Propagation
The Plant Propagator’s Bible
A Step-by-Step Guide to Propagating Every Plant in Your Garden
by Miranda Smith
With easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions, veteran horticulture teacher Miranda Smith provides a complete reference showing every step for cultivating new plants—whether from seed or cuttings or with techniques such as layering, grafting, and budding.
Fruit & Vegetable Gardening
by Jessica Walliser
This has everything you want to know about growing plants in containers: flowers, herbs, veggies, and more.
It’s packed with useful information, creative container projects, and lots of beautiful photos.
by Tara Nolan
The ultimate resource for building and growing in raised garden beds.
Gardening Your Front Yard
Projects and Ideas for Big and Small Spaces
by Tara Nolan
Gardening Your Front Yard is an active, inspiring resource that shows you how to treat your front yard like a backyard without sacrificing beauty, from choosing the right plants to building front patios and walkways.
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by Mel Bartholomew
This newest edition is very nicely updated with good images and information but if you own an older copy (there’s millions out there), dust it off and use it.
The Year-Round Vegetable Gardener
by Niki Jabbour
Niki lives in Nova Scotia, Canada and grows vegetables year-round.
Find out how to plant, what to use to keep your crops protected, and how to keep harvesting veggies even in a cold climate all year long.
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How to Grow Vegetables Outdoors in Winter (in Canada!)
The First-Time Gardener: Growing Vegetables
All the know-how and encouragement you need to grow – and fall in love with your brand new food garden
by Jessica Sowards
You’re excited to plant your first vegetable garden—but where to start? In The First-Time Gardener: Growing Vegetables, you’ll find the answers you’re looking for.
Homesteader Jessica Sowards, the warm and energetic host of YouTube’s Roots and Refuge Farm, is the perfect teacher for new gardeners, offering not just know-how but inspiration and time-management tips for success
Grow Your Own Mini Fruit Garden
Planting and Tending Small Fruit Trees and Berries in Gardens and Containers
by Christy Wilhelmi
Forget the farmer’s market. Grow your own delicious, organic apples, figs, peaches, plums, strawberries, blackberries, citrus fruits, and more with Grow Your Own Mini Fruit Garden. No green thumb required.
Ecology
by Kim Eierman
Win the War on Pollinator Decline with Ecological Gardening; Attract and Support Bees, Beetles, Butterflies, Bats, and Other Pollinators
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Want Lots of Pollinators? Grow a Diverse Selection of Plants
New Naturalism
Designing and Planting a Resilient, Ecologically Vibrant Home Garden
by Kelly D. Norris
In New Naturalism, horticulturist and modern plantsman Kelly D. Norris shares his inspiring, ecologically sound vision for home gardens created with stylish yet naturalistic plantings that mimic the wild spaces we covet, such as meadows, prairies, woodlands, and streamsides—far from the contrived, formal, high-maintenance plantings of the past.
Creative
A Woman’s Garden
Grow Beautiful Plants and Make Useful Things
by Tanya Anderson
Inspiring ways to use the power of plants for home and health—with helpful growing advice and step-by-step instructions for creating over 35 inspiring projects, edibles, and art from your garden.
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Meet Tanya of Lovely Greens (Isle of Man UK Gardener)
Seasonal Plant Dyes
Creating year round colour from plants, beautiful textile projects
by Alicia Hall
This beautifully illustrated book takes you on a botanical journey through the year, showing you how to create colorful and environmentally friendly plant dyes. You’ll learn sustainable methods of growing and harvesting plants; the tools and techniques required to extract dye; which fabrics and yarns to choose; and the simple method of using soy milk as a fixative, to ensure rich and long-lasting colors.
Indoor Growing
Tropical Plants and How To Love Them
Building a relationship with heat-loving plants when you don’t live in the tropics
by Marianne Willburn
Tropical plants are energizing. They awaken a tired summer garden with lush, sensuous foliage and fascinating flowers and turn a suburban patio into a sophisticated, late-night paradise. But if you garden in a temperate climate and have been reluctant to commit to what you’re sure will be too much work, it’s time to let Tropical Plants and How to Love Them author Marianne Willburn act as your tropical matchmaker.
Bloom
The secrets of growing flowering houseplants year-round
by Lisa Eldred Steinkopf
In Bloom, The Houseplant Guru Lisa Eldred Steinkopf unleashes all the secrets on how to grow dozens of indoor plants that produce colorful, intricate, and sometimes fragrant blooms.
Home Hydroponics
Small-space DIY growing systems for the kitchen, dining room, living room, bedroom, and bath
by Tyler Baras
Grow your own delicious food literally anywhere. In Home Hydroponics, hydroponic-growing pro Tyler Baras (aka Farmer Tyler) shows you how easy it is to build your own soilless growing systems to cultivate greens, veggies, herbs, and more.
Birds
Audubon Birdhouse Book, Revised and Updated
Building, Placing, and Maintaining Great Homes for Great Birds
by Margaret A. Barker, Elissa Ruth Wolfson, National Audubon Society
The Audubon Birdhouse Book is the most authoritative book available for creating safe, sturdy, and easy-to-build homes for many of North America’s favorite birds. This updated second edition includes important new and timely topics including impacts of climate change on birds, nestbox monitoring for community science, native plants, and how birders can help birds.
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