Gardening and Literary Inspiration: Read On!
At this time of year, when the summer garden is all but spent and the fall garden is still but a dream, we need all the inspiration we can get. Literature can provide that inspiration, in spades (pun intended)
Fiction and Nonfiction Books that Inspire the Love of Gardening
Garden Spells, by Sarah Addison Allen
The Secret Garden, by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Diary of a Worm, by Doreen Cronin
The Complete Book of the Flower Fairies, by Cicely Mary Barker
In The Garden Trilogy: Blue Dahlia, Black Rose, and Red Lily, by Nora Roberts
The Care and Handling of Roses with Thorns, by Margaret Dilloway
The Inward Garden: Creating a Place of Beauty and Meaning, by Julie Moir Messervy
The Red Garden, by Alice Hoffman
The Ruth Stout No-Work Garden Book, by Ruth Stout
A Hoe Lot of Trouble, by Heather Webber
Garden of Secrets Past, by Anthony Eglin
Night Gardening, by E. L. Swann
Forget Me Not, by Isabel Wolf
The Memory Garden, by Mary Rickert
The Forgotten Garden, by Kate Morton
Death in the Orchid Garden, by Ann Ripley
Garden of Madness, by Tracy L. Higley
The Star Garden, by Nancy E. Turner
Tomorrow's Garden, by Amanda Cabot
Buckingham Palace Gardens, by Anne Perry
The Dark Garden, by Eden Bradley
In the Garden of Stone, by Susan Tekulve
Walden, or, Life in the Woods, by Henry David Thoreau
Short Stories with a Gardening Emphasis
"Rappaccini's Daughter," by Nathaniel Hawthorne
"The Chrysanthemums," by John Steinbeck
"A Rose for Emily," by William Faulkner (okay, this one is a stretch: enjoy the story anyway)
"The Garden Party," by Katherine Mansfield
"The Occasional Garden," by Saki
"The Garden of Forking Paths," by Jorge Luis Borges
Poetry with a Gardening Theme
"The Garden," by Andrew Marvell
Leaves of Grass, by Walt Whitman
"La Belle Dame Sans Merci," by John Keats
"The Daffodils," by William Wordsworth
"This Lime Tree Bower my Prison," by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"The Gardener," by Robert Louis Stevenson
"The Deserted Garden," by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"This is the garden: colors come and go," by e.e. cummings
"The Little Garden," by Amy Lowell
Here's to inspiration: happy reading!
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