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| Author | Book Title |
|---|---|
| Adams, George | Gardening for the Birds: How to Create a Bird-Friendly Backyard |
| American Horticultural Society | New Encyclopedia of Gardening Techniques |
| Appelhof, Mary | Worms Eat My Garbage |
| Appelt, Kathi | Miss Lady Bird's Wildflowers |
| Appleton, Dr. Bonnie | The Book of Lists |
| Audubon Society | The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Wildflowers |
| Baker, Christopher and Lemmers, Willem | Tulipia A Photographer's Botanical |
| Beam, Rona | Backyard Explorer Kit |
| Beane, Christopher | Beane Flower |
| Beck, Malcolm | Lessons in Nature |
| Bemiss, Margaret Page and Foley, Roger | Garden Club of Virginia 1975-2007 |
| Biebighauser, Thomas R. | Creative Vernal Ponds |
| Biebighauser, Thomas R. | Wetland Drainage, Restoration and Repair |
| Biles, Roy E | The Complete Illustrated Book of Garden Magic |
| Bir, Richard | Growing and Propagating Showy Native Woody Plants |
| Blaschka, Leopold and Rudolph | The Glass Flowers at Harvard |
| Blaschka, Leopold and Rudolph | Drawing Upon Nature: Studies for the Blaschkas' Glass Models |
| Bolgiano, Chris | The Appalachian Forest |
| Brickell, Christopher and Joyce, David | The American Horticultural Society's Pruning and Training |
| Brickell, Christopher and Zuk, Judith | AHS A-Z Encyclopedia of Gardening (More than 15,000 plants 6,000 photos) |
| Brooklyn Botanic Garden | All Region Guides: Native Alternatives to Invasive Plants |
| Buczacki, Stefan | A Garden for All Seasons |
| Burris, Judy & Richards, Wayne | The Life Cycles of Butterflies |
| Burton, Robert | The Audubon Backyard Bird Watcher |
| Burnet, Norie | Recommended Readings on Moss Gardens |
| Burnett, Francis Hodgson | The Secret Garden |
| Burrell, C. Colston | Perennial Combinations |
| Burrell, C. Colston and Taylor, Judith Knott | Hellebores |
| Burris, Judy | The Life Cycles of Butterflies: From Egg to Maturity, a Visual Guide to 23 common Garden Butterflies |
| Burris, Judy and Richards, Wayne | The Secret Lives of Backyard Bugs |
| Bush-Brown, Louise and James | America's Gardening Book |
| Byczynski, Lynn | The Flower Farmer |
| Capek, Karel | The Gardener's Year |
| Cavalier, Darlene and Eric B. Kennedy | The Rightful Place of Science |
| Chatto, Beth | Gravel Garden |
| Clark, Chandra | Be the Change; Saving the world with Citizen Science |
| Coleman, Elliot | The New Organic Grower |
| Cooper, Caren | Citizen Science: How ordinary people are changing the face of discovery |
| Committee on Mitigating Shore Erosion along Sheltered Coasts, National Research Council | Mitigating Shore Erosion Along Sheltered Coasts Opens in New Window |
| Cothran, James R. | Gardens of Historic Charleston |
| Cramer, James and Johnson, Dean | Window Boxes Indoors and Out |
| Crosby, Alfred W | Encountering the Past in Nature: Essay in Environmental History |
| Culp, David L. | The Layered Garden |
| Curry, David Park | Childe Hassam-An Island Garden Revisited |
| Damrosch, Barbara | The Garden Primer |
| De la Tour, Richard and Shatoiya | The Herbalist's Garden |
| Darke, Rick | Recommended Readings Opens in New Window |
| Darke, Rick and Tallamy, Doug | The Living Landscape |
| Deardorff, David and Wadsworth, Kathryn | What's Wrong With My Plant (And How Do I Fix it?) |
| Detrick, Alan L. | Macro Photography for Gardeners and Nature Lovers |
| Dirr, Michael A. | Dirr's Hardy Trees and Shrubs |
| Dirr, Michael A. | Manual of Woody Landscaping Plants |
| Dirr, Michael A. | Dirr's Encyclopedia of Trees and Shrubs (Timber Press, 2011) |
| DiSabato-Aust, Tracy | The Well Tended Perennial Garden |
| DiSabato-Aust, Tracy | The Well-Designed Mixed Garden |
| Disasvo-Ryan, Dyanne | City Green |
| Dove, Tony and Woolridge, Ginger | Essential Native Trees & Shrubs for the Eastern United States |
| Ellis, Barbara W | Chesapeake Gardening and Landscaping |
| Elpel, Thomas J. | Botany in a Day |
| Evans, Arthur V. | Field Guide to Insects and Spiders of North America - National Wildlife Federation |
| Evans, Charles M. with Pliner, Roberta Lee | RX for Ailing House Plants |
| Faust, Joan Lee | The New York Times Book of Vegetable Gardening |
| Fell, Derek | The Magic of Monet's Garden |
| Fleischmann, Melanie | American Border Gardens |
| Forsell, Mary/Cenicola, Tony | The Herbal Grove |
| Foster, Steven | Herbal Bounty |
| Foster, Steven | Herbal Renaissance |
| Foster, Steven and Duke, James A. | A Field Guide to Medicinal Plants; Eastern/Central North America |
| Franklin, H. Bruce | The Most Important Fish in the Sea |
| Frost, Helen and Gore, Leonid | Monarch and Milkweed |
| Gagliardi, James | Creating Beautiful Landscapes for Pollinators and Wildlife Habitat:Smithsonian Gardens to Your Front Yard |
| Gershuny, Grace and Martin, Deborah L. (Editors) | The Rodale Book of Composting: Easy Methods for Every Gardener |
| Gilman, Steve | Organic Soil Fertility Management |
| Gioni, Jean | The Man Who Planted Trees |
| Glennon, Robert | Water Follies |
| Glennon, Robert | Unquenchable |
| Greene, Wesley | Vegetable Gardening the Colonial Williamsburg Way |
| Greenlee, John | Brooklyn Botanic Garden: Easy Lawns |
| Gribbin, Mary and John | Flower Hunters |
| Griffith, Lawrence | Flowers and Herbs of Early America |
| Grissell, Eric | Insects and Gardens: In Pursuit of a Garden Ecology |
| Guste Jr, Roy F. | The Secret Gardens of the Vieux Carre -The Historic French Quarter of New Orleans |
| Hailes, Mick | Gardens Private and Personal Garden Club of America |
| Hamilton, Helen and Hall, Gustavus | Wildflowers and Grasses of Virginia's Coastal Plain |
| Hamilton, Helen | Ferns and Mosses of Virginia's Coastal Plain |
| Hannibal, Mary Ellen | Citizen Science: Searching for heroes and hope in an age of extinction |
| Harland, Jack R. | Crops and Man |
| Harper, Pamela | Designing with Perennials |
| Harper, Pamela | Time-Tested Plants |
| Heath, Brent | Tulips |
| Heath, Brent | Daffodils |
| Hedrick, U.P. Editor | Sturtevant's Edible Plants of the World |
| Hill, Madalene/Barclay, Gwen/Handy, Sean | Southern Herb Growing |
| Hiller, John G. and Roy Lancaster (Royal Horticultural Society) | The Hiller Manual of Trees and Shrubs |
| Hiroshige | Birds and Flowers |
| Hobbs, Carl | The Beach Book |
| Holm, Heather | Pollinators of Native Plants |
| Hugo, Nancy Ross, Jeff Kerwin, Robert LLewellyn | Remarkable Trees of Virginia |
| Hugo, Nancy Ross/Photos by Robert LLewellyn | Seeing Trees |
| Hugo, Nancy Ross/Photos by Robert LLewellyn | Trees Up Close: The Beauty of Bark, Leaves, Flowers and Seeds |
| Hugo, Nancy Ross | Windowsill Art - Creating On - of - A - Kind |
| Hugo, Nancy Ross | Natural Arrangements to Celebrate The Seasons |
| Humphreys, Helen | The Lost Garden |
| Hunter, Jane McMorland | A Nature Poem for Every Day of the Year |
| Jeavons, John | How to Grow More Vegetables |
| Jackson, William R. | Humic, Fulvic and Microbial Balance: Organic Soil Conditioning (Standard) |
| Johnson, Hugh | The Principles of Gardening |
| Joyce, David | The Complete Container Garden |
| Kingsbury, Noel | Garden Flora: The Natural and Cultural History of the Plants in Your Garden |
| Kingsbury, Noel | The Glory of the Tree: An Illustrated History (Firefly, 2014) |
| Kirk, Lynn J. | Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden: 25 Years and Growing |
| Kober, Nancy | With Paintbrush and Shovel Reserving Virginia's Wildflowers |
| LeHouillier, Craig with Sara LeHouillier | Epic Tomatoes: How to Select and Grow the Varieties of All Time |
| LeHouillier, Craig with Sara LeHouillier | Growing Vegetables in Straw Bales: Easy Planting, Less Weeding Early Harvests |
| Longest, George C. | Genius in the Garden |
| Louv, Richard | Last Child in the Woods |
| Lovejoy, Ann | Organic Garden Design School |
| Lovejoy, Sharon | Sunflower Houses |
| Lowenfels, Jeff and Lewis, Wayne | Teaming with Microbes: A Gardener's Guide to the Soil Food Web |
| Luebbermann, Mimi | Shade Gardens |
| Martin, Annie | The Magical World of Moss Gardening |
| McDowell, Marta | All The Presidents' Gardens |
| Meadows, Keeyla | Fearless Color Gardens: The Creative Gardener's Guide to Jumping Off the Color Wheel |
| Murray, Elizabeth | Monet's Passion |
| National Research Council | Mitigating Shore Erosion Along Sheltered Coasts |
| Newcomb, Lawrence and Ill by Gordon Morrison | Wildflower Guide |
| Ortho | Encyclopedia of Insects and Diseases (This is a $200 book) |
| Pasternak, Carol | How to Raise Monarch Butterflies - A Step-by-Step Guide for Kids |
| Pavlis, Robert | Soil Science for Gardeners |
| Pavord, Anna | The Naming of Names - The Search for Order in the World of Plants |
| Pavord, Anna | The Tulip |
| Petit, Ted L. and Peat, John P. | The New Encyclopedia of Daylilies |
| Petrides, George A./Wehr, Janet/Peterson, Roger Tory | A Field Guide to Eastern Trees |
| Prione, P.P. | Insects and Diseases of Plants |
| Preston, Richard | The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring |
| Rae, Ba, Oberhauser, Karen and Quinn, Michael A. Quinn | Milkweed, Monarchs and More |
| Ranier, Thomas and Claudia West | Planting in a Post-Wild World:Designing Plant Communities for Resilient Landscapes |
| Richardson, Tim | Avant Gardeners |
| Robinson, Peter | Rock and Water Gardening |
| Robinson, William with Rick Darke | The Wild Garden |
| Rodale Books | Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening |
| Rodale Books | Rodale's Illustrated Encyclopedia of Gardening and Landscaping Techniques |
| Roth, Sally | Backyard Bird Secrets for Every Season |
| Ruddick, Margie | Wild by Design: Strategies for Creating Life-Enhancing Landscapes |
| Russel, Sharman Apt | Diary of a Citizen Scientist: Chasing the Tiger Beetles and other ways of engaging the world. |
| Ryrie, Charlie | Garden Folklore That Works |
| Sachs, Paul D. | Dynamics of a Natural System (2nd Edition), Edaphic Press |
| Schneider, Peter | Right Rose, Right Place |
| Seguin-Fontes, Marthe | The Language of Flowers |
| Sibley, David Allen | Sibley Guide to Birds |
| Sibley, David Allen | Sibley Guide to Trees |
| Silberthorn, Gene | Common Plants of the Mid-Atlantic Coast: A Field Guide (Revised Edition) |
| Slack, Nancy and Allison Bell | Field Guide to the New England Alpine Summits |
| Smillie, Joe and Gershuny, Grace | The Soul of Soil The Best of Fine Gardening- Healthy Soil Taunton Press |
| Smith, Charles W.G. | The Weather-Resilient Garden |
| Smith, P. Allen | Container Gardens |
| Soil and Water Conservation Society | Soil Biology Primer |
| Stevens, John | Reader's Digest The Complete Herb Garden-A Practical Guide to Growing Herbs |
| Speichert, Greg | Encyclopedia of Water Garden Plants (Timber Press) |
| Starcher, Allison Mia | Good Bugs for Your Garden |
| Stein, Sara | Noah's Garden |
| Stein, Sara | My Weeds |
| Stewart, Amy | Flower Confidential |
| Stewart, Amy | Wicked Plants: The Weed that Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical |
| Symonds, G.WD. | The Tree Identification Book: A New Method for the Practical Identification and Recognition of Trees |
| Tallamy, Douglas | Bringing Nature Home: How Plants Sustain Wildlife in Our Gardens |
| Tankard, Judith B. | Beatrix Farrand: Private Gardens, Public Landscapes |
| Taylor | Taylor's Master Guide to Gardening |
| Taylor, David A. | Genseng: The Divine Root |
| Taylor, Jeff | Tools of the Earth |
| Thaxter, Celia | An Island Garden |
| Time-Life | Time-Life Encyclopedia of Gardening: Foliage House Plants |
| Tudor, Tasha | Emily Dickinson- A Brighter Garden |
| Tychonieich, Joseph | Rock Gardening |
| Tyler, Varro | The New Honest Herbal - A Sensible Guide to Herbs and Related Remedies |
| Virginia Department of Forestry | Common Native Shrubs and Woody Vines of Virginia |
| Virginia Department of Forestry | Common Native Trees of Virginia |
| Watts, May T. | Tree Finder: A Manual for Identification of Trees by Their Leaves |
| Weaver, Larry | Garden Revolution |
| Whigham, Dr. Dennis | Native Orchids:Models for Ecological Interactions, Conservation and Education |
| Wohlleben, Peter | The Hidden Life of Trees |
| Williams, Florence | Nature Fix |
| Winter, Norman | "Captivating Combinations: Color and Style in the Garden" |
| Winter, Norman | "Tough-as-Nails Flowers for the South" |
| Whitlock | The Ecosystem Pond (Aquascape Lifestyles) |
| Wulf, Andrea | The Brother Gardeners: Botany, Empire and the Birth of an Obsession |
| Wulf, Andrea | The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humbolt's New World |
| Wyzga, Marilyn C. Developed by New Hampshire Fish and Game | Homes for Wildlife - A Planning Guide for Habitat Enhancement on School Grounds....with Appendices adapted for Virginia WILD School Sites |
| Xerces Society/Smithsonian Institution | Butterfly Gardening-Creating Summer Magic in Your Garden |
| Zachos, Ellen | Orchid Growing for Wimps |
| Zieglar, Lisa | The Easy Cut-Flower Garden |