These books are not all on my shelf. Some are on my wish list, others are from the library. When I write about a book I link it to the blog - so click on the highlighted text if you want to read the post.
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Adams, William Howard (1991) Gardens Through History: Nature Perfected |
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Blazey, Clive (2014) There is no excuse for ugliness: Falling in love with our best plants and gardens |
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Brown, Jane (1982) Gardens of a Golden Afternoon: the Story of a Partnership: Edwin Lutyens and Gertrude Jekyll |
- Cooper, David E. (2006) A Philosophy of Gardens
- Dixon, Trisha and Churchill, Jennie (1988) Gardens in Time: In the Footsteps of Edna Walling
- Fisher, Sue (1998) Essential Plants for Small Gardens
- Fox, Robin Lane (2010) Thoughtful Gardening: Great Plants, Great Gardens, Great Gardeners
- Forsyth, Holly Kerr (2006) Remembered Gardens: Eight Women and their visions of Australian Landscape
- Francis, Mark and Hester, Randolph T, Jr eds. (1990) The Meaning of Gardens: Idea, Place and Action
- Gerritsen, Henk and Oudolf, Piet (1999) Dream Plants for the Natural Garden
- Greer, Germaine ed. (2003) Poems for Gardeners
- Griffiths, Jay (1999) Pip Pip: A Sideways Look at Time
- Griffiths, Jay (2006) Wild: An Elemental Journey
- Harberd, Nicholas (2006) Seed To Seed: The Secret Life of Plants
- Heilmeyer, Marina (2006) The Language of Flowers: Symbols and Myths
- Hill, Thomas (1590) The Gardener's Labyrinth, edited by Richard Mabey
- Hobhouse, Penelope (1997) Garden Designs
- Hobhouse, Penelope (2003) Gardens of Persia
- Hobhouse, Penelope (1997) Plants in Garden History: An Illustrated History of Plants and Their Influence on Garden Styles - from Ancient Egypt to the Present Day
- Holmes, Katie, Martin, Susan and Mirmohamadi, Kylie (2004) Green Pens: A Collection of Garden Writing
- Holmes, Katie, Martin, Susan K. and Mirmohamadi, Kylie (2008) Reading the Garden: the Settlement of Australia
- Honore, Carl (2004) In Praise of Slow: How a Wordwide Movement is Challenging the Cult of Speed.
- Huxley, Robert, ed. (2007) The Great Naturalists
- Jekyll, Gertrude (1984) The Making of a Garden: an Anthology of her Writings ... edited by Cherry Lewis
- Johnson, Phillip (2014) Connected
- Kincaid, Kincaid, ed. (1999) My Favourite Plant: Writers and Gardeners on the Plants They Love
- Leach, Helen (2000) Cultivating Myths: Fiction, Fact and Fashion in Garden History
- Lord, Ernest E. (1958) Your New Home Garden: its Design, Plan, Construction and Planting
- Louv, Richard (2005, 2008) The Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
- Mabey, Richard (2010) Weeds: How vagabond plants gatecrashed civilization and changed the way we think about nature
- Macinnis, Peter (2009) The Lawn: A Social History
- McIntosh, Alastair (2004) Soil and Soul: People versus Corporate Power
- Marris, Emma (2011) Rambunctious Garden: Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World.
- Meanjin 3/1988 The Landscape Issue
- Mynott, Jeremy (2009) Birdscapes: Birds in Our Imagination and Experience.
- Newton, John (2009) The Roots of Civilization: Plants that Changed the World
- Nottle, Trevor (1984) The Cottage Garden Revived: Attitudes and Plants Essential for Nineteenth Century Gardens
- Gardening: Philosophy for Everyone - Cultivating Wisdom (2010) edited by Dan O'Brien
- Orleans, Susan (1998) The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession
- Pearson, Dan (2009) Garden Inspiration
- Pollan, Michael (2001) The Botany of Desire: a Plant's-eye View of the World
- Pollan, Michael (1991) Second Nature: A Gardener's Education
- Reynolds, Richard (2008) On Guerilla Gardening: A Handbook for Gardening without Boundaries
- Robinson, Philip, ed. (2007) The Faber Book of Gardens
- Roy, Arundhati (2011) Broken Republic: Three Essays
- Safina, Carl (2011) The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World
- Scott-James, Anne (1981) The Cottage Garden
- Silvertown, Jonathon (2009) An Orchard Invisible: A Natural History of Seeds
- Sternberg, Esther M (2009) Healing Spaces: The Science of Place and Well Being
- V. Sackville-West's Garden Book: A Collection by Penny Nicholson (1968)
- Waldbauer, Gilbert (2009) Fireflies, Honey and Silk
- Walling, Edna (original ed. 1948, this edition 1985) A Gardener's Log
- Walling, Edna (1984) On the Trail of Australian Wildflowers
- Watts, Peter (1981) The Gardens of Edna Walling
- Wulf, Andrea and Gieben-Gamal, Emma (2005) This Other Eden: Seven Great Gardens and Three Hundred Years of English History
- Yates Garden Guide for Australian Home Gardeners. 28th edition, 1955.