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Garden to the Max: Joyful, Visionary, Maximalist Design

June 17, 2025 12:09 PM
Garden to the Max celebrates gardens across the US that embrace maximalism through joy and wonder, nonstop blooms, and abundant layers.

June 2025

The Lean Micro Farm: How to get small, embrace local, live better, and work less

June 17, 2025 11:52 AM
The Lean Micro Farm shows how small, hyperlocal farms can be both ecologically and economically superior to industrial-scale operations geared toward export and commodity markets. Ben Hartman shares practical how-to tips, personal stories, and surprising examples of cutting-edge farmers and innovators around the world to show us how.

June 2025

Gardener Scott's Guide to Raised Bed Gardening

June 17, 2025 11:49 AM
Gardener Scott's Guide to Raised Bed Gardening is a no-fuss, step-by-step guide to planning, building and growing in your first raised bed. Gardener Scott shepherds you through every stage of creating a thriving, productive raised bed garden -- from the crucial planning phases where you'll consider the design and how you're going to use your raised bed, to building your first raised bed, filling it with soil and growing your dream garden.

June 2025

Art in Flower: Finding Inspiration in Art and Nature

June 17, 2025 11:42 AM
In Art in Flower, Lindsey Taylor introduces an original take on floral design that teaches us to see the world anew. Riffing on works by a diversity of artists across mediums, periods, and styles, Taylor inspires readers to interpret the palettes, compositions, brushstrokes, and mood of the art in flowers, and shares florists' trade secrets for building beautiful arrangements.

June 2025

How Can I Help?: Saving Nature with your Yard

June 17, 2025 11:35 AM
In How Can I Help , Tallamy tackles the questions commonly asked at his popular lectures and shares compelling and actionable answers that will help gardeners and homeowners take the next step in their ecological journey. Topics range from ecology, evolution, biodiversity and conservation to restoration, native plants, invasive species, pest control, and supporting wildlife at home.

June 2025

Waterwise Gardening: Everything you need to know about efficient watering to grow a healthy yard

June 17, 2025 10:52 AM
Whether home gardeners want to conserve water for ecological or purely monetary reasons, each is becoming more acutely aware that water is an increasingly scarce and expensive resource. This volume will be the first to actually give scientific guidance on how much to water, with what methods, and when.

June 2025

Plants for the Winter Garden: Perennials, Grasses, Shrubs, and Trees to Add Interest in the Cold and Snow

June 17, 2025 10:45 AM
Within this comprehensive reference book lie the secrets to keeping your garden beautiful despite the elements, with design and planting concepts for prolonged wintry conditions.

June 2025

The Green Dip: Covering the City with a Forest

June 17, 2025 09:53 AM
What if vegetation surged in our cities, transforming them into true, flora-rich forests? What would be the resulting urban ecosystems? The Green Dip, an ongoing research project conducted by The Why Factory at Delft University of Technology, is a visual manifesto that examines greening solutions for cities and studies the architectural strategies used to incorporate vegetation into buildings. The Green Dip imagines a worldwide urban forest - from Beijing to Singapore, Dubai, Moscow, Kinshasa, Paris, New York, or Sao Paulo.

Uploaded June 2025

Arboricultural Practices: A Science-based Approach

June 17, 2025 09:47 AM
In our urban forests and designed landscapes, trees stand as the most important and resilient green elements. Arboricultural Practices by Lindsey Purcell is an essential guide for all green professionals--including arboricultural consultants, arborists, urban foresters, landscape architects, landscape contractors and tree owners and managers--offering comprehensive insights into aligning arboricultural practices with urban forestry initiatives and sustainability goals.

Uploaded June 2025

A Year Full of Pots: Container Flowers for All Seasons

June 17, 2025 09:44 AM
Growing flowers in pots is a charming and accessible way to enhance any space, from large gardens to small city apartments. Get the pots right, and your garden will take on a cheerful energy of its own. They are the bubbles in the champagne, the cherries on the cake, the final flourish that brings a beautiful garden to life. And with pots, there is one iron rule: more is more.

Uploaded June 2025

Mike Goates

Life & Geological Sciences Librarian
michael_goates@byu.edu