Allotments

Written by Twigs Way

Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
On Sale: September 23, 2008
Price: $12.95

An allotment is a small area of land, let out at a nominal yearly rent by local government or independent allotment associations, for individuals to grow their own food. However, the humble allotment has a surprisingly turbulent history. Initially the right to an allotment was proposed as a charitable means by... Read more >

The Essentials of Garden Design

Written by John Brookes

Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
On Sale: April 1, 2008
Price: $35.00

John Brookes is one of the most original and creative garden designers in the world. He is known for the more than 1,200 gardens he has designed worldwide and for being an inspiring teacher. His work teaching generations of garden designers has influenced the way we look at, and think about... Read more >

Get Fit Through Gardening
Advice, Tips, and Tools for Better Health
Written by Jeffrey P. Restuccio

Format: Trade Paperback, 168 pages
On Sale: March 11, 2008
Price: $15.95

Get Fit Through Gardening

A Fun Program to Get Your Body Fit, Your Food Fresh, and Your Mind Calm

A new approach to gardening that shows how gardeners can get the maximum amount of health benefits from planting and tending to their garden

Gardening is traditionally thought of as a gentle hobby suited for... Read more >

Gardening at the Dragon's Gate
At Work in the Wild and Cultivated World
Written by Wendy Johnson

Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: February 26, 2008
Price: $25.00

Gardening at the Dragon’s Gate is fundamental work that permeates your entire life. It demands your energy and heart, and it gives you back great treasures as well, like a fortified sense of humor, an appreciation for paradox, and a huge harvest of Dinosaur kale and tiny red potatoes.

For more than... Read more >

P. Allen Smith's Living in the Garden Home
Connecting the Seasons with Containers, Crafts, and Celebrations
Written by P. Allen Smith

Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: November 20, 2007
Price: $32.50

For P. Allen Smith, gardening is all about the anticipation of a new season, the wonderful satisfaction that comes with digging and planting, building supports and structures, selecting plants and deciding how to arrange them—and then enjoying the delightful and inevitable surprises as the seasons unfold and nature transforms the original... Read more >

Outdoors
The Garden Design Book for the Twenty-First Century
Written by Diarmuid Gavin and Terence Conran

Format: Hardcover, 271 pages
On Sale: November 1, 2007
Price: $60.00

The ultimate garden design book: a visual delight covering all aspects of working and living in your garden with stunning photographs of gardens from around the world.

The contemporary garden carries a profound connection both to the environment and to the range of activities—relaxing, entertaining, working—that characterize today's lifestyle. A collaboration between... Read more >

Making the Modern Garden

Written by Christopher Bradley-Hole

Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
On Sale: October 4, 2007
Price: $45.00

A superlative analysis of contemporary gardens as well as a fascinating collection of landscapes around the world, Making the Modern Garden is a definitive study of the philosophy and practice of garden design at the outset of the twenty-first century. Author Christopher Bradley-Hole, himself a landscape designer of note, discusses the... Read more >

Growing Vegetables West of the Cascades, 6th Edition
The Complete Guide to Organic Gardening
Written by Steve Solomon

Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: September 25, 2007
Price: $21.95

This is the updated 6th edition of Growing Vegetables West of the Cascades, which has evolved from a self-published pamphlet to the master guide to organic vegetable gardening over the past 28 years. Steve Solomon, who was a founder of the Territorial Seed Company, was one of the early proponents of... Read more >

Among Flowers
A Walk in the Himalaya
Written by Jamaica Kincaid

Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: July 17, 2007
Price: $10.95

In this delightful hybrid of a book—part memoir and part travel journal—the bestselling author takes us deep into the mountains of Nepal with a trio of botanist friends in search of native Himalayan plants that will grow in her Vermont garden. Alighting from a plane in the dramatic Annapurna Valley, the... Read more >

The Education Of A Gardener

Written by Russell Page
Preface by Robin Lane Fox

Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: July 3, 2007
Price: $18.95

Russell Page, one of the legendary gardeners and landscapers of the twentieth century, designed gardens great and small for clients throughout the world. His memoirs, born of a lifetime of sketching, designing, and working on site, are a mixture of engaging personal reminiscence, keen critical intelligence, and practical know-how. They are... Read more >

Digging In
Tending to Life in Your Own Backyard
Written by Robert Benson

Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: April 17, 2007
Price: $12.99

The story of a small garden large enough to hold everything in life that really matters.


“These days the portion of Eden for which I am responsible is fairly modest. . . . It is a small house in a small garden in a small neighborhood. But it is large enough ... Read more >

The Earth Knows My Name
Food, Culture, and Sustainability in the Gardens of Ethnic Americans
Written by Patricia Klindienst

Format: Trade Paperback, 280 pages
On Sale: April 1, 2007
Price: $18.00

Patricia Klindienst crossed the country to write this book, inspired by a torn and faded photograph that shed new light on the story of her Italian immigrant family's struggle to adapt to America. She gathered the stories of urban, suburban, and rural gardens created by people rarely presented in books about... Read more >

The Earth Knows My Name
Food, Culture, and Sustainability in the Gardens of Ethnic Americans
Written by Patricia Klindienst

Format: eBook
On Sale: April 1, 2007
Price: $18.00

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Lawnscapes

Written by David Parfitt

Format: Hardcover, 80 pages
On Sale: March 1, 2007
Price: $14.95

Your Yard Is the Canvas. Your Mower Is the Paintbrush.
 
You don’t need a crew of landscapers to have an attractive and eye-catching front yard—all you need are a lawnmower, a length of string, and a little imagination. Lawnscapes teaches you how to mow artistic masterpieces directly into your lawn—everything... Read more >

Ask Ciscoe
Oh, la, la ! Your Gardening Questions Answered
Written by Ciscoe Morris

Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: November 28, 2006
Price: $18.95

Ciscoe Morris answers 400 the most interesting, oft-asked, most urgent, and puzzling gardening questions. Even if Ciscoe’s signature exclamation "Ooh-la-la!" (delivered with a thick Wisconsin accent) is completely disarming, do not underestimate his gardening chops: Master Gardener, certified arborist, teacher at the University of Washington’s Center for Urban Horticulture. In his... Read more >

Hortus Miscellaneous
A Gardener's Hodgepodge of Information and Instruction
Written by Lorene Forkner and Linda Plato

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: November 28, 2006
Price: $16.95

From the kinds of trees standing at Great Dixter to the 20 deadliest flowers to the best small garden animals according to the Indiana Department of Agriculture—gardening is a pursuit with no end of information to sift through. Where does botany start but with the naming and grouping of all flora?... Read more >

Plant This!
Best Bets for Year-Round Gorgeous Gardens
Written by Ketzela Levine and Rene Eisenbart

Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: November 28, 2006
Price: $22.95

Ketzel Levine writes about plants with the authoritative background of a botanist, the cheeky style of a woman whose VW bears the bumper sticker QUESTION AUTHORITY!, and an unabashed love for her favorite flowers. This collection of plant profiles draws from her popular weekly column in The Oregonian, and is illustrated... Read more >

Botanical 5x7 Journal

Written by Potter Style

Format: Non-traditional book, 160 pages
On Sale: October 10, 2006
Price: $10.95

Flowers are an endless source of inspiration for poetry, literature, and art. Let blossoms be your muse as your reflections take root on the pages of this stylish journal.

160 lined pages, 5 x 7 inches, elastic closure Read more >

Botanical Mini Note Pads

Written by Potter Style

Format: Non-traditional book, 192 pages
On Sale: October 10, 2006
Price: $6.95

Write down your fresh ideas in these classic note pads inspired by antique botanical prints.

3 pads shrink-wrapped side-by-side, 64 pages each, 4 5/8 x 8 1/4 inches Read more >

The Tree
A Natural History of What Trees Are, How They Live, and Why They Matter
Written by Colin Tudge

Format: eBook, 480 pages
On Sale: October 3, 2006
Price: $11.99

There are redwoods in California that were ancient by the time Columbus first landed, and pines still alive that germinated around the time humans invented writing. There are Douglas firs as tall as skyscrapers, and a banyan tree in Calcutta as big as a football field.

From the tallest to the smallest... Read more >

How to Grow More Vegetables
(and Fruits, Nuts, Berries, Grains, and Other Crops) Than You Ever Thought Possible on Less Land Than You Can Imagine
Written by John Jeavons

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: October 1, 2006
Price: $19.99

A classic in the field of sustainable gardening, HOW TO GROW MORE VEGETABLES shows how to produce a beautiful organic garden with minimal watering and care, whether it's just a few tomatoes in a tiny backyard or enough food to feed a family of four on less than half an acre... Read more >

A Glossary of Garden History

Written by Michael Symes

Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: August 1, 2006
Price: $19.95

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Walled Kitchen Gardens

Written by Susan Campbell

Format: Trade Paperback, 56 pages
On Sale: August 1, 2006
Price: $12.95

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Funky Flora Mini Note Pads

Written by Jane Archer

Format: Non-traditional book, 64 pages
On Sale: February 7, 2006
Price: $6.95

These three mini notepads are decked out in bold colors and exuberant designs that define the p.s. bella collection by Jane Archer–the ideal accessory for chronicling life on the move.

3 pads, 1 of each 3 designs, 64 sheets each, shrink-wrapped side by side, 4 5⁄8 x 8 1⁄4 inches Read more >

Gardener's Yoga
Bend & Stretch, Dig & Grow
Written by Veronica D'Orazio

Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
On Sale: November 29, 2005
Price: $12.95

Gardening is considered a contemplative, gentle pastime, but it makes many demands on the human body. The 21 yoga positions in this colorful guide are intended to energize gardeners so they can enjoy planting, mulching, digging, and harvesting without the aching back and sore knees. The first section, "Breaking Ground," emphasizes... Read more >