Based on sales in hundreds of independent bookstores nationwide for the eight-week period ending June 8, 2010.

1. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
Barbara and Camille Kingsolver, Steven Hopp, Harper Perennial, $15.99, 9780060852566

2. All New Square Foot Gardening: Grow More in Less Space!
Mel Bartholomew, Cool Springs, $19.99, 9781591862024

3. The Botany of Desire
Michael Pollan, Random House, $13.95, 9780375760396

4. Starter Vegetable Gardens: 24 No-Fail Plans for Small Organic Gardens
Barbara Pleasant, Storey, $19.95, 9781603425292

5. Wicked Plants
Amy Stewart, Briony Morrow-Cribbs (Illus.), Algonquin, $18.95, 9781565126831

6. Wild Comfort: The Solace of Nature
Kathleen Dean Moore, Trumpeter, $15.95, 9781590307717

7. Garden Wisdom & Know-How: Everything You Need to Know to Plant, Grow, and Harvest
Rodale Gardening Books (Ed.), Black Dog & Leventhal, $19.95, 9781579128371

8. The Vegetable Gardener's Bible
Edward C. Smith, Storey, $24.95, 9781603424752

9. The Sibley Guide to Trees
David Allen Sibley, Knopf, $39.95, 9780375415197

10. Gardening for a Lifetime: How to Garden Wiser as You Grow Older
Sydney Eddison, Kimberly Day Proctor (Illus.), Timber Press, $19.95, 9781604690651

11. Grow Great Grub: Organic Food From Small Spaces
Gayla Trail, Clarkson Potter, $19.99, 9780307452016

12. What's Wrong With My Plant? (and How Do I Fix It?)
David Deardorff, Kathryn Wadsworth, Timber Press, $24.95, 9780881929614

13. Western Garden Book of Edibles
Sunset Books (Ed.), Sunset, $24.95, 9780376039187

14. Sissinghurst, An Unfinished History: The Quest to Restore a Working Farm at Vita Sackville-West's Legendary Garden
Adam Nicolson, Viking, $27.95, 9780670021734

15. The Garden Primer
Barbara Damrosch, Workman, $18.95, 9780761122753

16. The Beginner's Guide to Edible Herbs: 26 Herbs Everyone Should Grow & Enjoy
Charles W.G. Smith, Storey, $12.95, 9781603425285

17. How to Plant a Tree: A Simple Celebration of Trees & Tree-Planting Ceremonies
Daniel Butler, Jeremy P. Tarcher, $15.95, 9781585427963

18. Grow Your Own Vegetables
Carol Klein, Mitchell Beazley, $19.99, 9781845335519

19. Second Nature: A Gardener's Education
Michael Pollan, Grove Press, $15, 9780802140111

20. The Cook's Herb Garden
Jeff Cox, Marie-Pierre Moine, DK Publishing, $18, 9780756658694

21. Sunset Western Garden Book
Kathleen Norris Brenzel (Ed.), Sunset, $34.95, 9780376039163

22. National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Trees: Eastern Region
Elbert L. Little, Jr., Knopf, $19.95, 9780394507606

23. Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture
Toby Hemenway, Chelsea Green, $29.95, 9781603580298

24. Golden Gate Gardening
Pam Peirce, Sasquatch, $29.95, 9781570616174

25. Lives of the Trees: An Uncommon History
Diana Wells, Algonquin, $19.95, 9781565124912