Gardening & Horticulture

Women have always gardened, but our stories have been buried with our work....

The garden has always been a place of peace and perseverance, of nurture and reward. Using contemporary neuroscience, psychoanalysis and compelling real-life stories, The Well Gardened Mind investigates the remarkable effects of nature on our health and well-being....

My Garden World by Monty Don is a celebration of every living creature that we all share. This year has given us the enforced opportunity to learn more about the fascinating natural world around us....

Discover Monty's thoughts and garden ideas around nature, seasons, colour, design, pests, flowering shrubs, containers and much more.... 

A much-loved classic of nature writing from environmentalist and the author of Waterlog, Roger Deakin, Wildwood is an exploration of the element wood in nature, our culture and our lives....

The Garden Jungle is about the wildlife that lives right under our noses, in our gardens and parks, between the gaps in the pavement and in the soil beneath our feet....

National treasure and presenter of ITV's hugely popular Love Your Garden Alan Titchmarsh brings us his month by month treasury of gardening advice, inspiration and knowledge from the nation's favourite gardener....

You don't have to be an expert to start a thriving, bountiful garden. Any basic guide can show you how....

What happens when the good life is harder than anything you ever imagined? Earthed is a beautiful memoir from the author of All That Matters, Rebecca Schiller....

It’s no longer gardening as usual. Heat waves, droughts, flooding, violent storms…the long-predicted extremes of weather caused by climate change are now on our doorstep....

Compared to Charles' other books, this is more about no dig, eliminating weeds, garden layout, compost making, and using compost. There is also a history of no-dig vegetable gardening in the last 100 years....

Growing up in an ex-mining town in Nottinghamshire, Arthur Parkinson never wanted a dog, or a cat, or a pony - just hens....

The Market Gardener is a compendium of proven horticultural techniques and innovative growing methods....

Want to grow herbs and give your family an enormous health head-start, but you don’t know how to begin? Looking for a cost-effective way to proactively promote health and wellness naturally, without relying on the pharmacy? Then learn to grow your own medicine in five easy steps....

A perfect toolkit for connecting with the world around us and the year ahead as it unfolds—all in a compact guide....

Masanobu Fukuoka's manifesto about farming, eating, and the limits of human knowledge presents a radical challenge to the global systems we rely on for our food....

An easy-to-follow, do-it-yourself book to help get you started growing and enjoying backyard strawberries....

When she was a girl, Alice Vincent loved her grandfather's garden - the freedom, the calm, the beauty of it. When she suddenly finds herself uprooted, heartbroken, living out of a suitcase and yearning for the comfort of home, Alice starts to plant seeds....

Our modern-day cities might seem to represent our separation from the natural world. In fact, as Ben Wilson reveals in this captivating re-examination of urban landscapes around the world, nature has always been at the heart of the city....

Thomas Pakenham's classic portraits of 60 distinctive trees, available in download form for the first time....

In 1988 Katherine Swift arrived at the Dower House at Morville to create a garden of her own....

Finding herself in a new home in Brighton, Kate Bradbury sets about transforming her barren backyard into a beautiful wildlife garden.... 

An intriguing story of a place, a person and the garden she created....

There's a lot of gardening advice out there. But none that invites you to think about how to be while you're in your garden....

To many people, looking after an orchid is a mystery....

You don't have to be an expert to start a thriving, bountiful garden. Any basic guide can show you how. But if you want to figure out how to maximize your crop yield…know how to stretch your growing season beyond traditional limits…and even grow summer crops all year long…basic beginner’s guides won’t be of much help. After all, they’re only meant to cover the basics.

Japanese by birth but transplanted to Europe in adulthood, Miki Sakamoto has spent a lifetime tending her garden and reflecting on its mysteries. Why do primulas bloom in snow? Do the trees really ‘talk’ to one another? What are the blackbirds saying today? And is there a mindful way to deal with an aphid infestation? From rising early to walk barefoot on the grass each morning, to afternoons and evenings spent sipping tea in her gazebo or watching fireflies as she recalls her childhood in Japan, Sakamoto shares observations from a life spent in contemplation – and cultivation – of nature.

Discover the secrets to a thriving lawn care business with The Lawn Care Advantage: Winning Strategies for a Thriving Landscaping Business. In this compelling guide, author and industry expert Paul Jamison shares invaluable insights and real-life success stories that will transform the way you approach your lawn care entrepreneurship.

Gardening remains one of the most prominent trends in the world right now, existing in many forms, shapes, and even sizes–ranging from something as simple as a lawn to purpose-built kitchen gardens, orchards, and more. However, in all these versions, there is one element that hardly gets addressed: sustainability.

There’s something about biting into a fresh fruit plucked straight from a tree. That sudden explosion of crisp flavor tingling your tastebuds and making your mouth water for more is quite an experience. Now, imagine if you had grown that very fruit in your backyard.

Do you want to start a garden, but you are overwhelmed and are not sure where to even begin? Are you looking for an easy way to grow your own food at home that doesn't require hours upon hours of upkeep? Do you dream of eating fresh tomatoes, cucumbers, and other veggies grown with your own hands, but you worry that you do not have enough space for a garden? If you answered "yes" to any of the questions above, you have come to the right place.

A practical and comprehensive book that covers everything you need to know about cultivating cannabis. Starting with a brief history of cannabis cultivation, the book delves into the benefits of growing your own marijuana, including greater control over quality and availability.

Are you tired of feeling like you have a brown thumb when it comes to having plants? Have you given up hope of ever having a thriving indoor garden? Fear not, fellow plant lover! You can become a successful plant parent with the right tools and knowledge.

Are you tired of relying on supermarkets and other outside sources for your fruit and vegetable needs? Are you ready to start growing your own raised bed garden, but you fear you do not have the time or expertise? In this book, discover everything you need to be successful.

Ben fell in love with orchids as a nine-year-old, when his parents bought him a Cymbidium. That love then led him to spend his twenties in various tropical cities, teaching English and exploring jungles where exotic orchid species grew wild, pollinated by hummingbirds, huge moths and more. After a decade abroad, Ben returned to the UK. Here, his passion re-ignited when he encountered a colony of Bee orchids, a cryptic species which tricks bees into mating with its flowers. Ben was entranced.

So you've decided to become more self-sufficient, and you're fired up about growing your own food! You just have to stick the seeds in the ground and water them, right? But as the leaves of your crops begin to yellow and your garden beds get ravaged by weeds and pests, your enthusiasm quickly dwindles. This is when most new gardeners quit, never fully understanding the reason why their garden failed. And that reason is poor soil.

Throughout his childhood and adult life, G.F. Quinn has been involved in all areas of gardening. Using his extensive knowledge, practical methods, and his passion for gardening, he brings you this all-inclusive book that will encourage you to understand raised bed gardens and ensure you’re able to build and sustain your own.

Root Cellaring for Preppers is the ultimate guide for anyone who wants to master the art of root cellaring and food preservation. In this book, you will learn how to build and maintain a root cellar, and advanced techniques for preserving a wide variety of fruit, vegetables, and other food items.

So you want to garden...with kids? Not only is this a great way to grow your own organic vegetables, fruits, and herbs, it is a great way to connect with your family outdoors and all throughout the year, even after the harvest. Designed for families with children between three and 12, this includes projects you can do together. Your children will learn skills that will last a lifetime and get passed down to your grandkids. Become a good ancestor today!

Poet and scholar Camille T. Dungy recounts the seven-year odyssey to diversify her garden in the predominately white community of Fort Collins, Colorado. When she moved there in 2013, with her husband and daughter, the community held strict restrictions about what residents could and could not plant in their gardens. In resistance to the homogenous policies that limited the possibility and wonder that grows from the earth, Dungy employs the various plants, herbs, vegetables, and flowers she grows in her garden as metaphor and treatise for how homogeneity threatens the future of our planet.