Planning for Spring: Yard and Garden Books for Adults

Get ready for spring with these practical and inspiring reads to improve your outdoor spaces. These librarian-recommended reads offer step-by-step help to grow a healthy and beautiful space outdoors.

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Planning for Spring: Yard and Garden Books for Adults

Get ready for spring with these practical and inspiring reads to improve your outdoor spaces. These librarian-recommended reads offer step-by-step help to grow a healthy and beautiful space outdoors.

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Rewilding the urban soul : searching for the wild in the city
Dunn, Claire
Paper Book
Once upon a time, a burnt-out Claire Dunn spent a year living off the grid in a wilderness survival program. Yet love and the possibilities of human connection drew her back to the city, where she soon found herself as overscheduled, addicted to her phone, and lost in IKEA as the rest of us. Given...
The compost coach : make compost, build soil and grow a regenerative garden - wherever you live!
Flood, Kate
Paper Book
Spin food waste and household carbon into garden gold, learn about how and why soil matters, and make climate activism an everyday mission, with compost coach Kate Flood.
The well gardened mind : rediscovering nature in the modern world
Stuart-Smith, Sue.
Paper Book
'The wisest book I've read for many years ... Much more than a gardening book, much more than a guide to mental health ... Hugely recommended' Stephen Fry THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A Times and Sunday Times Best Book of 2020 How can gardening relieve stress...
Grow trees : essential know-how and expert advice for gardening success
Allaway, Zia
Paper Book
Discover the secret to successfully growing trees in your garden. Ideal for first-time gardeners, Grow Trees contains everything you need to bring stunning seasonal interest, structural elegance, and biodiversity to your garden. Learn how to plant and care for your trees...
How to grow : nurture your garden, nurture yourself
Bridgewater, Marcus
Paper Book
In this transformative guide, TikTok's most popular gardener, Marcus Bridgewater--aka Garden Marcus--offers lessons for growth rooted in lessons from the plant world to help cultivate the soul. Marcus Bridgewater has been compared to Bob Ross and Mister Rogers for his...
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