Essays

James Fenton  
Usually ships in 24 hours A refreshingly simple and free-spirited approach to making a garden for pure pleasure Forget "bones" Forget "structure." Forget trees, shrubs, and perennials.... [read more]

Diane Ackerman  
Usually ships in 24 hours Ackerman delights in her garden through all the seasons. Whether she is deadheading flowers or glorying in the profusion of roses, she... [read more]

Emilie Barnes,Susan Rios,Anne Christian Buchanan  
Usually ships in 24 hours Bestselling author Emilie Barnes and artist Susan Rios, the talented women who created The Twelve Teas of Friendship, now team together to... [read more]

C. Z. Guest  
Usually ships in 24 hours Gardening wisdom blossoms from the pages of this delightful and instructive how-to book for the beginning gardener, a perfect gift for homeowners.... [read more]

Tovah Martin,Richard W. Brown,Richard Brown  
Usually ships in 24 hours If it sometimes seems that gardening is all work and no play, here's the book that will turn that canard on its... [read more]

ELEANOR PERENYI,ALLEN LACY  
Usually ships in 24 hours A classic in the literature of the garden, Green Thoughts is a beautifully written and highly original collection of seventy-two essays, alphabetically... [read more]

Rolland Hein  
Usually ships in 24 hours Rolland Hein has woven together two of his passions--poetry and growing things--in a book that serves as both a Christian devotional and... [read more]

Jerry Baker,Kim Adam Gasior  
Usually ships in 24 hours Many, many years ago, Jerry went to live with his Grandma Putt, who had an amazing amount of knowledge and folklore about... [read more]

Joseph Cornell,John Hendrickson  
Usually ships in 24 hours Here is a beautiful gift book that transports adults into the quiet mystery of nature. For each day of the month, the... [read more]

Jesse Sheeler,Andrew Lawson,Jesse Sheller  
Usually ships in 24 hours Sir Roy Strong calls Little Sparta "the only really original garden made in this country since 1945". Ian Hamilton Finlay's unique creation... [read more]

Jamaica Kincaid  
Usually ships in 3 to 5 weeks One of our finest writers on one of her greatest loves.Jamaica Kincaid's first garden in Vermont was a plot in the middle... [read more]

Paul Stamets  
Usually ships in 24 hours A manual for healing the earth and creating sustainable forests through mushroom cultivation, featuring mycelial solutions to water pollution, toxic spills, and... [read more]

Bobby J. Ward  
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Graham Stuart Thomas  
Usually ships in 24 hours Though aware of his expertise on roses, and other plants, I confess to opening this book with a certain scepticism concerning the... [read more]

Richardson Wright  
Usually ships in 24 hours First published in 1929, The Gardener's Bed-Book is a much-beloved gardening classic: Each of its 365 perfectly sized little essays is an... [read more]

Jane Lamb  
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Charles Elliott  
Usually ships in 24 hours A lush collection of essays from the fertile pen of the Horticulture columnist whose work the New York Times called "delectable." Praise... [read more]

Dominique Browning,House & Garden Magazine  
Usually ships in 24 hours Few magazines can lay claim to a century of history or to having published work by some extraordinary and distinguished protographers and... [read more]

Scott Calhoun  
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Jamaica Kincaid  
Usually ships in 24 hours A passion for plants meets a passion for words in these essays edited by Jamaica Kincaid. You'll find both lyrical prose and... [read more]

Jamaica Kincaid,Jill Fox   In her lovely voice, Kincaid writes of all she loves about gardening and plants, her triumph and failure in her own garden.... [read more]

Georgia Jones  
Usually ships in 24 hours Anthropologists tell us that walking upright is the first step in human evolution, speech the next, and agriculture is the beginning of... [read more]

Warren Schultz  
Usually ships in 2 to 5 weeks "I'm tired of being told that gardening is women's work, " writes author Warren Schultz. "I don't like the way my buddies... [read more]

Sharon Lovejoy  
Usually ships in 24 hours Essays and illustrations from the award-winning column, "Heart's Ease." Since the very first issue of Country Living Gardener, writer, artist, and naturalist... [read more]

Jennifer Barrett,Marilyn Barrett  
Usually ships in 24 hours The enduring and universal metaphor of the garden is a simple yet profound tool for counteracting the numbing effects of modern life.... [read more]

Fran Sorin   Gardening is America's #1 pastime: Over 70 million households in the U.S. are engaged in gardening activities, and consumer sales of gardening... [read more]

George Drower  
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Joyce McGreevy  
Usually ships in 24 hours A collection of evocative personal essays about the practical, emotional, and spiritual aspects of gardening, including gardening tips, recipes, and ideas. With warmth,... [read more]

Erica Hunningher,Vivian Russell,Dorling Kindersley Publishing   Fifteen gardeners of distinction reveal the gardens that have inspired their lives and work. Gardens of Inspiration is an invitation to join... [read more]

Debra Landwehr Engle  
Usually ships in 24 hours In these pages, we travel the country with Debra Landwehr Engle as she visits 20 gardens and gardeners from California to Maine... [read more]

May Brawley hill   In Grandmother's Garden: The Old-fashioned American Garden 1865-1915, art historian May Brawley Hill traces the development of this indigenous garden style in... [read more]

Susan Davis Price  
Usually ships in 24 hours With a text that glows as brightly as the book's sumptuous photography, Growing Home is a triumphant celebration of "diversity." But Ms.... [read more]

Vigen Guroian  
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Jenny Joseph  
Usually ships in 24 hours In this month-by-month memoir, poet Jenny Joseph captures the smells and senses of her English garden. This unconventional viewpoint is expressed through... [read more]

Charles Dudley Warner,Allan Gurganus   Oft quoted but seldom credited,Charles Dudley Warner’s My Summer in a Garden is a classic of American garden writing and was a... [read more]

Charles Dean,Clyde Wachsberger  
Usually ships in 24 hours Winner of the 2002 Garden Writers Association of America's Garden GlobeAward for Illustration. A literary anthology that summons up the profound passions... [read more]

George Reresby Sitwell,Osbert Sitwell,John Dixon Hunt  
Usually ships in 24 hours It was a nervous breakdown that drew Sir George Sitwell to Italy in the early years of the twentieth century. And it... [read more]

Dominique Browning   With the same warmth, wisdom, wit, and accessibility that readers have come to love and trust in her monthly column, "House &... [read more]

Valerie Easton,Richard Hartlage  
Usually ships in 24 hours You won't find potted petunias or rigid rows of hot-pink impatiens in this gorgeous new book. Instead, Plant Life features 80 luscious... [read more]

Ketzel Levine,Rene Eisenbart  
Usually ships in 24 hours Known as "The Doyenne of Dirt" on NPR's "Weekend Edition", Ketzel Levine has a national reputation for unabashed gardening advice. Drawn from... [read more]

Don Hastings  
Usually ships in 4 to 6 weeks Memories, anecdotes, and family history from one of the South's leading "plant men".... [read more]

Susannah Seton  
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Connie Goldman,Richard Mahler   The resources here will guide you along a pathway of self-assessment, discovery, and fulfillment. Enlightened interviews with gardeners explore the idea of the... [read more]

Freeman Patterson   Freeman Patterson has traveled the globe to photograph the wonders of the natural world. In this book, Patterson turns his camera towards... [read more]

Graham Stuart Thomas,Fred Whitsey   It is not likely that anyone has restored and maintained as many gardens as has Graham Stuart Thomas, at castles such as... [read more]

LARRY SHEEHAN,CAROL SHEEHAN,KATHRYN GE PRECOURT,WILLIAM STITES  

Shatoiya De LA Tour,Richard De LA Tour,Saxon Holt   Go inside the garden gates of ten of North America's most enchanting herb gardens. Share a personal "chat" with Dr. James Duke,... [read more]

Marilyn Raff  
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Charles Elliott  

Stanley Kunitz,Genine Lentine,Marnie Crawford Samuelson  
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Jane Garmey,Gertrude Jekyll,Andrew Marvell,Henry Mitchell,Nancy Mitford,Beverley Nichols,Eleanor Perenyi,Vita Sackville-West,Edith Wharton,E. B. White   An eclectic collection, mostly essays, but also including fiction and poetry, on the subject of gardens, including work by such noted gardeners... [read more]

Allan Armitage  
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Elisabeth Sheldon   A new collection of essays by one of America's premier garden writers. From her vantage point as an octogenarian gardener, Elisabeth Sheldon... [read more]

Pamela J. Harper   In this remarkable book, Pamela Harper takes us on a walk through 30 years in her Virginia garden; season by season, she... [read more]

Marina Schinz   Photographer Schinz, a contributor to House & Garden , here captures classic examples of British, French, Italian, and American garden design with... [read more]

Charles B. Heiser   What is a weed? Definitions abound, some more clever than true. For the author, weeds are plants that grow uninvited in places... [read more]

Stephanie Ross  
Usually ships in 24 hours Are gardens works of art? What is involved in creating a garden? How are gardens experienced by those who stroll through them?... [read more]

Jim Nollman  
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