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A maximalist, humorous guide to growing and caring for houseplants—whatever your space, whatever your personality—from a plant fanatic who has transformed his home into an indoor jungle.

Water your plant every 7 days? Rubbish. Misting increases humidity? Barely. All plants go dormant in winter? Not if you control their environment. And don’t even get me started on the "just put an ice cube on your orchid" people. You monsters.

New from social media sensation The Bearded Plantaholic (known as Jonny Balchandani IRL), You're Overwatering It! helps readers choose houseplants to fit their lifestyle, personality, and taste—leading them to plants that will work for them, rather than what’s in style. This fun, funny, and gamified guide helps readers perfect their plant parenting skills, working through levels from Plant Noob to Budding Botanist, Plant Whisperer to Plant Curator, and then finally to Plant Mystic.

This is a wildly comprehensive yet eminently accessible guidebook from a peer expert, with a fresh voice that brings humor and irreverence to the indoor gardening space. Readers will learn how to grow plants better, what they're doing wrong, and why to ditch the tempting yet distracting myths that send many houseplant growers badly astray. Balchandani teaches plant stewards not just how to care for their beloved houseplants, but how to understand them—so caring for them stops being a chore and starts becoming second nature.

 

More than a memoir. A lifetime of gardening inspiration. 

Well-known and celebrated as a cookery writer and presenter, in My Gardening Life Mary Berry shares her second great love: gardening. From a passion that was sparked in her childhood as she helped her father in their vegetable patch, gardening has become a source of great joy to Mary.

In this deeply personal account, she reveals all that she has learned through a lifetime of growing, including:

• The gardens she has loved and tended
• The plants she loves to grow
• The people who have inspired and influenced her
• How she gardens through each season
• What gardening means to her

Full of anecdotes, pearls of wisdom, and beautiful photos of Mary’s own garden, My Gardening Life is a unique memoir told through the gardens Mary has loved. As she says, “In another life, I may have been a gardener.”

In a world of climate change and stretched purse strings, every gardener is having to re-assess not only how they garden but how they spend their money. Even the most experienced gardeners crave a thriftier way to garden – one that is less wasteful and more productive. 
 
In this comprehensive guide, TV presenter and garden designer Mark Lane shows you how to save waste and money in all aspects of your garden. 
 
Understand your garden and it’s four key characteristics – temperature, soil type, wind, and sun – to make informed decisions.   
 
Plan and design your garden with cheaper and more sustainable materials and learn how to budget effectively for larger projects. Take stock of what you already have, set a budget before you start, and know when to call in the professionals.  
 
Choose plants that will thrive in your soil, are easy to propagate and give maximum reward. By choosing the right plants for the right place, your garden will flourish. 
 
Care for your garden year-round with effective seasonal tasks. Discover how to grow new plants for free with Mark’s step-by-step guides to techniques such as seed collecting, layering, and stem, leaf, and root cuttings. 
 
Full of clever tips, low-budget ideas, expert advice, and tried-and-tested plant suggestions, this book is as much about attitude as it is a gardening guide. 
 
Whether you're starting your first garden on a tight budget or looking for new ideas to save money and reduce waste, this is the must-have and fuss-free guide to better gardening. 

Make the most of your small space with a sustainable and budget-friendly container garden--the ultimate illustrated guide to getting started.

Do you want to grow your own food but have nowhere to plant it? Container gardening is the way! Just put the proper seed and soil in a planter, container, or even a pouch; keep it watered; and watch it grow--no backyard required! Container Gardening for Beginners shows you exactly how to get started, with all the information you need to cultivate your own vegetables, herbs, fruits, and flowers, even if all you have is a tiny balcony or sunny windowsill.

Know before you grow--Get expert guidance for every step; from choosing the right container and soil mix; to what you should plant and when; how to fertilize, water, and prune; and successfully harvesting your home-grown crops!

Beginner tips and tricks--Learn helpful hacks like how to build a self-watering container, how to put your containers on wheels so you can move them with the sun, and so much more.

30 plant profiles--Find easy-reference guides to 30 different plants, such as strawberries, tomatoes, rosemary, and garlic, that break down essential info like their ideal container type and size, sunlight needs, and growth time.

Get growing fast with this complete reference for container gardening, and the other books in the series, including Homesteading for Beginners and Raised-Bed Gardening for Beginners.

Discover how to plan, plant, and grow a garden with food preservation and long-term storage in mind—plus, meet seven different preservation techniques. 

Growing a garden with the intent to preserve the harvest and improve your self-sufficiency is an entirely different world than growing food for fresh consumption. When growing for preservation, your efforts need to be focused on the promotion of uniform ripening, high yields, and flavor that remains stable through the preservation process. Since the end goal is to have plenty of food to eat for months to come, how do you know how much to plant, which varieties are best, and which preservation method is ideal for each different vegetable and fruit? In The Preserver’s Garden, you’ll learn all that and so much more from a modern farming family with a pantry lined with jar after jar of preserved homegrown treasures, a fully stocked freezer, and endless bags of dehydrated and freeze-dried goodies! 

In addition to taking a deep dive into seven different methods of food preservation—including freezing, drying/dehydration, pressure canning, water bath canning, salting, freeze drying, and fermenting—authors Staci and Jeremy Hill of @goosberrybridgefarm teach you how to: 

 

• Plan your garden around the veggies your family eats the most.
• Figure out how much to grow to meet your preservation goals.
• Decide which preservation methods are best for your harvest and your home.
• Safely prepare your harvest for processing and preservation.
• Achieve success in growing a lot of food organically, with less time and less work.

Also included are 22 in-depth produce profiles—from tomatoes and squash to onions and berries—where you’ll learn specifics about everything from growing requirements and harvesting tips to the best preservation methods and plant care techniques to increase the harvest. It’s time to plan for your family’s future with help from The Preserver’s Garden.

A friendly guide to the simple and mindful practice of growing and enjoying cut flowers in every month of the year.

Flowers have the power to heal, connect, and bring joy, often when we need it most. And more importantly, the best flowers are those grown with your own two hands. The Beginner's Cut Flower Garden is the perfect book for gardeners who are dipping a toe into growing cut flowers for the first time. Gardener and therapeutic horticulturalist Elizabeth Brown offers thoughtful, step-by-step, seasonally inspired narratives, information on the flowers to grow, and more, including:

• Focusing on your vision, color palette, and floral style
• Developing a cohesive garden plan, and installing garden beds
• Exploring floral design and creating arrangements with freshly cut flowers
• Inspiring floral art activities and natural dye projects​, and more ...

With the poetry of a classic horticultural guide and the accessibility of a contemporary garden club, Brown brings a collaborative, welcoming spirit to the process of growing flowers: we’re all beginners here.

You, too, can grow flowers to enrich and bring brightness and balance to everyone's daily life!

An authoritative handbook focused on the important practice of ecological gardening, a modern and increasingly popular approach that treats the garden as the living ecosystem it is.  

Essential Guide to Ecological Gardening, from The American Horticultural Society, shares insight on the many ways gardeners can embrace nature for a healthier, more vibrant home landscape. True ecological gardening goes far beyond the battle cry of “Leave the leaves!” spread across social media every autumn. It is about making thoughtful decisions in your garden each and every day, knowing they impact the millions of plants and animals living there and the greater environment beyond. Becoming a responsible steward of a thriving garden ecosystem has never been more important.

Some of the ecological gardening concepts you’ll learn in these beautifully illustrated pages include how to:

 

• Design a garden that’s both aesthetically pleasing and ecologically sound
• Foster a greater diversity of plants and animals through considerate gardening practices
• Prevent stormwater runoff with the use of rain gardens and rain-capturing systems
• Reduce and replace resource-intensive lawns
• Maintain your garden in a nature-friendly way
• Incorporate keystone plants in your garden that support a broad diversity of life
• Manage weeds and pests safely
• Conduct wildlife-friendly garden cleanups
• Foster pollinators, soil organisms, and other wildlife by focusing on native plants

By adopting and implementing the principles of ecological gardening, you and your garden will become part of the solution…and you’ll have a beautiful, resilient garden you can feel good about.

Also included in this series are Essential Guide to Organic Vegetable Gardening and Essential Guide to Perennial Gardening.

A guide to combining the classic cottage garden style with new techniques and plants that meet the needs of modern times.


In The Contemporary Cottage Garden, longtime gardener Pamela Hubbard expertly walks the gardener through what it takes to grow in the cottage garden style—where flowers and vegetables are intermingled in a casual display of colorful brilliance—while also meeting the needs of the modern world in an era of increased weather extremes. An abundance of beautiful photos by Rob Cardillo highlights Hubbard’s cottage garden in Pennsylvania, where she has integrated invaluable techniques for cottage gardening in a contemporary way. Gardeners at any stage of their gardening journey will find invaluable insight on:

• Gardening for increased biodiversity and pollinators
• Creating a cottage meadow garden
• Designing a gravel garden for drought-prone areas
• Creating rain gardens for wet areas and fire-wise gardens for arid regions
• Gardening to reduce stress and promote healing
• Instilling a love for the environment in children by creating a children's garden
• Creating a sensory garden

...and more! The cottage garden style has been practiced across time, and Hubbard extends its bountiful possibilities through a modern, ecological lens.
 

In this comprehensive handbook, Briana Bosch of Blossom and Branch Farm teaches you how to grow flowers, herbs, and vegetables in a way that improves the soil, supports pollinators and birds, and minimizes the use of store-bought products.

Eco-conscious gardeners have always done their best to minimize the harm they cause—by not using synthetic pesticides or fertilizers, for example. But today's gardeners want to go beyond "do no harm" and have a positive effect on the environment. The goal of regenerative gardening is to leave the world a better place: to create living soil, improve habitats for insect pollinators and birds, reduce the presence of invasive species, minimize the gardener's carbon footprint and use of plastic, and help sequester carbon from the atmosphere.

Author Briana Bosch, founder of Blossom and Branch Farm, teaches the key principles for regenerative gardening: recognize the garden as its own ecosystem, know your soil, minimize the "purchased garden," build your soil armor, plant for biodiversity, create living soil, choose plants wisely, minimize soil disturbance, and close the garden loop. In addition to teaching all the skills necessary to carry out these principles, Bosch offers a season-by-season guide to implementing them—from when to start garden cleanup in the spring (later that you'd think, to avoid disrupting overwintering beneficial insects) to how to use cover crops strategically to enrich the soil and retain moisture throughout the year. 

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A comprehensive guide to creating a native plant garden anywhere in the contiguous United States, with an easy-to-follow, "this, not that" format, as featured in the New York Times! 

"A timely, ever-so-useful guide" —Douglas W. Tallamy, author of Nature’s Best Hope

These days, home gardeners know that many traditional, non-native garden plants—like English ivy, barberry, and burning bush—don't support our bees, butterflies, birds, and other creatures. And that native plants are more likely to thrive, because they evolved as part of the local ecology, so they often require less fussy maintenance and don’t depend on pesticides and fertilizers. But gardeners ready to make the switch may ask: Where do I begin? And how do I find the best native plants for my landscape? 
 
Plant This, Not That considers some of the most common non-native (and often, invasive) plants in North American gardens and suggests substitutions for more beneficial and equally beautiful natives. Each native plant listing includes a full-color photo, along with sun, water, and soil requirements; ornamental features (including bloom time and color and whether the plant has berries, fruit, and/or fall color); and the pollinators known to depend on and support that plant. Accompanying maps show every plant's locally native range, down to the county level. The book also features an overview of how native plants contribute to our local ecosystems, where to shop for them, advice on maintaining a mostly native garden, and resources to learn more about native planting.