Herb Books and Butterfly Gardening Books

Books: These books and many others can be purchased at our retail store in Mount Dora or they can be ordered online through Amazon.Com by clicking on the titles or images below.
Magazines: Several back issues of many gardening magazines are on sale at reduced prices at our store. Subscriptions to our favorite herb and gardening magazines can be purchased through Amazon.com by clicking on their titles/images.

	UNCOMMON SCENTS: GROWING HERBS AND SPICES IN FLORIDA By Hank Bruce Frustrated by all those herb books written for the northern seasons? Fall is our best planting season but you'd never know it by reading other herb books. This and/or the book below are must-haves for Florida herb growers.
	HERBS AND SPICES FOR FLORIDA GARDENS By Monica Moran Brandies We like the way Monica talks about her experiences with growing herbs in her own Tampa-area garden. Good lists of all kinds and interesting visits to the gardens of professional herb growers as well as some of Florida's public gardens containing herbs.

	RODALE'S ILLUSTRATED ENCYCLOPEDIA OF HERBS By Clair Kowalchik (ed.), William H. Hylton (ed.), and Anna Carr (illus.) This is our favorite all-purpose herb book. Chock full of information. Herb profiles including histories, culture, differences in varieties. Lots of ideas on what to do with your herbs including culinary recipes, crafts and medicinal uses.
	SOUTHERN HERB GROWING By Madalene Hill and Gwen Barclay A classic by two well-known Texas herb experts. Herb profiles including information on growing them in the south. Inspirational pictures on herb garden designs. Recipes.

	A HANDFUL OF HERBS By Barbara Segall, Louise Pickford and Rose Hammick OK, so we're suckers for great photographs. Not a lot of information, but some nice ideas on using herbs in the home and some good culinary recipes. And oh those photos!!
	THE HERBALIST'S GARDEN By Shatoiya and Richard de la Tour What do the herb gardens of the best herbalists in the country look like? Take a tour of ten of them.
	HERBAL BOUQUETS By Emelie Tolley and Chris Mead A reminder of the beautiful blooms of many herbs. Making herbal bouquets, of course, but other ideas using herbal flowers as well.
	A KID'S HERB BOOK By Leslie Tierra and Susie Wilson A great book for kids. Lots of fun and loaded with games, songs, recipes and things to do with herbs.

	THE SAGE GARDEN: Flowers and Foliage for Health and Beauty By Ann Lovejoy Lots of culinary, medicinal and ornamental sages discussed in this book
	MINTS: A Family of Herbs and Ornamentals By Barbara Perry Lawton Not just peppermint, spearmint, etc. but the whole botanical FAMILY of mints which includes basil, rosemary, sage, catnip, oregano, lemon balm, horehound, patchouli, many more.
	SCENTED GERANIUMS: Knowing, Growing and Enjoying Scented Pelargoniums By Jim Becker and Faye Brawner The definitive book on our favorite herbs, the scented geraniums, grown for their beautiful foliage and wonderful and varied scents.
	LEMON HERBS: How to Grow and Use 18 Great Plants By Ellen Spector Platt Lemon balm, lemon basil, lemongrass, lemon eucalyptus, lemon mint, lemon thyme, lemon verbena and more. Add lemon scents to your garden and lemon flavor to your meals. Recipes.
	THE LAVENDER GARDEN: Beautiful Varieties to Grow and Gather By Robert Kourik Great for sorting out the many varieties.
	BASIL: An Herb Lover's Guide By Thomas DeBaggio and Susan Belsinger Growing and using the many varieties of basil, arguably the world's favorite herb.

	GROWING HERBS FROM SEED, CUTTING AND ROOT By Thomas DeBaggio Lots of great information for those that want to propagate their own herbs. Written for the backyard herb gardener (as opposed to the professional grower targeted in his book below).
	THE BIG BOOK OF HERBS By Arthur O. Tucker and Thomas DeBaggio No recipes here or directions for making herbal wreathes. Foremost herbal taxonomist Art Tucker makes this book the one we reach for when looking for the definitive botanical names of herbs. And Thomas DeBaggio offers cultivation advice often geared toward the grower of herbs as crops.

	THE HERBFARM COOKBOOK: A Guide to the Vivid Flavors of Fresh Herbs By Jerry Traufeld Written by Jerry Traufeld, chef of the Herbfarm, one of Gourmet magazine's top 50 restaurants in the US. Discusses growing, harvesting and using herbs from the garden. Sophisticated recipes. The one must-have herbal cookbook for serious cooks.
	FAVORITE RECIPES WITH HERBS By Dawn Ranck (ed.) and Phyllis Pellman Good Recipes contributed by owners of herb farms and herb shops. Packed with lots of great, easy to make recipes using easily obtained ingredients.
	HERBS & SPICES: The Cook's Reference By Jill Norman A comprehensive guide to herbs and spices. Gorgeous photos and profiles of each herb and spice, including many unusual ones. Thorough explanations of their culinary uses, harvesting, storing and techniques of using (grinding, pounding, slicing, etc). Definitely the best book of its kind.
	HERBES DE PROVENCE By Ethel W. Brennan A fun little book with cute illustrations and recipes using traditional French herbs. Pair it with a package of herbes de provence for a great little gift.
	THE PESTO MANIFESTO: Recipes for Basil and Beyond By Lorel Nazzaro What to do with all that basil this summer. How to make great pesto, then lots of ways to use it besides over pasta. Also, making pesto with other herbs.
	THE EDIBLE FLOWER GARDEN By Kathy Brown Gorgeous photographs and lots of recipes using edible flowers. One of our favorite herb books.

MAKING MORE PLANTS: The Science, Art and Joy of Propagation.
By Ken Druse
Not an herb book, but we just had to include it. If you love gardening, sooner or later the bug to propagate big-time will hit and this is the perfect book to guide you through it. Gorgeous and inspiring photos, detailed how-tos, and lots of insiders information I've never seen in other propagation books.

HERB COMPANION Published 6 times a year Lots of herb profiles, crafts, recipes and other articles written by the top herb professionals in the country. We look forward to every issue.		HERB QUARTERLY Published 4 times a year Lots of great herbal articles with gorgeous illustrations (watercolors, etc) as well as the usual photographs make this a very striking and memorable magazine.
HERBS FOR HEALTH Published 6 times a year The latest herbal medical knowledge written for the average layperson. Recipes.		HERBALGRAM Published 4 times a year A highly technical publication on herbs and medicinal plants. Published by the American Botanical Council.
Country Living GARDENER Published 2 times a year According to the publisher, CL Gardener is no longer sold through subscriptions. It is now available only on newsstands as a specialty publication twice a year.		BH&G COUNTRY GARDENS Published 4 times a year An inspiration for decorating and living in the country garden style. Pick up an issue then head to Renningers Antique Market. (Formerly Country Homes COUNTRY GARDENS)
	FLORIDA GARDENING Published 6 times a year Florida gardeners LOVE this magazine! Profiles of plants we can actually grow in this area. Cultural advice we can use. Columnists who understand our problems. A good calendar of events if you like to attend plant shows.

YOUR FLORIDA GUIDE TO BUTTERFLY GARDENING: A Guide for the Deep South
By Jaret C. Daniels
Even more important than having an herb book that addresses herb gardening IN FLORIDA is having a butterfly gardening book that does so. This book does it nicely.

FLORIDA BUTTERFLY GARDENING: A Complete Guide to Attracting, Identifying and Enjoying Butterflies of the Lower South
By Marc C. Minno and Maria Minno
THE definitive book on butterfly gardening in Florida. Comprehensive. For example, not just one photo of each butterfly, but extensive photos showing caterpillars in various stages, differences in male and female adult butterflies as well as different color forms. Also, not just general host plants such as "passionvine", but more precisely which species or variety.

        Author Susan Wittig Albert has delighted herb and mystery lovers alike with her China Bayles series. Readers have looked forward to a new one every year since Thyme of Death debuted in 1993.
          China Bayles is an ex-attorney from Houston who gave up a lucrative job to open an herb shop in Pecan Springs, Texas. Her background serves her well as she is drawn up into helping solve local crimes.
          China's life follows a line throughout this series so we have laid out the fifteen regular books in chronological order as they have been written, but they can be read in any order. The sixteenth book, An Untimely Death, is a compilation of short stories about China Bayles. All are available in paperback except the most recent Spanish Dagger which will be out in paperback April 2008.

THYME OF DEATH Paperback	WITCHES' BANE Paperback	HANGMAN'S ROOT Paperback	ROSEMARY REMEMBERED Paperback	RUEFUL DEATH Paperback	LOVE LIES BLEEDING Paperback
CHILE DEATH Paperback	LAVENDER LIES Paperback	MISTLETOE MAN Paperback	BLOODROOT Paperback	INDIGO DYING Paperback	A DILLY OF A DEATH Paperback
DEAD MAN'S BONES Paperback	BLEEDING HEARTS Paperback	SPANISH DAGGER Paperback to be published Apr 08			AN UNTHYMELY DEATH Paperback 10 short stories involving China Bayles.

Every day customers comment on the music we play in our store, wanting to know who it is. We rotate playing Orlando radio station WLOQ Smooth Jazz 103.1 with the CDs of one artist, Govi. His guitar music is uplifting yet soothing, something we can listen to ALL DAY without going berserk. You might like his music, too. Listed below are all his CDs in chronological order starting with his latest release, Havana Sunset. Thanksgiving through Christmas? Try Boney's Funky Christmas: smooth, funky jazz from Boney James. Amazon listings for all these CDs feature sample tracks to listen to; just click on any image or title below:

HAVANA SUNSET A collection of 11 previously released songs from Saffron & Silk, Mosaico, 7th Heaven and Andalusian Nights	SAFFRON & SILK	MOSAICO	YOUR LINGERING TOUCH Soft, sensuous tracks from previous recordings
SEVENTH HEAVEN	NO STRINGS ATTACHED His liveliest tracks from previous recordings	ANDALUSIAN NIGHTS	GUITAR ODYSSEY
PASSION & GRACE	CUCHAMA	HEART OF A GYPSY	SKY HIGH

BONEY'S FUNKY CHRISTMAS

Looking for a great Christmas album? From Thanksgiving through Christmas, this album from Boney James is the music we play. Fun, upbeat, funky and smooth. Click to listen to a few tracks and you'll be hooked.