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Planning for Spring: Yard and Garden Books for AdultsUnpublished

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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.

Updated March 5, 2026

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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 habitats...

Garden allies : the insects, birds, & other animals that keep your garden beautiful and thriving

Lavoipierre, Frédérique

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"Explains how your garden can be a thriving, balanced community that gives more to your landscape than it takes." --Douglas W. Tallamy, author of The Nature of Oaks and Nature's Best Hope The birds, mammals, reptiles, and insects...

Good nature : why seeing, smelling, hearing, and touching plants is good for our health

Willis, K. J.

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A Next Big Idea Club must-read selection! An Amazon Editor's Pick for Best Nonfiction Book! A ground-breaking investigation into newly discovered evidence showing that remarkable things happen to our bodies and our minds when our senses connect with the...

Nature and the mind : the science of how nature improves cognitive, physical, and social well-being

Berman, Marc G.

Paper Book

From the acclaimed founder of environmental neuroscience, Dr. Marc Berman, comes a groundbreaking guide that reveals how interacting with nature can be the secret to improved mental and physical health. Dr. Marc Berman, the pioneering creator of the field of environmental...

The compost coach : make compost, build soil and grow a regenerative garden - wherever you live!

Flood, Kate

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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 : the restorative power of nature

Stuart-Smith, Sue

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One of Garden & Gun's Favorite Books of 2020 A distinguished psychiatrist and avid gardener offers an inspiring and consoling work about the healing effects of gardening and its ability to decrease stress and foster mental well-being in our everyday lives.

The complete book of ground covers : 4000 plants that reduce maintenance, control erosion, and beautify the landscape

Lewis, Gary (Gardener)

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Winner of a Golden Laurel at the 2023 GardenComm Media Awards "A magnum opus of ground covers that deserves a place in every gardener's library." --Tony Avent, founder and owner Plant Delights Nursery Ground covers are widely...

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