Essays

Jamaica Kincaid   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]

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

Diane Ackerman   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   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   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]

ELEANOR PERENYI,ALLEN LACY   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   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]

Sara Midda   Sara Midda's richly illustrated IN AND OUT OF THE GARDEN has delighted readers and critics: "This is the most gentle of books,... [read more]

Jerry Baker,Kim Adam Gasior   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   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   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   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   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  

Graham Stuart Thomas   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   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  

Dominique Browning,House & Garden Magazine   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  

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]

James Fenton   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]

Warren Schultz   "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   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   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  

Tovah Martin,Richard W. Brown,Richard Brown   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]

Joyce McGreevy   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   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   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  

Jenny Joseph   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   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   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   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   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]

Sara B. Stein  

Don Hastings   Memories, anecdotes, and family history from one of the South's leading "plant men".... [read more]

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  

Charles Elliott   A lush collection of essays from the fertile pen of the Horticulture columnist whose work the New York Times called "delectable." Praise... [read more]

Charles Elliott  

Stanley Kunitz,Genine Lentine,Marnie Crawford Samuelson  

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  

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   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