Volume 2, Issue 5
Miller Library top twenty most-borrowed items
What items are the most frequently borrowed at the Elisabeth C. Miller Library? We've been collecting statistics since the fall of 2012, and the results get better each year, helping us to select the most useful new items for addition to the library. Looking at the aggregate data since our online catalog was established, more than half of our most popular items are the work of local authors.
1.
Plants of the Pacific Northwest
coast
2. Encyclopedia of Northwest native plants
for gardens and
landscapes
3. The flora of Seattle in 1850
4. Winter gardening in the maritime Northwest
5. Cass Turnbull's guide to pruning
6. Second nature: tales from the Montlake Fill 7. Landscaping for privacy
8. Trees of Seattle
9. Encyclopedia of garden ferns
10. Japanese maples
11. Rain gardens
12. Designing with
conifers
13. Native plants in the coastal garden
14. Planting the dry shade garden
15. Conifers for
gardens
16. The holistic
orchard
17. The book of gardening projects for
kids
18. The urban farm
handbook
19. Edible landscaping
20. Restoring the Pacific
Northwest
Student poster exhibit opens May 8
Curious about what your fellow researchers are doing to advance Restoration
Ecology and Environmental Horticulture? Our annual Review of Student Work opens May 8. Students have prepared posters explaining their work on the effects of climate on plant communities, ecological restoration, invasive plant control, and much more. Don't miss the opening night party Friday, May 8, from 5 to
7 pm.
Recommended reading: Weeds of North America Reviewed by Brian Thompson
Weeds of North America is an excellent new guide to
more than 600 invasive plants throughout the United States and Canada. Designed
in field guide style, the photographs are a particularly strong feature of this
book, with 3-5 for each plant, including leaves, flowers, and seeds. The text
includes a description of the life cycle, jurisdictions that have identified
the plant as noxious, and details on the reasons for concern, including
displacement of native plant habitat, toxicity to livestock, and/or status as
an alternative host of a serious plant disease.
New to the Library April 2015
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