Mother’s Day Books
Share a love of gardening with the mom in your life!
A month-by-month tour of the renowned naturalistic garden designer Jacqueline van der Kloet’s home garden—a visual feast of perennials, trees, grasses, shrubs, and bulbs that have inspired a generation of gardeners and designers.
From a pioneer of the New Perennial movement, My Garden showcases the practice and process behind Jaqueline van der Kloet’s leading-edge, naturalistic planting experimentations, rooted in her site of experimentation for the past forty years: her home garden. Jacqueline has established a design process emphasizing naturalized bulbs and other plants that intermingle in every month of the year, supporting biodiversity and embracing the natural tendencies of plants.
With an elegance admired the world over, each corner of van der Kloet’s garden reflects an important aspect of her creative process, sharing down-to-earth wisdom from her own little piece of paradise. Enter into this stunning, innovative garden and discover:
·Visionary techniques and methods for tending and cultivating a natural garden, training one’s focus to shift along with the seasons
·Lists of Jaqueline’s favorite plants by color, with insight on inspiring and unexpected combinations
·Snapshots of specific spots in her garden, documenting the subtle shifts in each plant as it traverses the seasons’ rhythms
·A glimpse into the conceptual frameworks for many of her international projects
·Inspiration for your home garden, with ideas for maintaining interest throughout every season, even in the cold and snow
From an award-winning artist, designer, and the host of the podcast Design Matters, this book tells the visual story of falling in love with gardening—and the philosophies that work conjures.
Debbie Millman always thought of herself as a bad gardener. Nevertheless, she kept trying. Over the years she came to realize that no one is a bad gardener—a garden is a journey that develops over time, through space, and evolves along with our hearts. In Love Letter to a Garden, Debbie Millman shares her journey to make and grow a garden—and the plants she has collected along the way—a process that started with handed-down houseplants from beloved friends and a lone peony.
Spread throughout are simple recipes using the garden’s ingredients from Millman’s wife, bestselling author Roxane Gay. Love Letter to a Garden is a little gem of a book—an inspiring, impulse-friendly story that can be read in one setting, then shared, experienced, pollinated, and perpetuated.
Pansies is the big idea flower book we’ve all been waiting for. While working at the famed Floret Flower Farm, Brenna Estrada was so inspired by the pansies being grown that she began to trial hundreds of varieties of pansies and violas on her own farm. Her innovative approach to growing in full sun results in pansies with long stems, breathtaking fragrance, and unique color.
Filled with stunning photography, Pansies is perfect for growers, florists, artists, and collectors. Readers will discover:
·The fascinating history of pansies and violas, from their origination as a wildflower to a necessary adornment in every household garden
·Everything you need to know about growing pansies (and how to save pansy seeds!)
·How to keep pansies healthy and resilient all year round
·Inspiration for incorporating pansies in crafts, recipes, and in the apothecary
·Inspiring examples of knockout bouquets and arrangements
·Lush profiles on 50 varieties of pansies and violas available today
The Curious Kitchen Gardener is for cooks and gardeners interested in bringing novelty and variety into their lives and homes. It follows each season of planting and harvesting—featuring nearly 35 often overlooked edibles, with illustrations, and a delicious recipe for each, encouraging us to see our gardens as an integrated whole and a year-round practice. Calling upon decades of Master Gardener and Master Food Preserver experience, Linda Ziedrich includes fascinating cultural context and personal connections to each plant. The result is the story of how and why an adventurous gardener cultivated a unique cuisine for herself and her family—and how you can too.
Having a maximalist garden is a bold aesthetic choice—yet it also brings vitality back to the earth, in an abundant expression of more. Garden to the Max celebrates gardens across the US that embrace maximalism through joy and wonder, nonstop blooms, and abundant layers. The book is a feast of gorgeous photography by Bob Stefko, showcasing individual quirkiness, wild collections, and bold, personality-packed plant combinations that amplify the grandeur of each garden’s unique vision, packing in plants for their exuberant style and ecological benefits.
Featured gardeners include an amateur ornithologist seeking to attract more birds, an event planner’s tropical paradise, a pair of city dwellers reducing their carbon footprint, an urban garden pioneer promoting pollinator gardens, and a life-long biophilic propagating endangered plants to nurture insects. Longtime garden writer Teresa Woodard shares stories of each garden and its fearless designers, the inspirations for their plant collections, and their hopes for our earth’s future.
Information-packed sidebars full of standout plants and growing tips will inspire dreamers and gardeners to embrace their own passions. Garden to the Max gives everyone permission to bring the exuberant interior style into the garden and develop a spirited reverence for plants, celebrating joy and personality in the garden—to the max!
Herbs in Every Season offers gardeners, herbalists, cooks, and homesteaders a new way of looking at herbs throughout the year. Herbalists will learn how an herb’s growth habits inform its medicinal capabilities, and gardeners will gain insight on herbs as integral culinary plants for the kitchen garden, pollinator plants for perennial borders, and key ingredients for a home apothecary. With detailed plant profiles, Bevin Cohen encourages a year-round perspective on growing and using herbs in tandem with the seasons. He assures any newcomer that herbs are not only easy to grow, but also forgiving. Readers will take delight in:
·Simple, homegrown recipes and preservation techniques for tonics, teas, meals, and treats
·Herbal remedies and useful DIY applications for common ailments such as sunburns and mosquito bites
·Deep insight on how the life cycle of an herb contributes to its medicinal and culinary properties
·How a seasonal herbal approach can provide a much-needed process of cyclical re-connection to the earth
Start a new seasonal routine today with Herbs in Every Season!
More Books for Mother's Day
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Gardening Can Be Murder
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The Mountain Rose Herbs Book of Natural Body Care
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Black Flora
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Gardenlust
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The Earth in Her Hands
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Adventures in Eden
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American Roots
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A Year at Brandywine Cottage
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The Hummingbird Handbook
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A Way to Garden
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Iwigara
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To Speak for the Trees
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The Heirloom Gardener
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Writing Wild
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The Ultimate Flower Gardener’s Guide
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Bad Naturalist
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Bicycling with Butterflies
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Creating Sanctuary
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Unearthing The Secret Garden
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The World of Laura Ingalls Wilder
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Beatrix Potter’s Gardening Life
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The Natural World of Winnie-the-Pooh
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A Garden Miscellany
Coming Soon!
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Casting Flowers
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Lavender for All Seasons
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The Essential Guide to Bulbs
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The Gardens of Mien Ruys
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