Around the House and in the Garden: A Memoir of Heartbreak, Healing, and Home Improvement
10 best books like Around the House and in the Garden: A Memoir of Heartbreak, Healing, and Home Improvement (Dominique Browning): Our Life in Gardens, Two Gardeners: Katharine S. White & Elizabeth Lawrence--A Friendship in Letters, My Garden (Book), Cultivating Delight: A Natural History of My Garden, Green Thoughts: A Writer in the Garden, Onward and Upward in the Garden, We Made a Garden, From the Ground Up: The Story of a First Garden, Recovering: A Journal, Making More Plants: The Science, Art, and Joy of Propagation
| Author | Joe Eck |
| ISBN | 0374160317 |
This is the third book we have written together, though separately we have written others . . . But to say ‘written separately' makes no sense, for when two lives have been bent for so many years on one central enterprise—in this case, gardening—there really is no such thing as separately."
With...
| Author | Emily Herring Wilson |
| ISBN | 0807085596 |
A legendary editor at The New Yorker during its first thirty-four years, Katharine S. White was also a great garden enthusiast. In March 1958 she began publishing her popular column, "Onward and Upward in the Garden." Her first column elicited loads of fan mail, but one letter in particular caught her...
| Author | Jamaica Kincaid |
| ISBN | 0374527768 |
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...
| Author | Diane Ackerman |
| ISBN | 0060199865 |
In the mode of her esteemed bestseller A Natural History of the Senses, Diane Ackerman's new book, Cultivating Delight celebrates the sensory pleasures she discovers in her garden.
Ackerman delights in her garden through all the seasons. Whether she is deadheading flowers or glorying in...
A 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” and “Wildflowers.” An amateur gardener for over thirty...
Onward and Upward in the Garden
| Author | Katharine S. White |
| ISBN | 0807085618 |
Katharine White began working at The New Yorker in 1925, the year of its founding, and was an editor there for thirty-four years, shaping the careers of such writers as John O'Hara, Vladimir Nabokov, and Jean Stafford. Throughout and beyond those years she was also a gardener. In 1958, when her job as...
| Author | Margery Fish |
| ISBN | 0375759476 |
First published in Britain in 1956 and never before available in America, We Made a Garden is the classic story of a unique and enduring English country garden. One of Britain’s most esteemed gardening writers recounts how she and her husband set about creating an exemplary cottage garden from unpromising...
| Author | Amy Stewart |
| ISBN | 0312287674 |
Amy Stewart had a simple dream. She wanted a garden.
When she and her husband finished graduate school, they headed west to Santa Cruz, California. With little money in their pockets, they found a modest seaside cottage with a small backyard. It wasn’t much—a twelve-hundred-square-foot...
May Sarton's sixty-sixth year, 1978-79, was a difficult time: a cherished relationship came to an end, she had a mastectomy, she fought against depression. But, she writes, "When there is personal darkness, when there is a pain to be overcome, when we are forced to renew ourselves against all the odds,...
Making More Plants: The Science, Art, and Joy of Propagation
For people who love gardens, propagation is gardening itself, the practice of growing whatever you want, whenever you want. Whether you crave healthy, vigorous plants, wish to grow new ones to share with friends, or hope to produce scores of them to fill your own beds and borders -- for free -- Making...
| Author | Michael A. Dirr |
| ISBN | 0875637957 |
This extensive reference book lists hundreds of woody landscape plants. Each entry includes identification characteristics related to leaves, buds, and stems. Most are accompanied by an illustration of the leaf or branch. Additional facts about each plant are available on topics such as flowers...
| Author | Karel Čapek |
| ISBN | 0826486258 |
It is seldom that a practical guide to gardening attains the level of a literary masterpiece, still more seldom that a book on gardening can amuse and instruct even those who have no garden to plant., nor the faintest interest in acquiring one. The Gardener's Year is a charismatic product of Karel Capek's...
| Author | Vita Sackville-West |
| ISBN | 0711223548 |
From 1946, the poet and novelist Vita Sackville-West wrote a gardening column in the Observer. The columns were later collected into a set of books published between 1951 and 1958. Vita's extensive gardening knowledge, her intense passion for her subject and her lively literary flair make these classics...
| Author | Beverley Nichols |
| ISBN | 0881927295 |
This reprint of the third book in Nichols's Allways trilogy contains a new foreword by Bryan Connon, Beverley Nichols's biographer. Set in the English countryside, the hilarious memoir is as much about the author's love for plants as it is about the village in which he lived. The depictions of flowers...
In Spite of Everything: A Memoir
| Author | Susan Gregory Thomas |
| ISBN | 1400068827 |
“For most of my generation—Generation X—there is only one question: ‘When did your parents split?’ Our lives have been framed by the answer. Ask us. We remember everything.”
In this powerful, poignant, and often laugh-out-loud-funny memoir, Susan Gregory Thomas reflects...
Living with Your Heart Wide Open: How Mindfulness and Compassion Can Free You from Unworthiness, Inadequacy, and Shame
| Author | Steve Flowers |
| ISBN | 1572249358 |
The way we talk to ourselves is often unkind and filled with self-judgments. These overly harsh self-criticisms can make us feel unworthy and incomplete. What if what you really need is not higher standards for yourself, but greater self-compassion? In Living with Your Heart Wide Open, you’ll discover...
If It Hurts, It Isn't Love: And 365 Other Principles to Heal and Transform Your Relationships
| Author | Chuck Spezzano |
| ISBN | 1569246343 |
In If It Hurts, It Isn't Love, author Chuck Spezzano finds truth in simple insights: What I think I need is what I am called to give. Depression is the fear that something new will leave me. When someone gets angry at me, there is a lesson for me to learn. Jealousy is a birthing place. These principles show...
The Education of a Gardener
| Author | Russell Page |
| ISBN | 1590172310 |
Russell Page, one of the legendary gardeners and landscapers of the twentieth century, designed gardens great and small for clients throughout the world. His memoirs, born of a lifetime of sketching, designing, and working on site, are a mixture of engaging personal reminiscence, keen critical...
Love and the Mystery of Betrayal: Grieving the Loss: Tending the Trauma, Healing the Heartbreak, Restoring Trust in Life
If you have experienced loss of any kind, this book will help you grieve. In a moving account of the mysteries of love, loss and betrayal. Written from the inside out, "Love and the Mystery of Betrayal" shows how our hearts can triumph even after the most life-shattering events. The author seamlessly...
The Grail: A Year Ambling & Shambling Through an Oregon Vineyard in Pursuit of the Best Pinot Noir Wine in the Whole Wild World
| Author | Brian Doyle |
| ISBN | 0870710931 |
Brian Doyle's is the first byline I learned to look for in the Oregonian when I moved here, and I still get an anticipatory flutter when I see it. He's recently written a novel, Mink River and I went to Powell's to listen to him talk. He's an insanely intense and achingly vulnerable speaker who laughs and...
A Year and Six Seconds: A Memoir of Stumbling from Heartbreak to Happiness
| Author | Isabel Gillies |
| ISBN | 1401341624 |
I read Isabel Gillies' first book "Happens Every Day" in 2010; just months before my whole world [like hers in that book] was turned upside down when my then husband, out of the clear blue, walked away from me and my marriage. I know that those first few months after it happened, I thought back to that book...
| Author | Jimmy Carter |
| ISBN | 0345425928 |
'As we've grown older, the results have been surprisingly good, ' writes former President Jimmy Carter in this wise, deeply personal meditation on the new experiences that come to us with age. Now in his 70s, President Carter has never enjoyed more prestige or influence on the world stage, nor has he...
American Horticultural Society Plant Propagation: The Definitive Practical Guide to Culmination, Propagation, and Display
| Author | Alan R. Toogood |
| ISBN | 0789441160 |
AHS Plant Propagation is a comprehensive, essential guide to increasing the numbers of a huge range of plants. An extensive introduction explains the botany and plant physiology behind the science of propagation, and the encyclopedic A - Z section presents all the appropriate techniques for more...
