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Having a diverse collection of gardening books covering a wide range of topics empowers gardeners with the knowledge, inspiration, and resources they need to create and maintain beautiful, thriving gardens that bring joy and beauty to their outdoor spaces.
DAHLIAS
Dahlias: Seed to Bloom: the Dahlia Grower’s Companion
by Kristine Albrecht & Brion Sprinsock
Dahlias: Seed to Bloom is an essential guide for dahlia enthusiasts, offering expert advice on growing, nurturing, and showcasing dahlias, complete with practical tips, vivid photography, and inspiring arrangements.
Dahlias: Beautiful Varieties for Home & Garden
by Naomi Slade
Explore a diverse range of dahlias, from classics like Café au Lait to unique varieties like Voodoo and Honka, featuring shapes from pompoms to dinner plates, and even resembling daisies, sea anemones, and fireworks.
FLOWERING AND CUT FLOWER PLANTS
The Cut Flower Sourcebook: Exceptional Perennials & Woody Plant for Cutting
by Rachel Siegfried
This book highlights perennials and woody plants that return annually with minimal effort, providing habitats for garden wildlife and adding a natural quality to arrangements.
Floret Farm’s Cut Flower Garden: Grow, Harvest, and Arrange Stunning Seasonal Blooms
by Erin Benzakein, with Julie Chai, & Jill Jorgensen
Floret Farm’s Cut Flower Garden is an inspiring guide to growing, harvesting, and arranging beautiful seasonal flowers, packed with tips, tutorials, and breathtaking photography.
Growing Flowers: Everything You Need to Know About Planting, Tending, Harvesting and Arranging Beautiful Blooms
by Niki Irving
Learn sustainable gardening practices from Niki’s boutique farm in Asheville, NC, and immerse yourself in the world of flower farming.
FLOWERS FOR EVERY SEASON
Floret Farm’s A Year in Flowers
by Erin Benzakein, with Julie Chai, & Jill Jorgensen
Floret Farm’s A Year in Flowers offers seasonal flower-arranging inspiration, practical tips, and stunning visuals, guiding readers to create breathtaking bouquets and floral displays throughout the year.
A Year Full of Flowers: Gardening for All Seasons
by Sarah Raven
A Year Full of Flowers by Sarah Raven provides expert gardening advice, seasonal inspiration, and stunning photography to help gardeners cultivate blooms and beauty year-round.
SHRUBS
The Creative Shrub Garden: Eye-Catching Combinations for Year-Round Interest
by Kristine Albrecht, and Brion Sprinsock, with Dr. Virginia Walbot, and Janet Egger
This guide offers creative planting ideas, practical advice, and stunning visuals to help gardeners design vibrant, dynamic landscapes featuring beautiful shrub combinations for year-round interest.
The Kew Gardener's Guide to Growing Shrubs: The Art and Science to Grow with Confidence
by Valérie Boujard
The Kew Gardener's Guide to Growing Shrubs blends expert horticultural knowledge with practical tips, offering step-by-step guidance, inspiring projects, and beautiful illustrations to help gardeners cultivate healthy, vibrant shrubs with confidence.
Trees, Shrubs & Hedges for Your Home, Fourth Edition
by Editors of Creative Homeowner
This comprehensive guide offers expert advice on selecting, planting, and maintaining trees, shrubs, and hedges to enhance your home's landscape. Packed with plant profiles, design tips, and practical care instructions, it’s an essential resource for creating beautiful, functional, and sustainable outdoor spaces.
PERENNIALS
Best Perennials For Sun And Shade
by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
This informative guide helps gardeners choose the best perennials for both sunny and shady spots, offering practical advice on selection, planting, and care. With detailed plant profiles, tips for creating vibrant, diverse landscapes, and guidance for year-round interest, it's an essential resource for creating beautiful, low-maintenance gardens.
The Well-Tended Perennial Garden: The Essential Guide to Planting and Pruning Techniques
by Tracy DiSabato-Aust
A comprehensive guide covering essential practices like deadheading, pinching, and thinning. You'll also find on-trend garden design advice, a monthly planting and maintenance schedule, and tips for gardening with native plants to support wildlife.
Essential Perennials for Every Garden: Selection, Care, and Profiles for Over 110 Easy-Care Plants
by Sally Roth, & Jane Courtier
This guide provides expert advice on selecting, growing, and caring for perennials, featuring detailed profiles and practical tips for cultivating a thriving, low-maintenance garden year after year.
GROUNDCOVERS
The Complete Book of Ground Covers
by Gary Lewis
This comprehensive guide offers expert advice on selecting, planting, and caring for a wide range of ground covers. Featuring detailed plant profiles, design ideas, and maintenance tips, it helps gardeners create beautiful, functional, and sustainable landscapes with low-maintenance, eco-friendly groundcover solutions.
Groundcover Revolution: How to use sustainable, low-maintenance, low-water groundcovers to replace your turf
by Kathy Jentz
This book explores sustainable, low-maintenance groundcovers as alternatives to traditional turf, offering practical solutions for reducing water usage, enhancing landscapes, and creating eco-friendly, resilient spaces.
Covering Ground
by Barbara W. Ellis
Transform your landscape with vibrant ground covers, bringing diversity, elegance, and durability to your lawn. Barbara W. Ellis offers professional planting advice and full-color designs to help you create a low-maintenance, sustainable landscape. Watch as your ordinary lawn becomes a striking display of color and texture.
UNIQUE FOLIAGE PLANTS
Gardening with Foliage First: 127 Dazzling Combinations That Pair the Beauty of Leaves with Flowers, Bark, Berries, and More
by Karen Chapman and Christina Salwitz
This guide explores 127 captivating plant combinations, emphasizing the beauty of foliage. It provides expert advice on pairing leaves with flowers, bark, and berries to create dynamic, year-round garden displays.
Fine Foliage: Elegant Plant Combinations for Garden and Container
by Karen Chapman and Christina Salwitz
This book showcases elegant plant combinations featuring beautiful foliage, offering design ideas and practical tips for creating stunning garden and container displays with vibrant, texture-rich plants that thrive year-round.
The English Gardener’s Garden
by Phaidon Editors, Toby Musgrave, and Tania Compton
Explore over 60 of England's most exquisite gardens spanning seven centuries in "The English Gardener's Garden." Each entry features stunning photographs and concise text detailing the garden's historical and stylistic significance, making it a valuable resource for garden designers and enthusiasts alike.
WINTER GARDENS
Winter Gardens: Reinventing the Season
by Cedric Pollet
Discover 20 stunning gardens across France and the UK, celebrated for their beauty even in the barest of seasons. Through captivating photography and insightful text, Pollet reveals the secrets behind these enchanting landscapes.
Designing and Creating a Winter Garden
by Sally Gregson
This practical guide offers inspiration and techniques for designing stunning winter gardens. It explores the beauty of winter plants, creating focal points, and incorporating elements like texture, color, and structure for year-round interest in cold-season landscapes.
Winterland: Create a Beautiful Garden for Every Season
by Cathy Rees
Discover how to create a captivating garden all year round with Winterland. Practical advice on garden care and coexisting with nature's creatures enhances your gardening experience. Experience the beauty of winter and deepen your connection with nature.
SUPPORTING WILDLIFE
Planting for Wildlife: A Grower’s Guide to Rewilding Your Garden
by Jane Moore
Learn how to go organic, make a pond, and turn your space into a sanctuary for birds, bees, and hedgehogs. With simple projects and planting guides, you can re-connect with the natural world right on your doorstep.
Nature's Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation That Starts in Your Yard
by Douglas W. Tallamy
This practical guide shows homeowners how to turn their yards into conservation corridors. By taking action now, you can help preserve wildlife and the planet for future generations.
The Complete Gardener: A Practical, Imaginative Guide to Every Aspect of Gardening
by Monty Don
This revised edition covers the most important aspects of gardening, focusing on organic techniques and providing habitats for local wildlife. With photos from his garden, it reflects Monty’s latest approach.
CONTAINER GARDENING
A Year Full of Pots
by Sarah Raven
This inspiring guide explores the art of container gardening throughout the year. It offers practical tips on selecting plants, creating seasonal arrangements, and maintaining vibrant pots, helping gardeners transform their outdoor spaces with year-round color and texture.
Modern Container Gardening: How to Create a Stylish Small-Space Garden Anywhere
by Isabelle Palmer
Palmer provides advice on selecting containers, soil, and plants, along with creative planting ideas. This book is a valuable resource for anyone looking to create a beautiful and functional garden in a limited outdoor area.
Containers in the Garden
by Claus Dalby
This practical guide offers expert advice on using containers to enhance garden design. It covers plant selection, arrangement, and care, helping gardeners create dynamic, beautiful container displays for every season, style, and garden setting.
BULBS
Tulips: Beautiful Varieties for Home and Garden
by Jane Eastoe
With over 3,000 variations, Tulips offer diverse textures suitable for any setting. "Tulips" presents over 50 stunning varieties, detailing bloom times, size, and appearance, with engaging commentary, easy-to-follow advice, and glorious photography.
The Kew Gardener's Guide to Growing Bulbs: The art and science to grow your own bulbs
by Richard Wilford and Kew Gardens
The new guide offers 12 inspiring projects and detailed information on 66 important species, complemented by Kew's botanical illustrations. It covers popular flowering times and presents bulbs for interest year-round.
Daffodil: The remarkable story of the world's most popular spring flower
by Noel Kingsbury
"Daffodil" explores the global fascination with this iconic flower, tracing its history from the tombs of the Pharaohs to today's explosion of varieties. With over 25,000 cultivars, the book offers narratives, portraits, and photography.
GARDEN TASKS & LOW-MAINTENANCE GARDENING
The New Low-Maintenance Garden: How to Have a Beautiful and Productive Garden and the Time to Enjoy It
by Valerie Easton
Learn to design with maintenance in mind, simplify routines, work with nature, and incorporate home-grown produce. This book shows gardens embodying these techniques, helping you enjoy your garden easily.
A Year in the Garden: Annual Planner and Journal
by Nina Montenegro and Sonya Montenegro
A planner designed for vegetable gardeners and plant enthusiasts to track their gardening progress throughout the year. It includes blank monthly calendars, weekly planners, productivity tools, high-quality paper with a dot-grid, a ribbon marker, lay-flat binding, and an elastic closure.
Pacific Northwest Month-by-Month Gardening
by Christina Pfeiffer & Mary Robson
This comprehensive guide offers essential tips and step-by-step instructions for successful gardening in the region. Featuring stunning photography and up-to-date information, this book covers everything from annuals and perennials to trees, groundcover, shrubs, and lawns.