Gardening Books

• Night Gardening by E.L. Swann\\

• Big Book of Garden Designs\\

• The Garden Primer\\

• The All-in-One Garden: grow vegetables, fruit, herbs and flowers in the same plot\\

• The New Tech Garden\\

• The Spare-Time Gardener: tips and tricks for those on the go\\

• Rodale's Vegetable Garden Problem Solver : the best and latest advice for beating pests, diseases, and weeds and staying a step ahead of trouble in the garden\\

• The Garden in Winter : plant for beauty and interest in the quiet season\\

• The Essential Garden Maintenance Workbook\\

• Newspaper, Pennies, Cardboard & Eggs for Growing a Better Garden: more than 400 new, fun, and ingenious ideas to keep your garden growing great all season long\\

• The Nature-Friendly Garden : creating a backyard haven for plants, wildlife, and people\\

• Practical Gardening\\

• Botany for Gardeners\\

• Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen\\

• The Blue Rose by Anthony Eglin\\

• Wild Designs by Katie Fforde\\

• The Lost Garden by Helen Humphreys\\

• Blue Dahlia by Nora Roberts\\

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(:title Gardening Books:) (:description selected fiction and nonfiction about gardening - June 2008:)

Fiction and nonfiction about gardening, selected by Forbes Library librarians. June 2008. Some additions November 2010.

Non-Fiction Books

• Big Book of Garden Designs
  by Marianne Lipanovich and Tom Wilhite

• The Garden Primer
  by Barbara Damrosch

• The All-in-One Garden: grow vegetables, fruit, herbs and flowers in the same plot
  by Graham Rice

• The New Tech Garden
  by Paul Cooper

• The Spare-Time Gardener: tips and tricks for those on the go
  by Barbara Hill Freeman

• Rodale's Vegetable Garden Problem Solver : the best and latest advice for beating pests, diseases, and weeds and staying a step ahead of trouble in the garden
  by Fern Marshall Bradley

• The Garden in Winter : plant for beauty and interest in the quiet season
  by Suzy Bales

• The Essential Garden Maintenance Workbook
  by Rosemary Alexander

• Newspaper, Pennies, Cardboard & Eggs for Growing a Better Garden: more than 400 new, fun, and ingenious ideas to keep your garden growing great all season long
  by Roger Yepsen and the editors of Organic gardening magazine

• The Nature-Friendly Garden : creating a backyard haven for plants, wildlife, and people
  by Marlene A. Condon

• Practical Gardening
  by Deena Beverly

• Botany for Gardeners
  by Brian Capon

Fiction Books

• Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen
  A successful caterer in Bascomb, North Carolina, Claire has always remained tied to the legacy of the Waverly family, until her peaceful life is transformed by Tyler Hughes, an art teacher and new next-door neighbor, and by the return of her prodigal sister, Sydney.

• The Blue Rose by Anthony Eglin
  Believing they have found the home of their dreams in a beautiful English garden house, Alex and Kate Sheppard make a science-defying discovery in their garden and find their world unraveling in the wake of intrusive experiments, coded journals, and murderous adversaries.

• Wild Designs by Katie Fforde
  Althea, who is divorced and has three children, a bossy dog, a know-it-all younger sister, and no love life, loses her job and starts a gardening business that leads her to fall for a married man.

• The Lost Garden by Helen Humphreys
  Leaving war-stricken London in 1941, Gwen Davis volunteers for the Land Army in the Devon countryside where she oversees a group of girls who plant crops for the war effort beside a regiment of Canadian soldiers.
• Blue Dahlia by Nora Roberts
  Centering around three courageous women, who meet for the first time at a crossroads in their lives, this first installment in the "In the Garden" trilogy follows Stella as she casts aside her fears and finds a special love that she will do anything to protect.

• Night Gardening by E.L. Swann
  While recovering from a near-fatal illness, Maggie rediscovers the redemptive powers of passion and romance in her life when she meets Tristan, a landscape architect who is working on her long-ignored and unkempt garden.

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