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  • Southern Gardens, Southern Gardening

    Originally published in 1982, this bestselling collection of gardening writing by William Lanier Hunt--one of the South’s leading gardening writers and horticulturalists--is now available for the first time in paperback. Arranged by months of the year, Southern Gardens, Southern Gardening is filled with useful, commensense instruction, as well as the wisdom and art of gardening. ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Garden Project: Growing Urban Communities

    Series series Annual E. F. Schumacher Lectures
    The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.Delivering a powerful message that is moving, hopeful, and urgent, Cathrine Sneed shows that bringing people out of the jails and off the streets into the garden can be transformative in both the human and natural realms. Her personal story is equally ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Mrs. Whaley and Her Charleston Garden

    by Emily Whaley ...
    In conversation with William Baldwin. Emily Whaley's garden on Church Street in Charleston, South Carolina, may be the most visited private garden in the country. And no wonder. It is the life's work of a vibrant, sociable, opinionated, determined, forceful woman who has spent the last eighty-five years cultivating whatever life offered her. MRS. WHALEY AND HER CHARLESTON GARDEN captures and ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • One Man's Garden

    “Gardeners trapped inside on a rainy day need only two things to get by—a cup of chocolate in their left hand and One Man’s Garden in their right.” —Southern LivingThis “wonderful” essay collection from the former Washington Post columnist and author of The Essential Earthman (Horticulture) offers a harvest of sharp observations and humorous adventures gathered during a year in the garden—along ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • From the Ground Up

    The Story of a First Garden

    by Amy Stewart ...
    "A treasure trove of delightful stories, filled with wit, wisdom, and know-how for all gardens—a rare horticultural treat." —Carl H. Klaus, author of My Vegetable Love and Weathering WinterAmy Stewart had a simple dream. She yearned for a garden filled with colorful jumbles of vegetables and flowers. After she and her husband finished graduate school, they pulled up their Texas roots and headed ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Simple Pleasures of the Garden

    Stories, Recipes & Crafts from the Abundant Earth

    Series series Simple Pleasures Series
    A collection of gardening tips, recipes, crafts, gift ideas, tales, and more from the author of Every Garden Is a Story.Simple Pleasures of the Garden is a treasure chest of tips, how-to’s, stories, and trade secrets gathered together in one beautiful book. Organized by season, the hundreds of suggestions and recipes present a profusion of ways to celebrate the bounty of the Earth all year round ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Through the Garden Gate

    Series series Chapel Hill Books
    Through the Garden Gate is a collection of 144 of the popular weekly articles that Elizabeth Lawrence wrote for The Charlotte Observer from 1957 to 1971. With those columns, a delightful blend of gardening lore, horticultural expertise, and personal adventures, Lawrence inspired thousands of southern gardeners."[A] fine contribution to the green-thumb genre.--Publishers Weekly ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Sleep, Creep, Leap

    The First Three Years of a Nebraska Garden

    by Benjamin Vogt ...
    Peeling off sheets of skin from a sunburned back. Visiting five nurseries and spending $1,000 in an afternoon. Raising 200 monarch butterflies. Feeding grasshoppers to a spider. Hearing the wings of geese thirty feet overhead at sunset. How one piece of mulch can make all the difference. These are the stories of Benjamin Vogt’s 1,500 foot native prairie garden over the course of three years. After ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • My Garden (Book)

    One of our finest writers on one of her greatest loves. Jamaica Kincaid's first garden in Vermont was a plot in the middle of her front lawn. There, to the consternation of more experienced friends, she planted only seeds of the flowers she liked best. In My Garden (Book) she gathers all she loves about gardening and plants, and examines it generously, passionately, and with sharp, idiosyncratic ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Around the House and In the Garden

    A Memoir of Heartbreak, Healing, and Home Improvement

    For six years, House & Garden editor-in-chief Dominique Browning has written a monthly column that weaves together personal stories and tips about home decorating, gardening, and raising children with universal themes of domestic life. In Around the House and in the Garden, Browning adapts and expands these well-loved pieces, adding dozens of new essays, to create an insightful and moving ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Wild Out Your Window

    by Sy Montgomery ...
    What could be better than watching the natural world out your window or on your television? Going out and experiencing it firsthand. In these fifty essays, acclaimed nature and science writer Sy Montgomery takes her readers on a season-by-season tour of the wilderness that is often as close as the backyard. Sy invites — almost dares — readers to follow her and form hands-on relationships with the ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Beautiful at All Seasons

    Southern Gardening and Beyond with Elizabeth Lawrence

    Elizabeth Lawrence (1904–85) is recognized as one of America’s most important gardeners and garden writers. In 1957, Lawrence began a weekly column for the Charlotte Observer, blending gardening lore and horticultural expertise gained from her own gardens in Raleigh and Charlotte, North Carolina, and from her many gardener friends. This book presents 132 of her beloved columns. Never before ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Every Garden Is a Story

    Stories, Crafts, and Comforts

    A cornucopia of gardening tips, recipes, crafts, gift ideas, stories, and more from the author of Simple Pleasure of the Kitchen.“May All Your Weeds Be Wildflowers,” reads author Susannah Seton’s garden plaque, and in Every Garden Is a Story, she teaches how to grow your own wildflower meadow and offers advice on how to keep all the fresh cut flowers from the meadow lasting even longer. She ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Second Nature

    A Gardener's Education

    “One of the distinguished gardening books of our time,” from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma (USA Today).Chosen by the American Horticultural Society as one of the 75 greatest books ever written about gardeningAfter Michael Pollan bought an old Connecticut dairy farm, he planted a garden and attempted to follow Thoreau’s example: do not impose your will upon the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Flower Confidential

    The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful

    by Amy Stewart ...
    A globe-trotting, behind-the-scenes look at the dazzling world of flowers and the fascinating industry it has created.Award-winning author Amy Stewart takes readers on an around-the-world, behind-the-scenes look at the flower industry and how it has sought—for better or worse—to achieve perfection. She tracks down the hybridizers, geneticists, farmers, and florists working to invent, manufacture, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Gardens that Build Hope and Healing

    The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.Founder of the Garden Project in San Francisco, Cathrine Sneed relates her experiences working with former inmates and at-risk youth to develop an organic community garden. All the food that is raised is given away to people in need: "This gives our ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Strange Blooms

    The Curious Lives and Adventures of the John Tradescants

    Now in paperback, this beautifully written and gorgeously produced book describes the remarkable lives and times of the John Tradescants, father and son. In 17th-century Britain, a new breed of "curious" gardeners was pushing at the frontiers of knowledge and new plants were stealing into Europe from East and West. John Tradescant and his son were at the vanguard of this change—as gardeners, as ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Down to Earth

    Practical Thoughts for Passionate Gardeners

    Down to Earth is a book that speaks to the soul of the passionate gardener of any experience level, exploring and detailing all the pleasures that gardeners enjoy from this hobby. Rochester encourages readers to garden for self-gratification. No hoeing, no tilling, no turning of piles. No chemical insecticides or herbicides, either. The author's goal is to encourage and enable gardeners to ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Digging In

    Tending to Life in Your Own Backyard

    by Robert Benson ...
    The story of a small garden large enough to hold everything in life that really matters.*“These days the portion of Eden for which I am responsible is fairly modest. . . . It is a small house in a small garden in a small neighborhood. But it is large enough . . . Large enough to hold everything dear.”Digging In* tells the story of the author’s move into an early twentieth-century cottage with a ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Brother Gardeners

    by Andrea Wulf ...
    A fascinating look at the men who made Britain the center of the botanical world—from the author of Magnificent Rebels and New York Times bestseller The Invention of Nature.**“Wulf’s flair for storytelling is combined with scholarship, brio, and a charmingly airy style.... A delightful book—and you don’t need to be a gardener to enjoy it.” —**The New York Times Book ReviewBringing to life the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Hugh Johnson In The Garden

    The Best Garden Diary of Our Time

    by Hugh Johnson ...
    Tradescant's Diary, a column of garden jottings, first appeared in the RHS magazine, The Garden, in June 1975. Hugh Johnson was its author (in addition to his being Editorial Director of the magazine) and it became a monthly fixture for the RHS's committed gardeners. Hugh's writings are filled with an eclectic mixture of topical, whimsical and humorous anecdotes and are organised to follow a ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Wild Garden

    Expanded Edition

    First published in 1870, The Wild Garden challenged the prevailing garden style of the day and advocated a naturalistic style, in which hardy plants, both native and exotic, are arranged in groupings that mimic wild landscapes. Thanks to Robinson’s passionate advocacy, the naturalistic style triumphed, and Robinson's urgent message continues to resonate today. For this newly designed edition, Rick ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Opium for the Masses

    Harvesting Nature's Best Pain Medication

    by Jim Hogshire ...
    Jim Hogshire's early '90s cultural phenomenon, written about by Michael Pollan in Harpers, has been out of print for nearly a decade, and now, with all the current obsession with gardening, it's time to bring back this book, spiced up with amazing new material on how to make various opioids and analgesics from homegrown poppies. Includes a great deal of new material on poppies other growable highs ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Plant Seed, Pull Weed

    Nurturing the Garden of Your Life

    by Geri Larkin ...
    Gardens have often been used as metaphors for spiritual nurturing and growth. Zen rock gardens, monastery rose gardens, even your grandmother's vegetable garden all have been described as places of refuge and reflection. Drawing on her experience working at Seattle's premier gardening center, Zen teacher Geri Larkin shows how the act of gardening can help you uncover your inner creativity, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD