Northwest gardeners now have a handy new tools for maintaining and improving their garden throughout the year. The Lone Pine Publishing gardening book series covers everything the ornimental gardener in Washington or Oregon needs to know.

Information covers starting plants from seed, creating wildlife habitat, lawn maintenance, plant propagation, houseplant care, container gardening, gardening planning and design ideas, first and last frost date maps, charts on climate normals and extremes, as well as a list of books, clubs and online resources for Northwest gardeners.

NEW: Best Plants for the Northwest

Other Books in the Series

Gardening Month by Month in Washington and Oregon combines the features of an almanac and a gardening journal. Beautiful full-color photographs and helpful hints specifically geared to the diverse growing conditions of the Northwest provide both inspiration and a practical garden planner. A calendar format allows you to keep your own notes on such variables as weather, insect and disease appearances and treatments, as well as garden highlights.

Discover the best annuals for the Northwest with this colorful guide. Plenty of photographs and illustrations accompany clear, easy-to-follow gardening advice. Tips on when to plant, growing from seed versus nursery-grown bedding plants, optimal growth conditions and problems and pests are also included. Marianne Binetti is a well-known gardening personality in the region.

Featuring 434 perennials grouped in 95 entries, this book includes planting tips, blooming periods, light, water and nutrient needs, and information on choosing plants for specific sites and conditions. The guide includes a comprehensive plant information chart. Learn common sense and practical wisdom to help meet the unique challenges on the climate and soil conditions of the Northwest.

A practical and beautifully photographed guide to 144 recommended roses for Washington and Oregon. Enjoy the more than 300 full-color photographs as you read where to plant roses, which roses will do best in your garden, how to purchase, plant and care for different kinds of roses, protecting the plants over the winter and identifying and treating various pests and diseases that can attack rose plants.

Washington and Oregon gardeners can easily select and care for their gardens' trees and shrubs with the help of this guide. It describes 551 species, hybrids, varieties and cultivars grouped into 96 accounts. Practical advice on pruning, optimal location, maturity, planting, pests and diseases is included.

Here's a fully revised edition of this regional bestseller- considered to be the definitive food gardening manual for the Pacific Northwest. This is the bible of vegetable gardening for anyone turning the soil west of the Cascade Mountains-from Western British Columbia to Northern California. It includes the basics of soil, when best to plant, the art of composting, what varieties grow well here, which seed companies are reliable, information on handling pests, and an extensive section on the cultivation of each vegetable.

Gardeners from northern California to British Columbia will find plenty to cheer about in The Year in Bloom, a celebration of one of the most ideal gardening climates on earth. This classic volume from Ann Lovejoy, the Pacific Northwest's favorite garden writer, offers year-round inspiration and instruction for gardeners of all abilities in the Pacific Northwest.

Written by Debra Prinzing and Mary Robson, leading gardening experts in Washington, this proven format has helped gardeners experience more success and enjoyment from their gardens. As gardening continues to grow in popularity, gardeners want more resources to help them succeed. The Gardener's Guide series provides credible information on the plants that perform best in specific states. Gardeners will find information they can trust and use successfully in their own gardens.

In her latest book, Ann Lovejoy covers every corner of natural gardening in the Pacific Northwest. All the steps are here in detail, from landscaping and design to soil prep and planting beds. She explains organic approaches to ground covers, lawns, shrubs, trees, and more, all with an eye to building a beautiful and sustainable garden that’s friendly to people, pets, and wildlife, and that flourishes without chemical fertilizers and pest controls. 100 color photographs enhance this complete and practical manual of ornamental gardening.

Ann Lovejoy describes Cascadia as a gardener's paradise, but it's an Eden with steady winter rains and long summer draughts. This has spawned an abundance of gardening wisdom even for those who don't live within the perimeters of northern California to British Columbia. With sage monthly advice on encouraging the blooms that thrive in one's local soil and weather, and opulently gorgeous pictures by Sandra Lee Reha, Lovejoy's garden visions are exceptionally refreshing and inspirational.

Returning with showy brilliance year after year, perennials continue to be the center of gardening interest both nationally and regionally. Master gardener Marty Wingate and photographer Jacqueline Koch present a gorgeous and definitive guide to the best perennials for Northwestern climates, filled with specific advice on how to select the best type and quality, as well as recommendations on which perennials work best together (similar light and water needs). The book features descriptions of 1,260 different plants. Wingate's easy-to-follow instructions on caring for perennials are enhanced by Koch's lovely photos, which fill the book with vibrant color.

Jackson & Perkins is the leading brand of roses in America. Through years of development, Jackson & Perkins now offers roses that have characteristics that allow gardeners to enjoy roses without all the maintenance requirements. Jackson & Perkins Beautiful Roses Made Easy is available in regional editions and explains how roses can now be easy to grow and enjoy in any part of the country. This book focuses on issues facing gardeners in the Pacific Northwest. Some gardeners have avoided roses assuming that they were too tricky, fussy, and difficult to grow. This book will help gardeners identify the roses that are easy to grow in the Pacific Northwest, and also give tips on how to care for and maintain them.

The Northwest Pruning Guide provides step-by-step instructions for pruning trees, shrubs, and other plants to help them flourish in any garden or lawn. It profiles the most common types of plants found in Northwest gardens, including evergreen and deciduous shrubs, bamboos and tea roses, camellia, hedge plants, wisteria, and trees. Each entry also covers common gardening mistakes, traditional methods, proper positions, tips on the best times to prune, and more.

In addition to hosting the weekly syndicated radio program "Gardening with Ed Hume, the author is the host of "Gardening in America," the longest-running television gardening show in the U.S. "In this, gardening expert Ed Hume's first book, he gathers his experience and wisdom into a single encyclopedic manual. His gardening motto? Keep it simple. Hume shows readers that anyone can have a gorgeous garden that blooms in spring and summer and looks great in fall and winter -- a garden that doesn't need constant tending. The book contains special chapters on lawns, perennials, bulbs, fertilizers, and ground covers; includes 100 color photos, lists such as the best plants to grow under evergreen trees and a list of fragrant flowers; and offers tips on protecting plants during cold weather. A thorough, user-friendly guide to gardening in the Pacific Northwest that covers all the basics in a friendly, non-technical way -- and a good read regardless of zip code.

Deck the walls and the fences, pillars and pergolas of your garden with a year's worth of climbing, spreading and trailing plants! From winter jasmine and ivy to summer's rambling roses and runner beans, this book tells you how to cover the vertical surfaces of your garden with a wide variety of perennial and annual plants. The book is arranged by season, and each entry gives a full description of the pros and cons of each plant. Included is full information on site and soil requirements, pruning and pest control. Additional chapters include recommendations for trellises, picket fences and obelisks as well as evergreen, fragrant and even edible vines to suit every purpose.

This is the true and humorous story of one woman's conversion from plant ignoramus to moderately competent gardener. Set in the place considered by some to be the very center of the gardening universe -- Portland, Oregon, aka the City of Roses -- the author explains how she came to attend nature's own school of hard knocks. Meg DesCamp is the original second-class citizen at the nursery, to flabbergasted to utter her rudimentary questions, able only to wonder in silence why anyone would want to put limes in their dirt. Who else but an uninitiated novice would insist on seeding a new lawn rather than calling the turf guy? This gardener's coffession will elicit sympathy and laughter from anyone who has recently taken up the trowel and made the near-religious conversion to amended soil.

Sunset has been the recognized authority among western gardeners for more than 100 years. The Western Garden Book includes more than 2,000 new plant entries than previous editions, all new four-color plant illustrations, improved climate zone information for the Western states and new maps for Alaska, Hawaii, and southwest Canada. The book is brimming with full-color photos and practical tips for successful Western gardening.

The Western Garden Book presents hundreds of pages full of gardening wisdom from the editors of Sunset magazine. This huge book appeals to western climate gardening enthusiasts, bringing them tips, advice, and information on the latest gardening tools and gear. This revised edition is a welcome update to the reference book that has served the needs of Western gardeners for over 50 years.

If you have only one garden reference book, this is the book you should have.

Sunset, The Magazine of Western Living, will show you what, when, where and how to enhance your life in the West. Each one of Sunset's 5 regional editions contains tips on local gardening, low-fat cooking, regional travel and home decorating and remodeling.

The Sunset website is an invaluable site for the western lifestyle, and is available only by subscription.