Gardening Books

Finding gardening books has never been easier! GoodGardenBooks has one mission - to help you find and buy the perfect book on gardening for yourself, or as a gift.

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Gardening text books!

Gardening books - site sections

Gardening Shows. The best shows in the country, and how to buy tickets.
Bestsellers. Our most popular gardening books on all subjects.
Biographies and philosophy. Book on the personalities that have shaped our attitudes to our gardens over the centuries.
Gardening Art. Books, prints and illustrations of flowers and plants.
Botany. Books on botany.
Children's gardening books. Gardening is a great hobby for kids, gets them outdoors and teaches them about the birds and the bees.
DIY. Books for determined garden hobbyists.
Flowers. Everything you need to know about selecting, growing and keeping flowers disease-free is contained here.
Flower arranging. Not the most dynamic of hobbies, but if you are looking for a book on flower arranging, you'll find it here.
Garden design. Aha, now we are getting to the interesting stuff. All the basics are here, as well as more advanced garden design books.
General. If you only own one or two gardening books, they should be the sort you will find recommended here.
Herbs and healing. Over the millennia, herbs and plants have been used for medicinal purposes.
History. These books cover the history of gardening, and describe some of the most historic gardens in the world.
House plants. There's more to house-plants than the odd ficus or rubber plant.
Hydroponics. There has been a recent surge in interest in hydroponics. Of course it might be because you can grow cannabis hydroponically, but it might not.
Kitchen gardens. Munch, munch, munch. What could be better than eating a lettuce and tomato salad from your own garden?
Lawns. Is your lawn a lush green billiard-table affair, or is it undulating, tussocky, mole-infested, mossy and clover-ridden?
Novels and poems about gardens. Gardens form the backdrop to many fine novels, or at least scenes from novels.
Organic gardening. Oh, trendy, trendy, trendy. Organic gardening sounds great in theory, but what do you do when the great blue fungus-chaffer invades your hollihocks?
Guides to Plant Selection. What to plant, where and when to plant it. All the answers, even to questions you didn't know you were supposed to ask.
Problem gardens. It can be a frustrating business reading gardening books, because too many of them seem to assume that every garden is a paradise in miniature. But what happens if your garden, or part of it, is too wet, too dry, too acidic, too alkaline etc?
Gardening Textbooks. The basics - covered in comprehensive detail.
Trees. OK, so not everyone has a garden big enough to grow trees in. But if you do, you'll need information: how to look after trees, how to pollard them, how to find a tree surgeon etc.
Water features and ponds. Bubble, tinkle, gush, drip. What better way to liven up a garden than by adding a water feature or a pond?
Gardening around the world. From Abingdon to Zanzibar, gardens around the world have their own, special flavour.
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