The Kitchen Garden

Fifty-plus growing gardens surveyed the way most books survey architecture — walled potagers in Europe, a rooftop farm in Singapore, a coastal garden in Patagonia stubborn enough to prove that green things will grow almost anywhere. Château de Villandry sits next to Alice Waters' Edible Schoolyard, Bunny Mellon's Oak Spring Garden across from a rooftop plot with a fraction of the acreage and just as much ambition.

Written by garden historian Toby Musgrave, with a foreword from Aaron Bertelsen of Great Dixter, it works as inspiration and instruction both — history and design alongside actual growing advice, for anyone with a windowbox or several acres.