Winter Gardening Books
These books were selected to help you select plants for color in the winter garden. Whether it be with flowers, foliage or twigs winter color can keep a winter landscape from looking too dismal.
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The Garden in Winter
Book Description: More than 140 color photographs- many taken specially for this work. A catalogue of more than 200 plants that are notable for their winter flowers, berries, foilage or bark. Written by one of the twentieth-century's greatest garden designers.
The Horticulture Gardeners Guide Winter Garden
Book Description:
- Winter can be a magical time for gardeners
- Learn what to do now to prepare for next spring
- Over 500 color photographs of all seasons from Hillier
New from the successful Horticulture Gardener’s Guide series is a guide to winter gardening. Just because the garden soil is frozen doesn’t mean the gardener should be dormant, too! With a little imagination and lots of encouragement from author, Jane Sterndale Bennett, gardeners from every climate can learn how to enjoy their gardens all year round. Readers will discover:
- Which plants will be successful throughout the winter months
- How to enjoy the garden from the living room window, and bring elements of the garden indoors to enjoy
- Advice on plant choices, varieties and soil types
- What steps to take to prepare for spring’s triumphant return
My Garden in Autumn and Winter
Bowles was a renowned gardener, plantsman, and author. This book was a third in a series My Garden in Spring and My Garden in Summer. Many of his plants he lists for winter will work for our Pacific Northwest maritime climate. Thanks to Timber Press for reviving this old book.
Taylor's Weekend Gardening Guide to the Winter Garden:
Plants That Offer Color and Beauty in Every Season of the Year
Book Description: Winter doesn't have to be a dreary wasteland for northern gardeners. Even when flowers won't bloom, you can have a garden that's colorful and full of visual interest. This book describes the best evergreens, trees and shrubs with colorful twigs and bark, ornamental grasses, and winter fruits and berries that will liven your yard - and then shows you how to take care of them.
Winter-flowering Shrubs
Book Description: In temperate zones it is possible to have a shrub in flower for every day between November and March, and with careful selection the display continues throughout the rest of the year. The cornerstone of this book is a hand-picked plant directory featuring both established favourites and lesser-known collectables, all chosen for their winter-flowering performance. Here you will find daphnes, viburnums, witch hazels, and camellias to suit every taste and garden situation. After years of observing how plants react to different types of wintry conditions, Michael Buffin explains what happens physiologically to plants in winter, how they respond to different types of cold — low temperatures, bitter winds, saturated ground — and what gardeners can do to help their choice winter-flowering shrubs flourish. Tips on combining winter-flowering shrubs, using winter sunlight to backlight choice specimens, and getting the right balance of plants that offer different characteristics, complete this practical and inspiring guide.
The Winter Garden:
Create a Garden that Shines Through the Forgotten Season
Book Description: For many gardeners, winter is simply a season to endure while planning for the coming spring. The rich floral splendor they’ve enjoyed has given way to dull browns and grays tipped by lonely snow-capped branches. But that doesn’t have to be: there are so many easy and inexpensive ways to add real winter interest to any garden. Two hundred color photographs show the diverse possibilities, along with site-specific design plans. There are suggestions for selecting and caring for a broad assortment of flowers, grasses, shrubs, and trees that boast dramatic winter flair, plus professional choices for cold-hardy container plants. Smart tips include using colored stones, adding bronze and wood accents, and maximizing the effect of winter light on plants.
Winter Ornamentals:
For the Maritime Northwest Gardener
Book Description: Lengthen the gardening season by transforming your single-season garden into one that blossoms throughout the year. Flowers, berries, barks, and leaves provide brilliant color on dark winter days, and this guide emphasizes plants that possess special cold-weather traits. Included are sections on cultural requirements, pests and diseases, and companion plants.
Wonders of the Winter Landscape:
Shrubs and Trees to Brighten the Cold-Weather Garden
Book Description: Although North America suffers through several dreary months of winter each year, this guide describes trees and shrubs that make the barren winter landscape a wonderland of texture and color. Part one of the book conveys the elegance of deciduous trees and shrubs with an extreme attention to detail—Persian parrotia offers twisted, sinuous branches and exfoliating bark; witch hazel presents distinctive yellow and orange straplike flowers; and beautyberry produces vivid purple berries the birds cannot resist. A shorter second section discusses the virtues of evergreens, both broadleaf and coniferous, and includes two useful appendices that cover evergreen care and list deer-resistant trees and shrubs.
The Year in Bloom: Gardening for All Seasons in the Pacific Northwest
This was given to me as a gift quite a few years ago and it still is a long time favorite I take down and read from time to time.
Book Description: Gardeners from northern California to British Columbia will find plenty to cheer about in The Year in Bloom, a celebration of one of the most ideal gardening climates on earth. This classic volume from Ann Lovejoy, the Pacific Northwest's favorite garden writer, offers year-round inspiration and instruction for gardeners of all abilities in the Pacific Northwest.
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