Special interest books for gardeners are the focus here at B. B. Mackey Books near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. I'm a garden writer and an independent publisher working with horticultural specialists. We carefully craft readable, accurate, practical, award-winning books. My aim is to help people do things themselves. So browse the site not only for books but for free information and attractive garden images. Betty Mackey, Publisher

On this site you'll find free trough-making instructions and garden how-to tips for many seasons. Also we have descriptions of our books, notecards, and story CDs, plus introductions to our authors, garden photos, links to other sites, and PayPal links for instant purchases. Navigate with the links on the left.

Take a look at our titles including the award-winning book, Creating and Planting Garden Troughs, by Joyce Fingerut and Rex Murfitt.

The newest book is the second edition of that classic by Monica Brandies, Florida Gardening: the Newcomer's Survival Manual (2nd Ed.). Here's all the information a newcomer needs to prepare for the move and then have a great Florida garden, served with a smile.

Recently we brought out a biography of gardeners, Who Does Your Garden Grow, by British author Alex Pankhurst. It is the paperback edition and it tells the stories behind favorite cultivars in our gardens: how they were created and for whom they are named. Click here to read an excerpt.

In 2006, Rex Murfitt's book Creating and Planting Alpine Gardens, won a Quill and Trowel award for book writing from the Garden Writers Association. It is a 276-page paperback that entertainingly tells exactly how to build rock gardens and work with alpine plants. It has a chapter on alpine houses and a directory filled with great plants to make your garden wonderful!

Before that came Questions and Answers for Deep South Gardeners by Nellie Neal, the popular host of Supertalk MS Radio Network. , and some really great books for Florida gardeners by Monica Brandies. We've also published the collection of wonderful poems by garden writer Lucy Fuchs, called In Another Light.

You can find our books online here (click the book list link on the left) at this site and also at bookstores and libraries.

Here is an offer for the free ebook by Betty Mackey called Gardening in Small Spaces. An illustrated ebooklet in PDF format, it takes up only 1.4 MB and can be freely shared and sent around.  For a free copy sent to you by email, just write to bbmackey@prodigy.net and ask for it.