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10 best books like Our Life in Gardens (Joe Eck): Bringing Nature Home: How Native Plants Sustain Wildlife in Our Gardens, Around the House and in the Garden: A Memoir of Heartbreak, Healing, and Home Improvement, My Garden (Book), Dirr's Hardy Trees and Shrubs: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, Planting: A New Perspective, Cultivating Delight: A Natural History of My Garden, Designing the New Kitchen Garden: An American Potager Handbook, Green Thoughts: A Writer in the Garden, Onward and Upward in the Garden, We Made a Garden

Bringing Nature Home: How Native Plants Sustain Wildlife in Our Gardens
AuthorDouglas W. Tallamy
ISBN0881928542
As development and subsequent habitat destruction accelerate, there are increasing pressures on wildlife populations. But there is an important and simple step toward reversing this alarming trend: Everyone with access to a patch of earth can make a significant contribution toward sustaining...
Around the House and in the Garden: A Memoir of Heartbreak, Healing, and Home Improvement
AuthorDominique Browning
ISBN0743226933
"My story," writes Dominique Browning, the editor in chief of House & Garden, "is about the way a house can express loss, and then bereavement, and then, finally, the rebuilding of a life."

Around the House and in the Garden is a moving narrative, culled from Browning's much-loved monthly...
My Garden (Book)
AuthorJamaica Kincaid
ISBN0374527768
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...
Dirr's Hardy Trees and Shrubs: An Illustrated Encyclopedia
AuthorMichael A. Dirr
ISBN0881924040
This book is a priceless addition to the gardeners/landscapers library for various reasons. The write-ups say much with few words...they're even very humorous at times. The pictures are marvellous...giving the reader a good look at several varieties..often those he recommends most. The quality...
Planting: A New Perspective
AuthorPiet Oudolf
ISBN1604693703
Hollandi aiakujundaja Piet Oudolfi tööd on nii omanäolised, et teda võib pidada uue istutusstiili loojaks. See stiil põhineb püsikute, kõrreliste jt taimede kooskasutusel ja jätab mulje, nagu oleksid tihedates segaistutustes kasvavad liigid jõudnud tagasi oma looduslikku kasvupaika....
Cultivating Delight: A Natural History of My Garden
AuthorDiane Ackerman
ISBN0060199865
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...
Designing the New Kitchen Garden: An American Potager Handbook
AuthorJennifer R. Bartley
ISBN0881927724
A beautiful and bountiful food garden starts here. 

The pleasures of growing your own food can be multiplied by creating a garden that is not only productive, but also a beautiful, well-integrated part of your home landscape. In Designing the New Kitchen Garden, Jennifer Bartley shows how...
Green Thoughts: A Writer in the Garden
AuthorEleanor Perenyi
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
AuthorKatharine S. White
ISBN0807085618
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...
We Made a Garden
AuthorMargery Fish
ISBN0375759476
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...
The Writer in the Garden
AuthorJane Garmey
ISBN1565121813
Not the least of the charms of this collection is that it is printed on quality paper, with delightful line drawings, and is just the right size to encourage the reader to take it in hand and turn the pages--which they will surely want to do once they have dipped into any chapter, where they will find some...
Down the Garden Path
AuthorBeverley Nichols
ISBN0881927104
Rating Clarification: 4.5 Stars

This is one of those books that would have forever remained hidden from my reading world without the auspices of Goodreads in general and my GR buddy Leslie in particular (to Leslie - thanks for your squee-worthy review which led me to read this).

Written...
The Curious Gardener
AuthorAnna Pavord
ISBN1408808889
In The Curious Gardener, Anna Pavord brings together in 12 chapters - one from each month of the year - 72 pieces on all aspects of gardening.

From what to do in each month and how to get the best from flowers, plants, herbs, fruit and vegetables, through reflections on the weather, soil, the English...
Gardening at the Dragon's Gate: At Work in the Wild and Cultivated World
AuthorWendy Johnson
ISBN0553378031
Gardening at the Dragon’s Gate is fundamental work that permeates your entire life. It demands your energy and heart, and it gives you back great treasures as well, like a fortified sense of humor, an appreciation for paradox, and a huge harvest of Dinosaur kale and tiny red potatoes.

For...
From the Ground Up: The Story of a First Garden
AuthorAmy Stewart
ISBN0312287674

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...
Gardening for a Lifetime: How to Garden Wiser as You Grow Older
AuthorSydney Eddison
ISBN1604692669
From the winner of the National Garden Club's Award of Excellence

Although the garden may beckon as strongly as ever, the tasks involved—pulling weeds, pushing wheelbarrows, digging holes, moving heavy pots—become increasingly difficult, or even impossible, with advancing age....
The Roots of My Obsession: Thirty Great Gardeners Reveal Why They Garden
AuthorThomas C. Cooper
ISBN1604692715
Why do you garden? For fun? Work? Food? The reasons to garden are as unique as the gardener.

"The Roots of My Obsession" features thirty essays from the most vital voices in gardening. They show that gardening is a passion and obsession that cannot be conquered or abandoned, only indulged. Each...
The Brother Gardeners: Botany, Empire and the Birth of an Obsession
AuthorAndrea Wulf
ISBN0434016128
One January morning in 1734, cloth merchant Peter Collinson hurried down to the docks at London’s Custom House to collect cargo just arrived from John Bartram, his new contact in the American colonies. But it was not reels of wool or bales of cotton that awaited him, but plants and seeds…

Over...
And I Shall Have Some Peace There: Trading in the Fast Lane for My Own Dirt Road
AuthorMargaret Roach
ISBN0446556092
Margaret Roach worked at Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia for 15 years, serving as Editorial Director for the last 6. She first made her name in gardening, writing a classic gardening book among other things. She now has a hugely popular gardening blog, "A Way to Garden." But despite the financial and...
Growing Vegetables West of the Cascades: The Complete Guide to Natural Gardening
AuthorSteve Solomon
ISBN1570612404
This is the bible of vegetable gardening for anyone turning the soil west of the Cascade Mountains -- from Western British Columbia to Northern California. It includes the basics of soil, when best to plant, the art of composting, what varieties grow well here, which seed companies are reliable, information...
The Garden Primer
AuthorBarbara Damrosch
ISBN0894803166
Now the beloved classic is revised front-to-back. The new edition has gone 100% organic, which in Barbara Damrosch's hands also means completely accessible. It reflects the latest research on plants, soils, tools, and techniques. There is updated and expanded information on planning a garden,...
Old Herbaceous: A Novel of the Garden
AuthorReginald Arkell
ISBN0812967380
Back in print after fifty years

Old Herbaceous is a classic British novel of the garden, with a title character as outsized and unforgettable as P. G. Wodehouse’s immortal butler, Jeeves. Born at the dusk of the Victorian era, Bert Pinnegar, an awkward orphan child with one leg a tad longer...
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