Essays

Why do we garden? Why should we? How is gardening changing the world? These are just some of the philosophical gardening questions pondered in this heartfe...

Jamaica Kincaid's Among Flowers: A Walk In The Himalaya Is The Classic Travel Memoir About A Master Novelist's Journey To The Himalaya In Search Of Seeds......

From the RHS comes this compendium of poetry about gardens and garden plants, themes that have provided inspiration for poets since the dawn of time. The po...

Alexandra Risen's father dies just as she and her husband purchase a nondescript house set atop a natural gorge in the middle of the city. The garden is cho...

In A Countryman's Journal, originally published in 1981, author Roy Barrette describes life on his small coastal Maine farm. Equipped with a few barnyard an...

Move over zombies and adolescent vampires. There’s a new threat in town-and it’s only twelve inches tall. How to Survive a Garden Gnome Attack is...