and much more. He even includes plans for small-space container gardens that
are perfect for urban ... Container gardening through the year by Malcolm Hillier.
GROUNDBREAKING READS: GARDENING! Gardening-related Book List compiled from the NBFPL catalog. Container Gardening • Small is bountiful: getting more crops from your pots by Liz Dobbs Summary: Small Is Bountiful shows you how to use the latest practices of high-density patio gardening to grow a cornucopia of mouthwatering fruits, delectable vegetables, and fresh herbs in large and small plant containers, window boxes, and hanging baskets. Call Number: 635 DOB. •
The vegetable gardener's container bible / How to Grow a Bounty of Food in Pots, Tubs, and Other Containers by Edward C. Smith Summary: By growing vegetables in containers, even novice gardeners can reap a bounty of organic food in very small spaces. Anyone can harvest tomatoes on a patio, produce a pumpkin in a planter, or grow broccoli on a balcony - it’s easy! Ed Smith shows you how to choose the right plants, select containers and tools, care for plants throughout the growing season, control pests without chemicals, and much more. He even includes plans for small-space container gardens that are perfect for urban and suburban gardeners. Call Number: 635 SMI. • Fruit and vegetables in pots by Jo Whittingham Summary: Easy ways to grow your own produce in a small space. Call Number: 635 WHI. • Container gardening through the year by Malcolm Hillier Summary: Photos and text make up a glossy catalog of projects to guide gardeners through planning and planting hanging baskets, windowboxes, troughs, pots, and tubs in different seasons. Includes many tips and quick remedies. Call Number: 635.9 HIL. •
Continuous container gardens / Swap in the Plants of the Season to Create Fresh Designs YearRound by Sara Begg Townsend Summary: Tired of container gardens that look great in the summer but not the rest of the year? Garden designers Sara Begg Townsend and Roanne Robbins offer an innovative system for creating stylish container gardens that can change with the seasons with a minimum of fuss. Call Number: 635.9 TOW. •
Window boxes: indoors & out (100 projects & planting ideas for all four seasons) by James Cramer Summary: Container gardening is one of the hottest trends today. Why? Because the recent availability of plants with great genetics makes container gardening a sure thing for everyone. Then there's the market--it's full of containers that are low cost and low maintenance but have high visual appeal. And finally there are the container gardens themselves, which are easier to maintain than inground gardens, especially during drought years. Window Boxes is a one-of-a-kind handbook that combines container gardening with flower arranging so that you can create glorious mini-gardens for outside and inside your home. Call Number: 635.9678 CRA.
GROUNDBREAKING READS: GARDENING! Gardening-related Book List compiled from the NBFPL catalog. Jim Wilson's container gardening by James W. Wilson Summary: Wilson, the former host of PBS' The Victory Garden, brings his expertise to container gardening and includes information on types of containers and instructions on making containers, matching plants to containers, and creating landscaping focal points. Call Number: 635.986 WIL. • Container gardening for kids by Ellen Talmage Summary: Try any of these 25 projects using things from around the house. Growing plants in a container is a great way for kids to make their own garden -- without needing a lot of space. Make an herbal collar for your pet that will keep bugs away while smelling great. Create your own backyard monster with plastic soda-can holders, a broom, pipe cleaners, and a few more odds & ends. Growing plants has never been more fun and, with containers, any kid can have a garden. Call Number: J 635.048 TAL.
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The city gardener's handbook: from balcony to backyard (a comprehensive guide to planting small spaces and containers) by Linda Yang Summary: Filling city front yards, vulnerable to horticultural vandals, with naturally barbed plants is streetwise and city smart. Yang expands the city-wise advice of her successful Terrace Gardener's Handbook here to include both "upstairs" gardens--in containers on balconies, terraces, and rooftops-and "downstairs" ones, in city front or backyards. Easy-to-use advice is presented in sophisticated yet easily digested snippets. The confident guidance to the city garden begins with a garden plan; it then moves on to describe the best city garden plants, soil, containers, planting techniques, watering schedule, plant growth, and bug invasions. The knowing advice is just enough--never confusing and always cognizant of the special considerations of city gardening. The plucky attitude of this inveterate city gardener will sway even the most cautious city dweller wanting a greener life. Call Number: 635.967 YAN.
GROUNDBREAKING READS: GARDENING! Gardening-related Book List compiled from the NBFPL catalog. General gardening • Garden rescue: first aid for plants and flowers by Jo Whittingham. Summary: Whether the wisteria is wilting or the cherry tree isn't producing any fruit, Garden Rescue will help identify and treat the minor issues and major problems that can harm plants. Call Number: (NEW) 635.049 WHI. •
Lawn gone!: low-maintenance, sustainable, attractive alternatives for your yard by Penick, Pam. Summary: A colorful guide covering the basics of replacing a traditional lawn with a wide variety of easy-care, no-mow, drought-tolerant, money-saving options that will appeal to today's busy, ecoconscious homeowner. Call Number: (NEW) 712 PEN. • Step-by-step garden basics by Liz Ball Summary: Presented season by season and filled with hundreds of photos, this instructive gardening manual takes readers by the hand to show them how to start seeds, extend the flowering season, harvest and preserve vegetables, and prune trees. Call Number: 635 BAL. • New complete guide to gardening by Susan A. Roth Summary: In this invaluable reference for both novice and experienced gardeners, readers find complete information on perennials, roses, bulbs, annuals, trees, fruits, vegetables, and more. Step-bystep illustrations show all the techniques critical to proper plant maintenance, and dozens of charts help readers decide which plants are best for certain situations. Call Number: 635 BET. • Gardening shortcuts by Jenny Hendy Summary: Do you love your garden but wish it wasn’t quite so needy? Gardening Shortcuts is packed with amazing ideas and practical tips for gardeners with little time. Call Number: 635 HEN. • The Old farmer's almanac book of garden wisdom by Cynthia Van Hazinga Summary: Far from being a dry, technical manual, this volume is a bright, welcome contrast to the run-of-the-mill-how-to books, with hundreds of photos, etchings, sidebar anecdotes, offbeat wit, and uniquely American folklore. This is a wonderfully entertaining resource book as well as a great gift for anyone from those who dabble in the garden to the greenest thumb. Call Number: 635 OLD. • Grow organic by Louise Abbott Summary: For gardeners committed to a safe, natural, and healthy approach, this reference covers a wide range of organic concerns and can help the beginner get started while showing the seasoned gardener how to do even better. Call Number: 635.0484 ABB.
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Flower gardening: a practical guide to creating colorful gardens in every yard by Julie BawdenDavis. Summary: Imagine your yard filled with a profusion of colorful, fragrant flowers that are hearty, simple to care for, and easy to grow. Now you can turn your dream garden into reality with this comprehensive guide that has everything you need to know to create a stunning garden filled with exquisite flowers. Call Number: 635.9 BAW. • What plant where by Roy Lancaster Summary: Years of experience answering questions on what to grow in problem sites - plus an impressive career at the Sir Harold Hillier Gardens and Arboretum and plenty of practice in his own garden - make Roy Lancaster an ideal authority to advise on what plant to grow where. Call Number: 635.9 LAN. • What plant when by Martin Page Summary: Previously published as Plants for Every Season, this compact book from DK and the American Horticultural Society is the perfect guide to choosing beautiful plants to give seasonal interest and color to your garden all year round. Call Number: 635.9 PAG. • Plant partners by Anna Pavord Summary: Herbaceous perennials are the star performers in the garden. But to create maximum impact they need the right partners, and knowing which plant to put with which is an art that often eludes even the most knowledgeable of gardeners. Here, Anna Pavord helps to solve this tantalizing problem by suggesting 60 plants that she feels deserve a place in every garden -- her star plants -- and to accompany them, two ideal partners. She shows, season by season, how to create irresistible planting associations that juxtapose texture, shape, color, and scent. Call Number: 635.9 PAV. • Tasha Tudor's garden by Tovah Martin Summary: Tasha Tudor's poignant art has fascinated adults and children for decades. Her nineteenthcentury New England lifestyle is legendary. Gardeners are especially intrigued by the profusion of antique flowers -- spectacular poppies, six-foot foxgloves, and intoxicating peonies -- in the cottage gardens surrounding her hand-hewn house. Until now we've only caught glimpses of Tasha Tudor's landscape. In this gorgeous book, two of her friends, the garden writer Tovah Martin and the photographer Richard Brown, take us into the magical garden and then behind the scenes. Call Number: 635.9092 MAR. • Natural gardening in small spaces by Noël Kingsbury Summary: With the growing recognition that a wisely and sensitively planted garden has a lot to offer to wildlife and the food web, more and more people are looking for ways to make their gardens environmentally friendly. However, gardeners have tended to assume that they need a lot of space to create habitats for wildlife and to evoke wild and natural places. In Natural Gardening in Small Spaces, renowned plantsman Noël Kingsbury refutes that presumption, showing how even in a small garden you can create a sustainable ecosystem that looks great --- and, once established, largely looks after itself. Call Number: 635.96 KIN.
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The city gardener's handbook: from balcony to backyard (a comprehensive guide to planting small spaces and containers) by Linda Yang Summary: Filling city front yards, vulnerable to horticultural vandals, with naturally barbed plants is streetwise and city smart. Yang expands the city-wise advice of her successful Terrace Gardener's Handbook here to include both "upstairs" gardens--in containers on balconies, terraces, and rooftops-and "downstairs" ones, in city front or backyards. Easy-to-use advice is presented in sophisticated yet easily digested snippets. The confident guidance to the city garden begins with a garden plan; it then moves on to describe the best city garden plants, soil, containers, planting techniques, watering schedule, plant growth, and bug invasions. The knowing advice is just enough--never confusing and always cognizant of the special considerations of city gardening. The plucky attitude of this inveterate city gardener will sway even the most cautious city dweller wanting a greener life. Call Number: 635.967 YAN. • Gardens for pleasure by Brodee Myers-Cooke Summary: This gorgeously hand-illustrated, imaginatively written book includes innovative ideas for different 'theme' gardens in four categories: Sensory Pleasure, Living Pleasure, Passive Pleasure, and Fun and Functional Gardens. A sensory extravaganza. Call Number: 712.6 MYE. • Small space gardens by David Stevens Summary: A small garden can be beautiful, low maintenance, sheltered, intimate and fun. Good design, both inside and outside the home is timeless and is based on sound principles. Small Space Gardens takes you through the entire planning sequence, providing a progressive organizational sequence that melds interior, exterior and borrowed landscape into an elegant, practical and integrated whole. Call Number: 712.6 STE.
GROUNDBREAKING READS: GARDENING! Gardening-related Book List compiled from the NBFPL catalog. Edible gardens • Backyard farming: growing vegetables & herbs by Kim Pezza Summary: A bountiful vegetable garden is a mainstay of the backyard farm; when done right, it can form the foundation for all your future farming successes. Whether you’re aiming at self-sufficiency or just looking to add the freshest ingredients possible to your own kitchen table, starting your own backyard vegetable garden is the best possible first step. Call Number: (NEW) 635 PEZ. •
The beautiful edible garden: design a stylish outdoor space using vegetables, fruits, and herbs by Leslie Bennett Summary: A stylish, beautifully photographed guide to artfully incorporating organic vegetables, fruits, and herbs into an attractive modern garden design. Call Number: (NEW) 635.0484 BEN. •
Sugar snaps & strawberries: simple solutions for creating your own small-space edible garden by Andrea Bellamy Summary: Imagine savoring fresh-picked strawberries on a weekend morning, plucking plump figs from your mini-orchard to quarter and serve at a farm-to-table meal with friends, or harvesting and sautéing the edible stalks of garlic bulbs. If the size of your space is bringing you back to reality, here’s the best part: you don’t need a big backyard to grow your own food. In fact, you don’t need a yard at all. Call Number: 635 BEL. • Kitchen garden: month by month by Alan Buckingham Summary: In tune with the popular move toward fresh, local, and homegrown food, The Kitchen Garden lets you get the most from your garden and helps to dramatically reduce the amount you spend on produce at the supermarket. Call Number: 635 BUC. • Don't throw it, grow it!: 68 windowsill plants from kitchen scraps by Deborah Peterson Summary: Magic and wonder hide in unexpected places - a leftover piece of ginger, a wrinkled potato left too long in its bag, a humdrum kitchen spice rack. Peterson, former president of the American Pit Gardening Society, shows how common kitchen staples - pits, nuts, beans, seeds, and tubers - can be coaxed into lush, vibrant houseplants that are as attractive as they are fascinating. Call Number: 635 PET. • The edible herb garden by Rosalind Creasy Summary: The Edible Herb Garden features an incredible collection of fragrant and savory herbs used in delicious dishes as well as herb blends, herbed oils and vinegars, and even herb-flavored vodka! Includes interviews with Carolle Saville, an herb specialist and food writer, and Rose Marie Nichols McGee, an Oregon-based herb gardener. Call Number: 641.657 CRE.
GROUNDBREAKING READS: GARDENING! Gardening-related Book List compiled from the NBFPL catalog. Gardening-related Biographies, Essays, or similar • My garden (book) by Jamaica Kincaid Summary: Novelist Kincaid ponders one of her greatest loves: gardening. She scrutinizes the sources of her inspiration--seed catalogs, the gardener Gertrude Jekyll, and Monet's garden at Giverny--and takes an intimate, playful, and penetrating look at the plants and the people who tend them. Call Number: 635 KIN. • Henry Mitchell on gardening by Henry Mitchell Summary: Gardeners disagree about many things -- cannas, double petunias, the color magenta -- but on one subject they are unanimous. Henry Mitchell was simply the best garden writer this country has ever produced. For twenty years Mitchell's column "The Essential Earthman" was a weekly feature in the Washington Post. And whether he was extolling the perfection of the capital's summer weather (best enjoyed at six A.M. while viewing his water lilies and eating an ice-cold Vidalia onion sandwich) or deriding the idea that England was a decent place to garden or extolling the virtue of leaving plants alone if they are doing well, his reputation spread through friends who clipped his columns and sent them to those unlucky enough not to have access to the Post. Call Number: 635.9 MIT. • A gardener's labyrinth: portraits of people, plants and places by Tessa Traeger Summary: An evocation of the British garden past, present, and future, A Gardener's Labyrinth celebrates 50 visionary gardeners and their glorious gardens. Illustrated with outstanding images by acclaimed photographer Tessa Traeger, the book reveals a history of gardens from tiny city allotments to country estates and formality to wilderness, as seen through the eyes of those who have shaped them. Whether as designers or writers, horticulturists or conservationists, explorers or scholars, all have enriched and furthered the tradition of gardening. Patrick Kinmonth unravels the principles and philosophies that have informed the gardeners' work and explores new directions for gardens of the future. A brief biography of each gardener completes this elegant book, designed by Stephen Gan of Visionaire magazine. Call Number: 635.909 GAR. •
Around the house and in the garden: a memoir of heartbreak, healing, and home improvement by Dominique Browning Summary: For six years, House & Garden editor-in-chief Dominique Browning has written a monthly column that weaves together personal stories and tips about home decorating, gardening, and raising children with universal themes of domestic life. In Around the House and in the Garden, Browning adapts and expands these well-loved pieces, adding dozens of new essays, to create an insightful and moving narrative about the solace and sense of self that can be found through tending one's home. Brimming with warmth, knowledge, and the useful decorating and gardening tips that have made House & Garden a favorite for one hundred years, Around the House and in the Garden is a book for anyone who has ever felt the need to reinvent a life or a space, who has ever fallen in love with the idea of home -- the place where we reinvent ourselves, "the place where we have the final word about what goes where,...what feels comfortable, what is life-enhancing...a place that gives us strength to go out and embrace the world." Call Number: B BRO.
