Classic Garden Design Books

Discover the best gardening books and get reading list recommendations from the editors of garden design magazine.

Classic garden design books. These books have inspired gardeners across the generations and they still provide top tips and some of the most beautiful descriptions we ve ever read of gardens near and far. The book covers every aspect of garden design including the business side of things if a career is what you are after. Sage gardening advice never gets old and this book from one of the last century s most prolific and successful garden designers proves it.

On this list we ve included classic books by celebrated garden writers such as american editor katharine s. Designing plant communities for resilient landscapes by by thomas. For the avid gardener classic gardening books are treasures.

See search results for this author. The book takes a similar approach to our own site with a mash up of gardeners tales and tried and tested gardening tips. The gardeners book by diana craig is a more recent reference material published two years ago but on thumbing through it you can tell it s an instant classic for the gardening enthusiast.

But sunlight on. Sunlight on the lawn by beverley nichols any of the dozen garden books written between 1932 and 1968 by england s most lovable snob would have been a perfect fit for this list. This book was published in 1962 but it remains a classic.

White southern gardener elizabeth lawrence. I would say you couldn t rely solely on this book for this purpose but it is so thoughtfully and thoroughly explained that it is an excellent starter book. Crockett s victory garden paperback april 1977 by james underwood crockett a classic planting in a post wild world.

Are you an author. It combines plenty of pragmatic pointers on how to approach designing a garden with page s encyclopedic horticultural knowledge.