 | Landscaping Your Home (Fine Gardening Design Guides)
Buy used from: $3.87 Reliable, insightful and beautifully photographed. Good articles on garden analysis and master planning for homeowners. Great article on how to measure your garden.
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 | Designing Your Gardens and Landscapes: 12 Simple Steps for Successful Planning by Janet Macunovich
Buy new: $12.89 / Used from: $6.10 Very good basic design blueprint. Step-by-step guidelines for beginning home garden designers.
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 | American Horticultural Society A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants by Christopher Brickell
Buy used from: $15.71 Next to the Sunset Western Garden Book, this is one of my favorite references for plant selection.
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 | Western Garden Book, 2001 Edition
Buy used from: $0.99 If you can only buy one gardening book, this is the one to get. Extensive plant list and good horticultural advice.
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 | Gardening from Scratch by Ann Lovejoy
Buy used from: $0.01 How to get started from ground zero.
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 | Ann Lovejoy's Organic Garden Design School: A Guide for Creating Your Own Beautiful, Easy-Care Garden (A Rodale Organic Gardening Book) by Ann Lovejoy
Buy used from: $1.14 More of the Lovejoy approach to garden design.
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 | Gardening With Shade (Sunset Gardening)
Buy new: $11.01 / Used from: $0.95 An example of some of the wonderful specialty books available from Sunset Publishing.
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 | The California Gardener's Book of Lists by Catherine Yronwode
Buy used from: $6.94 This is a good reference book when you verify the information in Sunset. The excellent lists sometimes have inappropriate plants hidden among the jewels. Use with backup references.
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 | Paths and Walkways: Simple Projects, Contemporary Designs (Garden Design Book) by Hazel White
Buy used from: $0.70 Clear photos and descriptions of pathways and walkways for design inspiration.
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