by Elizabeth Lawrence (edited by Nancy Goodwin with Allen Lacy)

“No American gardening writer has been more admired than the late Elizabeth Lawrence of North Carolina. To have a posthumously published book of hers now is the sort of bonus that makes one think the world is not so bad after all.”—Henry Mitchell, Washington Post Book World

This book is not only a welcome addition to the Lawrence canon, but also an important contribution to the rock garden literature for the middle South. In her exquisite prose Lawrence deals with the full range of rock gardening topics. At the same time, much of what she writes about here is of interest to gardeners everywhere, for gardens with or without rocks. Celebrating its 35th year in publication in 2025!

by Elizabeth Lawrence (edited by Bill Neal)

Elizabeth Lawrence wrote a weekly column of the same name for fourteen years for The Charlotte Observer.  This collection of 144 of those articles, covers a wide range of gardening topics.  Lawrence’s poetic writing style and vast expertise shine through, making this a favorite of gardeners and non-gardeners alike. Celebrating its 30th year in publication in 2020!

by Elizabeth Lawrence (edited by Barbara Scott and Bobby J. Ward)

A wonderful collection of fifty-five articles originally published in various local, regional and national magazines, and spanning Elizabeth Lawrence’s entire writing career. Topics include annuals, broad-leaved evergreens, bulbs, perennials, ground covers, native plants, and more. Celebrating its 25th year in publication in 2022!

by Katharine S. White & Elizabeth Lawrence (edited by Emily Herring Wilson)

A legendary editor at The New Yorker during its first thirty-four years, Katharine S. White was also a great garden enthusiast. In March 1958 she began publishing her popular column, “Onward and Upward in the Garden.” Her first column elicited loads of fan mail, but one letter in particular caught her attention. From Elizabeth Lawrence, a noted Southern garden writer, it was filled with suggestions and encouragement. Thus began a correspondence that would last for almost twenty years, until Katharine’s death in 1977.

Two Gardeners is an engaging collection of these luminous letters, edited and introduced by Emily Herring Wilson. The letters bring to life the unique epistolary friendship between two intelligent women, the “formidable” Mrs. White and the “shy” Miss Lawrence, both avid gardeners and readers, both at a stage of life when to make a new friend was rare indeed: when they first wrote to one another, Katharine was sixty-two, Elizabeth, fifty-four.

by Emily Herring Wilson

The story of Elizabeth Lawrence (1904-1985) is told within the pages of this fascinating book, which reveals Lawrence in all her complexity and establishes her, at last, as one of the premier gardeners and gardening writers of the twentieth century. Celebrated its 20th year in publication in 2024!

by Elizabeth Lawrence (edited by Ann L. Armstrong & Lindie Wilson)

For fourteen years (1957-1971), Elizabeth Lawrence wrote a weekly gardening column, “Through the Garden Gate,” for the Charlotte Observer. This book is the second collection of some of those articles, expertly edited by two brilliant women and avid gardeners in their own right: Ann Armstrong, also a talented garden writer, and Lindie Wilson, previous owner and savior of the Elizabeth Lawrence House & Garden. Celebrating its 15th year in publication in 2022!

by Elizabeth Lawrence & Ann Preston Bridgers (edited by Emily Herring Wilson)

Elizabeth Lawrence was the first woman to graduate from the landscape design program at what is now North Carolina State University and, in the early 1930s, was struggling to make a career for herself in Raleigh, where there was little work for a woman landscape designer.

Meanwhile, Ann Preston Bridgers, a Raleigh native and co-founder of the Little Theater, had become a Broadway sensation, writing Coquette with George Abbott and starring Helen Hayes. It became Mary Pickford's first talking movie in 1929, for which she won an Oscar.

Bridgers was a great nurturer of young writing talent and she struck up a friendship and correspondence with Lawrence, encouraging her to write about her love of plants and gardening for newspapers and women's magazines, and to put that writing into a book.

That book became A Southern Garden and is still hailed as a classic, even 75+ years later. Becoming Elizabeth Lawrence is a wonderful collection of letters from Elizabeth to Ann, and further builds on Emily Herring Wilson’s No One Gardens Alone, A Life of Elizabeth Lawrence.

by Mary Norton Kratt

This is the charming and eccentric story of Elizabeth and Eddie Clarkson, creators of a remarkable property known as Wing Haven Garden & Bird Sanctuary. Their home and garden is the cornerstone of the organization that is now known as Wing Haven.