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One Garden Against the World

In Search of Hope in a Changing Climate

by Kate Bradbury ...

WINNER OF THE PEOPLE'S BOOK PRIZE FOR NON-FICTIONLONGLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR CONSERVATION WRITINGFINALIST IN THE GARDEN MEDIA GUILD AWARDSFive years after writing her first nature memoir, The Bumblebee Flies Anyway**, Kate Bradbury has a new garden.**It's busy: home to all sorts of wildlife, from red mason bees and house sparrows to hedgehogs and dragonflies. Brighton and Hove's entire ... Read more

$12.99 USD

WINNER OF THE PEOPLE'S BOOK PRIZE FOR NON-FICTIONLONGLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR CONSERVATION WRITINGFINALIST IN THE GARDEN MEDIA GUILD AWARDSFive years after writing her first nature memoir, The Bumblebee Flies Anyway**, Kate Bradbury has a new garden.**It's busy: home to all sorts of wildlife, from red mason bees and house sparrows to hedgehogs and dragonflies. Brighton and Hove's entire
... Read more
Pruning Made Easy

A Gardener's Visual Guide to When and How to Prune Everything, from Flowers to Trees

by Lewis Hill ...

Proper pruning will keep your landscape beautiful and thriving year after year. This authoritative guide includes more than 300 step-by-step illustrations to clearly demonstrate the correct pruning procedures for a variety of trees, shrubs, hedges, vines, and flowers. Lewis Hill offers expert advice on when, how, and why each type of plant should be pruned, safety considerations, and techniques ... Read more

$14.39 USD

Proper pruning will keep your landscape beautiful and thriving year after year. This authoritative guide includes more than 300 step-by-step illustrations to clearly demonstrate the correct pruning procedures for a variety of trees, shrubs, hedges, vines, and flowers. Lewis Hill offers expert advice on when, how, and why each type of plant should be pruned, safety considerations, and techniques
... Read more
How to Prune Trees & Shrubs

Easy Techniques for Timely Trimming. A Storey BASICS® Title

by Barbara W. Ellis ...

Help your trees, shrubs, and vines look and yield their best by making the right cut every time. Whether you are hoping for more flowers or fruit, trying to create a dense screen, or struggling to manage out-of-control growth, there is a pruning technique to achieve your goals. Expert gardener Barbara Ellis explains how a plant responds to pruning, how and when to use basic cuts, and what tools to ... Read more

$14.39 USD

Help your trees, shrubs, and vines look and yield their best by making the right cut every time. Whether you are hoping for more flowers or fruit, trying to create a dense screen, or struggling to manage out-of-control growth, there is a pruning technique to achieve your goals. Expert gardener Barbara Ellis explains how a plant responds to pruning, how and when to use basic cuts, and what tools to
... Read more
The New Plant Parent

Develop Your Green Thumb and Care for Your House-Plant Family

by Darryl Cheng, Darryl Cheng ...

For indoor gardeners everywhere, Darryl Cheng offers a new way to grow healthy house plants. He teaches the art of understanding a plant’s needs and giving it a home with the right balance of light, water, and nutrients. After reading Cheng, the indoor gardener will be far less the passive follower of rules for the care of each species and much more the confident, active grower, relying on ... Read more

$13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

For indoor gardeners everywhere, Darryl Cheng offers a new way to grow healthy house plants. He teaches the art of understanding a plant’s needs and giving it a home with the right balance of light, water, and nutrients. After reading Cheng, the indoor gardener will be far less the passive follower of rules for the care of each species and much more the confident, active grower, relying on
... Read more
Cass Turnbull's Guide to Pruning, 2nd Edition

by Cass Turnbull ...

Nothing about pruning is obvious; in fact, most of it is downright counterintuitive, says expert Cass Turnbull. This second edition of her definitive illustrated guide adds 40 percent new material, with more coverage of different kinds of trees, shrubs, and ground covers and how to prune them for health and aesthetics. The book is organized around the most common types of plants found in Northwest ... Read more

$11.99 USD

Nothing about pruning is obvious; in fact, most of it is downright counterintuitive, says expert Cass Turnbull. This second edition of her definitive illustrated guide adds 40 percent new material, with more coverage of different kinds of trees, shrubs, and ground covers and how to prune them for health and aesthetics. The book is organized around the most common types of plants found in Northwest
... Read more
Green Thoughts

A Writer in the Garden

by Eleanor Perenyi ...

Series series Modern Library Gardening
“Unlike any other gardening book I know, with its Old World charm, its down-to-earth practicality, its whimsy and sophistication.”—Brooke Astor, The New York Times Book ReviewA classic in the literature of the garden, Green Thoughts is a beautifully written and highly original collection of seventy-two essays, alphabetically arranged, on topics ranging from “Annuals” and “Artichokes” to “Weeds” ... Read more

$9.99 USD

“Unlike any other gardening book I know, with its Old World charm, its down-to-earth practicality, its whimsy and sophistication.”—Brooke Astor, The New York Times Book ReviewA classic in the literature of the garden, Green Thoughts is a beautifully written and highly original collection of seventy-two essays, alphabetically arranged, on topics ranging from “Annuals” and “Artichokes” to “Weeds”
... Read more
Cannabis Grower's Handbook

The Complete Guide to Marijuana and Hemp Cultivation

by Ed Rosenthal ...

Ed Rosenthal has been teaching people how to grow marijuana for decades. Let him help you cultivate bountiful buds, and lots of them.The techniques and tools for growing cannabis have changed over the past five years. Ed shows you the most productive and easiest methods in his new, most comprehensive book. Cannabis Grower’s Handbook features the latest innovations in marijuana cultivation that ... Read more

$17.99 USD

Ed Rosenthal has been teaching people how to grow marijuana for decades. Let him help you cultivate bountiful buds, and lots of them.The techniques and tools for growing cannabis have changed over the past five years. Ed shows you the most productive and easiest methods in his new, most comprehensive book. Cannabis Grower’s Handbook features the latest innovations in marijuana cultivation that
... Read more
Houseplants For All

How to Fill Any Home with Happy Plants

by Danae Horst ...

Danae Horst's Houseplants for All is a beautiful guide to selecting and growing the right plants for your home, complete with a plant profile quiz!Turn over a new leaf with Houseplants for All, and actually keep all your plant babies happy and healthy. Use the plant profile quiz to easily find your perfect match instead of picking up whatever catches your eye at the store and hoping that it'll ... Read more

$7.99 USD

Danae Horst's Houseplants for All is a beautiful guide to selecting and growing the right plants for your home, complete with a plant profile quiz!Turn over a new leaf with Houseplants for All, and actually keep all your plant babies happy and healthy. Use the plant profile quiz to easily find your perfect match instead of picking up whatever catches your eye at the store and hoping that it'll
... Read more
Tea Gardening for Beginners

Learn to Grow, Blend, and Brew Your Own Tea at Home

by Julia Dimakos ...

A gardening book that's sure to be your cup of teaWhat's more satisfying than brewing the perfect cup of tea? Brewing it from tea you grew yourself! Create your own tea garden with help from this beginner's guide. It walks you through every step of the process, from planning your garden plot to preparing delicious tea blends.Know your teas—Become a true devotea as you explore different types of ... Read more

$12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

A gardening book that's sure to be your cup of teaWhat's more satisfying than brewing the perfect cup of tea? Brewing it from tea you grew yourself! Create your own tea garden with help from this beginner's guide. It walks you through every step of the process, from planning your garden plot to preparing delicious tea blends.Know your teas—Become a true devotea as you explore different types of
... Read more
Teaming with Microbes

The Organic Gardener's Guide to the Soil Food Web

by Jeff Lowenfels, Wayne Lewis ...

" A breakthrough book. No comprehensive horticultural library should be without it."— American GardenerWhen we use chemical fertilizers, we injure the microbial life that sustains plants, and then become increasingly dependent on an arsenal of toxic substances. Teaming with Microbes offers an alternative to this vicious circle, and details how to garden in a way that strengthens, rather than ... Read more

$12.99 USD

" A breakthrough book. No comprehensive horticultural library should be without it."— American GardenerWhen we use chemical fertilizers, we injure the microbial life that sustains plants, and then become increasingly dependent on an arsenal of toxic substances. Teaming with Microbes offers an alternative to this vicious circle, and details how to garden in a way that strengthens, rather than
... Read more
The Kindest Garden

A Practical Guide to Regenerative Gardening

by Marian Boswall, Jason Ingram ...

"Marian powerfully shares her passion and heart in a way that ensures you can breath life into your garden ecosystem, with clear explanations and so many practical tools and takeaways."– Nicole Masters, author of For the Love of Soil and director of Integrity Soils"I found myself crying ‘yes, yes, yes!’ to every page of this beautiful, inspiring, visionary yet practical and compassionate book. ... Read more

$21.99 USD

"Marian powerfully shares her passion and heart in a way that ensures you can breath life into your garden ecosystem, with clear explanations and so many practical tools and takeaways."– Nicole Masters, author of For the Love of Soil and director of Integrity Soils"I found myself crying ‘yes, yes, yes!’ to every page of this beautiful, inspiring, visionary yet practical and compassionate book.
... Read more
The Right-Size Flower Garden

Simplify Your Outdoor Space with Smart Design Solutions and Plant Choices

by Kerry Ann Mendez ...

In The Right-Size Flower Garden, Kerry Ann Mendez shares her successful recipe for having a garden we can manage and love again... the right-size, low maintenance, drought-tolerant garden. The goal is ditching 50% of the work by choosing high-value plants and making simple design changes. You’ll learn which plants to switch out, which ones aren’t worth the effort and which tools and practices will ... Read more

$8.99 USD

In The Right-Size Flower Garden, Kerry Ann Mendez shares her successful recipe for having a garden we can manage and love again... the right-size, low maintenance, drought-tolerant garden. The goal is ditching 50% of the work by choosing high-value plants and making simple design changes. You’ll learn which plants to switch out, which ones aren’t worth the effort and which tools and practices will
... Read more
Rodale's Ultimate Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening

The Indispensable Green Resource for Every Gardener

by Fern Marshall Bradley, Barbara W. Ellis, Ellen Phillips, Deborah L. Martin ...

Series series Rodale Organic Gardening
Rodale's Ultimate Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening has been the go-to resource for gardeners for more than 50 years, and the best tool novices can buy to start applying organic methods to their fruit and vegetable crops, herbs, trees and shrubs, perennials, annuals, and lawns. This thoroughly revised and updated version highlights new organic pest controls, new fertilizer products, improved ... Read more

$14.99 USD

Rodale's Ultimate Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening has been the go-to resource for gardeners for more than 50 years, and the best tool novices can buy to start applying organic methods to their fruit and vegetable crops, herbs, trees and shrubs, perennials, annuals, and lawns. This thoroughly revised and updated version highlights new organic pest controls, new fertilizer products, improved
... Read more
A Crash Course on How to Test Soil pH Level

by Ramon Harris ...

A Crash Course on How to Test Soil pH Level This book covers several topics including: - How to Test Your Garden's pH Level - Reading your pH Level Results - Changing Your Garden Plot's Soil pH Level - Changing Alkaline Soil - How to change the soil pH level to a higher reading and much more! Scroll up... and click on "Buy Now" to deliver almost instantly to your Kobo or other reading device. ... Read more

$6.97 USD

A Crash Course on How to Test Soil pH Level This book covers several topics including: - How to Test Your Garden's pH Level - Reading your pH Level Results - Changing Your Garden Plot's Soil pH Level - Changing Alkaline Soil - How to change the soil pH level to a higher reading and much more! Scroll up... and click on "Buy Now" to deliver almost instantly to your Kobo or other reading device.
... Read more
Kitchen Herb Garden

Growing and Preparing Essential Herbs

by Rosalind Creasy ...

Series series Edible Garden Series
From Rosalind Creasy—a name synonymous with California's garden-to-table movement—comes an accessible guide to cultivating and preparing herbs.If you buy only one herb gardening book, this should be it. Creasy takes you from seeds to stove top, from preparing the soil to elegant dining suggestions, with easy-to-follow instructions and inspirational ideas every step of the way.Each section of this ... Read more

$8.99 USD

From Rosalind Creasy—a name synonymous with California's garden-to-table movement—comes an accessible guide to cultivating and preparing herbs.If you buy only one herb gardening book, this should be it. Creasy takes you from seeds to stove top, from preparing the soil to elegant dining suggestions, with easy-to-follow instructions and inspirational ideas every step of the way.Each section of this
... Read more
The Modern Homestead Garden

Growing Self-sufficiency in Any Size Backyard

by Gary Pilarchik ...

If concerns about the environment and the health and wellness of yourself and your family leave you longing to make a change, start growing and preserving your own organic foods. With the guidance found in The Modern Homestead Garden, you'll discover how little land and effort it takes to start growing healthy, nutritious food.Modern homesteading is a lifestyle focused on living lightly on the ... Read more

$17.99 USD

If concerns about the environment and the health and wellness of yourself and your family leave you longing to make a change, start growing and preserving your own organic foods. With the guidance found in The Modern Homestead Garden, you'll discover how little land and effort it takes to start growing healthy, nutritious food.Modern homesteading is a lifestyle focused on living lightly on the
... Read more
Terrariums: Gardens Under Glass

Designing, Creating, and Planting Modern Indoor Gardens

by Maria Colletti ...

Bring the natural world indoors with designs for more than twenty stylish, modern mini-gardens—includes step-by-step photos.Create your own garden under glass with expert advice, step-by-step photos, plant suggestions, and over twenty terrarium designs. Growing adorable miniature plants in glass vessels is a great way to stay in touch with nature all year round—and add compelling, modern elements ... Read more

$20.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Bring the natural world indoors with designs for more than twenty stylish, modern mini-gardens—includes step-by-step photos.Create your own garden under glass with expert advice, step-by-step photos, plant suggestions, and over twenty terrarium designs. Growing adorable miniature plants in glass vessels is a great way to stay in touch with nature all year round—and add compelling, modern elements
... Read more
The 5-Minute Gardener

Year-Round Garden Habits for Busy People

by Nicole Johnsey Burke ...

Nurture a year-round gardening habit with just 5 minutes a day, from the author of Kitchen Garden Revival and Leaves, Roots & Fruit.Do you find joy in seeing a plant grow from seed to flower? Has your main setback for maintaining a successful garden been finding enough time to tend it?Whether you have a windowsill garden or a backyard full of flora, finding time to garden can seem impossible. But ... Read more

$11.99 USD

Nurture a year-round gardening habit with just 5 minutes a day, from the author of Kitchen Garden Revival and Leaves, Roots & Fruit.Do you find joy in seeing a plant grow from seed to flower? Has your main setback for maintaining a successful garden been finding enough time to tend it?Whether you have a windowsill garden or a backyard full of flora, finding time to garden can seem impossible. But
... Read more
The Urban Garden

101 Ways to Grow Food and Beauty in the City

by Kathy Jentz, Teri Speight ...

In The Urban Garden you’ll find dozens of inspiring and creative ways to grow flowers, shrubs, vegetables, herbs, and other plants in small spaces and with a limited budget.Whether you want to grow on a balcony, rooftop, front stoop, or a tiny urban patio, turn your growing dreams into reality and build a gorgeous and unique garden that showcases your personal style while still being functional ... Read more

$19.99 USD

In The Urban Garden you’ll find dozens of inspiring and creative ways to grow flowers, shrubs, vegetables, herbs, and other plants in small spaces and with a limited budget.Whether you want to grow on a balcony, rooftop, front stoop, or a tiny urban patio, turn your growing dreams into reality and build a gorgeous and unique garden that showcases your personal style while still being functional
... Read more
Marijuana Harvest

How to Maximize Quality and Yield in Your Cannabis Garden

by Ed Rosenthal ...

Marijuana Harvest is the first book devoted entirely to cannabis harvesting. In it, Ed Rosenthal and David Downs explain how to ensure the perfect harvest—everything from recognizing when it’s time to pick, to storage techniques to keep your buds fresh.Marijuana Harvest is the most important cultivation tool of the season. Readers will learn:Flushing: How and when to flushRipening: The best time ... Read more

$17.99 USD

Marijuana Harvest is the first book devoted entirely to cannabis harvesting. In it, Ed Rosenthal and David Downs explain how to ensure the perfect harvest—everything from recognizing when it’s time to pick, to storage techniques to keep your buds fresh.Marijuana Harvest is the most important cultivation tool of the season. Readers will learn:Flushing: How and when to flushRipening: The best time
... Read more
How Not to Kill Your Houseplant New Edition

Survival Tips for the Horticulturally Challenged

by Veronica Peerless ...

How to keep alive 119 gorgeous indoor plants, then help them bloom and thrive.You've welcomed a plant into the home: Now what? Your first job is to keep it alive, then after that help it bloom and thrive. Learn all the tips and tricks you need to become a proud plant parent-of more than 100 different plants (if you're up for it)!Yellowed leaves, drooping leaves, dried leaves, even though you've ... Read more

$7.99 USD

How to keep alive 119 gorgeous indoor plants, then help them bloom and thrive.You've welcomed a plant into the home: Now what? Your first job is to keep it alive, then after that help it bloom and thrive. Learn all the tips and tricks you need to become a proud plant parent-of more than 100 different plants (if you're up for it)!Yellowed leaves, drooping leaves, dried leaves, even though you've
... Read more
Tiny and Wild

Build a Small-Scale Meadow Anywhere

by Graham Laird Gardner ...

Go low-maintenance and no-mow while supporting nature and biodiversity by planting a mini wildflower meadow with guidance from Tiny & Wild.*2024 American Horticultural Society Book Award Winner*The word “meadow” might conjure an image of a broad, expansive prairie covering acres of land, but it doesn’t have to. Meadows don’t have to be big to make a difference in the health of the planet. If you ... Read more

$17.99 USD

Go low-maintenance and no-mow while supporting nature and biodiversity by planting a mini wildflower meadow with guidance from Tiny & Wild.*2024 American Horticultural Society Book Award Winner*The word “meadow” might conjure an image of a broad, expansive prairie covering acres of land, but it doesn’t have to. Meadows don’t have to be big to make a difference in the health of the planet. If you
... Read more
Plant Partners

Science-Based Companion Planting Strategies for the Vegetable Garden

by Jessica Walliser ...

Discover the benefits of companion planting with this comprehensive guidebook.Plant Partners delivers a research-based rationale for the ever-popular growing technique of companion planting, offering dozens of ways you can use scientifically tested plant partnerships to benefit your whole garden.Dozens of well-studied partnerships in this book offer fresh strategies to:- Break up heavy soils- ... Read more

$12.99 USD

Discover the benefits of companion planting with this comprehensive guidebook.Plant Partners delivers a research-based rationale for the ever-popular growing technique of companion planting, offering dozens of ways you can use scientifically tested plant partnerships to benefit your whole garden.Dozens of well-studied partnerships in this book offer fresh strategies to:- Break up heavy soils-
... Read more
A Rock Garden in the South

by Elizabeth Lawrence ...

As readers and critics around the country agree, any new book by the renowned garden writer Elizabeth Lawrence is like finding a buried treasure. A Rock Garden in the South will not disappoint. Released posthumously, this book is not only a welcome addition to the Lawrence canon, but fills an important gap in the garden literature on the middle South.Lawrence, in her usual exquisite prose, deals ... Read more

$21.99 USD

As readers and critics around the country agree, any new book by the renowned garden writer Elizabeth Lawrence is like finding a buried treasure. A Rock Garden in the South will not disappoint. Released posthumously, this book is not only a welcome addition to the Lawrence canon, but fills an important gap in the garden literature on the middle South.Lawrence, in her usual exquisite prose, deals
... Read more

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