A Book for Moms and Kids: I Plant a Garden with My Mom
Here’s another gift suggestion for Mother’s Day. The book I Plant a Garden with My Mom
Wednesday ~ May 05, 2007 by kswanson56 Posted in Books, Gardening Gifts for Women, Kids | Add Your Comments
Book About Using Native Plants
Using native plants in your yard is one of the best ways to restore your landscape and get it more in sync with the surrounding natural environment. Natural Landscaping: Designing with Native Plant Communities
Tuesday ~ November 11, 2006 by kswanson56 Posted in Books, Gardening Gifts for Women, Organic Gardening | Add Your Comments
Fall Notebook: Garden, Hearth, Tradition, Home
Fall Notebook: Garden, Hearth, Tradition, Home by Carolyne Roehm
Monday ~ September 09, 2006 by kswanson56 Posted in Books, Gardening Gifts for Women, Gardening Lifestyle | Add Your Comments
Organic Gardening for the 21st Century by John Fedor
Organic Gardening for the 21st Century: A Complete Guide to Growing Vegetables, Fruits, Herbs and Flowers is an excellent book that will introduce you to all the newest organic gardening techniques and technologies. The book starts with the basics of organic gardening, and then goes on to describe more advanced techniques, making it a perfect resource for all gardeners. The tips are useful and practical, too, without being out of reach for the average gardener. Check out more books about organic gardening here.
Friday ~ September 09, 2006 by kswanson56 Posted in Books, Organic Gardening, Serious Gardener, Vegetables | Add Your Comments
Gardening in Containers: Creative Ideas from America’s Best Gardeners
Container gardening is a great way to garden creatively in your home. It is especially handy when you have limited space to garden. With containers, you can garden on your balcony or on your porch! Gardening in Containers: Creative Ideas from America’s Best Gardeners is a wonderful book full of tips that will get you on your way to gardening with containers. This book is actually part of the “Fine Gardening Design Guides” series. This series of excellent books contain articles on various gardening topics that originally appeared in Fine Gardening magazine.
Monday ~ September 09, 2006 by kswanson56 Posted in Books, Gardening Gifts for Women, Gardening Lifestyle, Houseplants | Add Your Comments
Flower Press Guide
If you’re interesting in pressing flowers, you should consider checking out this interesting guide to pressing flowers for fun and for profit. This is a basic guide to pressing flowers and using them for greeting cards, journals, etc.
Monday ~ July 07, 2006 by kswanson56 Posted in Books | Add Your Comments
Water Sprinkler Guide
If you’re a fan of do-it-yourself projects, you should check out this excellent book that details how to build your own automatic sprinkler system. It contains detailed information on how to maximize the efficiency of your sprinkler system to help save you water. The book also includes a drip irrigation tutorial for those interested in installing drip irrigation systems. 
Friday ~ July 07, 2006 by kswanson56 Posted in Books | Add Your Comments
Let it Rot: A Classic Book on Compost
Let It Rot! The Gardener’s Guide to Composting, is a wonderful and humorous guide to composting offered by Stu Campbell. The book came out in 1975, making waves and introducing (reintroducing?) a generation of gardeners to the joys of compost. This book makes a great gift for friends, relatives, and loved ones. Check out more books about organic gardening here.
Tuesday ~ July 07, 2006 by kswanson56 Posted in Books | Add Your Comments
Timber Press
Timber Press offers a number of great gardening books to help polish your green thumb. This featured book on native plants of North America is a wonderful gift for the gardener who is looking to grow a more natural garden featuring plants that come from our continent. The author, Allan M. Armitage, is a well respected horticulturist. 
Monday ~ July 07, 2006 by kswanson56 Posted in Books | Add Your Comments
The $64 Tomato
I just heard a review of William Alexander’s The $64 Tomato : How One Man Nearly Lost his Sanity, Spent a Fortune, and Endured an Existential Crisis in the Quest for the Perfect Garden and had to recommend it for this blog. This book is a humorous look at gardening trials and tribulations. It’s full of great stories of giant garden pests, epic weeds, and gardening with your spouse. You can buy it at Amazon.com. 
Thursday ~ April 04, 2006 by kswanson56 Posted in Books | Add Your Comments
Gardening and Horticulture Books
Timber Press is a small book press specializing in books about gardening, botany, horticulture, and natural history in the Pacific Northwest. Their book of the week is “Hardy Gingers,” which focuses on all things ginger and delicious. This is a gorgeous plant and one of my favorites. I really enjoyed perusing their collection of gardening books.
Tuesday ~ April 04, 2006 by kswanson56 Posted in Books, Serious Gardener | Add Your Comments
The Truth About Garden Remedies
There are dozens of natural garden remedies that have been handed down from generation to generation and from family to family. In “The Truth About Garden Remedies,” things like putting a cup of beer out to trap slugs and snails and playing music to get your houseplant to grow are put under the microscope and analyzed by a professor from the University of Minnesota. Those gardeners who like to pick things apart with science will love this book. Those of a more “faith-based” persuasion may be better off avoiding it. Read a review of the book in the Seattle Times here. Buy the book here.
Thursday ~ February 02, 2006 by kswanson56 Posted in Books, Natural Pesticides and Fertilizers, Organic Gardening | Add Your Comments
Xeriscape Guides
Folks who live in Denver, Colorado have a great resource in Denver Water, their municipal water company. Denver has been known as a center for water conservation ever since Nancy Leavitt, an environmental planner for the City, penned the term “Xeriscape” in 1982. Since then, the City of Denver has been working hard to conserve water. You can take advantage of their work but checking out the list of books that they now offer on their website. These books deal mostly with Xeriscape gardening and water conservation.
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Thursday ~ February 02, 2006 by kswanson56 Posted in Books, Organic Gardening, Serious Gardener | Add Your Comments
Natural by Design Landscaping Book
Judy Phillips, a gardener and writer from New Mexico, takes landscape design to a new level with her book Natural by Design (available from Amazon.com Books. Her books look at plants and humans as forming an important partnership in the garden. When the gardener is educated about the natural environment, the resulting gardens are easy to maintain, and very beautiful. Phillips’ garden designs are appropriate for a variety of climates in the southwestern United States. She focuses on using natural plants in ecologically-sound combinations.
Tuesday ~ January 01, 2006 by kswanson56 Posted in Books | Add Your Comments
Permaculture Book
Permaculture takes gardening to a whole new level by turning your landscaping into a self-sustaining micro-ecosystem. By integrating your home into your garden through the use of grey water, rainwater storage, and good design, you, your house and your landscaping can work in harmony to be sustainable and have less impact on the environment. The classic book by Bill Mollison Permaculture: A Designers’ Manual is still the best guide to basic permaculture design. Check it out here.
Tuesday ~ December 12, 2005 by kswanson56 Posted in Books | Add Your Comments
Prize Winning Tomatoes Book
Looking for a good read? Try out Jerry Baker’s Terrific Tomatoes, Sensational Spuds, and Mouth-Watering Melons: 1,274 Super Secrets for Growing Prize-Winning Vegetables. And try saying the title 3 times fast! There are lots of great gardening tips in this book (some say 1,274!), including lots of organic and natural gardening advice to get your tomatoes and other veggies to grow up big, fat, and happy. Available from Powell?s Books, America’s biggest, best, and thankfully independent bookstore!
Monday ~ December 12, 2005 by kswanson56 Posted in Books, Vegetables | Add Your Comments
Rootfriends Picture Book for Kids
Looking for a way to educate your kids about plants, trees, gardening, and the environment? The Rootfriends Picture Book is a delightful childrens book with full color illustrations that detail the lives of the trees around us through such colorful characters as the Root Doctor, Willow Snapper, Maple Sprout and Rooty. For 20 bucks your kids will be immersed in this fantastical world, and will be learning in the process!
Saturday ~ December 12, 2005 by kswanson56 Posted in Books, Kids | Add Your Comments
Brooklyn Botanic Garden Handbooks
These pocket-sized books from the Brooklyn Botanic Garden are just the thing for a stocking stuffer or for the gardener who likes to have a gardening guide handy while they’re actually gardening! These are ultra-compact books that don’t skimp on useful information. The authors are top-notch and the illustrations are gorgeous! Topics include propagation, gardening techniques, pest control, container gardening, gardening indoors, and more!
Wednesday ~ December 12, 2005 by kswanson56 Posted in Books | Add Your Comments
Chicken Soup for the Gardener’s Soul
While I’m not a fan of the “Chicken Soup” book series, Chicken Soup for the Gardener’s Soul is actually an excellent book, if not a bit sappy, about the trials and tribulations of gardening. The book focuses on the spiritual and physical rewards of working with the earth, and how gardening can enrich individuals, families, and communities. Here’s an example of the chapters: Blossoming Friendships, The Family Tree, Love in Bloom, The Seasons of Life, Overcoming Obstacles and Potpourri. The book is available on-line through Powell?s Books, one of the largest independent bookstores in the United States.
Thursday ~ December 12, 2005 by kswanson56 Posted in Books | Add Your Comments
History of the Butchart Gardens
The Butchart Gardens of British Colombia are some of the most spectacular public botanical gardens in the world. They are especially known for their colorful displays of flowers. Technorati Profile
Wednesday ~ November 11, 2005 by kswanson56 Posted in Books | Add Your Comments
