My Friends’ Books
The books listed below are NOT published by Timber Press (although I wish they were). There’s a lot of good reading here — do peruse. You’ll find regional books, beginner’s books, plant-nerd books, garden history . . . all sorts of entertaining and enlightening stuff for your reading delectation. Of course, some of these folks are also Timber Press authors; there’s an asterisk (*) after their names. Be sure to check them out on the Timber Press website, where you’ll find scores of other books by people I like and admire.
- Barbara Blossom Ashmun
- Married to My Garden
- Garden Retreats: Creating an Outdoor Sanctuary
- Doug Brenner
- A Rose by Any Name: The Little-Known Lore and Deep-Rooted History of Rose Names (with Stephen Scanniello)
- Carol Bornstein, David Fross, and Bart O’Brien
- California Native Plants for the Garden
- Marion Brenner
- New Garden Design: Inspiring Private Paradises (with Zahid Sardar)
- Cole Burrell*
- Encyclopedia of Annuals and Perennials
- The Sunny Border: Sun-Loving Perennials for Season-Long Color
- The Shady Border: Shade-Loving Perennials for Season-Long Color
- Native Alternatives to Invasive Plants
- Wildflower Gardens: 60 Spectacular Plants and How to Grow Them in Your Garden
- Perennial Combinations: Stunning Combinations That Make Your Garden Look Fantastic Right from the Start
- Cole Burrell and Lucy Hardiman
- Intimate Gardens
- Scott Calhoun
- Yard Full of Sun: The Story of a Gardener’s Obsession That Got a Little Out of Hand
- Chasing Wildflowers
- Designer Plant Combinations: 105 Stunning Gardens Using Six Plants or Fewer
- Hot Pots: Container Gardening in the Arid Southwest
- The Hot Garden: Landscape Design for the Desert Southwest
- Tom Christopher
- In Search of Lost Roses
- Tom Cooper
- Odd Lots: Seasonal Notes of a City Gardener
- Rick Darke*
- In Harmony with Nature: Lessons from the Arts and Crafts Garden
- Helen Dillon*
- Garden Artistry: Secrets of Designing and Planting a Small Garden
- Helen Dillon on Gardening
- The Flower Garden: A Practical Guide to Planning and Planting
- Ken Druse*
- Planthropology: The Myths, Mysteries, and Miracles of My Garden Favorites
- Making More Plants: The Science, Art, and Joy of Propagation
- The Natural Shade Garden
- The Passion for Gardening
- Val Easton*
- Plant Life: Growing a Garden in the Pacific Northwest
- Artists in Their Gardens (with David Laskin)
- Joe Eck
- Elements of Garden Design
- Wayne Winterrowd
- Annuals and Tender Plants for North American Gardens
- Joe Eck and Wayne Winterrowd
- Our Life in Gardens
- A Year at North Hill: Four Seasons in a Vermont Garden
- Living Seasonally: The Kitchen Garden and the Table at North Hill
- Sydney Eddison
- The Gardener’s Palette
- Gardens to Go: Creating and Designing a Container Garden
- A Passion for Daylilies
- The Self-Taught Gardener
- A Patchwork Garden: Unexpected Pleasures from a Country Garden
- The Unsung Season: Gardens and Gardeners in Winter
- Nancy Goodwin
- Montrose: Life in a Garden
- A Year in Our Gardens: Letters of Nancy Goodwin and Allen Lacy (with Allen Lacy)
- John Greenlee*
- The Encyclopedia of Ornamental Grasses
- Brent and Becky Heath
- Daffodils for North American Gardens
- Tulips for North American Gardens
- Dan Hinkley*
- Winter Ornamentals for the Maritime Northwest Gardener
- Tom Hobbs*
- Shocking Beauty
- Panayoti Kelaidis
- Flourish: A Visionary Garden in the American West
- Joe Lamp’l
- The Green Gardener’s Guide: Simple, Significant Actions to Protect and Preserve Our Planet
- Over the Fence with Joe Gardener
- Ketzel Levine
- Plant This! Best Bets for Year-Round Gorgeous Gardens
- Carleen Madigan
- The Backyard Homestead
- Tovah Martin
- The New Terrarium: Creating Beautiful Displays for Plants and Nature
- Tasha Tudor’s Garden
- Keeyla Meadows*
- Making Gardens Works of Art: Creating Your Own Personal Paradise
- Starr Ockenga
- Earth on Her Hands: The American Woman in Her Garden
- Eden on Their Minds: American Gardeners with Bold Visions
- Lauren Springer Ogden*
- The Undaunted Garden: Planting for Weather-Resilient Beauty
- Passionate Gardening: Good Advice for Challenging Climates (with Rob Proctor)
- Scott Ogden*
- Gardening Success with Difficult Soils: Limestone, Alkaline Clay, and Caliche Soils
- The Moonlit Garden
- Ray Rogers*
- Crazy about Cacti and Succulents
- The Philadelphia Flower Show: Celebrating 175 Years (with Adam Levine)
- Felder Rushing
- Tough Plants for Southern Gardens
- Scarecrows: Making Harvest Figures and Other Yard Folks
- Passalong Plants (with Steve Bender)
- Dennis Schrader*
- Extraordinary Leaves
- Jack Staub
- 75 Exciting Vegetables for Your Garden
- 75 Remarkable Fruits for Your Garden
- 75 Exceptional Herbs for Your Garden
- Amy Stewart
- Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln’s Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities
- Flower Confidential: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful
- The Earth Moved: On the Remarkable Achievements of Earthworms
- From the Ground Up: The Story of a First Garden
- Roger B. Swain
- Earthly Pleasures
- The Practical Gardener: Mastering the Elements of Good Growing
- Field Days: Journal of an Itinerant Biologist
- Groundwork: A Gardener’s Ecology
- Judith Tankard
- Beatrix Farrand: Private Gardens, Public Landscapes
- Gardens of the Arts and Crafts Movement: Reality and Imagination
- A Place of Beauty:The Artists and Gardens of the Cornish Colony (with Alma M. Gilbert)
- The Gardens of Ellen Biddle Shipman (with Leslie Rose Close)
- Gertrude Jekyll: A Vision of Wood and Garden (with Michael Van Valkenburgh)
- Gertrude Jekyll at Munstead Wood (with Martin A. Wood)
- Paul Tukey
- The Organic Lawn Care Manual
- Marty Wingate
- Big Ideas for Northwest Small Gardens
- The Big Book of Northwest Perennials: Choosing, Growing, Tending