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Books and References
for Deep South Gardens
The following books are recommended for Gulf Coast gardens. Some may be
out of print but may be available through your local library.
Garden Design
- Gardens of New Orleans. Lake Douglas and Jeannette Hardy. Chronicle
Books, San Francisco. 2001.
- Gardens of the South. Southern Accents Press. Simon and
Schuster, New York. 1985.
- Growing a Beautiful Garden: A Landscape Guide for the Coastal
Carolinas. Henry Rehder and Henry Rehder, Jr. Banks Channel Books. 1997.
- Houston Garden Book: A Complete Guide to Gardening in Houston
and the Gulf Coast. John Kriegel. Shearer Publishing, Fredericksberg,
Texas.
- Landscaping with Wildflowers. Jim Wilson. Houghton Mifflin
Company. 1993.
- Perennial Gardens for Texas. Julie Ryan. University of Texas
Press. 1998.
- The Southern Garden. Lydia Longshore. Bullfinch Press. 2001.
Gardening
- Gardening in the Coastal South. Marie Harrison.
Pineapple Press, Florida. 2003.
- Gardening
in the Humid South. Edmund O’ Rourke
and Leon Standifer. Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge,
LA. 2004.
- Gardening in the Lower South. H. Harold Hume. The MacMillan
Company, New York. 1938.
- Gardens in Winter. Elizabeth Lawrence. Claitor’s
Publishing Division, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, reprint 1997.
- Gulf Coast Gardening with Randy Lemmon. Randy Lemmon.
Our House Press. 2005.
- Mississippi Gardener’s Guide. Norman Winter. Cool
Spring’s
Press. 2001.
- Month-by-month Gardening in Mississippi. Bob Polomski
and Felder Rushing. Cool Springs Press, Nashville, TN. 2002.
- South Carolina’s Gardener’s Guide.
Jim Wilson. Cool Springs Press, Nashville, TN. 1997.
- The New Orleans Garden. Charlotte Seidenberg. University
Press of Mississippi, Jackson, MS. 1990.
- The Perfect Mississippi Lawn: Attaining and Maintaining
the Lawn You Want. Steve Dobbs. Cool Springs Press. 2002.
Native Plant Identification
- Louisiana Trees and Shrubs. Clair Brown. Louisiana Forestry
Commission, Bulletin No. 1 Baton Rouge, LA. 1945.
- Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas. Albert Radford,
Harry Ahles, C. Ritchie Bell. The University of North Carolina Press,
Chapel Hill, NC. 1968.
- Trees of Georgia and Adjacent States. Claud Brown and L.
Katherine Kirkman. Timber Press, Portland, Oregon. 1990.
- Trees, Shrubs, and Woody Vines of Louisiana. Charles
Allen and Newman, Winters. Allen’s Native Ventures, LLC, Pitkin,
Louisiana. 2002.
- Wildflowers of Mississippi. S. Lee Timme. University Press
of Mississippi, Jackson, MS. 1989.
- Wildflowers of the Carolina Lowcountry. Richard D. Porcher.
University of South Carolina Press, Columbia, South Carolina. 1995.
Plants for Mississippi
- Dirr’s Trees and Shrubs for Warm Climates:
An Illustrated Encyclopedia. Michael Dirr. Timber Press, Oregon. 2002.
- Flowers Native to the Deep South. Carolina Dormon.
Claitor’s
Bookstore, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Reprinted 1995.
- Garden Perennials for the Coastal South. Barbara J. Sullivan.
The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, NC. 2003.
- Gardening With Native Plants of the South. Sally Wasowski.
Taylor Trade Publishing, Lanham, Maryland. 1994.
- Identification, Selection, and Use of Southern
Plants for Landscape Design. Neil Odenwald and James Turner. Claitor’s
Publishing Division, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. 1987.
- Landscape Plants in Design. E. C. Martin, Jr. Van Nostrand
Reinhold Company, New York. 1983.
- Landscaping with Native Trees. Guy Sternberg and Jim Wilson.
Chapters Pub. Ltd. 1996.
- Natives Preferred. Carolina Dormon. Claitor’s
Bookstore, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. 1965.
- Paradise Found: Growing Tropicals in Your Own Backyard.
Norman Winter. Cooper Square Press. 2001.
- Passalong Plants. Steve Bender and Felder Rushing. The University
of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. 1993.
- Some Like It Hot: Plants that Thrive in Hot and Humid Weather.
F. Brian Smith and PJ Gartin. Wyrick and Company. 2004.
- The Southern Heirloom Garden. William Welch and Greg Grant.
Taylor Publishing Company, Dallas, Texas. 1995.
- Tough-As-Nails Flowers for the South. Norman Winter. University
Press of Mississippi. 2003.
- Tough Plants for Southern Gardens. Felder Rushing. Cool
Springs Press, Nashville, TN. 2003.
- The Southern Gardener’s Book of Lists: The
Best Plants for All Your Needs, Wants, and Whims. Lois Trigg Chaplin.
Taylor Trade Publishing, Lanham, Maryland. 1992.
- The Southern Living Garden Book. Edited by Seve Bender.
Oxmoor Hous, Birmingham, Alabama. 1998.
Plants for Wildlife
- Attracting Birds to Southern Gardens. Thomas Pope, Neil
Odenwald, and Charles Fryling, Jr. Taylor Publishing Company, Dallas,
Texas. 1993.
- The Wildlife Garden. Charloette Seidenberg. University Press
of Mississippi, Jackson, MS. 1995.
Written by Robert
F. Brzuszek, Assistant Extension Professor, The Department of
Landscape Architecture, Mississippi State University.
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