The New Gardener’s Handbook: Grow a Beautiful & Bountiful Garden by Daryl Beyers. Comprehensive in scope but simply put and well-illustrated, this handbook will help any novice gardener to grow a rich understanding of plant life and, with a bit of luck, a wonderful garden. Written by an instructor at the New York Botanical Garden, this guide serves vegetable, perennial, and container gardeners alike. Softcover edition, 238 pages.