Landscaping
Essential Landscaping
Editorial Director Paul Spring
This is a practical guide to making your property look and live better. A host of experts, including The Garden Continuum’s Monique Allen, show you how to beautify your yard with trees, shrubs, and vines, as well as decks, fences, patios, and walkways.
Published by This Old House Books
ISBN#1-931933-18-9

Perennials
The Well-Tended Perennial Garden: Planting & Pruning Techniques
By Tracy DiSabato-Aust
After you've done your site planning and selected the right perennials, the most important thing is learning how and when to prune and shape perennials to produce more flowers, encourage lush new growth, discourage pests, stagger bloom times, and maintain vigorous health. This book covers these topics and many more.
Published by Timber Press, Inc.
ISBN# 0-88192-414-8

Rodale's Illustrated Encyclopedia of Perennials
By Ellen Phillips and C. Colston Burrell
This revised and expanded edition covers both designing and growing perennials, in addition to the perennial encyclopedia. Topics of interest include: pest and disease control, climate considerations, and propagation. A gallery of designs also helps explain the concept of perennial combinations.
Published by Rodale
ISBN# 0-87596-899-6 (paperback)

Trees and Shrubs
Dirr's Hardy Trees and Shrubs: An Illustrated Encyclopedia
By Michael A. Dirr
Long considered a leading authority on the topic, this best-selling encyclopedia is illustrated with brilliant photographs, describes the best woody plants adapted to cooler climates, showed both habit and details of more than 500 species, and includes some 700 additional cultivars and varieties.
Published by Timber Press, Inc.
ISBN# 0-88192-404-0

Manual of Woody Landscape Plants: Their Identification, Ornamental Characteristics, Culture, Propagation and Use
By Michael A. Dirr, Ph.D., Dept. of Horticulture, University of Georgia
This "bible" of woody trees and shrubs covers each plant's physical description, hardiness, growth rate, culture, diseases, insects, landscape value, cultivars and propagation.
Published by Stripes Publishing Company
ISBN# 0-87563-226-2

Principles and Practice of Planting Trees and Shrubs
By Gary W. Watson and E.B. Himelick
This book presents information to help landscape professionals and gardeners alike successfully plant trees and shrubs. Topics include planting site evaluation and preparation, plant selection and transport, planting methods and season, root system development after planting, post-transplanting stress and establishment, care after planting, common problems of transplanted trees, and guidelines for planting specs.
Published by International Society of Arboriculture
IBSN# 1-881956-18-0

Soil
Secrets to Great Soil: A Grower's Guide to Composting, Mulching, and Creating Healthy, Fertile Soil for Your Garden and Lawn
By Elizabeth P. Stell
Learn the secrets for creating fertile, productive soil anywhere. With more than 300 detailed illustrations and at-a-glance charts, the book solves your soil problems and gives you techniques for year-round soil building. It's a grower's guide to composting, mulching, and creating good soil for your lawn and garden.
Published by Storey Communications, Inc.
ISBN# 1-58017-009-2

Lawn
A Man's Turf
By Warren Schultz
The author explores the world of lawns, from the history of lawn tools to the spiritually renewing effects of a beautiful lawn on the human psyche. As one of the nation's leading experts on lawn care, Schultz also offers nuts-and-bolts advice on lawn care, including growing, mowing, weeding, and watering for a better lawn.
Published by Three Rivers Press
ISBN# 0-609-80569-x

Weeds
Just Weeds: History, Myths and Uses 
By Pamela Jones
This book covers 30 of the most common wild plants of North America: their botanical and everyday names, recognizable features, habitat, history, myths, and practical applications — medicinal, culinary, and cosmetic.
Published by Chapters Publishing LTD.
ISBN# 1-881527-58-1

General Gardening
Step-By-Step Gardening Techniques
Drawings by Elayne Sears, Projects by miscellaneous authors
Learn the techniques used by expert gardeners across North America. Each of 86 gardening projects receives complete in-depth treatment. Included are both common and unusual gardening tasks, such as mixing potting soil, establishing a groundcover, making a moss-lined basket, planting and training wisteria, raising ferns from spores, restoring a grapevine, growing freesias indoors, and winterizing a tub-grown tree.
Published by Storey Communications, Inc.
ISBN# 0-88266-912-5

Tools
The Tool Book for the Well-tended Garden
By William Bryant Logan
Called the "bible" of garden tools, this book offers 13 chapters and more than 70 full-color photographic spreads to present hundreds of tools organized by task. The book also covers the particulars of each tool's anatomy and specialized use, its history and proper use, simple maintenance ideas, and tips on shopping for tools.
Published by Workman Publishing
ISBN# 0-19628-10855-5