Looking for book suggestions about gardeners
Hello -
I was wondering if anyone here would be able to suggest a few good books about gardeners and their gardens.
I'm not really looking for "how to" books....more along the lines of gardeners telling their stories about their gardens (how they got started, successes and set-backs, etc.)
I guess you could say that I'm looking for inspiration...I'm hoping to start a flower garden next year, and I would love to read about other gardeners and their gardens.
Thank you very much.
Tim
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Thank you for your suggestion - I'll be sure to contact NRaleighLiberal 
Tim
Thank you very much for the list! I'll be sure to check out these titles
Tim
Thank you for the links...Ms. Riotte sounds very interesting - I'll be sure to check out her books
Tim
The best "garden story" book I read was Success With Small Fruits, E.P. Roe (1881).
It was written by THE E.P. Roe, the 19th century novelist.
I would also recommend The Home Acre, also by Roe, published in 1887.
You won't realize you're reading a book on gardening until it is too late!
Farm City: The Education of an Urban Gardener, by Novella Carpenter. A close second would be Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, by Barbara Kingsolver. Both are non-fiction, written by real people doing real gardening. They are both far more ambitious that you sound, but the Kingsolver book might prove especially inspirational to you as part of the reason she writes it is to inspire people t garden. However, these memoirs are really about vegetable gardens. I'm a librarian who loves to garden both flowers and veggies, but I can't think of a single memoir about flower gardening.
On edit: you got me thinking about flower gardening memoirs. Found one I'm going to read now, maybe it will interest you, too. It is:
Slug tossing and other adventures of a reluctant gardener, by Meg DesCamp. Sounds really funny and maybe even inspirational.
