gardens

"Arriving in the community garden to get some vegetables for a salad, Chester instead is faced with an indignant cast of talking 'veggies,' who give him a good dressing down and school him on social constructs and taxonomy"--Provided by publishers.

"While visiting her mother's family, a young girl notices she's never seen her mother so happy as they both explore this lush place, but when they return home, her mother's smile disappears until the girl shows her nature here can be wondrous, too"--Provided by publisher.

In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore an eighteenth-century walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual plants. The work brought to light a crucial question for our age: Who gets to live in paradise, and how can we share it while there's still time? Moving between real and imagined gardens, from Milton's Paradise Lost to John Clare's enclosure elegies, from a wartime sanctuary in Italy to a grotesque aristocratic pleasure ground funded by slavery, Laing interrogates the sometimes shocking cost of making paradise on earth. But it's also a place of rebel outposts and communal dreams.

The Prickletrim family are very proud of their pristine garden, with its razor-straight edges, regulation-height lawn and perfectly shaped topiary. They LOVE nature - just so long as it is well ordered and properly managed. Then one day their long-suffering gardener can't stand their suffocating rules any longer and quits. Free at last, the Prickletrim's garden explodes upwards and outwards, spilling into their house and every corner of their lives. The family realise they cannot control nature. Can they learn to live in their wild garden?.

Upset at being called "just a worm," worm sets out around the garden to find out what the other insects do, and discovers his own role in keeping the garden healthy.

Born with a "purple thumb", Prunella prefers her to cultivate her strange, noxious garden over the company of people until a little boy visits and admires her prickly plants.

"All seventeen-year-old Quill wants is a break from the family business. Flowers, plants, the generations-old garden. What he wouldn't give for a taste of the outside world. Normalcy. But his mom won't let him out of the house, telling him he's just not ready . . . All because he's a . . . male dryad--the first ever. And unlike everyone else in his family, he hasn't a lick of magic. Just a shock of green hair, matching green eyes, and a growing frustration that there's an entire world out there waiting to be discovered. Until the night when the outside world--specifically his new neighbor--discovers him. Liam Watson lives in a culture filled with electronics, mobile devices, and social media--where there is no magic or even the belief in it. And as much as Quill finds Liam irritating, he can't help himself. Now Quill's getting a taste of the outside world and of Liam . . . and he wants more. But all is not well in this magical, urban garden, and someone--or something--is changing the very essence of it. And wherever Quill goes, the danger grows"--Provided by publisher.

"A lively afternoon together in Nana's garden is full of laughter, discovery, and connection. In lyrical text that blends past and present"--Provided by publisher.

Growing and harvesting an herb garden can be fun and oh so satisfying--even in the dead of winter.

In a plot of land at the edge of town, Ana grows only perfectly-sized plants and perfect-looking flowers, and throws all the irregular shoots and uneven seeds over the wall into the disorderly Wild. But as her garden gets tidier, neater and more constrained, the Wild begins to grow..