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Go Native!: Gardening With Native Plants and Wildflowers in the Lower Midwest
by Carolyn Harstad (Author and Photographer), Jeanette Ming (Illustrator)
Using a simple question and answer format, this informative and user- friendly book focuses on the Lower Midwest, and includes everything you need to know about gardening with plants and wildflowers native to the region. It explains methods of planning, site and soil preparation, garden design, plant selection and propagation. Illustrated with 125 drawings and 100 color photos, this is the must-have book for Midwestern gardeners.
Paperback - 278 pages (October 1999) Indiana Univ Pr; ISBN: 0253213029 ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.91 x 8.96 x 6.91 Other Editions: Hardcover

To purchase a copy, click here for a direct link to amazon.com, or go to IU Press's website to purchase.

Got Shade?: A "Take It Easy" Approach for Today's Gardener by Carolyn Harstad (Author and Photographer)

Carolyn Harstad, author of the best-selling Go Native!, organizes this book around the principle that an interesting shade garden is well balanced and has a variety of plantings. Early chapters focus on designing the low-maintenance garden. Further chapters discuss small trees, shrubs, dwarf conifers, vines, ground covers, ferns, grasses, perennials, woodland wildflowers, spring bulbs, and annuals (yes, there are annuals that enjoy shade!).

She discusses hundreds of shade-tolerant plants hardy in Zones 4-8, suggests how they may be used and combined, and recommends methods to reduce garden maintenance—a universal concern in this fast-paced world. With its informative text, accurate drawings, and colorful photographs, this book is a "must have" for gardeners across much of North America.

Paperback - 256 pages (October 2003) Indiana Univ Pr; ISBN: 0253216257 ; Dimensions (in inches): 8.8 x 6.9 x 1.1 Other Editions: Hardcover

To purchase a copy, click here for a direct link to amazon.com, or go to IU Press's website to purchase.

Orchids of Indiana
by Michael A. Homoya
In this handsome and comprehensive volume, Michael Homoya gives us an inside look at Indiana's wild orchids, detailing their distinguishing characteristics, habitat preferences, species associates, and state and continental ranges. More than one hundred color plates and scientific illustrations complement the text, with each orchid depicted as it occurs in Indiana's landscape. Homoya provides concise but thorough treatments of Indiana's natural regions and communities and of orchid morphology, reproduction, and ecology. The book's botanical keys, glossary, pronunciation guide, range maps, blooming chart, and alphabetical format will also appeal to naturalists and orchid lovers everywhere.
Hardcover - 276 pages (1993) Indiana University Press
ISBN 0-253-32864-0
Copies available from the co-publisher - Indiana Academy of Science - http://www.indianaacademyofscience.org/htmlfiles/specialpubs.html

Field Guide to Indiana Wildflowers
by Kay Yatskievych
This standard-setting, state-of-the-art field guide to the wildflowers of Indiana (and surrounding states) includes all 1,568 herbaceous species recorded in the state. It contains 640 color photographs, along with helpful explanations and numerous drawings of the characteristics that separate each of the individual species. With an emphasis on completeness, strong visual presentation, and simplicity of terminology, this book will be invaluable to anyone, amateur or botanical professional, interested in Indiana's diverse wildflower population.
Paperback - 320 pages (October 2000) Indiana Univ Pr; ISBN: 0253214203 Other Editions: Hardcover

To purchase a copy, click here for a direct link to amazon.com, or go to IU Press's website to purchase.

Trees of Indiana
by Maryrose Wampler (Illustrator), Fred Wampler
All admirers of of fine nature art in Indiana and the Midwest know the distinctive and intricate paintings of Maryrose Wampler, and of her earlier book, Wildflowers of Indiana, which profiled 350 species and remains enormously popular. Maryrose Wampler has now produced an ambitious volume dealing with Indiana's native trees. Each of the 72 color plates depicts one species, presented as a living organism in its natural settings. Fred Wampler has contributed fascinating text to go with each plate, describing the tree's properties, natural history, uses, and special features. Trees of Indiana is a book for all art lovers and naturalists.
Hardcover - 192 pages (November 2000) Indiana Univ Pr; ISBN: 0253328853

To purchase a copy, click here for a direct link to amazon.com

The Prairie Garden : 70 Native Plants You Can Grow in Town or Country
by J. Robert Smith & Beatrice Scheer Smith
Packed with information on the propagation, culture, and landscaping uses of 70 different prairie plants. Written by the founders of Prairie Nursery, this is the original "bible" for prairie gardeners. It remains one of the best references on growing these wonderful native perennials.
Hardcover - 219 pages (October 1980) Univ of Wisconsin Pr; ISBN: 0299083047 ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.59 x 8.30 x 5.42
To purchase a copy, click here for a direct link to amazon.com

Trees of Indiana and Shrubs of Indiana
by Charles Deam
These sought-after classics have been reprinted and are available through
Historic Hoosier Hills RC&D Forestry Committee. Contact
Historic Hoosier Hills RC&D
P.O. Box 407
Versailles, IN 47042
(812) 689-6410

A Gardener's Encyclopedia of Wildflowers : An Organic Guide to Choosing and Growing over 150 Beautiful Wildflowers
by C. Colston Burrell
A Gardener's Encyclopedia of Wildflowers makes wildflower gardening as easy as mowing the lawn by teaching even beginning gardeners how to successfully prepare woodland, meadow and prairie gardens, and to add wildflowers to their standard garden beds. 250 color photos.
Hardcover - 216 pages (June 1997) Rodale Pr; ISBN: 087596723X ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.82 x 11.87 x 9.08

Flora of Indiana
by Charles Deam
has been reprinted by Blackburn Press
Order information at www.blackburnpress.com

101 Trees of Indiana: A Field Guide
by Marion T. Jackson and Katherine Harrington, Illustrator
Paperback - 364 pages (March 2004). Indiana University Press, ISBN: 025321694X
From American beech to yellow-wood, Indiana's trees are presented in a brand new, beautiful fifeld guide. Accessible and authoritative, it is perfectly sized to fit in a pocket or backpack & contains all you need to identify a tree in Indiana, whatever the season. Includes up-to-date maps, over 400 illustrations.
Available locally at Borders bookstore, Clearwater Crossing, Indianapolis or order directly from IU Press or Amazon. com.

Also see the Indiana Academy of Science Publications web page at www.indianaacademyofscience.org/specialpubs
Additional publications about plants native to Indiana may be obtained through them.

Additionally, the Borders store at Clearwater Crossing carries many of the above titles as well as other plants of Indiana materials.

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	Go Native!: Gardening With Native Plants and Wildflowers in the Lower Midwest by Carolyn Harstad (Author and Photographer), Jeanette Ming (Illustrator) Using a simple question and answer format, this informative and user- friendly book focuses on the Lower Midwest, and includes everything you need to know about gardening with plants and wildflowers native to the region. It explains methods of planning, site and soil preparation, garden design, plant selection and propagation. Illustrated with 125 drawings and 100 color photos, this is the must-have book for Midwestern gardeners. Paperback - 278 pages (October 1999) Indiana Univ Pr; ISBN: 0253213029 ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.91 x 8.96 x 6.91 Other Editions: Hardcover To purchase a copy, click here for a direct link to amazon.com, or go to IU Press's website to purchase.
	Got Shade?: A "Take It Easy" Approach for Today's Gardener by Carolyn Harstad (Author and Photographer) Carolyn Harstad, author of the best-selling Go Native!, organizes this book around the principle that an interesting shade garden is well balanced and has a variety of plantings. Early chapters focus on designing the low-maintenance garden. Further chapters discuss small trees, shrubs, dwarf conifers, vines, ground covers, ferns, grasses, perennials, woodland wildflowers, spring bulbs, and annuals (yes, there are annuals that enjoy shade!). She discusses hundreds of shade-tolerant plants hardy in Zones 4-8, suggests how they may be used and combined, and recommends methods to reduce garden maintenance—a universal concern in this fast-paced world. With its informative text, accurate drawings, and colorful photographs, this book is a "must have" for gardeners across much of North America. Paperback - 256 pages (October 2003) Indiana Univ Pr; ISBN: 0253216257 ; Dimensions (in inches): 8.8 x 6.9 x 1.1 Other Editions: Hardcover To purchase a copy, click here for a direct link to amazon.com, or go to IU Press's website to purchase.
	Orchids of Indiana by Michael A. Homoya In this handsome and comprehensive volume, Michael Homoya gives us an inside look at Indiana's wild orchids, detailing their distinguishing characteristics, habitat preferences, species associates, and state and continental ranges. More than one hundred color plates and scientific illustrations complement the text, with each orchid depicted as it occurs in Indiana's landscape. Homoya provides concise but thorough treatments of Indiana's natural regions and communities and of orchid morphology, reproduction, and ecology. The book's botanical keys, glossary, pronunciation guide, range maps, blooming chart, and alphabetical format will also appeal to naturalists and orchid lovers everywhere. Hardcover - 276 pages (1993) Indiana University Press ISBN 0-253-32864-0 Copies available from the co-publisher - Indiana Academy of Science - http://www.indianaacademyofscience.org/htmlfiles/specialpubs.html
	Field Guide to Indiana Wildflowers by Kay Yatskievych This standard-setting, state-of-the-art field guide to the wildflowers of Indiana (and surrounding states) includes all 1,568 herbaceous species recorded in the state. It contains 640 color photographs, along with helpful explanations and numerous drawings of the characteristics that separate each of the individual species. With an emphasis on completeness, strong visual presentation, and simplicity of terminology, this book will be invaluable to anyone, amateur or botanical professional, interested in Indiana's diverse wildflower population. Paperback - 320 pages (October 2000) Indiana Univ Pr; ISBN: 0253214203 Other Editions: Hardcover To purchase a copy, click here for a direct link to amazon.com, or go to IU Press's website to purchase.
	Trees of Indiana by Maryrose Wampler (Illustrator), Fred Wampler All admirers of of fine nature art in Indiana and the Midwest know the distinctive and intricate paintings of Maryrose Wampler, and of her earlier book, Wildflowers of Indiana, which profiled 350 species and remains enormously popular. Maryrose Wampler has now produced an ambitious volume dealing with Indiana's native trees. Each of the 72 color plates depicts one species, presented as a living organism in its natural settings. Fred Wampler has contributed fascinating text to go with each plate, describing the tree's properties, natural history, uses, and special features. Trees of Indiana is a book for all art lovers and naturalists. Hardcover - 192 pages (November 2000) Indiana Univ Pr; ISBN: 0253328853 To purchase a copy, click here for a direct link to amazon.com
	The Prairie Garden : 70 Native Plants You Can Grow in Town or Country by J. Robert Smith & Beatrice Scheer Smith Packed with information on the propagation, culture, and landscaping uses of 70 different prairie plants. Written by the founders of Prairie Nursery, this is the original "bible" for prairie gardeners. It remains one of the best references on growing these wonderful native perennials. Hardcover - 219 pages (October 1980) Univ of Wisconsin Pr; ISBN: 0299083047 ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.59 x 8.30 x 5.42 To purchase a copy, click here for a direct link to amazon.com
	Trees of Indiana and Shrubs of Indiana by Charles Deam These sought-after classics have been reprinted and are available through Historic Hoosier Hills RC&D Forestry Committee. Contact Historic Hoosier Hills RC&D P.O. Box 407 Versailles, IN 47042 (812) 689-6410
	A Gardener's Encyclopedia of Wildflowers : An Organic Guide to Choosing and Growing over 150 Beautiful Wildflowers by C. Colston Burrell A Gardener's Encyclopedia of Wildflowers makes wildflower gardening as easy as mowing the lawn by teaching even beginning gardeners how to successfully prepare woodland, meadow and prairie gardens, and to add wildflowers to their standard garden beds. 250 color photos. Hardcover - 216 pages (June 1997) Rodale Pr; ISBN: 087596723X ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.82 x 11.87 x 9.08
	Flora of Indiana by Charles Deam has been reprinted by Blackburn Press Order information at www.blackburnpress.com
	101 Trees of Indiana: A Field Guide by Marion T. Jackson and Katherine Harrington, Illustrator Paperback - 364 pages (March 2004). Indiana University Press, ISBN: 025321694X From American beech to yellow-wood, Indiana's trees are presented in a brand new, beautiful fifeld guide. Accessible and authoritative, it is perfectly sized to fit in a pocket or backpack & contains all you need to identify a tree in Indiana, whatever the season. Includes up-to-date maps, over 400 illustrations. Available locally at Borders bookstore, Clearwater Crossing, Indianapolis or order directly from IU Press or Amazon. com.