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Not Your Grandma's Coleus

Favorite foliage plants during the Victorian period, coleus have made a dramatic comeback in recent years. Not surprising given their dazzling variety of leaf colors, shapes, and patterns. Discover ust the right coleus for your garden in the comprehensive Coleus: Rainbow Foliage for Containers and Gardens.

Welcome to the Gardening Bookstore!

Our new Timber Press Gardening Bookstore features the very best in gardening and horticulture books for every level of gardener. Whether you're a professional green thumb or a weekend enthusiast, you'll find something to interest, inform, and inspire. Browse the wide range of gardening and horticulture titles from essential reference guides and practical and confidence-building design resources to current plant selection guides for specific climates, and new sustainable gardening titles. Make the most of the summer season with these authoritative and glorious resources.

Something Special for the Gardener

Expertly written and lavishly illustrated, our hand-picked selection of gardening books make inspired and thoughtful gifts. Gardeners and nesters alike will appreciate gorgeous and inspiring books during the winter months including The Authentic Garden and Figs, Dates, Laurel, and Myrrh: Plants of the Bible and the Quran.

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Top Picks: Bestsellers & Featured Titles

Explore this selection of the most exciting books on current gardening trends and the hottest new plants written by some of the gardening world’s best-known authors and celebrities. You’ll also find perennial bestsellers, including Dirr's Hardy Trees and Shrubs: An Illustrated Encyclopedia and The Encyclopedia of Grasses for Livable Landscapes--books whose broad appeal has been demonstrated by thousands of satisfied readers.

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Essential Gardener’s Library

Experienced gardeners know that the right books are among the craft’s most essential tools. Our list of essential titles covers different aspects of gardening with a breadth and authority that makes it indispensable. While your garden may change from season to season, these books will stand the test of time, and get taken off the shelf again and again. .

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Customer Raves

Gigiwigi (Jacksonville, FL) on A Pattern Garden: "Ms. Easton deserves high praise for her work. She explains complex design ideas in a way that is easy to understand and easy to put into practice. The book emphasizes that these principles can be used in gardens of any size or style or price range. (I was able to implement some of her patterns the same day for under $10.) Ms. Easton shows you how to make your garden a good-feeling, positive place to be FOR YOU. Far from the preening dilettante who wants you to apply ideas from her 10-acre garden to your postage-stamp yard in a cookie cutter manner, Ms. Easton encourages us to customize your space to suit your needs and desires." Read more reviews...

5-Star Favorite

The Well-Tended Perennial Garden has been earning nearly unanimous five-star customer reviews since the revised edition released last summer. Save 34% on this must-have volume on planting and maintaining perennials.

Container Gardening Know-How

It's not hard to create a great container garden with the right techniques and design guidance. The indispensible Pots in the Garden packs it all into one indispensible and beautifully illustrated volume.

Sensational Succulents

Open your eyes to the stunning variety and amazing design potential of succulents in warm and cold climates. Designing with Succulents is a gold mine of practical information and design how-to on these drought-tolerant, low-maintenance stunners.

Plants for a Truly Green Roof

Finally, a reliable reference devoted exclusively to drought-tolerant plants for green (not brown!) roofs. Find abundant information on a full range of roof plantings in Green Roof Plants: A Resource and Planting Guide.

V is for Viburnum

In search of an impressive four-season shrub or seeking woody plants with proven appeal? Then viburnums are for you. Michael Dirr's indispensible Viburnums: Flowering Shrubs for Every Season will acquaint you with a group of plants capable of meeting all these requirements.