Set in a Garden

Celebrate all things green and growing! Try one of these books with a garden setting or featuring gardeners at work. Plant a seed, read!

Updated May 6, 2026
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Set in a Garden

Celebrate all things green and growing! Try one of these books with a garden setting or featuring gardeners at work. Plant a seed, read!

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The Darling Dahlias and the cucumber tree
Albert, Susan Wittig.
Paper Book
The good old ladies of Darling, Alabama, are determined to keep their town beautiful. The Darling Dahlias garden club is off to a good start until rumors of trouble at a bank, an escaped convict, and a ghost digging around their tree surface. If anyone can get to the root of these mysteries, it's...
Indoor edible garden
Allaway, Zia
Paper Book
Make the most of your space, from balconies and windowsills to countertops, walls, and even ceilings, to grow herbs, vegetables, and flowers in your home that look amazing and taste even better. Featuring 28 innovative step-by-step projects, Indoor Edible Garden is a highly visual...
The victory garden
Bowen, Rhys
Paper Book
A Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Amazon Charts bestseller. From the bestselling author of The Tuscan Child comes a beautiful and heart-rending novel of a woman's love and sacrifice during the First World War. As the Great War continues to take...
The secret garden
Burnett, Frances Hodgson
Paper Book
Celebrate an unforgettable classic with this gorgeous hardcover edition, including full-color illustrations. This beautiful hardcover edition includes Tasha Tudor's iconic illustrations in full color, making it the perfect collector's edition or a wonderful gift for young readers. ...
The curious gardener
Dahl, Jürgen
Paper Book
Jurgen Dahl explores the connections between the life of the garden and the life of the mind. He ranges from discussing why gardeners should grow bad-smelling plants to how readers should eat their flowers.
Garden styles
Dickason, Kathleen S.
Paper Book
Soil : the story of a Black mother's garden
Dungy, Camille T.
Paper Book
A seminal work that expands how we talk about the natural world and the environment as National Book Critics Circle Criticism finalist Camille T. Dungy diversifies her garden to reflect her heritage. In Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden, poet and...
The trail of the wild rose
Eglin, Anthony.
Paper Book
The hunt for an ancient Chinese rose turns deadly in this latest English Garden Mystery featuring Dr. Lawrence Kingston. A plant-hunting expedition haunted by tragedy leads to a perilous trail of greed, larceny, and deceit. Has Peter Mayhew, the man who plunged to...
Deadhead and buried
Hanna, H. Y.
Paper Book
City girl Poppy desperately wants to pay off her debts, quit her dead-end job, find her father... oh, and keep a plant alive. But she knows that these are just hopeless dreams--until the day a letter arrives. Suddenly, Poppy is on a train heading deep into the English countryside to claim a...
The red garden
Hoffman, Alice.
Paper Book
The Red Garden introduces us to the luminous and haunting world of Blackwell, Massachusetts, capturing the unexpected turns in its history and in our own lives.      In exquisite prose, Hoffman offers a transforming glimpse of small-town America, presenting us with some three hundred...
Garden secrets of Bunny Mellon
Holden, Linda Jane
Paper Book
A treasure trove of Bunny Mellon's garden design philosophy and advice from her personal archive. Garden Secrets of Bunny Mellon is for anyone who has enjoyed time spent in a garden, from aspiring garden makers to those who manage large estates. This collection is...
The peculiar garden of Harriet Hunt
Iversen, Chelsea
Paper Book
True magic is found among the bluebells and brambles Harriet Hunt is completely alone. Her father disappeared months ago, leaving her to wander the halls of Sunnyside house, dwelling on a past she'd rather keep buried. She doesn't often venture beyond her front gate, instead...
The last garden in England
Kelly, Julia
Paper Book
From the author of the bestseller The Light Over London and The Whispers of War comes a poignant and unforgettable tale of five women living across three different times whose lives are all connected by one very special garden. Present day: Emma...
The earth knows my name : food, culture, and sustainability in the gardens of ethnic Americans
Klindienst, Patricia.
Paper Book
The Earth Knows My Name speaks directly to this gap in our understanding, exploring the deeper implications of what it means to cultivate a garden and to grow one's own food.The fifteen gardens presented in The Earth Knows My Name have all been fashioned by people usually thought of as other...
Susannah's garden
Macomber, Debbie.
Paper Book
Susannah's Garden by Debbie Macomber released on Apr 25, 2006 is available now for purchase.
Garden whimsy
Martin, Tovah.
Paper Book
If it sometimes seems that gardening is all work and no play, here's the book that will turn that canard on its head. Garden Whimsy is an entertaining look at the lighter side of gardening -- a refreshing change from how-to books on composting and double-digging. When author Tovah Martin...
Beatrix Potter's gardening life : the plants and places that inspired the classic children's tales
McDowell, Marta.
Paper Book
A New York Times Bestseller There aren't many books more beloved than The Tale of Peter Rabbit and even fewer authors as iconic as Beatrix Potter. Her characters--Peter Rabbit, Jemima Puddle Duck, and all the rest--exist in a charmed world...
The French gardener
Montefiore, Santa
Paper Book
A neglected garden. A cottage that holds a secret. A mysterious and handsome Frenchman. Prepare to be "spellbound by the sheer charm" (Daily Express, UK) of Santa Montefiore's tender and powerful novel about passion, loss, and the healing power of love. It begins as...
Kitchen garden
Nicholas, Anna.
Paper Book
Garden voices : stories of women and their gardens
Rapp, Carolyn Freas.
Paper Book
Twelve women share the heartache and triumph set within plots of lovingly cultivated land. Readers will hear a whisper of themselves in the words of these creative, courageous, wise women. This is not just a book for people who love gardens, but a book for people who love stories.
The rose garden
Rees, Tracy
Paper Book
Spellbinding historical fiction from the acclaimed author of Amy Snow, spanning the luxury and poverty of Victorian England. Perfect for fans of Lucinda Riley, Rachel Hore, and Tracy Chevalier.1895. Hampstead, London.Olive Westallen lives a privileged, if rather lonely, life in her...
The lavender garden : a novel
Riley, Lucinda.
Paper Book
Note to readers: In the UK, this book is published under the title The Light Behind the Window. An aristocratic French family, a legendary château, and buried secrets with the power to destroy two generations torn between duty and desire. La Côte d...
The garden tour affair
Ripley, Ann.
Paper Book
Everything's coming up corpses.... Louise Eldridge is taking her popular television show, Gardening with Nature, on location to film a garden tour at the historic Litchfield Falls Inn. It's a weekend in the country that promises rest, relaxation, and some of New England's most...
The wild garden
Robinson, W.
Paper Book
First published in 1870, The Wild Garden challenged the prevailing garden style of the day and advocated a naturalistic style, in which hardy plants, both native and exotic, are arranged in groupings that mimic wild landscapes. Thanks to Robinson's passionate advocacy, the naturalistic...
Garden crafts
Rudge, Geraldine.
Paper Book
This unique new book combines gardening and crafts in a practical guide to creating handcrafted features for your garden. Every major craft is covered, including mosaic, metal, wire, glass, pebble, wood, coppice work, and willow. There are ideas for both practical and ornamental features, including...
The heirloom garden
Shipman, Viola
Paper Book
From the USA Today bestselling author of The Summer Cottage  In her inimitable style, Viola Shipman explores the unlikely relationship between two very different women brought together by the pain of war, but bonded by hope, purpose...and flowers. ...
On hummingbird wings
Snelling, Lauraine.
Paper Book
"But Mother is always dying," is Gillian Ormsby's sarcastic response when her younger, favored sister tells her that she has to go take care of their hypochondriac mother. Much against her will, since she and her mother never have gotten along, Gillian arrives in California to find the garden and...
Where you're planted : a novel
Sweeney, Melanie
Paper Book
"It's clear that Tansy and the, ahem, Plant Daddy have chemistry. They might even have a future if they can navigate the debris left by previous natural disasters in their personal lives." --NPR, Books We Love 2025 He hates me . . . He hates me not. Single mom...
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