Gardening Tips are in Bloom at Your Yorktown Public Library!
The grass is greener. The birds are chirping.
Our community is in planting zone 6, so now is the perfect time to start prepping your garden. Whether you choose flowers or veggies, your Yorktown Public Library has just what you need to flex your green thumb.
CHILDREN’S COLLECTION:
Plant That Tiny Seed by Christie Matheson
Beautiful collage-and-watercolor art follows the seed through its entire life cycle, as it grows into a zinnia in a garden full of buzzing bees, curious hummingbirds, and colorful butterflies. Children engage with the book as they wiggle their fingers to water the seeds, clap to make the sun shine after rain, and shoo away a hungry snail. Appropriate for even the youngest child, Plant the Tiny Seed is never the same book twice--no matter how many times you read it! And for curious young nature lovers, a page of facts about seeds, flowers, and the insects and animals featured in the book is included at the end.
Gardening for Children by Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Inc
Brooklyn Botanic Garden--home of the oldest continuously operating children’s garden in North America--offers a groundbreaking handbook that helps parents, teachers, and community gardeners introduce the pleasures of gardening to kids. In addition to learning the basics--including how to grow common plants from seed--young gardeners will be encouraged to discover nature’s cycles, become ecologically aware, and follow their inborn curiosity as they explore. It doesn’t matter whether kids have access to a large green yard or only to a windowsill planter: here are scores of fun projects that can awaken their sense of wonder about the natural world while nourishing cognitive functioning and self-confidence. Youngsters will love building a root-view garden from a milk container, making chlorophyll prints, constructing a hummingbird feeder, and more.
Grow Flower, Grow by Lisa Bruce
One day Fran found a flowerpot filled with soil. Fran is determined to get her flower bud to grow. But what do you feed a fussy flower? Fran figures that the flower will flourish on her own favorite foods--pizza, spaghetti, even strawberry ice cream! But the stubborn bud refuses to bloom. Finally, Fran discovers that a meal fit for a girl isn't necessarily a meal fit for a flower. Just when she gets fed up, Mother Nature steps in with a smorgasbord of sunshine and rain...Won't Fran be surprised!
ADULT COLLECTION:
Taylor’s Pocket Guide to Bulbs for Spring
Read expert advice on selecting and planting bulbs that bloom during the spring, and provides tips for growing 79 varieties including daffodils, crocuses, tulips, snowdrops, and bluebells.
Indiana Gardener's Guide: The What, Where, When, How & Why of Gardening in Indiana by Tom Tyler
Profiles more than 175 native and adaptive ornamental garden plants that grow well in Indiana; covers annuals, bulbs, groundcovers, herbs, lawn and ornamental grasses, perennials, roses, shrubs, trees, vines, and water garden plants, and provides planting and care information for each and Includes bibliographical references and index.
Indiana Gardener’s Guide by Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp
This book features over 180 plant selections from annuals and perennials to trees and water plants, large,full-color photographs, specific advice on planting, growing, and care of each plant and a quick reference symbols to indicate the plant's sun requirements and added benefits, such as attracting birds or butterflies.
DVD COLLECTION:
Secrets of the Rose Gardener (Not Rated)
Watch, listen and learn as you join Ellen Minet, Head Rosarian of Long Island's Planting Fields Arboretum, on a most unusual and delightful walk through four seasons of caring for over 700 rose plants.
ON THE LIBBY APP:
From the editors of Cool Springs Press, designed for the beginner with little or no mechanical experience, this book is a step-by-step guide that covers the most important engine maintenance and repair skills you'll need to keep your equipment running at peak performance. It also shows exactly how to perform mechanical upkeep and repairs on the most common outdoor power implements, including lawn mowers, snow blowers, chain saws, power washers, generators, leaf blowers, rototillers, wood splitters, lawn edgers, and weed whips. With clear 'how-to' photos and detailed diagrams, you'll see exactly what needs to be done.
Are you dreaming of spring, summer, and fall filled with colorful blooms, stunning foliage, and maybe even some delicious fresh veggies? You can have it all—and you don’t need a garden plot. Container gardening makes it easy to bring the beauty of plants to all your outdoor living areas. We cover the basics of planting in pots, then give you a fail-proof formula to mix and match plants like a pro. Whether you want a gorgeous container planting for your porch or patio, a pretty hanging basket, a happy window box, a one-pot kitchen garden, or a hangout for pollinators, we have the inspiration you need to get growing.
If you would rather lose yourself in a good story with zero digging in the dirt, then these options are sure to give you all the flower power you need!
CHILDREN’S COLLECTION:
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Mary Lennox is an orphan sent to live in her reclusive uncle's forbidding mansion filled with secrets, including a crippled cousin she didn't know she had. She discovers a neglected garden and is determined to bring it back to life.
BONUS: This material is also available as an audio book on the Libby App.
THE ADULT COLLECTION:
Season of an Amish Garden: Four Stories by Amy Clipston
Young Amish couples tend to a community garden and harvest friendships and love along the way. This collection can be read as a standalone, but the stories are best enjoyed together.
The Flower Man by Donna Anders
Part-time actress and full-time mother Britt Hinson thought that most of her life’s drama was confined to the stage. Then a threatening presence entered her world, a mysterious stranger that no one but her pretty nine-year-old, Katie, had seen. Katie calls him the Flower Man, and Britt and her husband, Mark, don’t know whether to believe the child’s bizarre tales of the notes and flowers he’s left her—lilies, forget-me-nots, a black rose. But Britt’s fears intensify when, with his threatening phone calls and aggressive prowling of their home, the Flower Man draws her into a fight for her daughter’s life.
The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
A mesmerizing, moving, and elegantly written debut novel, The Language of Flowers beautifully weaves past and present, creating a vivid portrait of an unforgettable woman whose gift for flowers helps her change the lives of others even as she struggles to overcome her own troubled past. The Victorian language of flowers was used to convey romantic expressions: honeysuckle for devotion, asters for patience, and red roses for love. But for Victoria Jones, it's been more useful in communicating grief, mistrust, and solitude. After a childhood spent in the foster-care system, she is unable to get close to anybody, and her only connection to the world is through flowers and their meanings.
BONUS: This material is also available as an audio book on the Libby App.
ON THE LIBBY APP:
Gone But Not for Garden (audio book) by Kate Collins
Athena Spencer works with her big Greek-American family (whom she also anonymously blogs about) at their garden center near Lake Michigan. She's also gained a reputation for crime-solving-and that's what brings flower-shop owner and fellow sleuth Abby Knight Salvare to her door. Abby has come from Indiana to this Lake Michigan town to help her cousin, Jillian, who was emceeing a local fashion show and now stands accused of murdering one of the models.
BONUS: This material is available as an eBook on the Libby App.
The Garden Party by Peter Turnbull (eBook)
A note that is discovered hidden in a wall cavity of a London hotel leads Detective Inspector Harry Vicary and his team to a burial site containing the charred bones of two men. Their investigation quickly leads them into a dark and brutal world, but who were the dead men and how did they meet their fate? To solve the case Vicary must uncover what happened at a notorious gangland garden party - a party from which two men never returned.
The Garden Girls by Jessica R. Patch (eBook)
On a remote Outer Banks island, a serial killer collects his prized specimens. And to stop him, an FBI agent must confront his own twisted past. FBI agent Tiberius Granger has seen his share of darkness. But a new case sets him on edge. It's not just the macabre way both victims--found posed in front of lighthouses--are tattooed with flowers that match their names. There's also the unsettling connection to the woman Ty once loved and to the shadowy cult they both risked everything to escape.
The Girls in the Garden by Lisa Jewell (eBook)
Imagine that you live on a picturesque communal garden square, an oasis in urban London where your children run free, in and out of other people's houses. You've known your neighbors for years and you trust them. Implicitly. You think your children are safe. But are they really? On a midsummer night, as a festive neighborhood party is taking place, preteen Pip discovers her thirteen-year-old sister Grace lying unconscious and bloody in a hidden corner of a lush rose garden. What really happened to her? And who is responsible?
Flower Crafts by Rebecca Sabelko
How do you create a crown with nothing but flowers? This book for children has the answer! Containing a flower crown and seven other flower-based projects, this title invites readers to get hands-on with nature. Alongside the step-by-step instructions are fact-filled introductions related to each craft. Supply lists, craft tips, and nature safety rules make this text even easier to follow!
DVD COLLECTION:
The Secret Garden (Rated G)
Mary Lennox is an orphan sent to live in her reclusive uncle's forbidding mansion filled with secrets, including a crippled cousin she didn't know she had. She discovers a neglected garden and is determined to bring it back to life.
Care Bears: Flower Power (Rated G)
Spring has sprung in Care-a-Lot! All the Care Bears are here and full of sunshine cheer in eight tales blooming with Flower Power! When Share's Dilly Daisies become a fashion craze, everyone learns it's the Bear, and not what they wear, that counts! And discover what happens when Oopsy believes a four-leaf clover will bring him the good luck he needs before a big race.
As Marcus Tullius Cicero, a Roman scholar and philosopher said:
"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need".
Visit your Yorktown Public Library soon and gather up a bouquet of gardening ideas hand-picked just for you.
