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Plant Parenting November 2025 |
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The Fifth Season: Creativity in the Second Half of Life
by Mark NepoCall number: 155.67/NEP | Adult Non-Fiction New
As the years go by, this question becomes more and more real. Now in his seventies, poet and philosopher Mark Nepo explores the rhythms of the second half of life. As we age, We are led to what the Chinese call the fifth season--that moment in late summer when the glare of the sun fades so that we can see clearly the true colors around us. The Fifth Season offers Mark's wise and gentle insights on growing older, helping readers identify the second half of life as a turning point, a time of integration and transformation that guides us in making sense of our experiences. All seasons lead to this season; all experiences lead to this understanding of experience.--Page 4 of cover.
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Carbon: The Book of Life
by Paul Hawken
577.144/HAW | Adult Non-Fiction New
A journey into the world of carbon, the most versatile element on the planet, by the New York Times bestselling author Paul Hawken Carbon is the only element that animates the entirety of the living world. Though comprising a tiny fraction of Earth's composition, our planet is lifeless without it. Yet it is maligned as the driver of climate change, scorned as an errant element blamed for the possible demise of civilization. Here, Paul Hawken looks at the flow of life through the lens of carbon. Embracing a panoramic view of carbon's omnipresence, he explores how this ubiquitous and essential element extends into every aperture of existence and shapes the entire fabric of life. Hawken charts a course across our planetary history, guiding us into the realms of plants, animals, insects, fungi, food, and farms to offer a new narrative for embracing carbon's life-giving power and its possibilities for the future of human endeavor. In this stirring, hopeful, and deeply humane book, Hawken illuminates the subtle connections between carbon and our collective human experience and asks us to see nature, carbon, and ourselves as exquisitely intertwined--inseparably connected.
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Staying Alive: The Go-To Guide for Houseplants
by Janet Melrose
635.965/MEL | Adult Non-Fiction New
Whether you have one tiny succulent on your desk at work or a massive collection of tropical plants in your home, caring for houseplants can be a real source of joy--and the occasional moment of wild frustration. In this Q&A guide to happy, healthy houseplants, lifelong gardeners Sheryl Normandeau and Janet Melrose are here with the insight you need to take you from perusing the plant shop to the dreaded repotting to splitting your mama spider into little spidies to share with friends.
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How to Design a Garden: Create and Maintain Your Dream Garden
by Pollyanna Wilkinson
712.6/WIL | Adult Non-Fiction New
Design the garden of your dreams with the expertise of award-winning garden designer Pollyanna Wilkinson. How to Design A Garden shows you how to untap your garden's potential and customize the design to suit you and your space: whether that be an extension of your living space for parties and al fresco dining or a calming oasis to relax in. Equipped with all you need to know about light, focal points, hardscaping, and planting, you'll have the skills to create a mood board, design layout, choose paving, furniture, and plant combinations. Polly expertly guides you to understand how the elements in your garden will work together as one - and she is not shy to share her opinions on certain design dos and don'ts! Once you've designed your garden, month-by-month growing guides help you to nurture it, so you can enjoy your dream space for years to come.
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Casting Flowers: A Step-By-Step Guide to Creating Beautiful Botanical Art
by Rachel Dein
731.54/DEI | Adult Non-Fiction New
Introduces botanical bas-relief as a rewarding method that encourages even the most basic beginners to revel in the ability to record a plant's texture, pattern, and delicacy in fine detail, creating compositions as small as a single stem or as complex as a field of wildflowers. All it takes is clay, flower, plants, and plaster. ... From small plaster tiles featuring a single flower portrait to large panels that suggest an entire garden full of blooms, botanical castings reflect every artist's desire to capture the ephemeral in nature. A meditative activity that encourages artists to explore their gardens and natural spaces for materials, botanical bas-relief teaches readers how to track the progress of the seasons, immortalizing the plants at the moment when they are most alive--
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The Art of Pressed Flowers and Leaves: Contemporary Techniques & Designs
by Jennie Ashmore
745.928/ASH | Adult Non-Fiction New
The art of pressing flowers is enjoying a renaissance, and Jennie Ashmore teaches newcomers how to make the most of this rediscovered craft. Providing plenty of templates and insider tips, she covers choosing flowers, methods for pressing them, and designing with the finished flowers and leaves. See how to achieve symmetry, use color, and combine the flowers with watercolor and gouache, painted backgrounds, and gold and silver paper.
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Eat the Ones You Love
by Sarah Maria Griffin
F/GRIFFIN | Adult Fiction New
A twisted, tangled story about workplace love-affairs, and plants with a taste for human flesh. During a grocery run to her local shopping center, Shell Pine sees a 'HELP NEEDED' sign in a flower shop window. She's just left her fiancâe, lost her job, and moved home to her parents' house. She has to make a change and bring some good into her life, so she goes inside and takes a chance. Shell realizes right away that flowers are just the good thing she's been looking for, as is Neve, the beautiful florist who wrote the sign asking for help. The thing is, Neve needs help more than Shell could possibly imagine. An orchid growing out of sight in the heart of the mall is watching them closely. His name is Baby, and the beautiful florist belongs to him. He's young, he's hungry, and he'll do just about anything to make sure he can keep growing big and strong. Nothing he eats - nobody he eats - can satisfy him, except the thing he most desires. Neve. He adores her and wants to consume her, and will stop at nothing to eat the one he loves. This is a story about possession, and monstrosity, and working retail. It is about hunger and desire, and other terrible things that grow--
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Where You're Planted
by Melanie Sweeney
F/SWEENEY | Adult Fiction New
Single mom Tansy Perkins only has room in her life for her daughter and her library. And maybe the next book to add to her collection. But after a catastrophic hurricane severely damages her library, she's forced to temporarily move her branch into the adjacent county botanic gardens, where Jack Reid, the world's grouchiest gardener who rescued her and her daughter from the flood, happens to be the assistant director. Jack has always preferred plants over people, having built a strong track record of avoiding relationships ever since his divorce six years ago. So, Tansy and her quirky band of bookish colleagues' encroachment into his carefully-kept territory is a little more than irksome, especially when it means sharing his already-scarce resources. When Jack and Tansy are tasked with working together on the spring festival, they have no choice but to call a truce. And soon their newfound professional partnership gives way to a deep intimacy that they've both been silently craving. But Tansy has lost too much to risk her heart, and Jack has sworn off real love. When an opportunity arises for funding that both the library and gardens need, will their loyalties lie with the futures they'd always planned for, or the new spark they've found with each other? Includes an author's note and discussion questions.
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At home with plants
by Ian Drummond
747.98/DRU
Presents advice on the use of house plants in interior decoration, discussing plant care, containers, principles of design, health benefits, and the selection of the right plant for each room
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Beginner's houseplant garden : top 40 choices for houseplant success & happiness
by Jade Murray
635.965/MUR
User-friendly and highly accessible, this is a practical and inspiring guide to indoor gardening for complete beginners by award-winning and self-taught plant enthusiast Jade Murray. Here, you will find invaluable tips and advice for choosing, caring for, and propagating the top 40 easiest and most common houseplants. From air-purifying plants for beginners like ferns and fiddle leaf figs to heat-resistant succulents and cacti, discover everything you need to know on where to position them and how to display them, tips on soil mix, watering, feeding, and troubleshooting, and more! Having limited space is no barrier to indoor gardening - many of these indoor houseplants are perfect for small homes and space-saving ideas abound, whether hanging in a basket, bunched on a shelf, on a windowsill, or grouped on a ladder. Filled with stunning photography and tons of expert tips and tricks, Beginner's Houseplant Garden is a complete, fool-proof guide by winner of the 2021 'My Chelsea Garden' Judges' Choice Gold Medal Award, Jade Murray, that shows you how to create your own indoor garden - even if space is tight and you have no prior experience of plants at all.
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Happy plant : a beginner's guide to cultivating healthy plant care habits
by Puneet Sabharwal
635.965/SAB
Build confidence in tending indoor plants through this guide to basic plant care, all while learning about the history of houseplants, how they communicate, and sustainable ways to troubleshoot houseplant parenting issues. Whether you're afraid to bring home a plant or have a healthy row of potted green pals on your windowsill, this book will walk you through the trials, errors, and joys of plant care
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House Jungle: Turn Your Home Into a Plant-Filled Paradise!
by Annie Dornan-Smith
635.965/DOR
In this joyful celebration of growing greenery indoors, Annie Dornan-Smith adorns every page with delightful illustrations and hand-lettered text introducing the basics of houseplant selection and care, with an eye to plants that add to home decor.
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Houseplants & Succulents for Dummies
by Steven A. Frowine
635.965/FRO
Houseplant hysteria is here to stay. For new and seasoned plant owners alike, Houseplants & Succulents For Dummies is the ideal resource on plant care, growing cycles, unique plant varieties, and all the essentials you need to know about your rooted friends.--
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Houseplant Hookups : all the dirt you need to find the perfect match
by Agatha Isabel
635.965/ISA
Ready to find your perfect match? Getting involved with someone new can seem over-whelming, but you don't have to get caught in the weeds. Houseplant Hookups approaches plant care like modern dating. You'll find out how to choose the right plant partner, where to find them, and what happens when they come home with you. You'll learn how to start a loving relationship and watch it grow - literally. Does your apartment have a scenic view of a brick wall? The snake plant thrives in low light. Tend to forget you're even in a relationship? The golden pothos is anything but codependent and won't hold neglect against you. These 35 plant profiles are far more helpful than your average Tinder bio, so you'll be able to decide if a relationship with a fiddle-leaf fig is more likely to be a fling or a forever kind of love
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How to plant a room and grow a happy home. / : Morgan Doane and Erin Harding of House Plant Club.
by Morgan Doane
635.965/DOA
"Whether you're a total novice, a newly minted plant parent or an experienced indoor gardener, this book will help you take the next step to having a well-planted home. Featuring cool plant projects and styling ideas to make the most of your houseplants,this friendly guide will help you discover how to make a mounted wall garden, a kokedama and an air plant mobile. Create enviable shelf displays, terrariums and hanging plant features. The fun and easy projects are beautifully photographed in steps and accompanied by inspirational images of plant displays in the home"
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How to raise a plant : and make it love you back / Morgan Doane and Erin Harding of House Plant Club.
by Morgan Doane
635.965/DOA
Aimed at a new generation of indoor gardening enthusiasts, this book is a perfect guide for anyone keen to see their plant offspring thrive. Gaining ground on food and pet photos on social media, plants have found popularity in the small home, and are being proclaimed the new stars of Instagram. This beautiful little book is ideal for the novice 'plant parent', providing tips on how to choose plants, where to place them, and above all how to care for them and keep them thriving. Indoor-plant experts and Instagrammers Erin Harding and Morgan Doane bring the subject to life alongside their beautiful photographs of happy plants in the home
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The Leaf Supply Guide to Creating Your Indoor Jungle
by Lauren Camilleri
635.965/CAM
This book is a luxurious guide to creating the very densest of jungles in your living room. It's time to finally turn that thumb green. With this stunningly photographed greenery guide, anyone can master the art of making your living room thrive. When done correctly, curating any decent houseplant can be just as effective as hanging a beautiful work of art. After all, our green companions are known to be beneficial for mental health and for general health (being oxygenators), as well as a key element of any well-balanced interior. Lauren and Sophia run the wildly successful nursery and interior-design store Leaf Supply, in Sydney, Australia. They wrote a beautifully designed book by the same name in 2018. Now, with Indoor Jungle, they explain (in layperson's terms) how to best transform your house into a veritable greenhouse. In this sequel of sorts, Lauren and Sophia cast their plant-loving net far wider than simply fabulous Australian interiors, featuring jungle-y architecture from around the world! For each spread of beautifully verdant interiors, the duo breaks down how the foliage within is surviving (and thriving). Ablaze with jaw-dropping photography, Indoor Jungle will deserve its own prominent place in your new, improved, and jungleified living room.
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Living with Plants: A Guide to Indoor Gardening
by Sophie Lee
Houseplants offer the perfect solution to the urban dweller lacking in space - indoor and outdoor. They are an easy and exciting way to transform the look and feel of your home, even if you are living in a space no bigger than a shoebox. As well as improving the air quality of your home - necessary when living in a busy smog-filled city - caring for plants is the perfect way to relax and de-stress, improving your quality of life. Living with Plants will teach you how to create bespoke beautiful botanics for your home or even your office. Offering you over 30 innovative projects, you will be guided on the different ways you can green-up your living space: from moss wall hangings, potted plants, air plants, water plants, hanging baskets, terrariums, and more. Each project can be adapted to use equipment you already have at home, as well as teaching you ways you can upcycle your own pots, containers, plant stands, and wall hangings. It covers all the basics from soil propagation, watering, pruning, and cutting, to useful tips and tricks on how to revive and maintain your plants. Discover which plant is best for which room as well as inspiring ways you can dress up your home for a celebration or party. This is your one-stop shop to creating a beautiful botanical living space on a budget.
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Nature style : cultivating wellbeing at home with plants
by Alana Langan
747.98/LAN
It's no secret that time spent in nature is good for us. Nature helps us thrive: it improves our health and well-being and can decrease our stress. But if you don't have the luxury of a forest at your doorstep, bringing the outside in can provide an immediate connection to the natural world and the many benefits that come with it. From the founders of the botanical emporium Ivy Muse and the authors of Plant Style comes a practical guide to styling the home for health and harmony using indoor plants. Withexpert advice on houseplants and how to style and care for them, as well as tips on decor, finishes, and furnishings, this book shows how natural elements can be incorporated into almost every room in the house
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The nature of plants : an introduction to how plants work
by Craig Norman Huegel
580/HUE
Presents an introduction to plants, describing the principles of plant structure and growth, the importance of light, water, and soil, the basics of plant reproduction, the role of hormones, and the existence of plant communication
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Nature play at home : creating outdoor spaces that connect children with the natural world
by Nancy Striniste
Nancy Striniste gives you the tools you need to make outdoor adventures possible in your own backyard. With hundreds of inspiring ideas and illustrated, step-by-step projects, this hardworking book details how to create playspaces that use natural materials -- like logs, boulders, sand, water, and plants of all kinds. Projects include hillside slides, seating circles, sand pits, and more.
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Orchid Modern : living & designing with the world's most elegant houseplants
by Marc Hachadourian
635.9344/HAC
Add the vibrant colors and exotic blooms of orchids to your houseplant haven--it's easier than you think with the help of Orchid Modern. Marc Hachadourian, the curator of the orchid collection at the New York Botanical Garden, shares his secrets to successfully growing these sometimes finicky houseplants. Besides the basics, you'll learn his top 120 orchid picks for green and not-so-green thumbs. Ten inspirational, step-by-step projects, including terrariums, a wreath, and a kokedama, provide the confidence to make orchids a thriving, vivid part of your home's signature style.
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Plant coach : the beginner's guide to caring for plants and the planet
by Nick Cutsumpas
635.965/CUT
"Despite the abundance of resources on caring for houseplants, many people continue to struggle with their plant care or don't even know where to begin on the journey to plant parenthood. An increasing number of young urbanites are filling their apartments with plants only to realize that they don't know what it takes to care for them long term. That's because knowledge isn't enough, and most people need a shift in plant perspective before they can start changing their behavior-houseplants are nature, not just furniture. This is why most people need a coach, someone to encourage them, give them the right game plan, and help them achieve their houseplant potential. Enter Nick Cutsumpas-plant coach, urban gardener, and Netflix personality-whose mission is to give people the knowledge and confidence they need to create their own green spaces. Plant Coach is his comprehensive guide for the everyday plant owner who wants to alleviate the stress of plant ownership while doing the best for their plants and the planet. Cutsumpas reframes what it means to be a plant parent by viewing the home as an ecosystem, introducing unconventional and sustainable plant tactics that go beyond the basic requirements of water and sunlight. Just as he does for his clients, Cutsumpas shares project ideas and coaches new plant owners on how to select and care for plants that are right for their space and lifestyle with deep insight and lighthearted fun. At the same time, he inspires readers to care for the planet, using houseplants as a stepping stone toward sustainability and environmental action"
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Plant parenting : easy ways to make more houseplants, vegetables, and flowers
by Leslie F. Halleck
631.53/HAL
A horticulture expert provides a starting point for beginners looking to dabble in plant propagation, providing simple instructions for the most practical techniques for cutting, layering, dividing, seed starting and saving and controlling pests. Original. 10,000 first printing.
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Plants are my favorite people : a relationship guide for plants and their parents
by Alessia Resta
635.965/RES
With fun anecdotes and important tips, the creator of the Instagram Apartment Botanist shows that anyone can be a plant parent by covering all the essential information needed for successfully growing houseplants no matter where you live, how small your space is or how busy you are. Illustrations.
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Pocket Guide to Houseplants: Over 240 Easy-Care Favorites
by Jack Kramer
Looking to make your home greener? The most comprehensive and complete guide to house plants you'll ever need, take this conveniently compact guide with you the next time you feel inspired to bring new plants home to help you decide! With plant descriptions and complete growing and care information per page for 240 popular species, Pocket Guide to Houseplants will show you everything you need to know to incorporate plants in your interior design!
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Practical houseplant book
by Fran Bailey
635.965/BAI
Through 12 inspiring projects, a resource for indoor gardeners, containing 200 in-depth plant profiles, is filled with an abundance of advice, creative inspiration, strong visual aesthetics and practical step-by-step detail for successfully cultivating and caring for houseplants. Original.
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The propagation handbook : a guide to propagating houseplants
by Hilton Carter
635.965/CAR
''Not only a plant lover, Hilton is passionate about propagation, the process of growing a brand new healthy and happy plant from part of an existing one. In this, his fifth book, Hilton talks us through the process of propagation and explains all the necessary techniques, from the very simplest to more complex methods, such as air layering and grafting. He describes exactly which method to use for different types of plant, and lists the tools essential for the process. In Hilton's own words: ''You hear so much about plant 'parenthood', but knowing how to propagate and then watching as your little plant takes shape and develops into a full-grown plant is the very definition of this''
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Root, Nurture, Grow: The Essential Guide to Propagating and Sharing Houseplants
by Rose Ray
635.9653/LAN
You've created your own house of plants, so what's next? The authors of House of Plants follow up their successful debut book with Root, Nurture, Grow - a practical and detailed guide to propagating and sharing indoor plants. The stylish handbook shows you how to make the most of your favorite houseplants through simple, beginner-friendly propagation techniques (such as stem cutting, rooting in water, runners, offsets, grafting, division and more), as well as resourceful DIY projects including homemade rooting mediums, seed-bombs, and a self-watering plant pot. It shows you how to look after and nurture your new plant babies, and how to share them with friends by making beautiful gifts and displays.
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Fictional Plant Parenting (and some plants in need of parenting)
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A botanical daughter
by Noah Medlock
F/MEDLOCK
"It is an unusual thing, to live in a botanical garden. But Simon and Gregor are an unusual pair of gentlemen. Hidden away in their glass sanctuary from the disapproving tattle of Victorian London, they are free to follow their own interests without interference. For Simon, this means long hours in the dark basement workshop, working his taxidermical art. Gregor's business is exotic plants - lucrative, but harmless enough. Until his latest acquisition, a strange fungus which shows signs of intellect beyond any plant he's seen, inspires him to attempt a masterwork: true intelligent life from plant matter. Driven by the glory he'll earn from the Royal Horticultural Society for such an achievement, Gregor ignores the flaws in his plan: that intelligence cannot be controlled; that plants cannot be reasoned with; and that the only way his plant-beast will flourish is if he uses a recently deceased corpse for the substrate. The experiment - or Chloe, as she is named - outstrips even Gregor's expectations, entangling their strange household. But as Gregor's experiment flourishes, he wilts under the cost of keeping it hidden from jealous eyes. The mycelium grows apace in this sultry greenhouse. But who is cultivating whom?"
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Bloom
by Kenneth Oppel
JYA/OPP | Youth Fiction JYA
When the world is overtaken by monster alien plants that emit toxic pollens and swallow up people, three kids on a remote island look for clues in their unusual allergies to understand their immunity to the invaders
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The forbidden garden
by Ellen Herrick
F/HERRICK
An American nursery owner with a rare gift with plants jumps at the chance to help revive a run-down, Shakespearean garden on a country estate in England and becomes intrigued the with house's haunting history and the owner's brother-in-law.
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The heirloom garden
by Viola Shipman
F/SHIPMAN
Moving to Grand Haven with her traumatized veteran husband, Abby bonds with her reclusive next-door neighbor over a shared love of flowers that they cultivate together, discovering hope and healing along the way
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Must Love Flowers
by Debbie Macomber
F/MACOMBER
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Two women at different stages of life find themselves on a journey of renewal after undergoing hardships in this uplifting novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber. Wise, warm, witty, and charmingly full of hope, this story celebrates the surprising and unexpected ways that family, friendship, and love can lift us up.--Kristin Hannah, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Four Winds Joan Sample is not living the life she expected. Now a widow and an empty-nester, she has become by her own admission something of a recluse. But after another birthday spent alone, she is finally inclined to listen to her sister, who has been begging Joan to reengage with the world. With Emmie's support, Joan gathers the courage to take some long-awaited steps: hiring someone to tame her overgrown garden, joining a grief support group, and even renting out a room to a local college student. Before long Joan is starting to feel a little like herself again. Across town, Maggie Herbert works mornings as a barista, tending to impatient customers before rushing to afternoon nursing classes. She lives with her alcoholic father, ducking his temperamental outbursts and struggling to pay the household bills. But her circumstances brighten when she finds a room for rent in Joan's home. In the unexpected warmth of her new situation, Maggie finds a glimmer of hope for a better life. But will Maggie's budding attraction to one of her favorite customers ruin the harmony she's only recently found with Joan? Meanwhile, what is Joan to make of the mysterious landscaper who's been revitalizing her garden--a man who seems to harbor a past loss of his own? As Maggie and Joan confront difficult life choices, they draw strength from this new friendship in surprising ways--discovering in the process that found family is often the very best kind.
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Rules for visiting
by Jessica Francis Kane
F/KANE
Reclusive gardener May Attaway is inspired by her love of classic literature to embark on an odyssey to reconnect with four once-close friends through simple activities and digital encounters that unexpectedly catapult her into viral fame
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The seed keeper : a novel
by Diane Wilson
Also available as e-audiobook
F/WILSON
A haunting novel spanning several generations, The Seed Keeper follows a Dakota family's struggle to preserve their way of life, and their sacrifices to protect what matters most.
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The spellshop
by Sarah Beth Durst
F/DURST | Adult Fiction Large Type New
When the Great Library of Alyssium goes up in flames, introverted librarian Kiela and her sentient spider plant flee to the faraway island of her childhood where she opens a spell shop to restore the island's power, coming out of her shell to make a new life for herself.
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This poison heart
by Kalynn Bayron
F/BAYRON/TEEN | Adult Teen
While learning to control her gift, the ability to grow plants from tiny seeds to rich blooms, Briseis must use her powers to save her family from a centuries-old curse as dark forces surround her.
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The Twilight Garden
by Sara Nisha Adams
F/ADAMS
Two feuding neighbors unite to resurrect a neglected city garden in this uplifting and quietly joyful novel by Sara Nisha Adams, author of the beloved The Reading List.In a small pocket of London, between the houses of No.77 and No.79 Eastbourne Road, lies a neglected community garden. It was a beautiful thing once, a little oasis in a bustling city for neighbors by day and the local foxes at twilight. Now it's overgrown and neglected, an empty patch of greenery lost to time.Once a sanctuary, the garden's gate is now firmly closed. And that's exactly how Winston at No.79 likes it - anything to avoid Bernice, who has moved in next door with her young son. Their houses may share the garden, but they're not exactly neighborly.But then a mysterious parcel drops on Winston's doormat. It contains no note, only a bundle of photographs of the garden in bloom many years ago--vibrant with flowers, filled with people from every corner of the community. Is someone trying to tell them something? The seed of an idea is planted...Somewhere out there, a secret gardener made a decades-old promise to keep the community's spirit alive. Now it's time for The Twilight Garden to come out of hibernation.
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Where lilacs still bloom
by Jane Kirkpatrick
available as e-audiobook and e-book, or via ILL
German immigrant and housewife Hulda Klager becomes interested in plant hybridization in the early 1900s, and gradually develops over two hundred new varieties of lilacs while dealing with a series of family tragedies
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Witch of wild things
by Raquel Vasquez Gilliland
F/VASQUEZ/GILLILAND
With rare plants to find, a dead sister who keeps bringing her coffee, and another sister whose anger fills the sky with lightning, Sage doesn't have time for romance. Sage Flores has an affinity for plants, but it wasn't enough to save her younger sister Sky's life. She ran from the tragedy, only to return to her hometown eight years later. Like slipping into an old, comforting sweater, Sage takes back her job at Cranberry Rose Company and uses her ability to communicate with plants to discover unusual heritage specimens in the surrounding lands. What should be a simple task is complicated by her partner in botany sleuthing: Tennessee Reyes. He broke her heart in high school, and she never fully recovered. Working together is reminding her of all their past tender, genuine moments-and new feelings for this mature sexy man are starting to take root in her heart. But being with Tenn is like standing in the middle of a field on the cusp of a summer thunderstorm-supercharged and inevitable.
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All that grow
by Jack Wong
PIC/WON | Youth Picture book
While on a walk with his older sister, a boy learns all about the plants they see, making him realize how vast the universe is and how much there is to learn, which he will cultivate in his own way. Illustrations.
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The balcony
by Melissa Castrillâon
PIC/CAS | Youth Picture book
Moving to an apartment in the city, a little girl brings her pretty plants with her and tends them lovingly until they grow, bloom and transform the lives of everyone in her new community.
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Brown Girl in the Snow
by Yolanda T. Marshall
PIC/MAR | Youth Picture book
Perfect for kids aged 4-8 comes a stunning picture book about persistence, being creative in the garden, and adapting to a new place.
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Daddy, me, and the Magic Hour
by Laura Krauss Melmed
PIC/MEL | Youth Picture book and as VOX book
As twilight deepens, so does the bond between a little boy and his daddy. After getting home for the day and having dinner, a young boy is ready for some special time outside with his father. It's the Magic Hour, when the sun is going down and day meetsnight. As Daddy and son walk to the playground for some lively fun, they see their neighbors going through their evening rituals-watering plants, walking dogs, going for a run. As darkness sets in, Daddy and son quiet down and find fireflies, then make their way home to Mommy and bedtime
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Elizabite : adventures of a carnivorous plant
by H. A. Rey
PIC/REY | Youth Picture book
Written more than fifty years ago, a remarkable story tells the tale of Elizabite--a cheerful and temperamental carnivorous plant who loves insects and hotdogs--who escapes her barbed wire enclosure to follow the desires of her heart and stomach, and who becomes a hero when her unusual appetite stops a crime.
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Everyone starts small
by Liz Garton Scanlon
PIC/SCA | Youth Picture book
This poetic story of life, death and generation beautifully illustrates nature's cycle of creation as Sun and Grass, Water and Tree, Fire and Rain work together in harmony.
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Growing home
by Beth Ferry
J/FER | Youth J Fiction
"A motley crew of talkative plants, a curious spider, and a grumpy goldfish use their newfound magical abilities to defend their family from a greedy human"
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Grown with love
by Valeria Wicker
PIC/WIC | Youth Picture book
Oliver is a plant-grafter and scientist who uses his know-how to help neighbors by pairing them with the most useful plant, and he tries to help his trickiest customer, Mrs. Kroftombottom, who can't keep a plant alive. Illustrations.
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Hide and Seek in Nature : Guess What It Is
by Helena Harastova
Board book
Young explorers embark on a nature-filled adventure, discovering the art of disguise in the natural world. Animals and plants, masters of hide-and-seek, challenge kids to uncover their well-camouflaged forms through an engaging guessing game. With immersive fold-out pages and cutouts, this interactive novelty format sparks curiosity, enhancing observational skills and fostering a connection with the wonders of nature
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How to Talk to Your Succulent
by Zoe Persico
J GN/PER | Youth Fiction Graphic Novel
Eleven-year-old Adara and her dad are moving from California to the cold and flat lands of Michigan--and it sucks. After Mom's recent passing, it seems way too soon. Talking to Dad has always been harder than with Mom, but now it's like walking on eggshells. And why did Dad bring so many of Mom's houseplants across the country? Her mother might have been called the 'plant whisperer' back home, but Adara is beginning to wonder if there is something more to it. But when she meets a little succulent named Perle, she unlocks the same magical ability her mother had: talking to plants!--
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I'm glad that you're happy
by Nahid Kazemi
PIC/KAZ | Youth Picture book
A florist puts two plants in one pot so that they can take care of each other, but after a kind painter takes them home, one becomes too big for the pot it lives in with its friend
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The girl from Earth's end
by Tara Dairman
J/DAI
To save her father, 12-year-old Henna, a gifted gardener, attends St. Basil's Conservatory, a botanical boarding school rumored to house a legendary, long-extinct plant with miraculous healing powers, and while searching for the seeds, Henna learns to flourish with a little help from her newfound friends.
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Love grows
by Ruth Spiro
PIC/SPI | Youth Picture book
Told through a series of poetic letters, this charming celebration of family, plants and boundless love follows a little girl who receives her very own plant baby from her aunt, a gift that helps her bloom and grow, just as the love for her aunt blossoms as well.
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Las Magníficas Plantitas Bailadoras de Mamá / Mamá's Magnificent Dancing Plantitas
by Jesús Trejo
PIC/TRE | Youth Spanish
also available in English
Cuando Jesús llega a casa después del colegio, tiene su rutina habitual: hacer los deberes, soñar despierto, hacer pequeños quehaceres aquí y allá en la casa. . . pero un día, mamá lo nombra honorable director de planta, gerente de sucursal y ¡hermano mayor de sus preciosas plantas de interior! Jesús hace un excelente trabajo manteniéndolos hidratados, entretenidos y felices, hasta que una planta sufre un accidente y pone todo el trabajo de Jesús en modo de crisis. .
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Mother aspen
by Annette LeBox
577.3J/LEB
Following an aspen grove through the seasons, this beautiful picture book shows how all things are part of Mother Tree, including the fungi wrapped around her roots that carry messages to her trees, but when a violent storm upends their network, the forest must work together to survive.
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My First Indoor Garden: Everything You Need to Know to Grow Little Houseplants
by Philippe Asseray
635.965J/ASS
This book teaches you everything you need to know to succeed in raising some very interesting houseplants. After following the easy steps, you'll know how to care for anything you choose to plant, from flowers like lilies to cacti, mushrooms, and even carnivorous plants and cocoa beans. In no time at all, you'll be proudly showing off all the beautiful and different (and sometimes even funny!) plants in your home!--
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My Sister the Apple Tree: A Refugee Story of Hope and Resilience
by Jordan Scott
PIC/SCO | Youth Picture book
A young boy forms a deep bond with an apple tree planted on the day of his birth, and after fleeing his homeland, he carries the tree with him to a new home, finding a lasting connection to both places as it grows.--
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The Peach Thief
by Linda Joan Smith
JYA/SMI | Youth Fiction JYA
The night that workhouse orphan Scilla Brown dares to climb the Earl of Havermore's garden wall, she wants only to steal a peach--the best thing she's ever tasted in her hard, hungry life. But when she's caught by the earl's head gardener and mistaken for a boy, she grabs on to something more: a temporary job scrubbing flowerpots. If she can just keep up her deception, she'll have a soft bed and food beyond her wildest dreams ... maybe even peaches. She soon falls in with Phin, a garden apprentice who sneaks her into the steamy, fruit-filled greenhouses, calls her 'Brownie, ' and makes her skin prickle. At the same time, the gruff head gardener himself is teaching lowly Scilla to make things grow, and she's cultivating hope with every seed she plants. But as the seasons unfurl, her loyalties become divided, and her secret grows harder to keep. How far will she go to have a home at last?--
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Plant a little seed
by Bonnie Christensen
PIC/CHR | Youth Picture book
Two friends plant seeds in their community garden, then water, weed, wait and dream as the plants grow until they can be harvested. Includes facts about gardening and harvest festivals.
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Planting Hope : A Portrait of Photographer Sebastião Salgado
by Philip Hoelzel
B/J SALGADO | Youth Non-Fiction Biography
This stunning picture book biography about Brazilian photojournalist, humanitarian and environmental advocate Sebastião Salgado shows how he used his pictures to tell the stories of people who might not otherwise be seen and photographed the beauty of the world to save it. Simultaneous eBook. Illustrations.
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The Plant Planet
by Jon Scieszka
J GN/SCI | Youth Fiction Graphic Novel
Carbon dioxide is out of control on Earth, and the fate of humankind rests in the paws of four experimental, untested Animal Astronauts (AlphaWolf, SmartHawk, LaserShark, and StinkBug) who are seeking another habitable planet; first destination is the Plant Planet which at first looks perfect, except that the abundant plant life can think for itself--and it thinks that it really does not like the AstroNuts
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The plant rescuer
by Matthew Rivera
PIC/RIV | Youth Picture book
"Getting his very own first plant, which keeps wilting for some reason, Manny, who comes from a long line of gardeners, does some research and soon finds his plant growing bigger and bigger until his room overflows with healthy leaves, enough to share cuttings with the whole neighborhood. Illustrations. "
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Plantzilla
by Jerdine Nolen
PIC/NOL | Youth Picture book
When Mortimer Henryson takes home Plantzilla, the plant he has been lovingly caring for all year in his third grade classroom, for the summer, things take a disastrous turn when a pot roast vanishes and Mrs. Henryson's prized Chihuahua disappears, in a rollicking tale told entirely through letters.
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The pod and the bog
by Asia Citro
J/CIT | Youth J Fiction
When an old friend visits Zoey with a glowing seed pod, they work to discover what will make this mysterious and magical plant grow
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The Prickletrims Go Wild
by Marie Dorleans
PIC/DOR | Youth Picture book
A playful celebration of untamed nature, from the award-winning creator of The Night Walk, a New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book. The Prickletrim family are very proud of their pristine garden, with its razor-straight edges, regulation-height lawn and perfectly shaped topiary. They LOVE nature - just so long as it is well ordered and properly managed. Then one day their long-suffering gardener can't stand their suffocating rules any longer and quits. Free at last, the Prickletrim's garden explodes upwards and outwards, spilling into their house and every corner of their lives. The family realise they cannot control nature. Can they learn to live in their wild garden? Quirky imagination and gentle humor weave their way through this delightfully distinctive picture book from Marie Dorleans, award-winning creator of 2021 New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book The Night Walk.
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Prunella
by Beth Ferry
PIC/FER | Youth Picture book
Born with a purple thumb instead of a green one like her parents, Prunella cultivates a poisonous garden to keep people away until a curious weed of a different sort pops up, forcing her to decide between uprooting this tentative new friendship or allowing it to blossom.
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Trillions of trees : a counting and planting book
by Kurt Cyrus
PIC/CYR | Youth Picture book
Grab a shovel and get ready to plant some trees! From poplars to pines, alder, apple, peach, and plum, this rhyming story introduces the concept of orders of magnitude and celebrates the importance of planting different trees and preserving diverse ecosystems. Nurturing a new sapling is one of the first steps in growing hundreds, millions, even trillions of trees
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A Tulip in Winter: A Story about Folk Artist Maud Lewis
by Kathy StinsonB/J LEWIS | Youth Non-Fiction Biography
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The world's best class plant
by Liz Garton Scanlon
PIC/SCA | Award Shelf
Deciding to name the class plant Jerry, Arlo and his classmates learn to take of care Jerry and it soon becomes apparent that something amazing has taken root in their classroom. Simultaneous eBook. Illustrations.
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