Fifth House Publishers Prairie Gardening Series is the only line of gardening books written for Prairie Gardeners by Prairie GardenersIf you are in Calgary next Saturday, May 5, come to the Greengate Garden Centre's Gardening Expo, 14111 MACLEOD TR. S, between 9 am and 5 pm to see all of our prairie gardening titles and Great West Collection titles. Pick up a Book of Bugs poster, enter to win a Great West Collection library, and bring us your suggestions for future gardening titles. Greengate will have lots of other gardening specials to get you growing. AND, be on hand at noon for an extraordinary lady bug release.
One of our bestselling titles in the series is Native Plants for Prairie Gardens. (To get 10% off this title now, go to www.greatwestcollection.com and enter code GWC7 at checkout)
Written especially for gardeners in the northern and central prairies of Canada and the United States, Native Plants for Prairie Gardens shows that a garden rich in native plants is beautiful in its diversity, relatively low maintenance, conserves water, is environmentally sustainable, and provides a natural habitat for birds, butterflies, and insects—all essential ingredients for a healthy garden.
Native plants—the plants that originate naturally in a region and have been living there for thousands of years—are a gardener’s best friend when it comes to creating a gorgeous, low-maintenance, environment-friendly landscape, because they thrive in our local climate. They are relatively unaffected by drought, wind, extremes in temperature, and the unpredictable early and late frosts that define the short prairie growing season.
Included in Native Plants for Prairie Gardens:
- Advice on how to landscape using native prairie plants
- Tips on how to acquire, grow, and propagate native prairie plants
- Detailed plant descriptions of native prairie wildflowers, grasses, trees, and shrubs, illustrated with beautiful full-colour photographs
- A native prairie plant bloom chart
- Lists of native prairie seed and plant sources, native plant organizations, and public
gardens featuring native prairie plants
As part of our natural heritage, native plants define our region’s character. By gardening with them we not only bring the beauty of nature home to our backyards but we also keep alive the memory of what once covered our land.
June Flanagan holds a Master of Science in plant science and a Bachelor of Science in environmental and ornamental horticulture from the University of Arizona. She began working with native plants in 1978 while mapping vegetation in forests and grasslands, and has been active since 1980 in native plant organizations. June is co-author of The Prairie Gardener’s Sourcebook, has written and photographed for several publications on a wide variety of botanical topics, and serves on the Alberta Native Plant Council Board.
