Grow a Chaos Garden

Wild, Free, and Natural

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By Teresa Woodard

On Sale
Nov 3, 2026
Page Count
224 pages
Publisher
Timber Press
ISBN-13
9781643266022

Chaos gardening is a carefree, no-stress method to growing food and flowers that throws tradition out the window. A user-friendly, environmentally conscious approach, this method of gardening results in a style that echoes a wild landscape and is perfect for the rule breaker, rebel, or intuitive thinker who wants to do things their own way. Grow a Chaos Garden is an accessible introduction to the subject, inspiring beginners to let go completely of ideas of the garden, reject tradition, celebrate wildness, allow nature to do the work. Longtime gardener Teresa Woodard lays out the fundamentals of an extremely simple process, inspiring all levels of gardeners to embrace chaos and learn to love gardening in a whole new way. It is only by removing ideas of perfectionism and our expectations of what a garden should be when we can embrace the chaos of what could be.  All we have to do is prepare the ground, choose the right seeds (self-seeding plants are our friends!), mix them all together, scatter them on the soil, water, and wait. Who cares if the carrots pop up among the roses? They’ll still be carrots.

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$20.00

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$26.00 CAD

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Hardcover

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Hardcover $20.00 $26.00 CAD

Teresa Woodard

About the Author

An award-winning garden writer, Teresa brings a background in magazine writing and gardening experience. She is author of Garden to the Max and co-author of American Roots, and the forthcoming Grow A Chaos Garden. During her 16-year writing career, she has written and produced garden content for regional and national publications including Better Homes & Gardens and Country Gardens and currently serves as contributing garden editor at Midwest Living magazine and content creator for digital garden media. She has won Gold and Silver Media Awards from GardenComm. Outside of work, she gardens at her home near Columbus, Ohio, volunteers at an urban garden teaching youth about growing food and advises America in Bloom communities across the country.

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