Gardening Tips for Adults

April showers bring May flowers, along with the start of an exciting summer gardening season. Get tips, tricks, advice, and ideas from these great books about gardening!

Updated May 3, 2024
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How to create a wildlife garden : encouraging birds, bees, butterflies and bugs into your outside space
Lavelle, Christine
Paper Book
This inspiring and accessible hands-on book shows how simple gardening techniques can provide a dazzling plant display while helping the native wildlife. This new updated edition of the award-winning book (Garden Media Guild Practical Book of the Year) gives easy-to-follow instructions backed up...
The new heirloom garden : designs, recipes, and heirloom plants for cooks who love to garden
Ogden, Ellen
Paper Book
The best-tasting vegetables are heirlooms, the most fragrant flowers are heirlooms, and the most interesting plants are heirlooms. But heirlooms are more than just delicious ingredients or beautiful flowers--their seeds offer us a connection with the earth, and each one tells a story. ...
A northern gardener's guide to native plants and pollinators : creating habitat in the Northeast, Great Lakes, and Upper Midwest
Johnson, Lorraine
Paper Book
Few sights are as charming as a hummingbird hovering over cardinal flowers in your backyard or a butterfly lighting on the black-eyed Susans potted on your balcony. Yet pollinators do more than beguile us: they are key to a healthy environment. With many pollinators threatened and their...
American roots : lessons from the designers reimagining our home gardens
McCullough, Nick
Paper Book
"I love this book. Here are home gardens of designers from every part of our great country that are inspiring proof of a passionate vitality and freshness in American gardening today." -- Page Dickey, author of Uprooted   In recent years, bold...
The ultimate flower gardener's guide : how to combine shape, color, and texture to create the garden of your dreams
Carey, Jenny Rose
Paper Book
"Full of practical insights, ideas, and inspiration to help you grow the flower-packed garden of your dreams."--Greg Loades, author of The Modern Cottage Garden The colors, shapes, and scents of flowers are as ravishing to the senses as to the soul. But it's all too easy get things wrong: colors...

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