Plano Learns: Yard and Landscape Inspiration

Gardening isn’t just a spring and summer activity! Work on your garden, grow food and help your ecosystem year-round. Thanks to the City of Plano’s Sustainability and Environmental Education Division, it’s easy to learn how you start and maintain your garden landscape, especially if you are looking for sustainable methods. SEED teaches workshops throughout the year, including classes at the library.

Check out some of the latest books we have added to our collection on gardening and natural landscaping:

Growing an Edible Landscape: How to Transform Your Outdoor Space into a Food Garden by Gary Pilarchik Print
Growing an Edible Landscape is filled with advice and tips for converting unproductive lawn and garden areas into food-growing regions where edible plants thrive.

Prairie Up: An Introduction to Natural Garden Design by Benjamin Vogt Print
Benjamin Vogt shares his years of expertise with prairie plants in a full-color guide aimed at gardeners, homeowners, and landscape designers. Step-by-step blueprints point readers to plant groupings that not only attract pollinators and please the eye but minimize maintenance and ensure years of healthy growth.

New Naturalism: Designing and Planting a Resilient, Ecologically Vibrant Home Garden by Kelly Norris Print
Naturalistic gardens increase biodiversity, provide refuge for wildlife, and are an essential keystone for reconnecting the human world to the natural one. Knowing how to create a lush, thriving, and ecologically vibrant landscape might seem intimidating and out of reach, but horticulturist Kelly Norris and New Naturalism are here to help you design and plant a stunning oasis of nature-inspired plantings that thrive.

The Living Landscape: Designing for Beauty and Biodiversity in the Home Garden by Rick Darke Print
You’ll learn the strategies for making and maintaining a diverse, layered landscape–one that offers beauty on many levels, provides outdoor rooms and turf areas for children and pets, incorporates fragrance and edible plants, and provides cover, shelter, and sustenance for wildlife. Richly illustrated and informed by both a keen eye for design and an understanding of how healthy ecologies work, The Living Landscape will enable you to create a garden that fulfills both human needs and the needs of wildlife communities.

The Fragrant Flower Garden: Growing, Arranging and Preserving Natural Scents by Stefani Bittner Print
Make your garden and home look and smell heavenly with this accessible gardening guide that explains how to grow fragrant flowers outdoors and bring natural scents indoors by creating floral arrangements, scented beauty products, and more.

Growing Bulbs in the Natural Garden: Innovative Techniques for Combining Bulbs and Perennials in Every Season by Jacqueline Van Der Kloet Print
Growing Bulbs in the Natural Garden provides inspiration and insights gained from van der Kloet’s career, using nature as a model. This exquisitely photographed guide offers advice on bulb varieties, planting methods, and handy tools for gardeners working in spaces large and small.

Beyond the Garden: Designing Home Landscapes with Natural Systems by Dana Davidsen Print
Through twenty distinctive projects set across urban, suburban, and rural spaces, Beyond the Garden explores how thoughtful design and awareness of local ecology can make gardens both beautiful and sustainable.

Sustainable Garden: Projects, Insights and Advice for the Eco-Conscious Gardener by Marian Boswall Print
Whether it’s by making your own fertilisers, converting to peat-free compost, reducing your consumption of plastic, saving your own seeds or creating raised beds with reused timber, there are numerous ways – both big and small – to make a difference. This book will guide anyone hoping to take informed and intelligent decisions to make a difference, but who perhaps don’t know where to begin.

Variety of flowers and plants in a garden bed

Want to explore more gardens and landscapes? Browse the Home & Garden digital magazines on the Libby app! You can subscribe to magazines and receive the latest editions, downloaded straight to your “shelf” – all available with your Plano Public Library card.

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