Book Nook - Upcoming Gardening Books

Visionary: Gardens and Landscapes for our Future
BY: Claire Takacs with Giacomo Guzzon

In Visionary, photographer Claire Takacs and landscape architect Giacomo Guzzon explore the way garden and landscape designers are planting and designing gardens in the face of climate change.

Claire and Giacomo shift away from carefully manicured, chemical fertilizer-filled gardens in favor of rewilding, planting for bees and drought hardiness. Claire has captured more than 80 gardens from across the globe, including the USA, UK, Europe, Asia, Australia and New Zealand. Many of these gardens have never been open to the public, and now Claire invites readers to join her behind the gate to view the spectacular gardens through her impeccable photographic eye.

Each garden is photographed in Claire’s stunning signature style, capturing light that instantly transports readers to these sustainable paradises.


Into the Weeds: How to Garden Like a Forager
BY: Tama Matsuoka Wong

Into the Weeds encourages fledgling and experienced gardeners alike to stop fighting the weeds and find beauty and resilience in the unexpected, “undesirable” plants around them.

Tama Matsuoka Wong, master forager and gardener, empowers you to rethink your relationship with gardening and embrace a gentler, less rigid approach to tending the land and encouraging plants, even if you didn’t plant them yourself.

Part practical, part philosophical, Into the Weeds will teach you how to build simple structures like borders and beds with wild wood scraps, ID common edible, useful, plants in the world, and make for teas, tinctures, and cocktails.