Gardening

Gardening is the practice of growing and cultivating plants as part of horticulture. In gardens, ornamental plants are often grown for their flowers, foliage, or overall appearance; useful plants, such as root vegetables, leaf vegetables, fruits, and herbs, are grown for consumption, for use as dyes, or for medicinal or cosmetic use.

Gardening ranges in scale from fruit orchards, to long boulevard plantings with one or more different types of shrubs, trees, and herbaceous plants, to residential back gardens including lawns and foundation plantings, and to container gardens grown inside or outsi
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The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
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Miss Rumphius by Barbara CooneyThe Curious Garden by Peter  BrownThe Gardener by Sarah StewartPlanting a Rainbow by Lois EhlertThe Carrot Seed by Ruth Krauss
Best Picture Books About Gardens
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Best Sustainability Nonfiction
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Non-Fiction read in 2017
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Flowers on Covers
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The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson BurnettAnne of Green Gables by L.M. MontgomeryThe Hobbit by J.R.R. TolkienGarden Spells by Sarah Addison AllenThe Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien
All Things Green & Growing
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Victor Hugo
A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.
Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

Voltaire
Cela est bien, repondit Candide, mais il faut cultiver notre jardin.
Voltaire, Candide

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