Gardening
(May 2005)
Color in Gardening | Crafts | Folklore | Healing Herbs | Natural Cosmetics | Potpourris | Spices | Websites
While most gardening books will be found in the 630s, there are other areas of the library you may want to check out to find out how to use all those herbs, vegetables and flowers. Here are a few suggestions. Also, there are some wonderful sources of information on the Internet -- see the Websites section for those.
Color in Gardening:
- Hillier, Malcolm: Malcolm Hiller's color garden (712.2 Hil)
- Roth, Susan A.: The Four-Season Landscape: easy-care plants and plans for year-round color (712.6 Rot)
- Walters, James E.: Shade and color with water-conserving plants (712 Wal)
Crafts:
- Cusick, Dawn: The book of country herbal crafts: a step-by-step guide to making over 100 beautiful wreaths, garlands, bouquets and much, much more (745.92 Cus)
- Donaldson, Stephanie: Scented treasures: aromatic gifts from kitchen and garden (745.5 Don)
- Nadeau, Alyce: Making and selling herbal crafts: tips, techniques, projects (745.5 Nad)
Folklore:
- Colonial Dames of America: Herbs and herb lore of colonial America (581.63 Sim)
- Worth Valerie: The crone's book of charms and spells (398.3 Wor)
Healing Herbs:
- Duke, James A.: The green pharmacy: new discoveries in herbal remedies for common diseases and conditions from the world's foremost authority on healing herbs (615.321 Duk)
- Hoffmann, David: The complete illustrated holistic herbal: a safe and practical guide to making and using herbal remedies (615.53 Hof)
- Keville, Kathi: Herbs for health and healing (615.321 Kev)
Natural Cosmetics:
- Breedlove, Greta: The herbal home spa: naturally refreshing wraps, rubs, lotions, masks, oils and scrubs (646.72 Bre)
- Cox, Janice: Natural beauty at home: more than 250 easy-to-use recipes for body, bath and hair (646.72 Cox)
- Golden, Manine Rosa: Home spa: recipies and techniques to restore and refresh (646.704 Gol)
Potpourris:
- Webb, David A.: Making potpourri, soaps, and colognes: 102 natural recipies (668.54 Web)
- Williams, Betsy: Potpourri and fragrant crafts (668.542 Wil)
Spices:
- Herb mixtures and spicy blends (641.657 Her)
- Rinzler, Carol Ann: The new complete book of herbs, spices and condiments (641.357 Rin)
- Witzigmann, Eckart: Herbs and spices: how to make the best use of herbs and spices in your cooking (641.367 Wit)
Websites:
- American Bonsai Society: http://www.absbonsai.org
- Home and Garden Television: http://www.hgtv.com
- Ikebana International: http://www.ikebanahq.org
- Michigan State University Department of Horticulture: http://www.hrt.msu.edu
- National Gardening Association: http://www.garden.org
- United States Botanic Garden: http://www.usbg.gov
- University of Michigan Matthaei Botanical Gardens: http://sitemaker.umich.edu/mbgna
