Check It Out: Perfect Gardening Books for All Seasons

If you love to read gardening books, spring and summer are the right time of year to indulge yourself. I kept an eye out for new gardening titles coming to the collection, and thought to share a list of recently released titles.

There are great books for all seasons, but the warmer seasons provide plenty of opportunities for titles filled with Mother Nature’s colorful palette and a wide array of textures. From the velvety sweetness of pansies to the prodigious spiciness of blackberry vines, Mother Nature has it all as the sun shines its high beams on the northern hemisphere.

Keep browsing the library catalog as new titles are added all the time. Whether you’re tending to a newly planted garden or planning for next summer, there are plenty of gardening books out there to fill your head – and eyes – with ideas.

Go ahead and bloom!

• “The Beginner’s Guide to Growing Good Vegetables” by Lorene Edwards Forkner (Also available as eBook)
• “Fearless Gardening: Be Bold, Break the Rules, and Grow What You Love” by Loree Bohl (also available in eBook format)
• “Grow your own mini fruit garden: plant and care for small fruit trees and berries in gardens and containers” by Christy Wilhelmi
• “Growveg: The Beginner’s Guide to Easy Vegetable Gardening” by Benedict Vanheems (also available in eBook format)
• “The Modern Farm Garden: Increasing Self-Sufficiency in a Backyard of Any Size” by Gary Pilarchik
• “The New Heritage Garden: Designs, Recipes, and Heirloom Plants for Cooks Who Love to Garden” by Ellen Ogden
• “A Woman’s Garden: Grow Beautiful Plants and Make Useful Things” by Tanya Anderson

Jan Johnston is the Collections Development Coordinator for the Fort Vancouver Regional Libraries. Email him at [email protected].