HPL 2025 New Gardening | Oak Park Public Library

Jan. 30: Library closed for Staff Learning & Engagement Day.

1) For the love of plants: over 150 plants to bring joy to your garden and your life

Author

Frost, Adam (Garden designer)

Description

Wander through Adam's gardens as he reflects on the plants that have shaped his life. The scents of the lavender and rosemary lining the garden path instantly welcome you to what follows: a wildflower meadow, an ornamental kitchen garden, a shady courtyard, terrace and borders, gravel garden, and woodland walk, taking you on a tour through Adam's Garden. As you go, Adam explains his why, explaining his design and planting choices, drawing on personal...

2) The 5-minute gardener: year-round garden habits for busy people

Author

Burke, Nicole Johnsey

Description

This guide encourages readers to cultivate a year-round gardening habit with five minutes of daily commitment, offering quick tasks and seasonal plans that make it manageable for anyone, regardless of space, while also highlighting the benefits of fresh produce and mindfulness through connection with nature.

3) The 10-minute gardener: how to have a veggie garden and a life: 85 time-saving tactics to be more efficient and grow more food in less time

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"The 10-Minute Gardener is a quick-and-simple guide to garden care when there's no time to spare!"-- Provided by publisher.

4) Your Asian veggie patch: a guide to growing and cooking delicious Asian vegetables, herbs and fruits

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Discover the joy of growing and cooking a vibrant array of Asian vegetables, herbs and fruits in this comprehensive, beginner-friendly guide. Connie Cao's curated selection of more than 50 cool-season and warm-season annuals and perennials makes it easy to find produce that will thrive in your garden. Then, make the most of your abundant harvest with 50 fresh home-style recipes. Your Asian Veggie Patch has everything you need to get your garden flourishing...

5) Martha Stewart's gardening handbook: the essential guide to designing, planting, and growing

Author

Stewart, Martha

Description

"The first fully comprehensive gardening guide from the legendary Martha Stewart in more than 30 years, with everything you need to know to curate a beautiful, thriving garden"-- Provided by publisher.

6) The permaculture garden: a practical approach to year-round harvests

Author

Richards, Huw, 1999-

Description

Explores regenerative methods to create a sustainable, productive kitchen garden year-round, with advice on growing diverse edible plants, incorporating perennials, optimizing garden design, and enhancing aesthetics and environmental benefits through seasonal planning and mixed planting techniques.

7) Survival gardening: grow your own emergency food supply from seed to root cellar

Author

Coffman, Sam (Clinical herbalist)

Description

"Learn how to grow your own food supply with advice from a survival skills expert. This essential guide includes how to choose and grow the most nutrient-dense crops without store-bought amendments or fertilizers, how to plan for a nonstop supply, how to store food, and how to create your own seed bank"-- Provided by publisher.

8) A year in bloom: flowering bulbs for every season

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"Bulbs are an essential part of any gardener's planting palette from the first snowdrops of winter to the last crocus of autumn, they offer endless opportunities for floral impact and experimentation. In A Year in Bloom, award-winning garden writer Lucy Bellamy showcases a wide-ranging selection of more than 150 bulbs, each presented with informative text, expert planting advice, and vibrant photography. Organized into four seasonal chapters, this...

9) 50 projects for building your backyard homestead: a hands-on, step-by-step sustainable-living guide

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"Learn all about how to build sheds, feeders, fences, and other backyard structures to enhance your sustainable living! -- Garden structures: Raised beds, planters and arbors, self-watering beds, grow-light stand, soil blocks -- Fences and pens: Fence post basics, picket fence, solar electric fence, installing and stretching fences, hen pen and hurdle, gates, PVC hen pen -- Housing chickens: Basics for housing chickens, building a coop and run, complete...

10) Essential guide to organic vegetable gardening: techniques and know-how for planning, planting, and tending a home vegetable garden organically

Author

American Horticultural Society

Description

"The American Horticultural Society Essential Guide to Organic Vegetable Gardening is a comprehensive yet beginner-friendly handbook for growing edible gardens from the foremost authority in American gardening"-- Provided by publisher.

11) Container gardening-the permaculture way: sustainably grow vegetables and more in your small space

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"Based on the author's own experience growing a lush permaculture garden on her balcony, this book teaches anyone, anywhere to grow fresh, healthy produce in containers, free of chemical fertilizers or insecticides"-- Provided by publisher.

12) The backyard homestead guide to growing organic food: a crop-by-crop reference for 62 vegetables, fruits, nuts, and herbs

Author

Cobb, Tanya Denckla, 1956-

Series

Backyard homestead

Description

"The Backyard Homestead Guide to Growing Organic Food is a one-stop reference for all the key information food gardeners need to grow a healthy, bountiful garden. The book features a comprehensive companion planting guide and an in-depth review of the most effective organic pest control practices, including recipes for how to make your own pest deterrent sprays"-- Provided by publisher.

13) Making fairy garden accessories: 22 enchanting projects for your backyard

Author

Fahmy, Anna-Marie

Description

"Provides step-by-step instructions on how to create fairy garden accessories; sections on techniques and materials; and a gallery of fairy gardens, houses, and handmade accessories"-- Provided by publisher.

14) The flower yard in containers & pots: creating paradise season by season

Author

Parkinson, Arthur

Description

"This lushly photographed idea book proves that it is possible to create a glamorous outdoor space of ever-changing color, teeming with life, in the smallest of spaces, whether a patio, terrace, or front porch. This inspirational guide demonstrates how a glorious outdoor space is possible, even with only a small patio and a few pots. Featuring detailed photos and text by Parkinson who has been named a rising gardening star by Architectural Digest,...

15) How to grow flowers in small spaces: an illustrated guide to planning, planting, and caring for your small space flower garden

Author

Walker, Stephanie (Gardener)

Description

"Did you know that begonias can be dug up in the fall, stored indoors in the winter, and be ready to be planted and bloom again in the spring? That daylilies need to be divided every three to four years to produce more blooms? Or that marigolds can be both a beautiful and helpful addition to a vegetable garden as a natural deterrent to common garden pests? Whether you're a first-time gardener or an experienced green thumb looking to learn more about...

16) The container victory garden: a beginner's guide to growing your own groceries

Author

Stuckey, Maggie

Description

"In her trademark warm and informative style, bestselling author and expert gardener Maggie Stuckey shares everything you need to know to succeed with container gardening: planning, gearing up, planting, nurturing, and harvesting"-- Provided by publisher.

17) Free-range chicken gardens: how to create a beautiful, chicken-friendly yard

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Presents advice for keeping chickens in the garden, discussing such topics as housing, garden design, landscaping, fencing, plant choices, and predator control.

18) Beginning seed saving for the home gardener

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Ulager, Jim, 1977-

Description

"Many people garden because they enjoy the independence of producing their own food. Yet for many, the how and why of producing seeds remains mysterious and even intimidating. This book explores how seed saving is not only easier than we think, but why it is essential for vibrant, independent, and bountiful gardens"-- Provided by publisher.

19) How to create your garden

Author

Frost, Adam (Garden designer)

Description

Garden design doesn't need to be complicated. The practical, no-nonsense approach of this book strips away complex design concepts and focuses on your needs to help you find your own garden style, even if you don't know where to start. Whatever your space - be it a small garden with a patio, a city roof terrace or a classic country garden - Adam Frost can show you how to create a garden that suits your lifestyle, personality and budget. Adam is the...

20) Planting for honeybees: the grower's guide to creating a buzz

Author

Lewis, Sarah Wyndham

Description

Our gardens would be unrecognizable without the gentle buzz of the humble honeybee. Yet in recent years bee populations have suffered from th loss of green spaces and need our help. Planting for Honeybees is a charmingly illustrated, practical guide on how to help attract these delightful pollinators - whether you only have a city window ledge or a whole country garden. With advice on the blooms to grow, and when and where to plant them, this book...