Gardening with Prairie Plants

Gardening with Prairie Plants is a book by Sally Wasowski. Of all the “how to” native gardening books I’ve read this is my out and out favorite. It’s a definite inspiration, full of wonderful detail.

Subtitled “how to create beautiful native landscapes“, if you live east of the Rocky Mountains, you’ll want to add this [...]

Win The Green Gardener’s Guide

This one is for the gardeners, or gardeners to be. Enter this give away to win The Green Gardener’s Guide by Joe Lamp’L. This give away is part of 3 Days of Green Give Aways.

The Green Gardener’s Guide was provided by Cool Springs Press. I was given this item through a Twitter give away – [...]

Weekly Earth News 05/26/09

It’s time for the weekly Earth news and there’s lots of good stuff to report today. Here are my top choices from this week’s Earth news around the web.

#1 – Connecting Children and Nature
President Obama has proposed $50 million of funding for connecting children and nature. Wow! Personally I think a lot can be done [...]

Botany in a Day – Thomas J Elpel

Botany in a Day is a different kind of plant identification book. It’s not full of colored photos and it’s not pocket-sized like the Audubon Field Guide to North American Wildflowers. What it does is teach the identification of plants by their family groups and, unlike many other botany texts I’ve looked at, it’s written [...]

5 Great Books for Bird Loving Moms

Being a fan of our feathered friends, I’ve managed to amass over the years a small collection of great bird books. Here are my top five picks for the bird loving mom (or dad, friend, or relative) in your life. They’d make a great Mother’s Day gift, or when you receive a little thank you [...]