📚 Gardening

Soil, seed and season: how gardens are actually made and kept, from the practical handbook to the plain pleasure of watching something grow.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject gardening in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	The botany of desire	Michael Pollan	2001	19
	Wood and garden	Gertrude Jekyll	1899	17
	Question box	United States. Department of Agriculture. Radio Service	1941	14
	Gardening for dummies	Michael MacCaskey	1996	14
	Gardens for small country houses	Gertrude Jekyll	1912	12
	Gardening Without Work	Ruth Stout	1960	12
	V. Sackville-West's garden book	Vita Sackville-West	1968	12
	Second Nature	Michael Pollan	1991	12
	A woman's hardy garden	Helena Rutherfurd Ely	1903	11
	How to have a green thumb without an aching back	Ruth Stout	1955	11
	Organic Gardening for Dummies	Ann Whitman	2001	11
	The pleasure garden	Anne Scott-James	1977	9
	Practical horticulture	Laura Williams Rice	1980	9
	Up in the garden and down in the dirt	Kate Messner	2015	9
	The Well-Tempered Garden	Christopher Lloyd	1970	8
	Medieval English gardens	Teresa McLean	1981	8
	Cunningham's Encyclopedia of magical herbs	Scott Cunningham	1985	8
	Down the garden path	Nichols, Beverley	1932	7
	The vegetable gardener's bible	Edward C. Smith	2000	7
	Gardening basics for dummies	Steven A. Frowine	2007	7
	The small garden	John Brookes	1978	6
	Square Foot Gardening	Mel Bartholomew	1981	6
	City gardening	Deirdre Colby	1987	6
	Growing vegetables west of the Cascades	Steve Solomon	1989	6
	Vegetable gardening for dummies	Charlie Nardozzi	1999	6
	The complete compost gardening guide	Barbara Pleasant	2008	6
	Designing and maintaining your edible landscape naturally	Robert Kourik	1986	5
	The Mediterranean gardener	Hugo Latymer	1990	5
	Garden spells	Claire Nahmad	1994	5
	One Bean	Anne F. Rockwell	1998	5

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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