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Gardening Books
| [-] Landscaping/General Gardening |
| Title | Author |
| 1001 Most Asked Texas Gardening Questions |
Neil Sperry |
| Country Living Cottage Gardens | Country Living |
| Dale Groom's Texas Gardening Guide | Dale Groom |
| Dallas Planting Manual | Dallas Garden Club (the Dallas Woman's Club) |
| Encyclopedia of Gardening | American Horticultural Society |
| Howard Garrett's Plants for Texas | Howard Garrett |
| Howard Garrett's Texas Organic Gardening | Howard Garrett |
| Landscaping with Native Texas Plants | Sally Wasowski and Julie Ryan |
| Neil Sperry's Complete Guide to Texas Gardening, Second Edition | Neil Sperry |
| Perennial Gardening for Texas | Julie Ryan |
| Plants for the Metroplex III | Howard Garrett |
| Requiem for a Lawnmower and Other Essays on Easy Gardening with Native Plants | Sally Wasowski |
| Southern Living Garden Book | Southern Living |
| Southern Living Landscape Book | Southern Living |
| Successful Perennial Gardening | Lewis and Nancy Hill |
| Texas Gardening the Natural Way | Howard Garrett |
| Texas Wild: The Land, Plants, and Animals of the Lone Star State | Richard Phelan |
| [-] Trees |
| Title | Author |
| A Field Guide to Texas Trees | Benny J. Simpson |
| Forest Trees of Texas: How to Know Them | Texas Forest Service, Bulletin 20 |
| Howard Garrett's Texas Trees | Howard Garrett |
| [-] Flowers |
| Title | Author |
| Perennial Garden Color | William C. Welch |
| Roses | Richard Ray/Michael MacCaskey |
| Taylor's Pocket Guide to Perennials | Sun Maggie Oster, consulting editor |
| Texas Wildflowers | Campbell and Lynn Loughmiller |
| The Louisiana Iris | Marie Caillet and Joseph K. Mertzweiller |
| Wildflowers of Texas | Geyata Ajilvsgi |
| [-] Turf |
| Title | Author |
| The Complete Guide to Texas Lawn Care | Dr. William E. Knoop |
| Weeds, A Golden Guide | St. Martin's Press Alexander C. Martin |
| [-] Herbs |
| Title | Author |
| Rodale's Illustrated Encyclopedia of Herbs | Editors: Claire Kowalchik and William H. Hylton |
| Southern Herb Growing | Madalene Hill and Gwen Barclay with Jean Hardy |
| [-] Vegetables |
| Title | Author |
| 100 Heirloom Tomatoes for the American | Garden Carolyn J. Male |
Commonsense Vegetable Gardening for the South |
William D. Adams and Thomas LeRoy |
| Gourds in Your Garden | Ginger Summit |
| Heirloom Vegetable Gardening: A Master Gardener's Guide to Planting, Growing, Seed Saving, and Cultural History | William Woys Weaver |
| Peppers | Jean Andrews |
| Square Foot Gardening | Mel Bartholomew |
| Texas Gardener's Guide to Growing Tomatoes | Mary Gail Rundell |
| The Complete Vegetable & Herb Gardener: A Guide to Growing Your Garden Organically | (Burpee) Karan Davis Cutter |
| The Garden of Gourds | Ethel Z. BaileyReprinted by the American Gourd Society, Inc. |
| The Vegetable Book | Dr. Sam Cotner |
| Wyman's Gardening Encyclopedia | Donald Wyman |
| [-] Plant Pathology |
| Title | Author |
| Identifying Diseases of Vegetables | A.A. MacNab, A.F. Sherf, J.K. Springer |
| Texas Plant Diseases HandbookPublication B-1130 of the Texas Agricultural Extension Service | Texas Extension Pathologists |
| [-] House Plants |
| Title | Author |
| Reader's Digest Success with House Plants | General Editor: Anthony Huxley |
| [-] Insects |
| Title | Author |
| A Field Guide to Common Texas Insects | Bastiaan M. Drees, Ph.D., John A. Jackman, Ph.D. |
| A Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians of Texas | Judith M. Garrett and David G. Barker |
| A Field Guide to Spiders & Scorpions of Texas | John A. Jackman |
| Bugs, Slugs, & Other Thugs: Controlling Garden Pests Organically | Rhonda Massingham Hart |
| Butterflies: How to Identify and Attract Them to Your Garden | Marcus Schneck |
| Critters: Common Household and Garden Pests of Texas | Bill Zak |
| Rodale's Color Handbook of Garden Insects | Anna Carr |
| The Butterfly Book | Donald and Lillian Stokes |
| The Life Cycles of Butterflies | Judy Burris and Wayne Richards |
| [-] Miscellaneous |
| Title | Author |
| Botany for Gardeners: An Introduction and Guide | Brian Capon |
| Courtyards and Containers | Better Homes and Gardens |
| Color Echoes | Pamela Harper |
| Gardening for Dummies | Michael MacCaskey |
| The Tool Book | William Bryant Logan (Smith & Hawken) |
| Plant Propagation: Principles and Practices, Third Edition | Hudson T. Hartmann and Dale E. Kester |
| Sex in Your Garden | Angela Overy |
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