Quiet Moment Reading in the Garden, by Irina Sztukowski

One of my favorite things to do is read books about gardens, gardeners, and gardening! I find these books endlessly fascinating and inspiring. Many of the ideas for our own yard and garden have come from the books I read. A good example is the fence my husband has designed and will be building for the perimeter of our yard — his inspiration came from a photo in a book I was reading about Eudora Welty’s garden.

A List of books I’ve read and reviewed with GARDEN at the heart...

1. Renoir’s Garden: A Celebration of the Garden that Inspired One of the World’s Greatest Impressionist Painters, by Derek Fell
2. Kitchen Gardens, by Mary Mason Campbell, illustrated by Tasha Tudor
3. Barnheart, by Jenna Woginrich
4. The White Garden, by Stephanie Barron
5. One Writer’s Garden, by Susan Haltom and Jane Roy Brown
6. Elizabeth and her German Garden, by Elizabeth Von Arnim
7. The Secret Garden, by Francis Hodgson Burnett
8. The Morville Year, by Katherine Swift
9. The Flower Fairies, by Louisa May Alcott
10. Seedfolks, by Paul Fleishman
11. Vincent’s Gardens, by Ralph Skea
12. Emily Dickinson’s Gardens: A Celebration of a Poet and Gardener, by Marta McDowell
13. Tasha Tudor’s Garden, text by Tovah Martin
14. An Island Garden, by Celia Thaxter
15. Plant Dreaming Deep, by May Sarton
16. In the Land of the Blue Poppies, by Frank Kingdon-Ward
17. The Rose Girls, by Victoria Connelly
18. A Year in the Big Old Garden, by James D. Witmer
19. Gardenlust, A Botanical Tour of the World’s Best New Gardens, by Christopher Wood
20. How My Garden Grew, by Anne & Harlow Rockwell
21. The Lost Garden, by Helen Humphreys
22. The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady, by Edith Holden
23. Kew Gardens, by Virginia Woolf
24. Gertrude Jekyll, by Twigs Way
25. The Ugly Vegetables, by Grace Lin
26. We Are the Gardeners, by Joanna Gaines and Kids
27. Green Green: A Community Gardening Story, by Marie and Baldev Lamba
28. Wangari’s Trees of Peace, by Jeanette Winter
29. The Writer in the Garden, edited by Jane Garmey
30. Argentinian Adventures: A Planthunter in Argentina, by John Lonsdale
31. Beatrix Potter’s Gardening Life, by Marta McDowell
32. The Solitary Summer, by Elizabeth von Arnim
33. Down to Earth, by Monty Don
34. Unearthing The Secret Garden: The Plants and Places That Inspired Frances Hodgson Burnett, by Marta McDowell
35. Love in an English Garden, by Victoria Connelly
36. The Garden by the Sea, by Amanda James
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Zinnias 2016

The Butterfly Garden 2016