Booklist
- Get Ready - Get Set - Get Gardening
NON FICTION
MONTH-BY-MONTH GARDENING IN NEW JERSEY│ Pegi Ballister-Howells│635.097 Ball
If your garden is in New Jersey, this is the book for you! Written by a New Jersey gardening expert, this is the definitive “when-to” guide offering what to do in the garden and the correct time to do it.
COLORS FOR THE GARDEN│ P. Allen Smith│635.968 Gard
Here are simple ways to create gardens that burst with color. Plants are listed by color in an artistic palette.
GARDENING AT THE SHORE│ The Garden Club of Long Beach Island│ 635.9 Gard
This is a wonderful guide for first-timers and seasoned gardeners alike. This book shows which plants, shrubs, and trees to use for less work and more success in a garden subject to storms, wind, salt, and sand.
PERENNIALS FOR TODAY’S GARDENS│ C. Colton Burrell│635.932 Burr
This guide includes one hundred choice perennials including the newest available and new varieties of old favorites. It includes lush photos in an easy-to-read format. Learn the experts’ secrets to cultivating these desirable plants.
ACCESSIBLE GARDENING: TIPS AND TECHNIQUES FOR SENIORS AND THE DISABLED│Joanne Woy│635.087 Woy
Find some good suggestions to overcome obstacles and return to the joy of gardening.
ALL NEW SQUARE FOOT GARDENING: GROW MORE IN LESS SPACE│ Mel Bartholomew │635 Bart
If you want to grow more vegetables and flowers in less space, read on..this method saves time, money, and work.
CONTAINER GARDENING│ Paul Williams│635.986 Will
This is a practical and creative guide to planning and maintaining such garden containers as pots, troughs, and window boxes. It includes an extensive directory of container plants with tips to care for them.
FICTION
THE CIPHER GARDEN│ Martin Edwards│ M Edwa
Years ago, philandering landscaper Warren Howe was hacked to death in a garden in Old Sawrey, England. The case went unsolved but now anonymous notes are accusing his widow of the crime and the case is reopened.
THE LOST GARDENS: AN ENGLISH GARDEN MYSTERY│ Anthony Eglin│ M Egli
When a young American woman inherits an estate in England, she hires retired botany professor Dr. Lawrence Kingston to clear and replant the extensive gardens. In the process, he finds a human skeleton in an old well.
EARTHLY JOYS│ Philippa Gregory │ Fic GregThis compelling historical fiction contrasts the perfection of a 17th. century English garden against a plague-and-hunger ridden land ruled by greedy Stuart kings and immoral courtiers.
SECOND THYME AROUND│ Katie Fforde│ Fic Ffor
This romantic comedy follows Perdita, an independent, sensible organic gardener who grows exotic greens for the restaurant market and Lucas, a brilliant but egotistical chef who happens to be her ex-husband.
ROOTS OF MURDER│ Janis Harrison│M HarrBretta, a flower shop owner, is drawn into the mystery of the death of an Amish flower grower whose blooms were always in demand. Cultural differences get in the way. As does a local “power” struggle over control of the victim’s prize plants.
THE BONE GARDEN│ Kate Ellis│ M ElliWhile the gardens at historic Earlsacre Hall are being restored, three skeletons are found. One is a young woman buried alive three centuries earlier. Detective Sergeant Wesley Peterson is called upon to solve the mystery.
PG 3/07
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