Growing Citrus: The Essential Gardener's Guide

Monty Don

Extraordinary Gardens of the World

Stroll through an unforgettable progression of grand vistas and intimate gardens in this large-format, lavishly illustrated guide to the most breathtaking gardens in the world. Monty Don, host of the highly successful television series "Around the World in 80 Gardens," has once again captured the beauty of gardens from every climate in this photographic archive of his travels. More than 400 previously unpublished images provide an awe-inspiring glimpse of a variety of plantings, each beautifully influenced by cultural environment, natural habitat, and manmade surroundings.

Howard Garrett

Texas Gardening the Natural Way: The Complete Handbook

Dominique Browning

Paths of Desire: The Passions of a Suburban Gardener

With the same warmth, wisdom, wit, and accessibility that readers have come to love and trust in her monthly column, House & Garden editor in chief Dominique Browning offers this lively, charming, and instructive story of restoring a neglected suburban garden. When a retaining wall in Browning's New York suburban garden collapsed, she was forced into action. Paths of Desire is the enchanting, amusing, and moving account of making a garden -- and confronting the essence of suburban gardening, with its idiosyncratic ecosystem. This meant struggling with depraved skunks and raccoons, marauding teenagers, plastic jungle gyms, toppling garbage cans, uncontrollable eyesores, potholed drives, and all the grinding, honking, and buzzing of the neighborhood. Browning's delightfully frank prose conveys the very sense of being deep in a garden, with all its organic smells and textures, and the myriad joys of deciding what to plant and watching as the vision is realized. It contains a rich store of advice and illustrative anecdotes for enthusiasts and novices alike, as Browning amusingly documents the missteps she took in the planning of her garden and the satisfactions of finally getting it ...