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My Favorite Gardening Books
11
items These are the gardening books I keep coming back to for flower and vegetable gardening
Sections
4
Vegetable Gardening
Landscape Design
Plant Maintenance
Plant Identification
Vegetable Gardening
Gardening books for kitchen and container gardens
This book really helps with the rhythm of gardening and helping you stay on task each day.
The 5-Minute Gardener: Year-Round Garden Habits for Busy People
This book helped me design my kitchen garden and set it up for success. Most helpful was learning how to amend soil, and how to combine plants based on size and season.
Kitchen Garden Revival: Stylish Small-Scale Guide
Landscape Design
Designing, planting, and maintaining home landscapes
Perfect your landscape with plant inspiration based on color, texture, zone, and sunlight needs. I refer back to this book when I start a new garden bed.
Designer Plant Combinations: 105 Stunning Gardens
Live in the Midwest? Find the perfect plant for every spot in your garden. I refer to this book to help me choose the best plants and how to maintain them.
Midwest Native Plant Primer: 225 Plants
When you want your garden and landscape to blend in with your surrounding natural areas and habitats. This book has taught me how to choose native plants, create color schemes that match the environment, how to layer plants aesthetically and keep the...
Planting in a Post-Wild World: Designing Resilient Plant Communities
This book gave me excellent tips on choosing and caring for meadow plants, as well as how to create a low-maintenance landscape in an urban setting.
The American Meadow Garden: Creating Natural Alternatives
This book provides blue prints for home landscaping based on season and sunlight requirements. A map for where to place each plant in the garden is pictured, along with a bit about their appearance and growth habits.
Home Landscaping: Midwest & Southern Canada
This book is full of inspiration for natural-looking gardens that are designed to look wild. It will also help you choose a plant color palette and design with texture for all seasons.
Planting: A New Perspective by Oudolf & Kingsbury
Plant Maintenance
Perennial care and how to plant, prune, fertilize, etc.
Highly regarded as the ultimate authority on perennial plant care, this is the book I trust above all others. Tracy offers tips on planting, pruning, dividing, fertilizing, and more.
The Well-Tended Perennial Garden Guide
This is my favorite way to keep track of my garden and the rhythm of the seasons. This notebook has space for every day of the years for 5 years, so you can record what you plant, when you planted it, when the plants emerge in the spring or summer, w...
The Naturalist's Notebook
Plant Identification
Identify plants, flowers, and trees
This is the book I always refer to when identifying plants while hiking or visiting gardens. It's a highly trusted source
Newcomb's Wildflower Guide by Newcomb & Morrison