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🌻🌼 Get ready for spring with this selection of gardening books! 🌼🌻
Updated March 10, 2025
Westchester Library System
Mount Pleasant Public Library
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The new gardener's handbook : everything you need to know to grow a beautiful & bountiful garden
Beyers, Daryl
Paper Book
"Gardeners just starting out will earn a sense of accomplishment and a good dose of knowledge." --Booklist Every new gardener has to start somewhere--and the process can be intimidating. Knowing when and what to plant, how to care for the plants once they're in the ground, and how to keep pests and...
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New wild garden : natural-style planting and practicalities
Hodgson, Ian (Gardener)
Paper Book
New Wild Garden combines new approaches to a more naturalistic design with the practical side of growing wildflowers and shows how to incorporate wildflowers, real meadows and a looser meadow-style planting into gardens and wild spaces. With serious concern into the decline of...
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Coffee for roses : ...and 70 other misleading myths about backyard gardening
Fornari, C. L. (Cynthia Lynn) 1950-
Paper Book
Word-of-mouth may be a great way to learn about some products, but word-of-mouth gardening tips can be a very bad idea. The age-old practice of passing along gardening tips and tricks is no guarantee you will get a good result...it might even do the opposite. In her new book,...
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Vertical gardening : grow up, not out, for more vegetables and flowers in much less space
Fell, Derek.
Paper Book
The biggest mistake gardeners make each season is starting out too big and then quickly realizing their large plot requires too much weeding, watering, and backbreaking labor. Vertical gardening guarantees a better outcome from the day the trowel hits the soil-by shrinking the amount of "floor"...
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Bird-friendly gardening : guidance and projects for supporting birds in your landscape
McGuinness, Jen
Paper Book
Bird-Friendly Gardening is the definitive guide to planting a wildlife-welcoming home landscape filled with a diversity of native plants that feed, shelter, and support birds. With hundreds of North American bird species facing population decline or at risk...
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Container theme gardens : 42 combinations, each using 5 perfectly matched plants
Ondra, Nancy J.
Paper Book
Simple and foolproof! Enjoy beautiful container plantings with no stress or fuss. Container Theme Gardens offers 42 plans for container arrangements, each using just five specific plants that you can find at your local garden center. There's something here for every setting and every...
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Deer-resistant design : fence-free gardens that thrive despite the deer
Chapman, Karen (Landscape designer)
Paper Book
"Fear deer no more! The best source I've seen on the topic!" --Tracy DiSabato-Aust, award-winning garden designer and best-selling author Deer are one of the most common problems a gardener can face. These cute but pesky animals can quickly devour hundreds of dollars' worth of plants. And common...
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Grow now : how we can save our health, communities, and planet-one garden at a time
Murphy, Emily (Gardener)
Paper Book
"Grow Now is an earth manual that applies to everyone, everywhere. Regenerating life begins with our hands, the soil, and our heart. Take this book and go outside, stay outside, and transform." --Paul Hawken, author of Drawdown and RegenerationDid you know you can have a garden that's equal parts...
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The modern homestead garden : growing self-sufficiency in any size backyard
Pilarchik, Gary
Paper Book
With this accessible and indispensable gardening reference, discover how little land and effort it takes to start growing and preserving your own healthy organic food. Modern homesteading is a lifestyle focused on living lightly on the land and increasing self...
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