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Basic Horticulture
by Aska Gardener - Last Updated Apr 23, 2012
This guide will be useful for finding information about basic horticulture.

Begonias
by Aska Gardener, Janet Evans - Last Updated May 8, 2012
Use this guide to learn about begonias.

Botanist's Book Shelf
by Aska Gardener - Last Updated Apr 23, 2012
This guide is a list of “good reads” – books and essay recommendations from botanists to students and adult learners.

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Coleus
by Aska Gardener - Last Updated Apr 16, 2012
This guide will be useful in finding information about coleus.

Community Development and Organization
by Library Intern - Last Updated Apr 23, 2012
This resource guide will be useful in finding information about organizing your neighborhood or community to do greening or tree planting projects.

Community Forestry
by Janet Evans - Last Updated Apr 23, 2012
This resource guide will be useful in finding information about community forestry.

Community Gardening
by Janet Evans - Last Updated Apr 23, 2012
This guide is the online companion to the book PHS's Community Gardening Handbook, published in 2010. This guide is updated with new resources.

Container Gardens
by Aska Gardener - Last Updated Apr 23, 2012
This guide will be useful in finding information about creating and maintaining container gardens, including how to choose containers and pots, and the ideal plants for them.

Curricula for School Gardening
by Aska Gardener - Last Updated Apr 23, 2012
The following resources list curricula and training opportunities to help educators realize the benefits of school gardening.

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Dahlias: History and Care
by Aska Gardener - Last Updated Apr 23, 2012
Information on the history and care of dahlias.

Deer in the Garden
by Aska Gardener - Last Updated Apr 23, 2012
This guide will be useful in finding information about making your garden less inviting to deer.

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Food Gardening
by Aska Gardener - Last Updated Apr 23, 2012
This resource guide will be useful in finding information about growing fruits, vegetables, and other food in your garden.

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Garden Ecology for Children
by Aska Gardener - Last Updated Apr 23, 2012
A guide for parents and teachers on finding information about introducing children to nature through gardening.

Garden Photography
by Aska Gardener - Last Updated Apr 23, 2012
This guide will be useful in finding information about photographing gardens, plants, and flowers.

Gardening When It Counts: Gardening in Times of Hardship and Need
by Aska Gardener - Last Updated Apr 23, 2012
Historic and contemporary resources about gardening in times of hardship and need, including wartime gardens.

Gardening with Children
by Aska Gardener - Last Updated Apr 23, 2012
This guide will help locate books on gardening and its benefits for and about school-aged children. It will also help in finding grant information for a classroom garden program.

Gardens of the Jazz Age
by Aska Gardener - Last Updated Apr 26, 2012
Information on 1920s-1940s popular garden designs, gardens, and the people responsible for them, with a focus on the Philadelphia area.

Green Roofs
by Aska Gardener - Last Updated Apr 23, 2012
This guide will be useful in finding information about green roofs and how to create them.

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Horticultural Reference Sources
by Janet Evans - Last Updated Mar 12, 2012
A resource guide for the Horticultural Information Booth at the Philadelphia International Flower Show.

Horticultural Therapy
by Aska Gardener - Last Updated Aug 4, 2011

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Indoor Gardening
by Aska Gardener - Last Updated Nov 1, 2011
This resource guide will be useful in finding information about houseplants and indoor gardening.

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Landscape Architect's Bookshelf
by Janet Evans - Last Updated Mar 1, 2012
landscape architects choose their essential books for their profession

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Native Plants of Pennsylvania
by Aska Gardener - Last Updated May 2, 2012
This guide will be useful for finding information about plants native to Pennsylvania.

New in the Library
by Janet Evans - Last Updated Apr 30, 2012
Browse this list of new books and send us an email request to borrow them.

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Orchids
by Aska Gardener - Last Updated Mar 14, 2012
a subject guide to growing and learning about Orchids

Organic Lawn Care
by Aska Gardener - Last Updated Sep 20, 2011
This guide will be useful for finding information about caring for your lawn organically.

Ornamental Woody Plants
by Aska Gardener - Last Updated Apr 26, 2012
This resource guide was created for the Barnes Foundation's Arboretum School, and is a useful overview for cultivating ornamental woody plants.

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Philadelphia Gardening Guide
by Aska Gardener - Last Updated May 2, 2012
Use this guide to learn where to buy plants, what to grow, how to connect with other gardeners and where to learn more.

PHS McLean Library Book Group "Stories From the Garden"
by Janet Evans - Last Updated Oct 27, 2011
Join us in discussing works on gardens, plants, land, nature, the environment and more.

PHS McLean Library's Digital Collections
by Aska Gardener - Last Updated Jan 16, 2012
Use this guide to learn about and to access the library's digital collections.

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Rain Gardens
by Aska Gardener - Last Updated Oct 1, 2011
This guide will be useful for finding information about why rain gardens are important and how to reduce water runoff by creating a rain garden.

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Schoolyard Habitat Gardening
by Aska Gardener - Last Updated Aug 4, 2011
This guide will be useful in finding information about creating schoolyard habitat gardens and garden learning activities.

Stormwater Management
by Janet Evans - Last Updated Dec 19, 2011

Streetscapes and Gateways
by Janet Evans - Last Updated Apr 27, 2011

Succulents
by Janet Evans - Last Updated Feb 2, 2012

Sustainable Food Systems
by Janet Evans - Last Updated Feb 10, 2012
Find information about keeping our food system sustainable.

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Topiary
by Aska Gardener - Last Updated May 11, 2011
Information about creating and maintaining topiary.

Trees
by Aska Gardener - Last Updated Nov 6, 2011
This resource guide will be useful for finding information about trees, especially those in urban areas.

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Urban Gardener: Gardening for Small Spaces
by Aska Gardener - Last Updated Apr 16, 2012
This subject guide will be useful in finding information about gardening in a small space, both indoors and outdoors.

Urban Trees
by Aska Gardener - Last Updated Nov 6, 2011
This pathfinder will be useful in finding information about choosing, planting, and caring for urban trees.

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Vacant Land
by Janet Evans - Last Updated Oct 13, 2011

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