Here’s another gift suggestion for Mother’s Day. The book I Plant a Garden with My Mom by Paula Papazoglu (Author) and Susan Kathleen Gumm (Illustrator) is a book with a fun poem and lush illustrations that talks about working together in the garden as a family. Share the joys of gardening with your kids by reading this book to them and then digging in the garden. This book makes a great gift for Moms and kids alike.

Using native plants in your yard is one of the best ways to restore your landscape and get it more in sync with the surrounding natural environment. Natural Landscaping: Designing with Native Plant Communities by John Diekelmann and Robert M. Schuster is an excellent resource for learning how to use native plants in your home and garden.

Fall Notebook: Garden, Hearth, Tradition, Home by Carolyne Roehm is a perfect book for the beginning of the fall season. It talks about leaving summer gardening tasks behind and shifting to gardening related activities for the fall and winter. This book is full of great tips, recipes, crafts, and great reading to keep you busy well into the winter.

Organic Gardening for the 21st Century: A Complete Guide to Growing Vegetables, Fruits, Herbs and Flowers is an excellent book that will introduce you to all the newest organic gardening techniques and technologies. The book starts with the basics of organic gardening, and then goes on to describe more advanced techniques, making it a perfect resource for all gardeners. The tips are useful and practical, too, without being out of reach for the average gardener.

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Container gardening is a great way to garden creatively in your home. It is especially handy when you have limited space to garden. With containers, you can garden on your balcony or on your porch! Gardening in Containers: Creative Ideas from America’s Best Gardeners is a wonderful book full of tips that will get you on your way to gardening with containers. This book is actually part of the “Fine Gardening Design Guides” series. This series of excellent books contain articles on various gardening topics that originally appeared in Fine Gardening magazine.

If you’re interesting in pressing flowers, you should consider checking out this interesting guide to pressing flowers for fun and for profit. This is a basic guide to pressing flowers and using them for greeting cards, journals, etc.

If you’re a fan of do-it-yourself projects, you should check out this excellent book that details how to build your own automatic sprinkler system. It contains detailed information on how to maximize the efficiency of your sprinkler system to help save you water. The book also includes a drip irrigation tutorial for those interested in installing drip irrigation systems.

Let It Rot! The Gardener’s Guide to Composting, is a wonderful and humorous guide to composting offered by Stu Campbell. The book came out in 1975, making waves and introducing (reintroducing?) a generation of gardeners to the joys of compost. This book makes a great gift for friends, relatives, and loved ones.

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Timber Press offers a number of great gardening books to help polish your green thumb. This featured book on native plants of North America is a wonderful gift for the gardener who is looking to grow a more natural garden featuring plants that come from our continent. The author, Allan M. Armitage, is a well respected horticulturist.

I just heard a review of William Alexander’s The $64 Tomato : How One Man Nearly Lost his Sanity, Spent a Fortune, and Endured an Existential Crisis in the Quest for the Perfect Garden and had to recommend it for this blog. This book is a humorous look at gardening trials and tribulations. It’s full of great stories of giant garden pests, epic weeds, and gardening with your spouse. You can buy it at Amazon.com.