University of Washington

Elisabeth C. Miller Library

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A selection of books on popular topics

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Fern Books (a selection)

Pacific Northwest

The new twelve month gardener :

Seasonal bulbs :

The Bellevue Botanical Garden :

Growing herbs :

Timber Press guide to gardening in the Pacific Northwest /

Water garden plants for Washington and Oregon /

Growing a farmer :

Suburban adventures of a naked gardener /

Urban agriculture :

Fruits & berries of the Pacific Northwest /

Growing vegetables west of the cascades :

Winter ornamentals :

The big book of Northwest perennials :

Northwest garden style :

Wildflowers of the Pacific Northwest /

The carefree garden :

A year on the garden path :

Northwest foraging :

The Northwest cottage garden /

Gardening in the Northwest /

American Horticultural Society Northwest smart garden regional guide /

Cool season gardener :

The new Sunset western garden book :

Vancouver Sun's best plant picks :

Cass Turnbull's guide to pruning :

The Maritime northwest garden guide :

The Ann Lovejoy handbook of Northwest gardening :

The Northwest gardeners' resource directory /

Pacific Northwest garden survival guide /

Encyclopedia of northwest native plants for gardens and landscapes /

Gardenwalks in the Pacific Northwest :

Trees and shrubs for Pacific Northwest gardens /

The border in bloom :

Month-by-month gardening in Washington & Oregon :

The Pacific Northwest gardener's book of lists /

Rain gardens for the Pacific Northwest /

The abundant garden :

A grower's choice :

Landscaping for wildlife in the Pacific Northwest /

Beauty by design :

Your farm in the city :

Best garden plants for Washington and Oregon /

Gardening with native plants of the Pacific Northwest /

Gardening in the Pacific Northwest :

Poetry in the Garden / Poets’ Gardens

Gardens in Art

Outdoor Learning for Families

Garden of Pride

Garden of Cultural Diversity for Youth

The Old Truck /

Auntie Yang's Great Soybean Picnic /

The Thing About Bees :

Monsoon Afternoon /

I Am Sacagawea /

A Map Into the World /

Quiet In the Garden /

All Different Now :

Two Old Potatoes and Me /

If You Want to VIsit A Sea Garden /

Keep Climbing, Girls /

The 1619 Project :

A Place Where Sunflowers Grow =

Magnificent Homespun Brown :

A Forest of Stories :

Native Plant Stories /

A Morning With Grandpa /

We Grew It, Let's Eat It! /

In the Garden With Doctor Carver /

Spirit of the Cedar People :

Plants Feed Me /

Native American Gardening :

Our School Garden! /

A Way With Wild Things /

Pavel and the Tree Army /

Anywhere Farm /

Goodbye Summer, Hello Autumn /

Flowers From Mariko /

Over and Under the Pond /

Right This Very Minute :

The Tree In the Courtyard :

Nature's Friend :

Farmer Will Allen and the Growing Table /

Fearless World Traveler :

Lessons From Mother Earth /

The Trip Back Home /

Tree of Dreams /

Flower Garden /

Moth and Wasp, Soil and Ocean :

Keepers of Life :

Festival of Colors /

The Ugly Vegetables /

Butterflies On Carmen Street /

Garden of Cultural Diversity

Native defenders of the environment

The earth's blanket

Insurgent public space

The environment and the people in American cities

The book of Rüstem Paşa tiles

Food plants of coastal First Peoples

Plant technology of first peoples in British Columbia

Plants of Haida Gwaii

Food plants of interior First Peoples

Eating the landscape

Keeping it living

Ancient pathways, ancestral knowledge

Native peoples of the Olympic Peninsula

From the hands of a weaver

Bedouin ethnobotany

Saanich ethnobotany

Southern folk medicine

The color of food

Food and the City : histories of culture and cultivation

Between earth and sky

The earth knows my name

My garden (book)

Epitaph for a peach

Four seasons in five senses

Braiding Sweetgrass

Figs, dates, laurel, and myrrh

The botany of empire in the long eighteenth century

Botanical progress, horticultural innovation and cultural changes

Gardens and imagination

Travellers in Ottoman lands

Gardens of paradise

The art of the Islamic garden

Paradise gardens

Gardens of delight

The gardens of Persia

Scent in the Islamic garden

The Persian garden

Islamic gardens and landscapes

Freedom's gardener

Eastland Gardens

In the shadow of slavery

African American slave medicine

Black faces, white spaces

Rooted in the earth

Paradise transplanted

Roberto Burle Marx

Landscapes of exclusion

The Georgia peach

Farming while Black

African American environmental thought

Freedom farmers

African-American gardens and yards in the rural South

Native Plants in the Landscape