Gardening Books

"Design, plant, and tend a self-sustaining, high-yielding food garden that saves space by growing plants the way nature intended-in layers. In The Layered Edible Garden, gardeners learn how to take their cues from nature and create an edible garden...

Are you eager to step into vegetable gardening but don't know where to start? With this guide to the nearly foolproof raised-bed technique, you'll be growing your own organic food in no time. Growing your own food is a satisfying experience as well as...

Vegetable Gardening Made Easy is filled with over 80 quick and oh-so-useful tips for growing a successful organic food garden.  Supercharge your food garden while reducing your workload with over 80 detailed solutions, techniques, and methods that...

Convert your unproductive lawn and landscape areas into fruitful edible gardens with this practical guide overflowing with ideas, plans, designs, and know-how. Out with the lawn and in with the food! That's the battle cry of millions of modern gardeners...

Lushly illustrated and with beautifully descriptive text, The Cottage Garden is a guide to appreciating and creating plantings in the classic cottage garden design style. Through over 700 exquisite photographs and evocative text written by Danish...

In this global gardener's guide to creating a resilient, climate-wise garden, learn how to adapt your garden to cope with volatile weather extremes and other effects of a rapidly changing climate. It's no longer gardening as usual. Heat waves, droughts,...

Tired of spending your weekends mowing, trimming, and edging? Then it's time to say goodbye to your standard grass lawn and join the Groundcover Revolution!  Turns out you're not alone in your desire to ditch the lawn and replace it with something...

If you're tired of battling blight on your tomatoes, losing your basil to downy mildew, and watching deer raid your vegetable garden, you'll find all the answers you need right here.  In The Vegetable Garden Problem Solver Handbook, author and...

The long-awaited book from the beloved host of ABC TV's Gardening Australia Shortlisted Indie Book Awards 2022 (Illustrated Non-Fiction) Shortlisted ABIA Awards 2022 (Illustrated Book of the Year) Bringing together all of Costa's gardening and...

Packed with essential gardening advice, keep your garden in great condition all year round with the newly updated Australian edition of this bestselling guide.  Discover what to do when with this ultimate gardening guide. Gardening Through the Year in...

How to make the most of your small garden, from one of Australia's most high-profile landscape designers. Paul Bangay is renowned for the expansive and elegant gardens with classical lines and symmetrical plantings that he has created in Australia and...

The Australian Gardening Calendar is set to become your favourite garden tool. Whether you own a few pots, a vegie patch or a grand garden, it's just what you need: an easy-to-use, month-by-month guide to garden care, covering every climatic zone from...

New edition of a guide to cultivating a healthy garden in Australian conditions, first published in 1989. Updated edition includes revised index. Provides a week-by-week plan of action for the year with advice on how to have a pest-free garden without...

Garden Life is a gardening book with soul, in which Richard Unsworth, leading landscape designer and co-owner of renowned outdoor store, Garden Life, shares his boundless enthusiasm for all things green. This book showcases to-die-for gardens Richard...

Paul Bangay's practical and bestselling guide to plants, now expanded and updated for its tenth anniversary Tenth anniversary edition featuring two new chapters and almost 30 new plants Gardens designed by Paul Bangay are renowned for their elegant...

Unleash your green thumb with How to Do It in the Garden by Sabrina Hahn, an essential gardening guide that offers practical, step-by-step advice for gardeners of all levels. Whether you're a beginner looking to cultivate your first garden or an...

Fundamentals such as Soil, Climate, Watering, Composting, Worm Farms, Saving and Sowing Seeds, and Raised Garden Beds and Crates are all covered comprehensively - each with fully illustrated step-by-step plans that show how to create your own little...

'To live a life led by the seasons is to live one closely tied to a garden, and Stonefields is mine.' Paul Bangay's celebrated Victorian property, Stonefields, has now been under his expert care for 15 years. Today, the garden is mature and more...

Medicinal herbs aren't just for traditional medicinal preparations, they are also a wonderful way to complement a healthy diet. The Medicinal Garden is a brilliant guide to revitalising your health by soothing your mind, body and green thumb.  From...

Paul Bangay is Australia’s most sought-after garden designer, with close to forty years’ experience. Known for his mastery of scale, balance, form and colour, Paul draws on his lifelong study of the natural and classical worlds to create gardens around...

Victoria's rich soil, mostly cool climate (apart from mid-summer heatwaves) and - in many places - nourishing volcanic soil mean that with passion, patience, imagination and commitment, amazing gardens can be built and maintained. The Garden...

Backyards, rooftops, courtyards and balconies are sprouting with herbs, ballooning with fruit and bursting with vegies across our urban landscapes. Slowly, but we certainly believe surely, people are embracing the joy of gardening and the more relaxed...

For Paul West, a meaningful life is one built around food and community. In The Edible Garden Cookbook & Growing Guide, Paul shows you how easy it is to grow and cook some of your own food, no matter how much space you have. Paul shares practical...

The award-winning television and podcast host Joe Lamp'l is here with insider tips and next-level insight for creating a lush, fruitful, and resilient vegetable garden. Just when you think you have a secure grip on what it takes to grow a vegetable...

Create a bold and beautiful container garden with design and planting guidance from Danish gardening celebrity Claus Dalby in this English-language edition of his book, Containers in the Garden. Beauty, charm, and simplicity are the hallmarks of the...

Take charge of your family's food security by learning how to grow your own fruits, vegetables, and herbs-and right along with them, you'll nurture your own inner strength, too. Food insecurity affects millions of people worldwide. Without access to...

In Bloom, The Houseplant Guru Lisa Eldred Steinkopf unleashes all the secrets on how to grow dozens of indoor plants that produce colorful, intricate, and sometimes fragrant blooms. *Winner of the GardenComm 2023 Laurel Media Awards Silver Award in the...

In The Urban Garden you'll find dozens of inspiring and creative ways to grow flowers, shrubs, vegetables, herbs, and other plants in small spaces and with a limited budget. Whether you want to grow on a balcony, rooftop, front stoop, or a tiny urban...

Make your outdoor space as comfortable and personal as the inside of your home with design and planting guidance from Field Guide to Outside Style.  Maybe you've just purchased your first home or you have an existing outdoor space that's overgrown and...

Discover how to partner ornamental plants with edible ones for a garden that offers both storybook appeal and a plethora of culinary delights. Stylish and celebratory, The Elegant and Edible Garden takes food growing to a higher plane. Host of The...

In Attracting Beneficial Bugs to Your Garden, you'll learn how to fill your garden with the right plants to support the beneficial predatory insects that control common garden pests.  This revised and updated edition of Jessica Walliser's award-winning...

Regenerative Garden, The: 80 Practical Projects for Creating a Self-sustaining Garden Ecosystem

"The Plant Propagator's Bible offers all you need to know to propagate new plants from existing ones. With easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions, veteran horticulture teacher Miranda Smith provides a complete reference showing every step for...

Hey, houseplant lovers: Are you ready to up your growing game? Whether your green thumb is weathered and worn or shiny and new, get ready to branch out and step into the world of growing your own herbs indoors! There's no better place to start this...

This compact yet complete guide to herbal medicines shows you how to transform common plants into remedies that heal. While using herbs as medicines can often seem complicated or costly, the Backyard Pharmacy gift edition offers a way to learn that's...

Planting your first vegetable garden can be intimidating; it's tough to know where to start. Before you sink your hands into the soil, you want answers to all of those questions rolling around inside your head. In Growing Vegetables (The First-Time...

No-Waste Composting includes step-by-step plans for multiple small-scale indoor and outdoor composting systems that turn repurposed household items into containment systems for composting kitchen scraps and yard waste. In No-Waste Composting, you'll...

Field Guide to Urban Gardening helps you choose the best methods to match your unique small-space challenges and growing goals, and provides the nuts-and-bolts information you need to participate in any method you choose. Conquer your small-space...

With She Sheds Style, you'll browse ideas, step-by-step projects, and decorating tips from a variety of creative 'she shed' owners - then add your personal style to your own shed! It's no secret that the she shed revolution is underway and gaining steam...

This hardworking new book takes the mystery out hydropincs: the practice of growing plants in water-based media, usually in a contained environment, indoors or outdoors. With practical information aimed at home DIYers, author Tyler Baras (Farmer Tyler...

Succulents: Everything You Need to Select, Pair and Care for Succulents

You don't need the sun or soil to grow food. Wouldn't it be great if you could plant and grow food in your house year-round? No more needing to be out in the summer sun. No more needing to find the right soil combination. No more needing to wait until...

Actress Caroline Quentin (Men Behaving Badly, Jonathan Creek) shares the joys and rewards of gardening in her first book, Drawn to the Garden. Find solace in your outdoor space in this delightful horticultural journey with actress Caroline Quentin, as...

Fill your kitchen with herbs! Create a living trove of fresh flavours to enhance your cooking and boost your health with these incredible culinary plants. Organised by potential uses, this practical card deck will help you to use more than 75 herbs in...

Fill your house with plants using this practical card deck. Find the perfect spot for every species and surround yourself with life-enhancing greenery in key living spaces. Organised by areas of the home, this inspiration deck will help you choose the...

Never find yourself stuck for gardening advice again with this handy and informative book in your garden shed, packed with advice from the experts at Kew Gardens. Kew Answers for Everyday Gardeners solves all your gardening conundrums, from pest control...

Discover the world's most serene and awe-inspiring sacred gardens in Earthly Utopias: Sacred Gardens of the World by Yolanda Zappaterra. This beautifully illustrated book takes readers on a global journey, exploring the history, significance, and...

A follow up to the hugely successful The Thoughtful Gardener (2017), What Makes a Garden is the second book by Jinny Blom, one of the worlds leading garden designers. A follow up to the hugely successful The Thoughtful Gardener (2017) this is the second...