Garden Flora by Noel Kingsbury
As Heard on The Daily Gardener Podcast:
Garden Flora: The Natural and Cultural History of the Plants in Your Garden by Noel Kingsbury.
This book traces garden plants back to their wild origins - cliffs, grasslands, mountains, and edges shaped by wind, salt, and scarcity.
It restores the rough beginnings behind familiar garden plants, reminding readers that what looks polite in cultivation was often forged in extreme places.
For gardeners curious about where plants truly come from, this book gives them back their wild history.