Annual Garden Season Sweepstakes
Water your plant every 7 days? Rubbish. Misting increases humidity? Barely. All plants go dormant in winter? Not if you control their environment. And don’t even get me started on the “just put an ice cube on your orchid” people. You monsters.
New from social media sensation The Bearded Plantaholic (known as Jonny Balchandani IRL), You’re Overwatering It! helps readers choose houseplants to fit their lifestyle, personality, and taste—leading them to plants that will work for them, rather than what’s in style. This fun, funny, and gamified guide helps readers perfect their plant parenting skills, working through levels from Plant Noob to Budding Botanist, Plant Whisperer to Plant Curator, and then finally to Plant Mystic.
This is a wildly comprehensive yet eminently accessible guidebook from a peer expert, with a fresh voice that brings humor and irreverence to the indoor gardening space. Readers will learn how to grow plants better, what they’re doing wrong, and why to ditch the tempting yet distracting myths that send many houseplant growers badly astray. Balchandani teaches plant stewards not just how to care for their beloved houseplants, but how to understand them—so caring for them stops being a chore and starts becoming second nature.
Flowers have the power to heal, connect, and bring joy, often when we need it most. And more importantly, the best flowers are those grown with your own two hands. The Beginner’s Cut Flower Garden is the perfect book for gardeners who are dipping a toe into growing cut flowers for the first time. Gardener and therapeutic horticulturalist Elizabeth Brown offers thoughtful, step-by-step, seasonally inspired narratives, information on the flowers to grow, and more, including:
- Focusing on your vision, color palette, and floral style
- Developing a cohesive garden plan, and installing garden beds
- Exploring floral design and creating arrangements with freshly cut flowers
- Inspiring floral art activities and natural dye projects, and more …
With the poetry of a classic horticultural guide and the accessibility of a contemporary garden club, Brown brings a collaborative, welcoming spirit to the process of growing flowers: we’re all beginners here.
You, too, can grow flowers to enrich and bring brightness and balance to everyone’s daily life!
In this essential reference for growing vegetables without harming the environment, the creators of Growing Wise – an online gardening school with thousands of students – share their decades of experience with gardening techniques and practices rooted in permaculture. They teach you how to create a garden that suits your growing conditions and empower you to make your own choices by explaining the “why” behind the “how-to.” In addition to providing detailed step-by-step information, they analyze the pros and cons of different approaches, weaving in their personal experiences to show the effects of each method in real gardens, based on their gardening trials in a variety of different regions.
Eco-conscious gardeners have always done their best to minimize the harm they cause—by not using synthetic pesticides or fertilizers, for example. But today’s gardeners want to go beyond “do no harm” and have a positive effect on the environment. The goal of regenerative gardening is to leave the world a better place: to create living soil, improve habitats for insect pollinators and birds, reduce the presence of invasive species, minimize the gardener’s carbon footprint and use of plastic, and help sequester carbon from the atmosphere.
Author Briana Bosch, founder of Blossom and Branch Farm, teaches the key principles for regenerative gardening: recognize the garden as its own ecosystem, know your soil, minimize the “purchased garden,” build your soil armor, plant for biodiversity, create living soil, choose plants wisely, minimize soil disturbance, and close the garden loop. In addition to teaching all the skills necessary to carry out these principles, Bosch offers a season-by-season guide to implementing them—from when to start garden cleanup in the spring (later that you’d think, to avoid disrupting overwintering beneficial insects) to how to use cover crops strategically to enrich the soil and retain moisture throughout the year.
A comprehensive guide to creating a native plant garden anywhere in the contiguous United States, with an easy-to-follow, “this, not that” format.
“A timely, ever-so-useful guide” —Douglas W. Tallamy, author of Nature’s Best Hope
These days, home gardeners know that many traditional, non-native garden plants—like English ivy, barberry, and burning bush—don’t support our bees, butterflies, birds, and other creatures. And that native plants are more likely to thrive, because they evolved as part of the local ecology, so they often require less fussy maintenance and don’t depend on pesticides and fertilizers. But gardeners ready to make the switch may ask: Where do I begin? And how do I find the best native plants for my landscape?
Plant This, Not That considers some of the most common non-native (and often, invasive) plants in North American gardens and suggests substitutions for more beneficial and equally beautiful natives. Each native plant listing includes a full-color photo, along with sun, water, and soil requirements; ornamental features (including bloom time and color and whether the plant has berries, fruit, and/or fall color); and the pollinators known to depend on and support that plant. Accompanying maps show every plant’s locally native range, down to the county level. The book also features an overview of how native plants contribute to our local ecosystems, where to shop for them, advice on maintaining a mostly native garden, and resources to learn more about native planting.
“A timely, ever-so-useful guide” —Douglas W. Tallamy, author of Nature’s Best Hope
These days, home gardeners know that many traditional, non-native garden plants—like English ivy, barberry, and burning bush—don’t support our bees, butterflies, birds, and other creatures. And that native plants are more likely to thrive, because they evolved as part of the local ecology, so they often require less fussy maintenance and don’t depend on pesticides and fertilizers. But gardeners ready to make the switch may ask: Where do I begin? And how do I find the best native plants for my landscape?
Plant This, Not That considers some of the most common non-native (and often, invasive) plants in North American gardens and suggests substitutions for more beneficial and equally beautiful natives. Each native plant listing includes a full-color photo, along with sun, water, and soil requirements; ornamental features (including bloom time and color and whether the plant has berries, fruit, and/or fall color); and the pollinators known to depend on and support that plant. Accompanying maps show every plant’s locally native range, down to the county level. The book also features an overview of how native plants contribute to our local ecosystems, where to shop for them, advice on maintaining a mostly native garden, and resources to learn more about native planting.
In Gardenista: The Low-Impact Garden, author Kendra Wilson covers everything you need to know to create a garden that’s good for the planet—and to produce beautiful outdoor spaces. This guide to eco-conscious gardening features in-depth garden tours of all sorts, from a wildflower prairie in the Midwest to an indoor-outdoor garden in London, a forest garden in Vancouver to a permaculture garden in Australia. There are breakouts on specific garden types, like front yards and rooftop gardens, as well as practical advice on “green” approaches to key garden elements (lawns, soil, trees and shrubs, water, and even pools).
With 350 full-color photographs, a round-up of standout eco-conscious garden tools, expert advice, resources, and more, Gardenista: The Low-Impact Garden is the ultimate handbook for creating environmentally friendly gardens.
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Prizes
- You’re Overwatering It! (Hardcover) By Jonny Balchandani (ARV: $30.00)
- The Beginner’s Cut Flower Garden (Hardcover)By Elizabeth Brown – (ARV: $35.00)
- The New Natural Food Garden (Trade Paperback) By Natalie Bogwalker (ARV: $29.99)
- The Regenerative Gardener’s Handbook (Trade Paperback) By Briana Selstad Bosch (ARV: $24.99)
- Plant This, Not That (Trade Paperback) By Elise Howard (ARV:$22.99)
- Gardenista: The Low-Impact Garden (Hardcover) By Kendra Wilson (ARV: $40.00)
- A gift card from Garden Guru for gardening tools. – $500 (Digital gift card)
Total ARV: $682.97
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