Chapter Library
The Emerald Chapter has a large library of books and periodicals at the Eugene Garden Club. Subjects include rock gardening, general gardening, and native plants, as well as other plant-related topics such as trough-building and propagating. All members are encouraged to check out books at our monthly meetings. This is only a partial list and new books are added every year.
1001 Hints & Tips for Your Garden ~ Fred DuBose, ed.
A Field Guide to Wildflowers ~ Roger Tory Peterson & Margaret McKenny
A Gardener Obsessed ~ Geoffrey B. Charlesworth
A Guide to Rock Gardening ~ Richard Bird
A Manual of Alpine and Rock Garden Plants ~ Christopher Grey-Wilson
A Patchwork Garden ~ Sydney Eddison
A Proper Garden ~ Elizabeth Sheldon
Adventures with Hardy Bulbs ~ Louise Beebe Wilder
All About Rock Gardens and Plants ~ Walter A. Kolaga
Alpine Gardening ~ Roy Elliott
Alpine Gardening: A beginner’s guide ~ W.F.W. Harding
Alpine Meadows: The stunning beauty of the Rockies’ wild flowers ~ George Brybycin
Alpine Plants of North America ~ Graham Nicholls
Alpine Wildflowers ~ Dee Strickler
Alpines ~ Will Ingwersen
Alpines for Your Garden ~ Alan Bloom
Alpines in Colour and Cultivation ~ T. C. Mansfield
Alpines in Pots ~ Kath Dryden
Alpines in Sinks and Troughs ~ Joe Elliott
Alpines the Easy Way ~ Joe Elliott
Alpines: The Illustrated Dictionary ~ Clive Innes
America’s Garden Book ~ Louise & James Bush-Brown
American Cottage Gardens
Androsaces ~ G.F. Smith & D.B. Lowe
Bulbs of North America ~ Jane McGary, ed.
Buried Treasures ~ Janis Ruksans
Cacti and Succulents ~ Paula Hamlyn
Campanulas: A Gardener’s Guide ~ Peter Lewis & Margaret Lynch
Collectors’ Alpines ~ Royton E. Heath
Common Families of Flowering Plants ~ Michael Hickey & Clive King
Conifers and Heathers ~ Adrian Bloom
Creating and Planting Alpine Gardens ~ Rex Murfitt
Creating and Planting Garden Troughs ~ Joyce Fingerut & Rex Murfitt
Cushion Plants for the Rock Garden ~ Duncan Lowe
Cuttings from a Rock Garden ~ H. Lincoln & Laura Louise Foster
Cyclamen ~ Christopher Grey-Wilson
Decorative Cacti ~ Rudolf Subik
Dierama: The Hairbells of Africa ~ O.M. Hilliard & B.L. Burtt
Encyclopedia of Alpines: Vol. 1 (A–K) ~ Alpine Garden Society ** Reference only
Encyclopedia of Alpines: Vol. 2 (L–Z) ~ Alpine Garden Society ** Reference only
Ferns to Know and Grow ~ F. Gordon Foster
Flora of the Pacific Northwest ~ C. Leo Hitchcock & Arthur Cronquist
From Seed to Bloom ~ Eileen Powell
Garden Work Centers ~ Sunset Books Edition
Gardening by Mail ~ Barbara J. Barton
Gardening in Miniature ~ Martin Baxendale
Gardening with Native Plants of the Pacific Northwest ~ Arthur R. Kruckberg
Gardening with Wild Flowers ~ Frances Tenenbaum
Grasslands of Northeastern North America ~ Peter Vickery & Peter Dunwiddie, eds.
Growing Bulbs ~ Martyn Rix
Growing Cyclamen ~ Gay Nightingale
Handbook of Northwestern Plants ~ Dennis Gilkey
Hardy Herbaceous Perennials Vol. 1 & 2 ~ Leo Jelitto & Wilhelm Schacht
How to Build a Hypertufa Trough ~ Ruby Reed
How to Plan Establish and Maintain Rock Gardens ~ George Schenk
How to Recognize Wild Plants ~ William Carey Grimm
Key to the Genus Penstemon ~ Robin and Kenneth Lodewick
Know Your Poisonous Plants ~ Wilma Roberts James
Made for the Shade ~ Judy Glattstein
Making Things Grow Outdoors ~ Thalassa Cruso
Manual of Alpine Plants ~ Will Ingwersen
Martha Stewart Living magazine Aug 2003; Article on O’Byrne’s garden
Miniature Gardens ~ Joachim Carl
Moss Gardening ~ George Schenk
Native Plants for California Gardens ~ Lee W. Lenz
Northwest Penstemons ~ Dee Strickler
Old Wives’ Lore for Gardeners ~ Maureen & Bridget Boland
Pacific Horticulture, Vol 51 Number 1 Spring 1990 ~ W. George Waters, ed.
Penstemons ~ David Way & Peter James
Penstemons ~ Robert Nold
Peonies ~ Allan Rogers
Planning and Planting Rock Gardens ~ John Kelly
Plant Classification ~ Lyman Benson
Plant Identification Terminology ~ James Harris & Melinda Woolf
Pleasures of Wild Plants ~ Audrey Wynne Hatfield
Rock and Water Gardens ~ Ogden Tanner
Rock Garden and Alpine Plants ~ Henry Correvon
Rock Garden Design and Construction ~ Jane McGary, ed.
Rock Garden Plants ~ Baldassare Mineo
Rock Garden Plants ~ Doretta Klaber
Rock Garden Plants ~ Eyewitness Garden Handbooks
Rock Gardening ~ Peter McHoy
Rock Gardens & Alpine Plants ~ David Joyce
Rock Gardens ~ Anne Halpin
Rock Plants for Small Gardens ~ Royston E. Heath
Rocky Mountain Alpines ~ Jean Williams, ed.
Saxifrages ~ Winton Harding
Seed Germination Theory and Practice ~ Norman C. Deno
Shade Gardening ~ Oliver E. Allen
Skalky a jejich stavba ~ Vojtech Holubec
Succulents ~ Clive Innes
Sunset Western Garden Book
Taylor’s Guide to Garden Design ~ Taylor’s Encyclopedia, Eds.
Taylor’s Guide to Water-Saving Gardening ~ Taylor’s Encyclopedia, Eds.
The Alpine Flora of the Rocky Mountains Vol 1 ~ Richard W. Scott
The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Wildflowers ~ R. Spellenberg
The Bernard E. Harkness Seedlist Handbook ~ Mabel G. Harkness & Deborah D’Angelo
The Caucasus and Its Flowers ~ Vojtech Holubec & Pavel Krivka
The Complete Book of Alpine Gardening ~ Richard Bird & John Kelly
The Complete Book of Herbal Teas ~ Marietta Marshall Marcin
The Cyclamen of Turkey ~ Brian Mathew and Neriman Ozhatay
The Genus Gentiana ~ Josef J. Halda
The Plant Hunter’s Guide ~ Bobby J. Ward
The Propagation of Alpine Plants and Dwarf Bulbs ~ Brian Halliwell
The Rock & Water Garden Expert ~ D. G. Hessayon
The Rock Garden and its Plants ~ Graham Stuart Thomas
The Savory Wild Mushroom ~ Margaret McKenny
The Small Garden Book ~ R. Milton Carleton
The Smaller Daphnes ~ Christopher Grey-Wilson, ed.
The Woodland Garden ~ Jack Elliot
Trees & Shrubs for Pacific Northwest Gardens ~ John A. & Carol L. Grant
Variations on a Garden ~ Robin Lane Fox
Wayside Wildflowers of the Pacific Northwest ~ Dee Strickler
Where Have All the Wildflowers Gone ~ Robert H. Mohlenbrock
Why Wild Edibles? ~ Russ Nohney
Wild Edible Fruits & Berries ~ Marjorie Furlong & Virginia Pill
Wildflower Gardening ~ James Crockett & Oliver Allen
Wildflowers of Alaska ~ Christine Heller
Wildflowers of the Columbia Gorge ~ Russ Jolley
Wildflowers of the Pacific Northwest ~ Mark Turner & Phyllis Gustafson
Winter Flowers in Greenhouse and Sun-heated Pit ~ Kathryn Taylor