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Gardening
I don’t know anyone else with as much experience and knowledge when it comes to designing with bulbs.
Piet Oudolf
New & Noteworthy
![The Ultimate Wildlife Habitat Garden](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/9781643261423.jpg?w=190)
The Ultimate Wildlife Habitat Garden
![Gardening Can Be Murder](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/9781643261126.jpg?w=190)
Gardening Can Be Murder
![Firescaping Your Home](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/9781643261355.jpg?w=190)
Firescaping Your Home
![Grasses for Gardens and Landscapes](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/9781643261157.jpg?w=190)
Grasses for Gardens and Landscapes
![The 30-Minute Gardener](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/9781643261331.jpg?w=190)
The 30-Minute Gardener
![The Pacific Northwest Native Plant Primer](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/9781643260716.jpg?w=190)
The Pacific Northwest Native Plant Primer
![We Are the ARK](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/9781643261782.jpg?w=190)
We Are the ARK
![American Roots](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/9781643261164-1.jpg?w=190)
American Roots
![Experiencing Olmsted](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/9781643260365.jpg?w=190)
Experiencing Olmsted
Just getting started? These books can help.
![The New Gardener's Handbook](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/9781604698749.jpeg?w=190)
The New Gardener's Handbook
![The Beginner’s Guide to Growing Great Vegetables](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/9781643260853.jpg?w=190)
The Beginner’s Guide to Growing Great Vegetables
![Small-Space Vegetable Gardens](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/9781604695472.jpg?w=190)
Small-Space Vegetable Gardens
![Grow Your Own Herbs](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/9781604699296.jpg?w=190)
Grow Your Own Herbs
![The Know Maintenance Perennial Garden](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/9781604693348.jpeg?w=190)
The Know Maintenance Perennial Garden
![The Proven Winners Garden Book](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/9781604697551.jpg?w=190)
The Proven Winners Garden Book
![Pruning Simplified](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/9781604698886.jpg?w=190)
Pruning Simplified
Ornamental Gardening
![The Ultimate Flower Gardener’s Guide](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/9781643260389.jpg?w=190)
The Ultimate Flower Gardener’s Guide
![The Modern Cottage Garden](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/9781604699081.jpg?w=190)
The Modern Cottage Garden
![A Way to Garden](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/9781604698770.jpg?w=190)
A Way to Garden
![Glorious Shade](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/9781604696813.jpeg?w=190)
Glorious Shade
![Gardening in Summer-Dry Climates](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/9781604699128.jpg?w=190)
Gardening in Summer-Dry Climates
![Succulents Simplified](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/9781604693935.jpg?w=190)
Succulents Simplified
![Designing with Succulents](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/9781604697087.jpeg?w=190)
Designing with Succulents
![Hot Color, Dry Garden](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/9781604694574.jpeg?w=190)
Hot Color, Dry Garden
![Hypertufa Containers](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/9781604697063.jpg?w=190)
Hypertufa Containers
![Rock Gardening](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/9781604695878.jpg?w=190)
Rock Gardening
![Shrubs](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/9781604697674.jpg?w=190)
Shrubs
![Fearless Gardening](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/9781604699623.jpeg?w=190)
Fearless Gardening
![The Tree Book](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/9781604697148.jpg?w=190)
The Tree Book
![The Well-Tended Perennial Garden](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/9781604697070.jpeg?w=190)
The Well-Tended Perennial Garden
![Designing with Palms](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/9781604695434.jpeg?w=190)
Designing with Palms
![Growing Bulbs in the Natural Garden](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/9781643264028.jpg?w=190)
Growing Bulbs in the Natural Garden
Design & Inspiration
![The Gardener’s Palette](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/9781604699593.jpg?w=190)
The Gardener’s Palette
![Uprooted](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/9781604699579.jpeg?w=190)
Uprooted
![The Garden in Every Sense and Season](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/9781643260655.jpg?w=190)
The Garden in Every Sense and Season
![Planting the Natural Garden](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/9781604699739.jpg?w=190)
Planting the Natural Garden
![A Year at Brandywine Cottage](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/9781604698565.jpg?w=190)
A Year at Brandywine Cottage
![The Garden Refresh](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/9781643260815.jpg?w=190)
The Garden Refresh
![The 30-Minute Gardener](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/9781643261331.jpg?w=190)
The 30-Minute Gardener
![The Less Is More Garden](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/9781604697919.jpg?w=190)
The Less Is More Garden
![Inside Outside](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/9781604698268.jpg?w=190)
Inside Outside
![Creating Sanctuary](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/9781604697544.jpg?w=190)
Creating Sanctuary
![Sowing Beauty](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/9781604696325.jpeg?w=190)
Sowing Beauty
![Garden Revolution](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/9781604696165.jpeg?w=190)
Garden Revolution
![The Magical World of Moss Gardening](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/9781604695601.jpg?w=190)
The Magical World of Moss Gardening
Over time, with industrialization and urban sprawl, we have driven nature out of our neighborhoods and cities. But we can invite it back by designing landscapes that look and function more like they do in the wild: robust, diverse, and visually harmonious. Planting in a Post-Wild World by Thomas Rainer and Claudia West is an inspiring call to action dedicated to the idea of a new nature—a hybrid of both the wild and the cultivated—that can flourish in our cities and suburbs. This is both a post-wild manifesto and practical guide that describes how to incorporate and layer plants into plant communities to create an environment that is reflective of natural systems and thrives within our built world.
The Garden-in-Place Collection
![American Roots](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/9781643261164-1.jpg?w=190)
American Roots
![Under Western Skies](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/9781604699999.jpeg?w=190)
Under Western Skies
![Adventures in Eden](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/9781604698466.jpg?w=190)
Adventures in Eden
![The Layered Garden](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/9781604692365.jpeg?w=190)
The Layered Garden
![A Year at Brandywine Cottage](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/9781604698565.jpg?w=190)
A Year at Brandywine Cottage
![Windcliff](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/9781604699012.jpg?w=190)
Windcliff
![Gardenlust](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/9781604697971.jpg?w=190)
Gardenlust
![Spirit of Place](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/9781604698503.jpg?w=190)
Spirit of Place
![The Art of Gardening](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/9781604695441.jpg?w=190)
The Art of Gardening
![Nature into Art](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/9781604698510.jpg?w=190)
Nature into Art
![The Bold Dry Garden](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/9781604696707.jpeg?w=190)
The Bold Dry Garden
![A Tapestry Garden](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/9781604697599.jpg?w=190)
A Tapestry Garden
![Chasing Eden](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/9781604698732.jpg?w=190)
Chasing Eden
Sustainable Gardening
![Bringing Nature Home](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/9780881929928.jpeg?w=190)
Bringing Nature Home
![Nature's Best Hope](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/9781604699005.jpeg?w=190)
Nature's Best Hope
![Nature's Best Hope (Young Readers' Edition)](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/9781643262147.jpg?w=190)
Nature's Best Hope (Young Readers' Edition)
![The Nature of Oaks](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/9781643260440.jpg?w=190)
The Nature of Oaks
![We Are the ARK](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/9781643261782.jpg?w=190)
We Are the ARK
![What We Sow](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/9781643261072.jpg?w=190)
What We Sow
![Teaming with Bacteria](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/9781643261393.jpg?w=190)
Teaming with Bacteria
![Teaming with Fungi](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/9781604697292.jpg?w=190)
Teaming with Fungi
![Teaming with Nutrients](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/9781604693140.jpeg?w=190)
Teaming with Nutrients
![Teaming with Microbes](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/9781604691139.jpeg?w=190)
Teaming with Microbes
![Practical Permaculture](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/9781604694437.jpg?w=190)
Practical Permaculture
![The Vegetable Gardener's Guide to Permaculture](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/9781604692709.jpg?w=190)
The Vegetable Gardener's Guide to Permaculture
![Grow Now](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/9781643260471.jpeg?w=190)
Grow Now
![Now Is the Time for Trees](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/9781643261065.jpeg?w=190)
Now Is the Time for Trees
Wildlife Habitat
![The Hummingbird Handbook](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/9781643260181.jpeg?w=190)
The Hummingbird Handbook
![Gardening for Butterflies](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/9781604695984.jpeg?w=190)
Gardening for Butterflies
![The Ultimate Wildlife Habitat Garden](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/9781643261423.jpg?w=190)
The Ultimate Wildlife Habitat Garden
![Garden Allies](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/9781643260082.jpg?w=190)
Garden Allies
![The Living Landscape](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/9781604694086.jpeg?w=190)
The Living Landscape
Oh, Deer!
![Deer-Resistant Design](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/9781604698497.jpg?w=190)
Deer-Resistant Design
![50 Beautiful Deer-Resistant Plants](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/9781604691955.jpg?w=190)
50 Beautiful Deer-Resistant Plants
![Deer-Resistant Native Plants for the Northeast](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/9781604699869.jpg?w=190)
Deer-Resistant Native Plants for the Northeast
This hardworking, actionable guide is a must-have for homeowners looking to fight the risks of wildfire spreading to their homes and property.
Wildfires are burning over longer seasons and more intensely than ever before, and everyone living in a wildland-urban interface or wildland-adjacent area should take precautionary steps to mitigate the risk of property damage. In Firescaping Your Home, Adrienne Edwards and Rachel Schleiger provide expert guidance and specific recommendations on how to harden your home against fire and create defensible space that is lush and attractive. They also provide in-depth native plant lists of hundreds of species that have evolved to coexist with fire in the West, and show how and why including these on your property sustains wildlife and can actually be your most powerful defense.Garden Reference
![Botany for Gardeners, Fourth Edition](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/9781643261430.jpg?w=190)
Botany for Gardeners, Fourth Edition
![Botanical Art Techniques](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/9781604697902.jpg?w=190)
Botanical Art Techniques
![A Botanist's Vocabulary](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/9781604695632.jpg?w=190)
A Botanist's Vocabulary
![The Complete Book of Ground Covers](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/9781604694604.jpg?w=190)
The Complete Book of Ground Covers
![Gardening Under Lights](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/9781604697957.jpg?w=190)
Gardening Under Lights
![Grasses for Gardens and Landscapes](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/9781643261157.jpg?w=190)
Grasses for Gardens and Landscapes
![The Greenhouse Gardener's Manual](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/9781604694147.jpeg?w=190)
The Greenhouse Gardener's Manual
![How Plants Work](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/9781604693386.jpg?w=190)
How Plants Work
![The Insect Artist](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/9781604697964.jpg?w=190)
The Insect Artist
![The Lifelong Gardener](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/9781604698534.jpg?w=190)
The Lifelong Gardener
![The Month-by-Month Gardening Guide](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/9781643261416.jpg?w=190)
The Month-by-Month Gardening Guide
![Plant Parenting](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/9781604698725.jpg?w=190)
Plant Parenting
![Plants from Test Tubes](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/9781604692068.jpg?w=190)
Plants from Test Tubes
![Pruning Simplified](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/9781604698886.jpg?w=190)
Pruning Simplified
![Temperate Garden Plant Families](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/9781604694987.jpg?w=190)
Temperate Garden Plant Families
![Weeds of the Pacific Northwest](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/9781643261089.jpg?w=190)
Weeds of the Pacific Northwest
This fun, engrossing book takes a look at the surprising influence that gardens and gardening have had on mystery novels and their authors.
With their deadly plants, razor-sharp shears, shady corners, and ready-made burial sites, gardens make an ideal scene for the perfect murder. But the outsize influence that gardens and gardening have had on the mystery genre has been underappreciated. Now, Marta McDowell, a writer and gardener with a near-encyclopedic knowledge of the genre, illuminates the many ways in which our greatest mystery writers, from Edgar Allen Poe to authors on today’s bestseller lists, have found inspiration in the sinister side of gardens.
From the cozy to the hardboiled, the literary to the pulp, and the classic to the contemporary, Gardening Can Be Murder is the first book to explore the mystery genre’s many surprising horticultural connections. Meet plant-obsessed detectives and spooky groundskeeper suspects, witness toxic teas served in foul play, and tour the gardens—both real and imagined—that have been the settings for fiction’s ghastliest misdeeds. A New York Times bestselling author herself, McDowell also introduces us to some of today’s top writers who consider gardening integral to their craft, assuring that horticultural themes will remain a staple of the genre for countless twisting plots to come.
“This book is dangerous. A veritable cornucopia of crime fiction and gardening lore, it faces the reader with multiple temptations—books to seek out, plants to obtain, garden tours to book.” —Vicki Lane, author of the Elizabeth Goodweather Appalachian Mysteries
Great Gifts for Gardeners
![All the Presidents' Gardens](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/9781643262222.jpg?w=190)
All the Presidents' Gardens
![Beatrix Potter's Gardening Life](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/9781604693638.jpg?w=190)
Beatrix Potter's Gardening Life
![Creating Sanctuary](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/9781604697544.jpg?w=190)
Creating Sanctuary
![Everyday Sanctuary](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/9781604699289.jpg?w=190)
Everyday Sanctuary
![The Earth in Her Hands](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/9781604699029.jpg?w=190)
The Earth in Her Hands
![Emily Dickinson's Gardening Life](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/9781604698220.jpg?w=190)
Emily Dickinson's Gardening Life
![A Garden Miscellany](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/9781604698817.jpg?w=190)
A Garden Miscellany
![Ground Rules](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/9781604698787.jpg?w=190)
Ground Rules
![The Heirloom Gardener](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/51RHZAgwCiS._SL500_.jpg?w=190)
The Heirloom Gardener
![The Lifelong Gardener](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/9781604698534.jpg?w=190)
The Lifelong Gardener
![Unearthing The Secret Garden](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/9781604699906.jpeg?w=190)
Unearthing The Secret Garden
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