 Volume 2, Issue 3
10th Annual Garden Lovers' Book Sale April 3 & 4
The tenth annual Elisabeth
C. Miller Library Garden Lovers’ Book Sale happens the first weekend in April. Mark your calendars and come join the fun! The festivities begin on Friday, April 3, with a Wine and
Cheese Preview Party from 5 to 8 p.m. Tickets are $25, there’s a silent auction
of especially interesting books, and you’ll find plenty of appetizers. Saturday, April 4, the book sale runs from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. It’s
free and open to the public, and all sales benefit the Miller Library.
The success of this fundraising event depends on donations of
your new or gently used horticulture, garden design, urban agriculture and ecology books. Drop off
books Monday through Saturday at the Miller
Library. To purchase party tickets or for more information about
making a book donation, contact
Martha Ferguson or call the Library at 206-543-0415.
 Hypha Free Nursery: Gifts from Strangers
an exhibit by Lark Preyapongpisan & Shannon Welles
The Hypha Free Nursery is a collaborative project to spread
plants and ideas in Seattle. Plants are propagated and given away as gifts
with the intent to grow a community of decentralized networks of plant sharing. Hypha incorporates artmaking, storytelling, and ethnobotany
to provide cultural context and connection to the plants that comprise our
landscape. Select plants are accompanied by a handmade letterpress card and are
mapped to illustrate the potential of such networks.
This exhibition showcases the artwork produced in 2014 by
Shannon Welles and Lark Preyapongpisan to accompany the plants given away and
the map of the first year of networking. The opening event (from 5 to 7 pm on Thursday, March 12) will include gifts
of art, seeds, plants, and mushrooms.
 Field Guide to the Wild Flowers of the Algarve
by Chris Thorogood and Simon Hiscock
Reviewed by Brian Thompson, Curator of Horticultural Literature
Field Guide to the Wild Flowers of the Algarve
introduces the rich Mediterranean flora of the southernmost province of
Portugal. Several indigenous plants have become mainstays of western
horticulture, including species of Cistus, Quercus, Euphorbia,
and Narcissus. This is also a major tourist destination – a chance
to combine fun in the sun with serious botanizing!
New to the Library February 2015
                   
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