43 responses to “Five Books: Essential Reads for Gardeners”

1. Sounds like fun. I’ll have to give this some thought…

2. That is a good idea. The book shelves are heavy with favorites here.

3. Oh,excellent!

   I guess I should check out the Gardening in the Pacific Northwest one. We’re moving from NY to Oregon sometime in the next year.

4. What a great idea & just in time for planting hints for Christmas presents. I’ve posted my list on my book review blog, Carpe Geum. I made do more than one list, but for now, these are the general, on gardening, books.

5. Yay, you guys! You should definitely join in! And Mr McGregor’s Daughter – I love your list! Some great ones there that I have never heard of. I can see my wishlist is going to be extra-heavy in the book department this year.

6. […] I just love the name Genevieve. Why didn’t I name one of my daughter’s Genevieve?) at North Coast Gardening chose her 5 about gardening and asked other gardeners to do the […]

7. I just posted mine on my blog :Five Books: Must Reads for Urban Gardeners

   • Super-cool, Jupiter! I’m shocked at how many of these fave books are ones I’ve never heard of! Defiant Gardens sounds fascinating…

     • If I hadn’t been forced into urban gardening, I probably wouldn’t have known them either.
       Defiant Gardens is really amazing. I was moved to tears several times.

8. wonderful idea, Gen! I look forward to reading your recommendations, as I think you and I have very similar taste!

9. This is great! I actually posted a list of five books for tropical gardening earlier in November! You should make a meme.
   http://www.therainforestgarden.com/2010/11/tropical-gardening-books.html

10. Oh, and your first two choices are faves of mine as well!

    • Great minds think alike, hey Steve? I love your list! I’m definitely in zonal denial as Michelle Derviss would say…

11. I just posted a contribution to this five books meme… http://www.maydreamsgardens.com/2010/12/five-books-to-leave-on-your-coffee.html

    • What a delight to read your faves, Carol! Again, some lovely ones that are new to me. And I have GOT to get a copy of Bulb.

12. This is such a great idea! Thanks for sharing yours, and here are mine 🙂

    http://www.thegardengeek.com/content/my-favorite-five

13. I just posted my favorite books. Although I must admit they are quite boring reads…

    • I LOVED your reads, Liz! The book on weeds seems particularly valuable.

14. Huge thanks to The Garden Geek member Hortulus for his 5 favorite gardening books. Every California or mediterranean climate gardener will want to own these titles.

    http://www.thegardengeek.com/content/five-my-favorite-book-titles

15. I’m a little late, but here are my five: http://greensparrowgardens.blogspot.com/2010/12/my-top-5-gardening-books.html
    I love these lists!

    • Not late at all, Joseph! I haven’t even posted my first list. I’ll be reminding people about this list all month, as I think books are the BEST gift. Compact, often inexpensive, and provide years of pleasure…

16. This is a great idea. I enjoyed reading through all the lists and found some new reads as well as some of my favorites. I thought about the gardening books I returned to again and again. My list is here.

    http://www.zanthan.com/gardens/gardenlog/?p=4532

17. […] Genevieve at North Coast Gardening is asking garden bloggers what their top 5 gardening books are. […]

18. I found about this from Joseph’s blog and had to give it a go. In addition to my 5 favorites, I posted the 5 I most want for Christmas. I have to thank Joseph for introducing me to another great garden blog as well.

    http://www.gnomicscience.com/top-5-gardening-books/

19. Hi Genevieve,

    My post is up. Five Best Gardening Books

    Thanks for this splendid idea!

    • Frances, you managed to hit on one total huge amazing favorite of mine (I ADORE Nan Ondra’s book Grasses), and some that I had never read before as well! Nice list.

20. […] of North Coast Gardening has asked people to name their five favorite gardening books. I’m an over-achiever I guess, because I had to do seven. Oh […]

21. Cool! These are all some great lists. My biggest downfall is new books, so I’m in trouble here 🙂

    I didn’t know about your meme when I did mine, but here’s my top picks: http://www.ecosystemgardening.com/ecosystem-gardening-holiday-resource-guide.html

22. Carole, I am certainly adding some of yours to my Christmas list as well! I had actually just gotten a copy of the Tallamy book for my very own (Happy 32nd birthday to me!), had previously checked it out from the library but thought it was time to actually own and mark up the thing. I love the suggestion about meadow gardening.

23. […] The dog eared pages and dirt smudged covers are signs of the loving use by an avid reader. Genevieve of North Coast Gardening recently asked her readers to name their five most favorite gardening books to recommend to others. […]

24. Hello,
    I read about this at Fairegarden this morning. Since I love garden books…it was right up my alley. I just listed my five. I am a first time visitor here..I know that I’ll be back. I’m anxious to read everyone’s list.
    Balisha

25. […] Schmidt, of North Coast Gardening, has a wonderful series called “5 Books,” where she is accumulating a great resource for other book-obsessed people like me. It’s a […]

26. Genevieve, this thread is so dangerous, because I have a major book addiction! LOL

    I posted a new list for butterfly gardeners at Beautiful Wildlife Garden this morning: http://www.beautifulwildlifegarden.com/5-books-for-the-butterfly-garden.html

27. Love it, Carole! I am reading it right now and am so excited that I’ve never heard of most of them. And yeah – my Amazon wishlist keeps on expanding, and nobody gave me an Amazon gift card for Christmas this year!! LOL.

    • I was very blessed this year to receive a Kindle for my birthday (it was one of those big ends in “0” birthdays), so all of my friends gave me kindle gift cards. I’m going to use these lists to fill it up. I’m so excited!

      • That is very cool, Carole!! Amy Stewart actually wrote a Kindle-only novel which I highly recommend:

        https://northcoastgardening.com/2009/07/last-bookstore-in-america-amy-stewart-review/

        I think all of her other books are on Kindle as well, if you haven’t read them. So many garden books are picture-heavy and it’d be a shame to miss out on that with the kindle – I use mine for mostly fiction and business books!

        I loved Hugh McLeod’s book on Kindle, too, great for living the creative life:

        http://www.amazon.com/Ignore-Everybody-Other-Keys-Creativity/dp/159184259X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1294271359&sr=8-1

        Have fun with it!! I adore mine.

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29. Hi Gen, What great fun to read everyone’ Five Books’ list. I finally got my act together and posted mine – Five Books for New England Gardeners. Thanks for starting the ball rolling.

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32. Genevieve — This is such a great idea for a post, I wish I had thought of it.

    My favorite five is a little different from most of the others. It’s on vegetable gardening.

    See http://www.suburbanhobbyfarmer.com/best-vegetable-gardening-books/.

    I hope that is okay. I also hope that you will tweet the new addition to your list. I will retweet your post.

    Thank you for the opportunity.

33. […] I just love the name Genevieve. Why didn’t I name one of my daughter’s Genevieve?) at North Coast Gardening chose her 5 about gardening and asked other gardeners to do the […]

34. […] Thanks for suggesting, North Coast Gardening! […]