Gardening/Plant Books
* You Grow Girl, Gayla Trail (great for beginner gardeners)
* The Martime Northwest Garden Guide
* The Encyclopedia of Northwest Native Plants for Gardens and Landscapes, Kathleen A. Robson, Alice Richter & Marianne Filbert
* Western Sunset Garden Book, Sunset Publishing
* Garden Walks in the Pacific Northwest, Alice Joyce
* Designing the New Kitchen Garden, Jennifer R. Bartley (Gives historical and modern perspective about kitchen gardens. Great ideas on how to plan and build your kitchen garden.)
* Pollinator Conservation Handbook, The Xerces Society
* Bringing Nature Home, Douglas W. Tallamy
* Last Child in the Woods, Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder, Richard Louv
* Botany in a Day, Thomas Elpel (learn your plant anatomy!!)
* Gaia's Garden, Toby Hemmingway (wonderful book about Permaculture Techniques)
* Organic Garden Design School, Ann Lovejoy
* Gardens by Design, Noel Kingsbury
* The Pacific Northwest Gardener's Book of Lists, Ray and Jan McNeilan
* The Winter Garden, Jane Sterndale-Bennett
* Intimate Gardens, C. Colston Burrell with Lucy Hardiman
* The Garden Sanctuary Keith Mitchell
* The Inward Garden, Julie Moir Messervy
* Shocking Beauty, Thomas Hobbs (this book makes plants look like a piece of artwork at a museum.
* Northwest Smart Gardenen Regional Guide, American Horticultural Society
* Flora (this is the ultimate comprensive plant bible and the Chief Consultant is our very own Sean Hogan, owner of Cistus Nursery)
Herb Books
* Family Herbal, Rosemary Gladstar (if you can only get one herb book, this should be it, great recipes, and a lovely photo guide of herbs in the back)
* Earth Mother Herbal, Shatoiya De La Tour (great herbal recipes in here)
* A Woman's Book of Herbs (Deb Soule)
* Rainforest Home Remedies, Rosita Arvigo and Nadine Epstein (this book is wonderful and has super easy herbal remedies using everyday plants)
* Wise Woman Herbal Healing Wise, Susan Weed (great book targeting several cannot life without herbs that we all should be using everyday!)
* The Northwest Herb Lover's Handbook, Mary Preus
* Botanica Erotica, Diana De Luca (contains great recipes)
*The Herbalist's Way - The Art & Practice of Healing with Plant Medicines, Nancy & Michael Phillips - (great book packed with so much information)
Plant, Spirit Medicine Books
*Sastun, Rosita Arvigo (Wonderful story about Rosita apprenticing with a Mayan healer in Belize. This book gives you a nontraditional perspective on herbal healing.)