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Recommended Reading

The Explorer’s Garden: Rare and Unusual Perennials
By Dan Hinkley
Hinkley’s book The Explorer’s Garden is so highly readable it doesn’t need any illustration or photographs. Prose aside, the photography richly illustrates that we in the Pacific Northwest are perhaps the most blessed gardeners on the face of the earth. Filled with stories, facts, tips, and lore, The Explorer’s Garden is a library must. This is the best garden book I’ve read in ages.
Recommended by Chuck Pavlich, W.C.N.

Reflecting Nature: Garden Designs from Wild Landscapes
By Jerome and Seth Malitz
Reflecting Nature might well be subtitled "get a clue! Think before you start!" Most attentive to scale, this book, beautifully photographed and written by the father and son team Jerome and Seth Malitz, should be the first book you buy BEFORE planning or installing a water feature or rockery. "Scale and environment are everything’ seems to be the message here. Taking clues from nature simplifies all parts of garden design. Less is more.
Recommended by Chuck Pavlich, W.C.N.

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