HCP Library – New Books for Winter Reading and Summer Inspiration! Nov 2024

HCP Library

2 Nov 2024

Here is the list of the recent acquisitions to the HCP Library, they include reading for all ages and all interests. To see the details check out the Recent Acquisitions page

Red Leaf Yellow Leaf by Louise Ehlert

In this innovative and colorful work of early nonfiction from Caldecott Honor–winning author Lois Ehlert, little ones are introduced to facts about trees.

Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney

Barbara Cooney’s story of Alice Rumphius, who longed to travel the world, live in a house by the sea, and do something to make the world more beautiful, has a timeless quality that resonates with each new generation.

How Groundhog’s Garden Grew by Lynne Cherry

When hungry Little Groundhog tries to eat some vegetables out of Squirrel’s garden, kind Squirrel takes him under his proverbial wing and shows him how to plant his own veggies….

A Tree in the Forest byJan Thornhill

A dramatic and unique picture book that brings to life the wondrous tale of one tree’s survival through two hundred years of nature’s blessings and scourges.

On a crisp, fall morning a little maple key spins through the air and settles on the life-giving ruins of an ancient tree. So begins the story of a single maple tree and the creatures it nourishes and shelters.

The People Who Hugged the Trees: An Environmental Folk Tale by Deborah Lee Rose

Based on a 300-year old Indian legend, the story relates how Amrita led desert villagers to protect their forest from the axes of tree-cutters by hugging the trees.

The Tree That Grew to the Moon by Eugenie Fernandes

When Lena finds an uprooted baby tree on the city sidewalk, she brings it home, and her mother thinks of many reasons why she shouldn’t keep it there, but she has a ready answer for all of them.

Vegetable Garden by Douglas Florian

Children are fascinated by watching plants grow, and in this colorful picture book even very young children can follow along with a family as they plant, tend, and harvest a vegetable garden.

Armitage’s Garden Perennials by Allan Armitage

Armitage’s Garden Perennials is the most comprehensive single-volume photographic resource on perennial plants. It describes and illustrates the choice of perennials in 136 genera from Acanthus to Zauschneria.

Creative Garden Lighting by Michele Osborne

Homeowners, garden designers, landscape professionals, and anyone with an interest in highlighting and improving the look of their home landscape will be inspired to learn how even the most drab setting can be transformed into a stunning showcase garden using simple, modern, and creative lighting schemes.

Pie in the Sky by Lois Ehlert

A father and child watch the cherry tree in their back yard, waiting until there are ripe cherries to bake in a pie. Includes a recipe for cherry pie.

Wetlands by David J. Hawke

Water is the lifeblood of all living things, and wetlands cleanse, cool, and protect this most valuable resource. They also provide a vital habitat for countless species of flora and fauna.

Easy Care Native Plants by Patricia A. Taylor

North America’s magnificent plant life has a peculiar history in that it is generally regarded as weedy material in its native meadows and woodlands and viewed as a horticultural treasure trove abroad.

Pests of the West by Whitney Cranshaw

Entomologist Whitney Cranshaw draws from his experience with master gardeners to show gardeners of all abilities how to combat the major insect pests, plant diseases, and weeds west of the Mississippi.

Butterfly Gardening by Thomas C. Emmel

Create a butterfly haven in your garden. A unique gardening book that shows gardeners the appropriate plants for attracting butterflies. In addition to practical plant information, this lavishly illustrated volume includes a gallery of nearly 70 butterflies, detailing each species’ range and habitats, nectar sources, and larval host plants. Includes sample garden designs and resources.

Gardening at the Dragon’s Gate by Wendy Johnson

For more than thirty years, Wendy Johnson has been meditating and gardening at the Green Gulch Farm Zen Center in northern California, where the fields curve like an enormous green dragon between the hills and the ocean.

Deep Rooted Wisdom by Augustus Jenkins Farmer

We have begun to lose some of the most important skills used by everyday gardeners to create beautiful, productive gardens. With a personality-driven, engaging narrative, Deep Rooted Wisdom teaches accessible, common sense skills to a new generation of gardeners.

Wild Color by Jenny Dean

A practical and inspiring guide to creating and using natural dyes from plants, Wild Color, Revised and Updated Edition, offers the latest information on current environmentally friendly dyeing techniques and more than 65 species of plants and natural dyestuffs.

Sow Simple by Christina Symons

Sow Simple shows how plants thrive thanks to back-sparing and thrifty techniques for propagation, fertilization and transplanting, plus tips on beneficial fungi and bugs, magical mulches, edible weeds, water-wise wildflowers and native plants.

Home Landscaping Northwest Region by Roger Holmes

Readers will find inspiring ideas for making the home landscape more attractive and functional. The 48 featured designs are created by landscape professionals from the region and use more than 200 plants that thrive in the northwest.

Botanical Dyes by Babs Behan

Botanical Dyes features recipes and top tips on everything you need to know to make your own natural dyes. The process of turning plants into print can help you reconnect with nature, find a creative outlet and develop a mindful sense of presence.

Book of Kale & Friends by Sharon Hanna

There are good reasons why the Kale Revolution is growing — this humble leafy green is one of the healthiest vegetables on earth, it thrives in winter and sweetens in the cold, it self-seeds, its flowers sustain bees, and it’s so easy to grow.

World of Northern Evergreens by E.C. Pielou

Noted ecologist E. C. Pielou introduces the biology of the northern forests and provides a unique invitation to naturalists, ecologists, foresters, and everyone living in northern North America who wants to learn about this unique and threatened northern world and the species that make it their home.

Grow by Riz Reyes

Discover 15 plants and fungi with life-changing powers. Meet their surprising relatives (the tasty tomato is a cousin of deadly nightshade!) and unearth their interesting stories (lettuce was the first plant to be grown in space!).

50 Keystone Flora Species of British Columbia & the Pacific Northwest by Collin Varner

This full-color, pocket-sized field guide highlights fifty keystone trees, flowering plants, fruit-bearing plants, marine plants, and fungi found across the Pacific Northwest bioregion.

The Reason for a Flower by Ruth Heller

The reason for a flower is to manufacture seeds, but Ruth Heller shares a lot more about parts of plants and their functions in her trademark rhythmic style.

Plants That Never Ever Bloom by Ruth Heller

Brief rhyming text and illustrations present a variety of plants that do not flower but propagate by means of spores, seeds, and cones.

Leo’s Tree by Debora Pearson

When Leo is born, his father plants a tree—a scratchy, branchy linden tree. Soon Leo is growing hair and the tree is sprouting buds, the first of many delightful changes that boy and tree experience during their early years together.