$18.00 postpaid (USA). NEW! Second edition, FLORIDA GARDENING: The Newcomer's Survival Manual, by Monica Moran Brandies. Laugh off the garden perils and grow a wonderful new landscape in Florida, with Monica's sympathetic help. Here's information on lawns, flowers, veggies, fruits, terrace gardens, trees, and shrubs. Easy organic methods.  New chapter on avoiding expensive mistakes. Many additional perennials, trees, exotic fruits, and vegetables are included in the new edition. Paperbound. 8 1/2 by 11 inches, 135 packed pages. Index, resource list, and illustrations. ISBN 1893443094. Click the yellow link immediately above to purchase.

$15.95 postpaid (USA). WHO DOES YOUR GARDEN GROW, by Alex Pankhurst. 168 pages, paper bound, illustrated, indexed. 6 x 9 inches. Names of garden plants are often intriguing. Here's the book of their stories, describing the plants and the people they commemorate, and why. Every name is a special story, as told by Alex in delightful detail. Soon you will know who Mr. Russell was and why the great lupins are named for him, and why there is a dianthus called 'Joan's Blood.' Why was Mrs. Henry of Gladwyne, Pennsylvania exploring distant mountain ranges? Alex is a cottage gardener and popular British writer who brought this book out in hardcover in England. This is the North American edition of her book and it preserves the original punctuation and spelling, along with its legendary charm. Click on the book cover photo to buy this book via PayPal.

$21.00 postpaid (USA). CREATING AND PLANTING GARDEN TROUGHS, by Joyce Fingerut and Rex Murfitt. Photos by Jane Grushow. Hardcover, 7 x 10 inches. Color photos, 180 pages, index, resource list, bibliography. The complete guide to making lighter-weight, weatherproof garden troughs of hypertufa, and planting them. Winner of the American Horticultural Society's Book Award 2000. Troughs, those elegant antique stone containers treasured by gardeners, can be made at home with a lightweight concrete-based material called hypertufa, formed with simple molds. Like stone, hypertufa troughs are weatherproof, combine well with landscape materials, and make the perfect environment for evocative miniature gardens. Each trough can have its microenvironment with perfect size, soil type, rock forms, mulch, and siting for the plants. Sedums and succulents, alpines and dwarf evergreens are some of the plants that can be showcased. ISBN 1-893443000. Purchase via PayPal by clicking the picture, or order by mail (in the USA) by sending a check or money order for $21 to B. B. Mackey Books, P. O. Box 475, Wayne, PA 19087.

$22.50 postpaid (USA). CREATING AND PLANTING ALPINE GARDENS: How to Make Small Rock Gardens and Work with Alpine Plants, by Rex Murfitt. Softcover book, 7 x 10 inches. Published 2005. Color photos, 284 pages, index, resources, bibliography. ISBN 1893443078. This is a wonderful guide to making gardens using alpine plants. Chapters include information on alpine gardening: building rock gardens; making raised beds; soil and topdressing, alpine plants in containers, rock gardens under glass, plant talk, and entries describing the most suitable alpine plants. Rex Mufitt (co-author of Creating and Planting Garden Troughs) has been growing alpines and writing about them for years. In 2003 he was given the Carleton R. Worth Award by the North American Rock Garden Society for distinguished writing about rock gardening and rock plants. Having trained in England with masters of alpine gardening, he passes on classic information and technique in a most enjoyable and informative style. This book received the Award of Merit from the Garden Writers Association in 2006. Click the book image to purchase.

$15.95 postpaid (USA). A CUTTING GARDEN FOR FLORIDA, Third Edition, by Betty Mackey and Monica Brandies. Here is how to grow marvelous flowers for bouquets in your Florida landscape, and improve your landscape at the same time. This new edition of a well-loved book tells how to grow the best cut flowers for Florida, and how to harvest, condition, and arrange them, fresh or dry, like a pro. The month-by-month Florida calendar is a special feature. Here is unique information on annuals, biennials, perennials, shrubs, trees, and bulbs, including plant-by-plant conditioning information. 144 pages, paperbound, indexed, resource list, public garden directory. ISBN 0961633891. Click book image to purchase.

$15.50 postpaid (USA).HERBS AND SPICES FOR FLORIDA GARDENS, by Monica Moran Brandies. $15.50. If you live in Florida and you want to grow herbs, you probably know that you need special instructions for good results. And here they are! Now you can grow herbs for flavor, health, beauty, crafts, scent, and garden color. Monica takes you to visit growers in Northern, Central,and Southern Florida. Also, full instructions on growing and using, plus an extensive plant directory. 1996, 250 pages, paperbound. Rave reviews! ISBN 0961633867.

$12.95 postpaid (USA). QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS FOR DEEP SOUTH GARDENERS, by Nellie Neal. $12.95. Paperback, 120 pages. November, 2002. Help for Deep South Gardeners is here with Nellie Neal's book of real questions from gardeners who call her on the SuperTalk MS Radio Network, and their answers. She is known as the GardenMama to her listeners, and her garden advice really works. The chapters cover fall, winter, spring, and summer, each with chores and tips for the season, -and, the heart of the book, many questions straight from the talk show, with expanded answers. In his review of the book, Jim Wilson, former co-host of "The Victory Garden" on PBS, says, "Nellie Neal's gardening advice is as southern as live oaks festooned with Spanish moss. With wit and wisdom she answers tough questions gleaned from years of give and take with southern gardeners. From turnip greens to tropical hibiscus...if you have a question, she has the answer." ISBN 189344306X.