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Recommended Garden Books
Browse the best of the best of garden books, recommended
by garden professionals who are themselves garden book authors,
contributing book authors and garden magazine
editors.
We do not do negative reviews because, well, as the saying
goes, "a critic is someone who comes onto the battlefield after the
battle is over and shoots the wounded". Of course there are many
wonderful books we have not had time to review, but you can be sure
the books you find here are worthy of your attention.
We
have placed all book recommendations in categories for your
convenience, so you may look under Container Gardens, Water Gardens,
Garden Design, Small Gardens and so on. Enjoy.
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CONTAINER GARDENS |
Gardens
To Go - Sydney Eddison & Steve Silk
This is now the
definitive book on container gardens and will become a classic
of its kind. It simply could not be better, both for its
warmly illuminating text and abundant and beautiful
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WATER GARDENS |
Encyclopedia
of Water Garden Plants - Greg Speichert & Sue
Speichert
This will remain for years to come the
most complete, authoritative, accessible and simply beautiful
source for all water garden plants. |
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Water
Features For Small Gardens - Keith Davitt
"Treats design
considerations and construction details for every type of
water feature with beautiful photographs of water gardens
within the reach of most homeowners." CSM named it one of the
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GARDEN
DESIGN |
Gardening
in Small Spaces - Fine Gardening Design
Guides
A very useful, extremely handsome book
for designing gardens in small areas. |
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Beyond The Lawn - Keith Davitt
"Written by garden
design expert Keith Davitt, this book is a simply beautiful
and exceptionally 'user friendly' sourcebook of ideas for
creating harmony with stone, brick gravel, rock, water, herbs,
conifers, planted pots, native and wild plants."
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SMALL
GARDENS |
Small
Patios - Hazel White
A lovely book with
many beautiful examples of small patios, complete with a 'how
to do it' section for each. |
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Small
Spaces Beautiful Gardens - Keith Davitt
"As with all of
Davitt's books, this was written for the home gardener and
demonstrates the almost miraculous transformations possible in
rendering small spaces into livable, beautiful gardens. Fast
becoming a classic world-wide." |
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COLOR IN THE
GARDEN |
The
Gardener's Palette - Sydney Eddison
"The Gardener's
Palette is an easy-to-use guide that will help you gain
confidence working with color, texture, masses, light and
shadow in the garden." |
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