Skies
The Art of Gardening
Spirit of Place
Nature into Art
Gardens of the High Line
A Tapestry Garden
Chasing Eden
To me, Barbara Damrosch is the Julia Child of gardening. She practically invented the edible gardening movement.
Phillis Odessey, The New York Botanical Garden
“Drawing on a lifetime of organic gardening, Barbara Damrosch collects her lessons learned and wisdom gained into an easy-to-read-and-enjoy overview of kitchen gardening. For the new gardener, there is encouragement on top of nuts-and-bolts advice. For every gardener, there is inspiration to face the challenges inherent in a life deeply rooted in and fed from the garden.” —American Gardener
In A Life in the Garden, horticultural icon Barbara Damrosch imparts a lifetime of wisdom on growing food for herself and her family. In writing that’s accessible, engaging, and elegant, she welcomes us to garden alongside her. Personal, thoughtful, and often humorous, this book offers practical DIY insights that will delight gardeners, cooks, and small-scale farmers. With a personal and sometimes irreverent tone, Barbara expresses the pleasure she takes in gardening, the sense of empowerment she finds in it, and the importance of a partnership with the real expert: nature.
grow your own food
Apples of North America
The Beginner’s Guide to Growing Great Vegetables
The Curious Kitchen Gardener
Homegrown Berries
A Life in the Garden
The Month-by-Month Gardening Guide
The New Gardener’s Handbook
Plant Grow Harvest Repeat
Practical Permaculture
Small-Space Vegetable Gardens
The Vegetable Gardener’s Guide to Permaculture
great vegetables, state-by-state
Grow Great Vegetables in Georgia
Grow Great Vegetables Illinois
Grow Great Vegetables Indiana
Grow Great Vegetables in Massachusetts
Grow Great Vegetables Michigan
Grow Great Vegetables Minnesota and Wisconsin
Grow Great Vegetables in New Jersey
Grow Great Vegetables in New York
Grow Great Vegetables in North Carolina
Grow Great Vegetables Ohio
Grow Great Vegetables in Pennsylvania
Grow Great Vegetables in South Carolina
Grow Great Vegetables in Tennessee
Grow Great Vegetables in Texas
Grow Great Vegetables in Virginia
Tallamy is one of the most original and persuasive present-day authors on conservation.
Edward O. Wilson
From a New York Times bestselling author, a wildlife ecology expert and environmental advocate provides readers with the next step in their ecological journey.
In How Can I Help?, Tallamy tackles the questions commonly asked at his popular lectures and shares compelling and actionable answers that will help gardeners and homeowners take the next step in their ecological journey. Topics range from ecology, evolution, biodiversity and conservation to restoration, native plants, invasive species, pest control, and supporting wildlife at home. Tallamy keenly understands that most people want to take part in conservation efforts but often feel powerless to do so as individuals. But one person can make a difference, and How Can I Help? details how.
Whether by reducing your lawn, planting a handful of native species, or allowing leaves to sit untouched, you will be inspired and empowered to join millions of other like-minded people to become the future of backyard conservation.
sustainable gardening
Bad Naturalist
Bringing Nature Home
Gardening in Summer-Dry Climates
Grass Isn’t Greener
Hot Color, Dry Garden
How Can I Help?
Nature’s Best Hope
Nature’s Best Hope (Young Readers’ Edition)
The Living Landscape
The Nature of Oaks
Grow Now
We Are the ARK
Plant Grow Harvest Repeat
Practical Permaculture
The Vegetable Gardener’s Guide to Permaculture
Teaming with Bacteria
Teaming with Fungi
Teaming with Nutrients
Teaming with Microbes
native plant primers
The Midwest Native Plant Primer
The Northeast Native Plant Primer
The Pacific Northwest Native Plant Primer
The Southeast Native Plant Primer
The Southwest Native Plant Primer
The Texas Native Plant Primer
wildlife habitat
The Hummingbird Handbook
Gardening for Butterflies
The Ultimate Wildlife Habitat Garden
Garden Allies
Free-Range Chicken Gardens
Oh, Deer!
Deer-Resistant Design
50 Beautiful Deer-Resistant Plants
Deer-Resistant Native Plants for the Northeast
Provides the nuts and bolts of designing and maintaining greenhouses for these purposes without overwhelming readers with technical minutiae.
The American Gardener
“Anyone purchasing a greenhouse should read this book first.” —Home Greenhouse Magazine
Do you want homegrown tomatoes in the dead of winter? Or to grow succulents and cacti in the coldest parts of the world? All you need is a greenhouse. In The Greenhouse Gardener’s Manual, Roger Marshall shares the secrets of successfully growing vegetables, fruits, flowers, and houseplants in a well-maintained greenhouse. You’ll learn how to choose the right design, create a healthy environment, use the space for propagation, and maintain the greenhouse year-round. Marshall also includes a plant directory of the 70 best fruits and vegetables and the 88 best ornamental plants for growing in a greenhouse.
garden reference
How Plants Work
Botany for Gardeners, Fourth Edition
A Botanist’s Vocabulary
The Greenhouse Gardener’s Manual
Gardening Under Lights
Plant Parenting
The Lifelong Gardener
Pruning Simplified
Plants from Test Tubes
Temperate Garden Plant Families
The Complete Book of Ground Covers
Grasses for Gardens and Landscapes
Rock Gardening
Shrubs
The Tree Book
Dirr’s Encyclopedia of Trees and Shrubs
Firescaping Your Home
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