Garden-Themed Books for Green Thumbs

by | Jun 2025

Two garden-themed books.

Jump into summer with these flower and garden-based titles. 

Floret Farm’s Cut Flower Garden: Grow, Harvest & Arrange Stunning Seasonal Blooms by Erin Benzakein

Broken into basics, Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter gardening, this volume is packed with tips, tools and resources on growing your own cut flower garden for every season. It is like a little escape as you wander among the beautiful photography of bundles of dahlias, bouquets of peonies, fields of snapdragons and rows of poppies growing in hoop houses. Learn how to create arrangements and make special projects for each season, like flower crowns, garlands and wreaths. 

The Last Garden in England by Julia Kelly

This heartfelt historical fiction novel centers around a garden at Highbury House in England that connects five women spanning three generations (1907, 1944 and present day). It is packed with garden design and restoration, hidden secrets, forgotten history, locked gardens, romance, a tinge of mystery, war, creativity, interesting characters and intertwined relationships. 

For Kids: A Year in Our New Garden by Gerda Muller

For Middle-Grade: The Secret Wild by Alex Evelyn

For YA: This Poison Heart by Kalynn Bayron

Casie Leigh Lukes is an Eagan-based writer, editor and owner of Cocoa&Champagne—creator of custom library curations. You can find her on Instagram @cocoaandchampagne.

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