here are a few books scattered about the house (in no particular order):

  • the new book of salvias; sages for every garden (betsy clebsch)
  • passalong plants (steve bender & felder rushing)
  • gardening success with difficult soils: limestone, alkaline clay, and caliche (scott odgen)
  • the well-designed mixed garden (tracy disabato-aust)
  • prairie plants of the university of wisconsin-madison arboretum (cochrane, elliot, lipke)
  • waking up in eden: in pursuit of an impassioned life on an imperiled island (lucinda fleeson)
  • wildflowers of texas (geyata ajilvsgi)
  • home outside: creating the landscape you love (julie moir messervy)
  • site engineering for landscape architects (steven strom, kurt nathan, jake woland)
  • trees of central texas (robert vines)
  • rain gardening in the south (helen kraus and anne spafford)
  • rain gardens; managing water sustainably in the garden and designed landscape (nigel dunnett and andy clayden)
  • plant-driven design (scott ogden & lauren springer ogden)
  • perennial garden color for texas and the south (william welch)
  • cacti of texas, a field guide (michael powell, james weedin, shirley powell)
  • texas bug book, the good the bad & the ugly (howard garrett & malcolm beck)
  • the southern living garden book (oxmoor house)
  • the new central texas gardener (cheryl hazeltine & barry lovelace)
  • neil sperry’s complete guide to texas gardening (neil sperry)
  • growing citrus (martin page)
  • 50 high-impact, low-care garden plants (tracy disabato-aust)
  • native texas plants (sally wasowski & andy wasowski)
  • trees of texas (carmine stahl & rita mcelvaney)
  • texas gardening the natural way (howard garrett)
  • bringing nature home (douglas w. tallamy)
  • plants and landscapes for summer-dry climates (east bay municipal utility district)
  • texas garden almanac (doug welsh)