Mike Shoup's latest book is a large (12 x 12) coffee table book that addresses the personality of the rose. Interestingly, rose varieties have various personalities or persona that can influence their garden usage. These qualities are a creative tool for the gardener intent on providing the right rose for the right garden setting. This book, as well as addressing the practical nature of their usefulness, delves into this nature. 208 Pages Full-color Hardcover

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Collected together in a book of invaluable information and charming illustrations, here are hundreds of tips and homespun remedies that come only from season after season of gardening experience.  These helpful hints include environmentally friendly ammunition against weeds and pests, shortcuts for cultivation and propagation, and clever uses for curious household items. Trowel & Error is a very entertaining read and one that you will refer back to repeatedly.  This book is a "go to" guide at our garden center.  Soft Cover Rose Key ▾

This is the perfect all-inclusive gardening log for everyone!  One journal for all your plants.  Guided format includes location, planting instructions, water requirements, sunlight, bloom date, pest problems and so much more.  The back side of each page leaves space for notes and photo/plant tag/seed packet/drawing.  Printed in the USA.  Acid free, recycled paper.  Durable hard cover design.   200 pages

7.5 inches X 9 inches

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The Southern Gardener's Book of Lists is a sourcebook and workbook in one with all the answers!  With more than 200 lists of plants grouped by their horticultural characteristics and uses in the garden, this is the one-of-a-kind guide to spending less time and money on your garden.  Printed some time ago, the specific information it contains is still quite good.  Soft cover Rose Key ▾

The Rose Rustlers, written by Gregg Grant and Bill Welch, is a superbly entertaining first hand account of one of the most fascinating episodes in the history of American gardens.  A must-read for anyone with an interest in heirloom roses and the survival of these classics beauties. Rose Key ▾

Keeping your beautiful garden safe from deer is as simple as choosing the right plants.  Enjoy full-color photographs of 216 pages of plants.  This inspiring guide offers everything a plant lover with a deer problem needs to know.  Soft Cover

 

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Heirloom Gardening of the South is a comprehensive resource that  offers a captivating, personal encounter with two dedicated and passionate gardeners whose love of heritage gardening infuses the work from beginning to end.  Anyone who wants to find and grow time-honored and pass-along plants or wants to create and nurture a traditional garden is sure to find this a must-have addition to their gardening library. Rose Key ▾

Perennial Garden Color  is a comprehensive and authoritative guide with chapters on the history of gardening, arranging perennials in the garden, and buying, planting and caring for perennials.  Together with special sections on Old Garden Roses and companion plants for the perennial garden, this book is essential to any Southern gardener.  This book, written by Bill Welch (Texas A&M Extension Service) many years ago, is still a helpful resource book we continue to use.  Soft Cover Rose Key ▾

Thanks to the resurgence of home and community gardening, more and more people are discovering the pleasure of biting into a sun-ripened tomato picked right off the vine, the earthy smell of freshly turned soil, and the cheerful harbingers of spring such as daffodils, irises and pansies. But they are also discovering that gardening can be a heck of a lot of work. So what happens when keeping up with the weeds turns into a full time job? What do you do when gardening becomes stressful? Slow Gardening to the resuce! Inspired by Slow Food, an international movement that promoted local food systems and biological and cultural diversity, the slow-gardening approach can help us all apprecaite and enjoy our gardens more, year in and year out. Felder Rushing, a well known and truly one of a kind garden expert, offers this practical yet philosophical approach to gardening - one that will help you slow down, take stock of your yard, and follow your own creative whimsy in the garden. Softcover

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A quick-reference guide to attracting birds and butterflies for gardeners with little experience and time.

In the eye of a bird or butterfly, the typical suburban landscape resembles an unfriendly desert. Closely mowed lawns, tightly clipped shrubs, raked-up borders, and deadheaded flowers mean no place to nest, no food to eat, and nowhere to hide. To the humans who live there, this means no bird songs, no colorful butterflies, no dazzling hummingbirds, no night-sparkling fireflies.

Creating a garden that welcomes these creatures may seem like a confusing and complicated task, but the principles involved are relatively simple. Essentially, wildlife needs food, water, and shelter, just like we do, and this lavishly illustrated guide shows which plants attract which creatures, and how to plant and care for them.

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