Recommended Books
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With Bringing Nature Home, Doug Tallamy changed the conversation about gardening in America. His second book, the New York Times bestseller Nature’s Best Hope, urged homeowners to take conservation into their own hands. Now, [with The Nature of Oaks] he turns his advocacy to one of the most important species of the plant kingdom—the mighty oak tree.
excerpt from Homegrown National Park
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Heather Holm is a biologist, pollinator conservationist, and award-winning author. She passionately informs and educates audiences nationwide, through her writing and many presentations, about the fascinating world of native pollinators and beneficial insects, and the native plant communities that support them. excerpt from Pollinators of Native Plants
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"A wonderful book for the gardener interested in natural garden design, native plants, plant communities, ecoregions, plant sociability, and more." --The Real Dirt, Garden Club of America as it appears on Amazon
From the Back Cover: "Everything you need to know about Minnesota’s beautiful native plants and how to include them in your landscapes. Gardeners enjoy Minnesota’s native plants for more than their beauty. They are low maintenance, can survive difficult soil and weather conditions, provide unique landscape options, and celebrate our state’s natural heritage. In Landscaping with Native Plants of Minnesota, you’ll learn how to identify native plants, keep them healthy and thriving, and design and install an attractive home landscape perfect for your lifestyle."
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" Naturalist and plantsman Alan Branhagen is director of operations at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum and former director of horticulture at Powell Gardens, Kansas City’s botanical garden. He specializes in botany, butterflies, birds, and garden design." as it appears on Amazon
“Beautifully illustrated…[Midwestern Native Shrubs and Trees] demonstrates how native woody plants, often ignored or underrepresented in the horticultural trade, not only form the backbone of a functioning habitat but serve as life-giving agents to birds, and a vast array of beneficial insects…As part of our Plants for Birds campaign, we at Audubon urge Midwesterners to secure a copy of [this book] and put its concepts into practice. The survival of our region's birds depends on human creations of gardens, yards, and landscapes resplendent with native herbaceous and woody species.”—Audubon Great Lakes as it appears on Amazon
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"This book has it all—sample garden plans, beautiful illustrations and photographs, a comprehensive section profiling native plants and the specific pollinators the plants support, answers to common pollinator gardening questions, and a discussion about the critical link between native plants and pollinators…gardeners will treasure this extremely informative book." -- Heather Holm, Pollinator Conservationist and author of "Bees: An Identification and Native Plant Forage Guide" as it appears on Amazon.
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