These best-selling garden books received two green thumbs up from Barnes and Noble. If you have a favorite that didn’t make the list, let us know!
1. The New Encyclopedia of Gardening
by American Horticultural Society Staff
A comprehensive guide to step-by-step gardening techniques for a new generation of gardeners.
by Anna Pavord
A personal selection and authoritative guide to the most beautiful bulbs on the earth.
3. All New Square Foot Gardening: Grow More in Less Space!
by Mel Bartholomew
An easy-to-understand, how-to approach to the square-foot method of gardening.
4. DIY Grounds for Improvement: 25 Great Landscaping and Gardening Projects
by Dean Hill and Jackie Taylor
Helps homeowners solve those landscaping problems and make over their outdoor space in style.
5. The Well-Tended Perennial Garden: Planting and Pruning Techniques
by Tracy DiSabato-Aust
This new, expanded edition promises to be an even more effective ally in your quest to create a beautiful, healthy, well-maintained perennial garden.
6. The Vegetable Gardener’s Bible
by Edward C. Smith; Foreword by John Storey
The last W.O.R.D. in vegetable gardening with Ed Smith’s amazing gardening system, using four principles: Wile beds, Organic methods, Raised beds, and Deep beds.
by Carleen Madigan
How you can feed a family of four with fresh, organic food year-round, with just a quarter acres of land.
by Eliot Coleman and illustrated by Kathy Bray; Foreword by Barbara Damrosch
How to harvest fresh organic vegetables from your home gardens all year long.
by Lewis Blackwell
An elegantly written and highly accessible text is complemented by an extraordinary collection of images created by some of the world’s leading nature photographers.
10. 2010 Flower Spirits Wall Calendar
by Steven N. Meyers
Hand tinted x-ray photography reveals the beautiful textures, details and structures of plants not visible to the human eye.
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