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Dahlias & Other Flowers

Bulbs : essential know-how and expert advice for gardening success
by Stephanie Mahon

This simple guide, full of practical tips, is ideal for novice gardeners and explains how to plant, care for and divide bulbs, corms and tubers to seasonally create beautiful gardens and floral displays

Floret Farm's discovering dahlias : a guide to growing and arranging magnificent blooms
by Erin Benzakein

The renowned floral designer and best-selling author of Floret Farm's Cut Flower Garden shares professional secrets for growing, cultivating and arranging the versatile dahlia, providing a variety classification overview and step-by-step instructions for creating show-stopping bouquets.

The gardener's palette : creating colour harmony in the garden
by Jo Thompson

Lush, inspiring and packed with plants, this guide to successfully using color in the home garden from the world's most respected gardening organization curates 100 evocative and fresh palettes.

Growing flowers : everything you need to know about planting, tending, harvesting and arranging beautiful blooms
by Niki Irving

This book will feature fun, simple and engaging gardening know-how on growing, harvesting and arranging seasonal flowers and vegetables. It will include chapters on getting started, tools of the trade, getting down and dirty with dirt, growing flowers, harvesting flowers, arranging flowers, seasonal rotation, starting from seeds and/or seedlings and keeping it organic

The flower workshop : lessons in arranging blooms, branches, fruits, and foraged materials
by Ariella Chezar

A master floral designer who has appeared in numerous magazines, and who is known for her hands-on flower workshops at FlowerSchool New York, presents this lavishly illustrated guide to creating a vast array of floral projects, for all skill levels, that will enhance any surrounding with abundant beauty.

Mastering the art of flower gardening : a gardener's guide to growing flowers, from today's favorites to unusual varieties
by Matt Mattus

"Mastering the Art of Flower Gardening is a lushly illustrated book with highly practical, firsthand tips on how to grow truly interesting and unusual flowers"

The posy book : garden-inspired bouquets that tell a story with a modern floral dictionary
by Teresa H. Sabankaya

Inspired by the Victorian-era language of flowers, this beautiful book shares step-by-step instructions and floral recipes for more than 20 posies, which are small, round bouquets of flowers, herbs and plants that convey a message and are filled with personal meaning.

Seasonal flower arranging : fill your home with blooms, branches, and foraged materials all year round
by Ariella Chezar

A lavishly photographed book by the author of The Flower Workshop provides step-by-step instructions for 39 themed floral arrangements and projects that reflect the changing seasons and the wild beauty of nature.

The seasonal gardener : creative planting combinations
by Anna Pavord
635.932/PAV

This classic book reveals how best to group plants in a garden to create a year-long display. Ranging from hydrangeas, salvias and ferns to dahlias, tulips and snowdrops, each star plant is paired with two partners, offering gardeners creative planting solutions to achieve stunning results, season by season.

Starting & saving seeds : grow the perfect vegetables, fruits, herbs and flowers for your garden
by Julie Thompson-Adolf

"In this book, you'll find the tools you need to become a seed starting and saving champion. Author and gardening expert Julie Thompson-Adolf walks you through every step of the journey, making the entire process a joy. You'll find hints to encourage stubborn seeds to germinate, lists of varieties to add to your garden, charts for quick growing reference, and simple DIY projects to aid your seed starting and saving adventure. (Learn how to make seed bombs and an indoor seed-starting station.) The extensive plant entries inside cover all the most popular vegetables, fruits, herbs, and flowers. Get started with tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, and melons, or chamomile, cosmos, sweet peas, and poppies"

Springtime is Coming!

Winter into spring

CD

This 20th anniversary edition of George Winston's New Age classic contains a previously unreleased bonus track, "Pine Hill."

How to Prune Trees, Shrubs & Climbers : a gardener's guide to cutting, trimming, and training, with over 650 photographs and illustrations, and practical, easy-to-follow advice
by Richard Bird

A book with more than 650 illustrations provides how-to instruction on pruning garden plants, as well as a useful plant-by-plant directory.

Illinois, Indiana & Ohio month-by-month gardening : what to do each month to have a beautiful garden all year
by Beth Botts

This book offers advice to guide you in the all-important "when-to" such as when to prune shrubs, when to fertilize lawns -- and when to plant annuals and perennials. Author Beth Botts shares her years of hand-on experience to answer your questions. Beth's advice covers not only the when-to but also the how-to.

Knits from nature : sweaters and accessories with garden-inspired motifs
by Dee Hardwicke

Presents a collection of knitting patterns that have motifs using flowers and other botanicals, with instructions for sweaters, scarves, and shawls

Nature play workshop for families : a guide to 40+ outdoor learning experiences in all seasons
by Monica Wiedel-Lubinski

"Nature Play Workshop for Families reveals the benefits of nature connection for young children and describes how caring adults can nurture it through outdoor play in all seasons"

Pruning Simplified : a visual guide to 50 trees and shrubs
by Steve Bradley
635.9/BRA

Filled with expert advice, a plant-by-plant guide profiles 50 of the most popular trees and shrubs and provides easy-to-follow instructions for pruning and shaping each one. Original.

The ultimate book of scavenger hunts : 42 outdoor adventures to conquer with your family
by Stacy Tornio

"Features forty-two scavenger hunts for children and families to participate in outdoors"

The unplugged family activity book : 60+ simple crafts & recipes for year-round fun
by Rachel Jepson Wolf

"The Unplugged Family Activity Book is your guide to exploring the natural world as a family, with dozens of outdoor and indoor activities, recipes, and crafts!"

A year of picnics : recipes for dining well in the great outdoors
by Ashley English

Presents menus and over seventy recipes for various types of outdoor picnics, including such picnic themes as table-to-farm, afternoon tea, movie night, sacred tree, and rooftop

Zen in the garden : the Japanese art of peaceful gardening
by Miki Sakamoto

"Miki Sakamoto has spent a lifetime tending her garden and reflecting on its mysteries. Why do primulas bloom in snow? Do the trees really 'talk' to one another? What are the black birds saying today? And is there a mindful way to deal with an aphid infestation? From rising early to walk barefoot on the grass each morning, to afternoons and evenings spent sipping tea in her gazebo or watching fireflies as she recalls her childhood in Japan, in Zen in the garden Sakamoto shares observations from a life spent in contemplation--and cultivation--of nature''

For the young and young-at-heart

Animals in spring
by Martha E. H. Rustad

Describes some of the activities of animals during the spring, including bears waking up, birds returning from the south, ducklings hatching, and honeybees leaving the hive

Dahlia
by Barbara McClintock

Preferring her teddy named Bruno with whom she digs in the dirt and climbs trees, Charlotte is not happy about the delicate doll she receives from her Aunt Edme until Dahlia proves she likes making mud cakes and racing wagons, and the two soon become good friends.

Fletcher and the Springtime Blossoms
by Julia Rawlinson

When Fletcher the fox finds the ground covered in white, he rushes to warn the other animals that spring snow has fallen, but when they follow him back to the meadow they find something much more fun.

Gardens in spring
by Jenny Fretland VanVoorst
also available in Spanish

This photo-illustrated book for beginning readers discusses the experience of gardening in springtime, from preparing the soil and planting seeds to nurturing new growth. Includes picture glossary and index.

Happy springtime!
by Kate McMullan

From earmuffed crossing guards to sweater wearing dogs, from painters of flowers to planters of seeds, this bright, bouncy and colorful picture book is an ode to the joys of spring that celebrates the burst of life following the thaw of winter. Illustrations.

It starts with a seed
by Laura Knowles

Uses rhyming text to show how a seed grows into a tree

Let's look at leaves
by Calvin Harvey

Looks at the different leaves that fill the bare branches and limbs of trees as they come back to life in spring, including the variety of shapes, sizes, and colors

Spring seeds
by Mirka Hokkanen

In this laugh-out-loud nonfiction picture book with a tear-out memory card game, a group of outspoken seeds show what they can do when the amazing lifecycle of spring begins! Illustrations.

Springtime splash!
by Anne Passchier

Children are invited to browse spreads of animals playing in the springtime weather, from frogs jumping through reeds, to ladybugs climbing and turtles splashing in the pond, in a story complemented by transparent cutouts that reveal each creature's activities.

What's inside a bird's nest? : and other questions about nature & life cycles
by Rachel Ignotofsky

This wondrous read-aloud combines beautiful artwork with informative text to answer any questions readers have about our winged friends in the sky, from the moment they hatch to how they create their homes. Illustrations.