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Spring Reads for Adults!

Spring has sprung so check out these titles that pair best with a sunny spring day.

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  • Making Fairy Garden Accessories

    22 Enchanting Projects for Your Backyard

    Fahmy, Anna-Marie,
    How to Make Backyard Fairy Garden Accessories is a fun and approachable guide to creating adorable little outdoor accessories for your fairy garden including fairy doors, benches, window, chairs and tables Authors Anna-Marie and Andrew Fahmy combine…
    Book, 2024Mount Joy, Pennsylvania : Fox Chapel Publishing Company, Incorporated, 2024. — 745.5928 FAH
  • Perennials! Those reliable, grounded plants you can count on, species whose stems and leaves die back to their crowns each fall, but whose roots remain alive throughout the non-growing months. Think showy flowers like peonies, poppies, lilies,…
    Book, 2023[Victoria, BC] : TouchWood Editions, [2023] — 635.932 MEL
  • The Container Victory Garden

    a Beginner's Guide to Growing Your Own Groceries

    Stuckey, Maggie,
    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
    Book, 2023[Nashville, Tennessee] : Harper Celebrate, 2023. — 635.986 STU
  • Combines creative ideas with gardening expertise specifically tailored to renters who might only have a balcony or tiny yard to create a small, beautiful outdoor oasis without spending too much money, time, or effort.
    Book, 2022New York, NY : DK Publishing, 2022. — 635.0917 POT
  • Garden for the Senses

    How Your Garden Can Soothe Your Mind and Awaken Your Soul

    Wilson, Kendra
    Our five senses - sight, touch, hear, smell and taste - are what connect us with the world around us. It's also what distinguishes our humanity in many ways. This inspirational gardening guide is a celebration of these senses and how they rejuvenate…
    Book, 2022New York, NY : DK Publishing, 2022. — 635 WIL
  • Inspired Ikebana

    Modern Design Meets the Ancient Art of Japanese Flower Arrangement

    Zaima, Naoko,
    Discover modern Ikebana, the Japanese art of floral design, to form and cultivate internal peace and creativity. You can create minimalist decor with Ikebana, otherwise known as Kado, a disciplined art form that brings together nature and the inner…
    Book, 2022Coral Gables, Florida : Yellow Pear Press, 2022. — 745.9225 ZAI
  • Each time Lizzie steps through the gates of the Vista Mar Community Gardens, she knows she's left the chaos of the outside world behind. Here, the rows are even, tools are properly stored, and each season brings new life. But even the shiniest apple…
    Book, 2022New York : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2022. — WILHELMI
  • Cut & Dry

    The Modern Guide to Dried Flowers From Growing to Styling

    Dunster, Carolyn
    Learn how to make stylish dried floral designs that will last longer than freshly cut bouquets. Do you adore having flowers around the house but they always seem to wilt and fall to pieces as soon as you place them in water? No longer! Join the…
    Book, 2021London, UK : Laurence King Publishing, 2021. — 745.92 DUN
  • Botanical Art Techniques

    a Comprehensive Guide to Watercolor, Graphite, Colored Pencil, Vellum, Pen and Ink, Egg Tempera, Oils, Printmaking, and More

    American Society of Botanical Artists
    This definitive guide is the most thorough how-to available on every major technique of botanical artistry. The experts at the American Society of Botanical Artists offer step-by-step projects that move from introductory to advanced—so any level of…
    Book, 2020Portland, Oregon : Timber Press, Incorporated, 2020. — 758.42 AME
  • Neil Jennings's new series of colourful and easy-to-use wildflower guides introduces amateur naturalists to some of the more commonly found wildflowers in western Canada. Along with hundreds of colour photos and informative descriptions containing…
    Book, 2020Calgary, Alberta : Rocky Mountain Books Limited, 2020. — 582.1309 JEN
  • The Language of Flowers

    a Fully Illustrated Compendium of Meaning, Literature, and Lore for the Modern Romantic

    Begay, Odessa
    With gorgeous full-color illustrations, ornate decorative elements, lettering in metallic ink, and engaging text, The Language of Flowers: A Fully Illustrated Compendium of Meaning, Literature, and Lore for the Modern Romantic is a treasure for…
    Book, 2020New York : Harper Design, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2020] — 398.3682 BEG
  • In a small town in Maine, recently widowed Eveleth "Evvie" Drake rarely leaves her house. Everyone in town, including her best friend, Andy, thinks grief keeps her locked inside, and she doesn't correct them. In New York, Dean Tenney, former…
    Book, 2019New York : Ballantine Books, 2019. — HOLMES
  • What unites Katherine Mansfield, Charlie Chaplin, Shakespeare, Rilke, Beethoven, Brexit, the present, the past, the north, the south, the east, the west, a man mourning lost times, a woman trapped in modern times? Spring. The great connective. With…
    Book, 2019[Toronto] : Hamish Hamilton, 2019. — SMITH
  • Home Grown Gardening

    Best Roses, Herbs, and Edible Flowers : Easy Plants for More Beautiful Gardens

    A quick-reference guide to roses, herbs, and edible flowers for gardeners with little experience and time.
    Book, 2019Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2019] — 635 HOM
  • Seasonal Flower Arranging

    Fill Your Home With Blooms, Branches, and Foraged Materials All Year Round

    Chezar, Ariella
    This lavishly photographed book from renowned floral designer Ariella Chezar provides step-by-step instructions for 39 seasonal floral arrangements and projects that celebrate the splendor of flowers, the bounty of the changing seasons, and the wild…
    Book, 2019California : Ten Speed Press, [2019] — 635.9 CHE
  • The Spring Girls

    a Modern-day Retelling of Little Women

    Todd, Anna
    The Spring Girls--Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy--are a force of nature on the New Orleans military base where they live. As different as they are, with their father on tour in Iraq and their mother hiding something, their fears are very much the same.…
    Book, 2018New York : Gallery Books, 2018. — TODD
  • The first new novel in four years from the beloved superstar author of Sarah's Key, a heartbreaking and uplifting story of family secrets and devastating disaster, in the tradition of THE NEST.The Rain Watcher is a powerful family drama set in Paris…
    Book, 2018New York : St. Martin's Press, 2018. — ROSNAY
  • A charming and evocative tale of family and fortune from the queen of West Country saga, Linda Finlay. Isabella Carrington has been brought up in a life of privilege in London. Her life seems perfect, until her father suddenly announces bankruptcy.…
    Book, 2018London, England : HQ, [2018] — FINLAY
  • Creating Sanctuary

    Sacred Garden Spaces, Plant-based Medicine, and Daily Practices to Achieve Happiness and Well-being

    Bloom, Jessi
    In this beautiful, inspiring, and practical book we are invited to look deeply at the landscape around us and create sacred respites from our busy worlds.
    Book, 2018Portland, Oregon : Timber Press, 2018. — 635.9 BLO
  • Young widow Lilian Girvan can't see the garden for the weeds ... It's been three years since her husband was killed in a car accident and Lilian is still getting used to being sane--after that one early breakdown. She's happy just being able to get…
    Book, 2017New York : Berkley, 2017. — WAXMAN