Gardening resources pages from Paradise Gardens Rare Plant Nursery

This Green World, Rutherford Platt--one of my all time favorite books about plants. Enthralling.
Perennials Vols. 1 & 2 by Roger Phillips & Martyn Rix
Dictionary of Gardening, Nicholson (1896)
An Encyclopedia of Gardening, W. P. Wright (1911)
Eyewitness Handbooks: Herbs (by Lesley Bremness), Perennials
Flowers & Fruit, Colette
Gentians, Fritz Köhlein
The Genus Primula, Josef Halda
Mountain Flowers in Color, Huxley
The New Garden Encyclopedia 1943 Victory Garden Edition, E. L. D. Seymour, ed. ---a wonderful garden companion & beautiful line drawings.
Penstemons, Robert Nold
Penstemons, Dee Strickler
Plants of Southern Interior British Columbia, Parish - Coupé - Lloyd
Popular Flowers, E. S. Rand, Jr. (1876)
Taylor's Encyclopedia of Gardening, Norman Taylor ed.
The Rock Garden Month by Month, Jefferson-Brown & Upward
Scented Flora of the World, Roy Genders --this and the next title are amongs the most useful for building your collection of fragrant plants.
The Scented Garden, Rosemary Verey
Winter Botany, William Trelease
Handy Farm Devices and How to Make them, Rolfe Cobleigh, The Lyons Press
Annuals & Biennials, Phillips & Rix
Wild Berries of the West, Derig & Fuller
Plants of the Lewis & Clark Expedition, H. Wayne Phillips

Resources & Recommended Reading

Gardening, herbs, nature and other related things:

Lists, Lore & Recipes from PGRPN What plant where, interesting uses and history, and of course cooking & home use recipes:
          ·Useful & curious Plants for uses from culinary to landscaping to perfumery; historical and traditional uses & lore.
         ·Tasty Recipes for cooking with herbs and flowers, including our famous Rose recipes. Cheesecake, anyone?
         ·Helpful How-to tips for growing and enjoying herbs and flowers, gardening with wildlife, etc.

· In Paradise A sporadic accounting of the gardening year here at PGRP, including soapmaking notes, local flora & fauna, photos, links and more. (Before there was Blog, there was Garden Journal.)

· On-line Resources Other on-line gardening, cooking and garden- arts related places to visit, including
          some great science blogs we follow.
· Books Our favorite garden reading--encyclopedias, hiker's wildflower guides, essays (this page)

Favorite Books for reference, Curiosity and
Enjoyment of Plants & Gardening.