Literary Sources and Web Pages

For plant and seed sources, see our Plant Sources Page

Periodicals

Avant Gardener: the ultimate in gardening news- think of it like your own news clipping service. Published monthly for almost 40 years, it's 8 pages of distilled information from university research, gardening periodicals and the latest gardening trends, books, plants and ideas. Subscriptions are $24 per year. For more information, contact The Avant Gardener, P. O. Box 489, New York, NY 10028. (no website)

Market Bulletins: see Plant Sources

 Books
Christopher Brickell & Judith Zuk - The A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants, DK Publishing, 1996. The American Horticultural Society's huge compendium is an ultimate gardener's guide. Has many photographs, with complete information about each plant and its cultivars. An excellent reference book.

Peter Coats - The House and Garden book of Garden Decoration, Viking Press, 1970

Pamela Crawford - Instant Container Gardens, Color Garden Press, 2007

Derek Fell Derek Fell's Handy Garden Guides: Bulbs, Friedman/Fairfax, 1999. Excellent pictues of each bulb with growing conditions, blooming times. Simple and easy to use for identification.

Edith Henderson Edith Henderson's Home Landscape Companion - Peachtree Publishers, 1993. A great source for  emerging gardeners planning a home garden.

Gertrude Jekyll- Wood and Garden, The Ayer Company,1983

Gertrude Jekyll on Gardening, Edited by Penelope Hobhouse, First Vintage Books, 1985. A good anthology of the writings of Gertrude Jekyll, sorted out by months, with comentaries by Ms. Hobhouse, one of Britian's leading comtemporary plantswomen.

Elizabeth Lawrence - for more about E. Lawrence, click here. Published books:

Beautiful All Season, Duke University Press, 2007                                                    A Southern Garden, UNC Press 1942, 1967, 1984, 1991, 2001.
The Little Bulbs: A Tale of Two Gardens, Criterion Books, 1957, Duke University Press, 1986.
Lob's Wood, Cincinnati Nature Center, 1971
Gardens in Winter, Harper and Brothers, 1961, Claitor’s Publishing Division 1977.
Gardening For Love: The Market Bulletins, Duke University Press, 1987.
A Rock Garden in the South, Duke University Press, 1990.

Eyewitness Garden Books: Pruning and Training,  Dorling -Kindersley,1999

Vita Sackville West - published books

Country Notes, M. Joseph (1939), Harper (1940), reprinted, Books for Libraries (1971)                                                                                                                Country Notes in Wartime, Hogarth Press (1940), Doubleday (1941), reprinted, Books for Libraries 1970)                                                                                In Your Garden, M. Joseph (1951), published as Vita Sackville-Wests Garden Book, edited by Philippa Nicolson, Atheneum (1968), published in England as V. Sackville-Wests Garden Book: A Collection Taken from In Your Garden, M. Joseph (1968), reprinted, Macmillan (1983)                            In Your Garden Again, M. Joseph  (1953)                                                                   More for Your Garden, M. Joseph  (1955)                                                                    A Joy of Gardening: A Selection for Americans, I. Popper, ed., Harper (1958)                                                                                                                                     Even More for Your Garden, M. Joseph (1958)                                                         The Illustrated Garden Book: A Naew Anthology, Robin Lane Fox, ed., Atheneum (1986)                                                                                                                  The Land and the Garden, Viking (1989)                                                                  Some Flowers, Cobden-Sanderson (1937), reprinted, illustrated by Graham Rust, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (1993)

Sara Stein: My Weeds, A Gardener's Botany, Houghton Mifflin (1994)

Helen Van Pelt Wilson: Perennials Preferred, M. Barrows and Co. (1945) 

Websites

 Flower Tending - great step by step directions for using cut flowers successfully. http://www.flowertending.com/flower-care-tips.html

The National Weather Service - vital forecasts, trends, drought and freeze histories and so much more!http://www.nws.noaa.gov/

Container Gardening - Pamela Crawford demonstrates how to plant hanging baskets and containers. www.sideplanting.com

Dave's Garden - an online gardening forum, with plant directory and seed-trading.  http://davesgarden.com/

Georgia Native Plant Society - excellent resource about what plants are native to the area, with a photo gallery of native plants for your garden! http://www.gnps.org/index.html

Florida Native Plant Society - even if you don't live in Florida, this website gives us good ideas about plants that like it hot! http://www.fnps.org/

Georgia Urban Agriculture Council - certifies homeowners to allow them to water newly planted landscapes, has links to county and city websites for water restriction information. www.outdoorwateruse.com

North Carolina Native Plant Society - this organization has been around since 1951, and is a wonderful resource for gardeners interested in Native Plants. North Carolina has one of the best roadside wildflower planting programs, thanks to them! http://www.ncwildflower.org/