Top-Rated Gardening Books of 2024: Delve into These Highly Acclaimed Publications
Top Gardening Books and Resources for 2024
Get ready to green your thumbs with the best gardening books of 2024! This year, there's something for everyone, from practical guides to inspiring narratives, and focused topics on vegetable growing, flowers, soil, and sustainable practices. Here's a curated list of top gardening books and resources for the year ahead:
Get Gardening Display 2024 collection offers a variety of titles aimed at different gardening interests. Among them are:
- Discovering Nature in the Garden - a delightful exploration of the natural world in your backyard.
- Up in the Garden and Down in the Dirt by Kate Messner - an engaging book for young gardeners.
- Several Garden Squad! titles covering various topics such as vegetables, flowers, soil, seeds, and composting.
Grow a New Garden by Becky Searle is a practical guide for transforming your garden space in 2024.
Kitchen Garden Revival by Nicole Burke is highly regarded for starting and managing a raised-bed kitchen garden, complete with organic seeds and a seasonal garden planner for beginners and beyond.
From an ecological and environmental perspective, What a Bee Knows by pollinator ecologist Stephen Buchmann provides insight into bees’ behaviours and why protecting them matters, blending gardening with ecological awareness.
Additional notable mentions from the broader realm of garden lifestyle and design include:
- Bunny Williams: Life in the Garden explores garden lifestyle and design aesthetics.
For those with specific gardening goals, here are more focused book suggestions:
- A Flower Garden for Pollinators by Rachel de Thame is a top pick for creating a pollinator-friendly garden.
- Garden: Exploring the Horticultural World by Phaidon Editors is a top pick for exploring the world of horticulture.
- Gardening in a Changing World by Darryl Moore discusses the idea of paradise and gardens, both real and imagined, and was written during the summer of 2020.
- A Year Full of Veg: A Harvest for All Seasons by Sarah Raven explores the idea of the pastoral garden and features 20 notable gardens.
- Cold-Hardy Fruit and Nuts: 50 Easy-to-Grow Plants for the Organic Home Garden or Landscape by Allyson Levy and Scott Serrano provides comprehensive care for a wide range of houseplants.
- Wild Edens by Toby Musgrave and Chris Gardner offers ideas for growing, harvesting, and artfully arranging flowers and foliage from the garden all year round.
- The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise by Olivia Laing is a call to action for all gardeners to consider ways to increase the resilience and boost the biodiversity of even the smallest gardens.
- The Plant Society Design Handbook: A Plant Stylist's Guide to Creating Beautiful Living Spaces by Jason Chongue provides advice on how to combine a love of houseplants with an interest in interior design.
- The Plant Rescuer by Sarah Gerrard-Jones offers practical and clever ideas on creating beautiful pots throughout the year.
- Rachel de Thame, a horticulturist and "Gardeners' World presenter", recommends plants that are rich in nectar and pollen in every season.
For purchasing these books, sites like Gardenary and specialty shops such as Garden & Gun’s Fieldshop offer curated selections of gardening and garden-related books. Happy gardening!
- Discover the natural world within your own backyard with the book, Discovering Nature in the Garden.
- Up in the Garden and Down in the Dirt, an engaging book for young gardeners, is recommended for reading.
- Garden designers might find inspiration in Bunny Williams: Life in the Garden, exploring garden lifestyle and design aesthetics.
- For gardeners who wish to create a pollinator-friendly garden, A Flower Garden for Pollinators by Rachel de Thame is a top pick.
- Those interested in houseplants can refer to Cold-Hardy Fruit and Nuts: 50 Easy-to-Grow Plants for the Organic Home Garden or Landscape.
- For advocates of ecological gardening and the boosting of biodiversity, The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise serves as a thought-provoking call to action.
