Waterfalls, Fountains, Pools & Streams
Helen Nash & Eamonn Hughes
Information on basic installation, pump selection, plumbing, fountain accessories and maintenance, and all materials and tools required. An appendix lists 37 plants suitable for stream gardens, giving their growth habits, flowering times, and hardiness.
Gazebos and Other Garden Structure Designs
Janet Strombeck
Dozens of ideas for enhancing your home or yard. The classically and Victorian-styled outdoor structures shown are suitable as old-fashioned summer houses, garden tool sheds, hot tub enclosures, cabanas, focus points, picnic spots, and more...a great variety of shapes, sizes and styles.
Taylor's Guide to Bulbs
Gordon P. DeWolf
Complete guide to selecting, planting and maintaining more than 300 bulbs.
Garden Details
Warren Schultz
Accents, Ornaments, and Finishing Touches for the Garden
Fences, Walls & Gates
Jerri Ferris
Includes standard fence and gate designs, such as wood picket and chain-link, but also features decorative outdoor wall and gate treatments. Includes complete plans and directions for several archways and arbors.
Garden Pools, Fountains & Waterfalls
Sunset
Discusses design considerations, building materials, lighting, plants, fish, and maintenance, and includes project plans and instructions.
City Gardens: Creative urban gardens and expert design ideas
Liz Primeau
Designed to inspire and inform gardeners to create large and small gardens that suit their lifestyles.
Garden Rooms
Catriona Tudor Erler
Thresholds, doorways, paths, gazebos, and ponds are means to create outdoor rooms, and Erler shows how to use this outdoor space to promote peace and comfort.
Complete Guide to Decks
Black & Decker
A step-by-step manual for building basic and customized decks.
Create an Impression
Maggie Clayton
Landscape for curb appeal. 23 complete landscape plans, 240 plant descriptions, expert tips and sidebars, how-to's, quick fixes.
The Essential Small Garden
Peter McHoy
Planning, designing and planting a perfect small garden. A practical guide to gardening successfully in limited spaces, from small town gardens and courtyards to tiny balconies and verandas.
Complete Garden Planner
Peter McHoy
This beautifully illustrated and easy-to-use practical guide shows you how to create your perfect garden.
Patio & Stone
Tom Wilhite
Learn how to design an inviting patio and decorative features, such as flagstone paths and stone walls that add character to your garden. Discover the wealth of great landscaping materials, from natural stone to concrete pavers, brick, and ceramic tile.
Grasses
Roger Grounds
Choosing and using these ornamental plants in the garden. Grasses are the keynote plants of twenty-first century gardening and garden design. An inspirational book supported by the RHS.
Containers for Patios
Richard Rosenfeld
Simple advice on choosing a style, decorating with pots, creating themes, and selecting the best plants. Step-by-step guides and expert tips and techniques.
Gaia's Garden: A guide to home-scale permaculture
Toby Hemenway
Permaculture's central message: Working with Nature, not against her, results in more beautiful, abundant, and forgiving gardens. As Hemenway demonstrates, it's fun and easy to create a “backyard ecosystem” by assembling communities of plants that can work cooperatively and perform a variety of functions.
Water in the Garden
Gilly Love
This is a celebration of water in all its breathtaking forms, from formal pools and rills to cascading streams and waterfalls, from bog gardens to swimming pools.
Simples & Worts: Herbs of the American Puritans
Elaine Dow
Being all about the herbs of our Puritan Forefathers (and mothers) with additional 17th and 18th Century miscellany
Shrubs in Colour
A.G.L. Hellyer
A.G.L. Hellyer, the distinguished garden writer, gives invaluable advice on many of the finest shrubs available for garden display. Superb water-colour paintings by Cynthia Newsome-Taylor have been awarded a Gold Medal by the RHS. Reference book.
Amaryllis
Starr Ockenga
A unique photographic record of a diverse and alluring plant, Amaryllis is a document of the season that Ockenga spent growing more than ninety varieties in her upstate New York greenhouse.
Plantfinder's Guide to Garden Ferns
Martin Rickard
A comprehensive introduction to ferns, this new volume covers the gamut from giant tree ferns to delicate maidenhairs. The authoritative descriptions and expert advice on cultivation requirements are accompanied by striking photographs that illustrate the versatility of these ancient plants.
Trees and Shrubs of British Columbia
T. Christopher Brayshaw
The definitive guide to all native and naturalized woody plants in the province. Describes almost 300 species of trees and shrubs, as well as many subspecies and varieties. Beautifully detailed illustrations of leaves, flowers, fruits and woody parts are arranged to show the distinguishing traits in similar species. Diagnostic keys, comparative diagrams and a selection of colour photographs help make identification easy.
The Victory Garden Companion
By Michael Weishan
An indispensable guide that offers the best in gardening expertise in a straightforward and friendly manner, inviting gardeners of all levels to dig in and get their hands in the soil.
Tod Inlet: A Healing Place
By
Gwen Curry
Beautiful photographs capture the spirit of present-day Tod Inlet, while sensitive prose gives us glimpses into the Inlet's natural, industrial and First Nations history.
Leo on a Hike
By Anna McQuinn & Ruth Hearson
Leo is ready to hike. He and Daddy head out on the trail, observing all the wildlife along the way. They see tall trees, tiny flowers, and even some crawling bugs. By the end of the hike, both explorers are tired, happy, and ready to return another day!
My First Garden
By Livi Gosling
Dive into this children's guide to growing plants, from vegetables to wildflowers, for little gardeners with green fingers. With clear step-by-step instructions on how to get seeds, plant them, and help them grow, this book will help kids to get started with their very first gardening projects.
My Indigo World
By Rosa Chang
With lavish mixed-media art including watercolour painting and hand-dyed textiles, debut author-illustrator Rosa Chang pays tribute to the science and art of growing the indigo plant and making indigo dye.
Busy Spring: Nature Wakes Up
By Sean Taylor, Alex Morss & Cinyee Chiu
In this uplifting picture book about spring, follow two children and their father through their backyard as they discover all the different ways nature wakes up from its long winter sleep.
Hello, Puddle!
By Anita Sanchez & Louisa Uribe
A nonfiction picture book exploring a deceptively simple but unexpectedly crucial resource for wildlife: puddles! This lyrical, gorgeously illustrated picture book is perfect for young science learners and nature lovers.
Log Life
By Amy Hevron
With snappy text and lush illustrations, this book invites curious readers to step into a tiny ecosystem that's truly like no other. When old trees fall to the forest floor, they can take centuries to decompose, becoming home to all sorts of organisms along the way.
Mushroom Rain
By Laura K. Zimmermann & Jamie Green
What can smell like bubblegum, glow neon green at night, be poisonous and yet still eaten by humans, and even help create rain? The answer is mushrooms! Through lyrical text and colourful, detailed artwork, the wonderful, mysterious, and sometimes bizarre world of mushrooms is explored.
The Bug Girl
By Sophia Spencer, Margaret McNamara & Kerascoet
7-year-old Sophia Spencer was bullied for loving bugs until hundreds of women scientists rallied around her. Now Sophie tells her inspiring story in this picture book that celebrates women in science, bugs of all kinds and the importance of staying true to yourself.
What Do You See When You Look at a Tree?
by Emma Carlisle
Full of finely drawn forest scenes, this gentle picture book encourages children to explore their connections with nature, consider how each tree is different, what they have witnessed in their centuries of life, what animals they have sheltered, and who may have played under their branches
Gardens by design
By Noël Kingsbury
Encouraging a fluid approach to creativity, Gardens by Design will assist designers at all levels to understand the mechanics of plant combinations, to seek out cutting-edge and exquisite plants, and to nurture their garden's development, growth, and maintenance over time.
In search of paradise: great gardens of the world
By Penelope Hobhouse
In Search of Paradise is a survey of the great gardens of the world, presented through photographic images and the descriptions of the garden designer and writer Penelope Hobhouse.
Wildflower
By Melanie Brown
A moving picture book for ages 3 to 8 about a daisy who is told she's "just a weed" - and embarks on a journey to find her place in the garden.
Grow Tree, Grow!
By Ellen Dreyer
Life cycle of an oak tree from acorn to tree through the seasons.
Seeds grow
By Colin Walker
Introduction to the wonder of seeds growing into plants when they have water, air and sun.
The life cycle of an earthworm
By Bobbie Kalman
Following earthworms from birth to maturity, this book explains the stages of development these ancient annelids undergo before they reach adulthood. Children will be surprised to discover the enormous impact earthworms have on the environment.
The Serviceberry: abundance and reciprocity in the natural world
By Robin Wall Kimmerer
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Braiding Sweetgrass, a bold and inspiring vision for how to orient our lives around gratitude, reciprocity, and community, based on the lessons of the natural world.
Invasive flora of the West Coast: British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest
By Collin Varner
A compact, full-colour field guide to the growing number of invasive plant species spreading across coastal BC and the Pacific Northwest, highlighting their hazards and uses.
Millie Fleur's Poison Garden
By Christy Mandin
Garden Glen is a very bland place. Every house and every garden looks exactly like the other. That is… until Millie Fleur La Fae comes to town.
Up on a scruffy hill, beside a ramshackle house, Millie Fleur plants her marvelously strange garden, filled with Sneezing Stickyweed, Fanged Fairymoss, and Grumpy Gilliflower. Millie Fleur finds it enchanting, but the townspeople of Garden Glen call it poison!
Gardening with grains: bring the versatile beauty of grains into your landscape
by Brie Arthur
Gardening with Grains is a pioneering book. Richly illustrated, it combines history, environmental benefits and personal stories with simple how-to's for planning, growing and harvesting six important grains ... plus 12 chef-tested recipes for inspiration.
Leo's Tree
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. As the seasons change, Leo and his tree continue to grow strong and true.
Then, when a baby sister joins the family, her tender new sapling is planted next to Leo’s sturdy tree.
Plants That Never Ever Bloom
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.
The Reason for a Flower
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.
50 Keystone Flora Species of British Columbia & the Pacific Northwest
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. Species profiled include Douglas fir, Sitka spruce, large-leafed lupine, wild mint, Salal, salmonberry, marine eelgrass, and red-belted polypore. Each entry features clear photography, etymology, descriptions, habitat information, and risks and warnings. This convenient and easy-to-use reference is perfect for walkers, hikers, campers, and beachcombers and important for raising awareness of the need to conserve and protect these vital species
Grow
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!). Then follow step-by-step instructions to grow and care for each one, whether you have a big backyard garden or a sunny windowsill.
World of Northern Evergreens
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.
Book of Kale & Friends
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.
Kale, available in so many gorgeous varieties, grows well in pots, and anyone with a balcony, back porch or limited outdoor space can access fresh, tender leaves year-round. In addition to tips on kale cultivation, branch out with thirteen other superfood crops that are equally easy to grow, as well as nutritious and versatile in the kitchen.
Botanical Dyes
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. It also promotes an awareness of sustainable practices and how to reduce our impact on the planet. Babs talks the home crafter through everything from foraging for dyes, making mordants, creating an array of colors and then putting your new knowledge to the test through some simple projects.
Home Landscaping Northwest Region
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. Detailed instructions for projects such as paths, patios, ponds, and arbors are also included. Over 400 full-color photos and paintings are complemented by easy, step-by-step instructions.
Sow Simple
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. Design-wise, make a spectacular entrance with a living gate, or see how easy it is to create a vertical or rooftop garden, a whimsical water garden or a stone courtyard. Home-crafted concrete troughs stuffed with succulents stand strong alongside dry-stack stone walls, and simple ideas for playhouses, gazebos and backyard benches will keep readers busy through all seasons.
Wild Color
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.
This comprehensive book outlines all the necessary equipment, how to select fibres and plant parts, choose the right methods for mordanting and dyeing, test color modifiers and the fastness of dyed colors, and obtain a range of gorgeous colors from every plant, from alter to woad, shown in more than 250 swatches.
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Deep Rooted Wisdom
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, commonsense skills to a new generation of gardeners. Soulful gardener, Augustus Jenkins Farmer, profiles experienced and up-and-coming gardeners who use these skills in their own gardens.
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Gardening at the Dragon's Gate
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. Now Johnson has distilled her lifetime of experience into this extraordinary celebration of inner and outer growth, showing how the garden cultivates the gardener even as she digs beds, heaps up compost, plants flowers and fruit trees, and harvests bushels of organic vegetables. Johnson is a hands-on, on-her-knees gardener, and she shares with the reader a wealth of practical knowledge and fascinating garden lore.
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Butterfly Gardening
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.
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Pests of the West
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. Now fully revised, this common-sense pest control guide comes complete with more than 100 photographs and informative tables.
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Easy Care Native Plants
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. In Easy Care Native Plants, Patricia A. Taylor seeks to change this situation by emphasizing the elegant beauty, rather than the common naturalness, of American flora and by urging gardeners to capture the exquisite essence of its blossoms and foliage in artistic compositions.
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