Resource List for Native Plants Training Workshop

Books:

Daniels, Stevie. Easy Lawns: Low Maintenance Native Grasses For Gardeners Everywhere. Guest Editor, Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

Hagan Dole, Claire. The Butterfly Gardener’s Guide. Editor, Handbook # 175, Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

Marinelli, Janet. Going Native: Biodiversity in Our Own Backyards. Editor, Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

Beaubiere, Nancy. Native Perennials North American Beauties. Guest Editor, Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

Burrell, Charles Colston. The Natural Water Garden: Pools, Ponds, Marshes and Bogs for Backyards Everywhere. Editor, Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

Peterson and McKenny. A Field Guide to Wildflowers: Northeastern.Northcentral North America. The Peterson Field Guide Series.

Cullina, William. Native Trees, Shrubs, and Vines: A Guide to Using, Growing and Propagating North American Woody Plants.

Cullina, William. The New England Wild Flower Society Guide to Growing and Propagating Wildflowers of the US and Canada (Bill Callina’s books have very well organized and complete information on wildflowers, including range, propogation- especially important for wildflowers)

Leopold, Donald J. Native Plants of the Northeast: A Guide for Gardening and Conservation

Bormann, F. Herbert, Diana Balmori, and G. Geballe. Redesigning the American Lawn: A Search for Environmental Harmony

Buchmann, Stephen and Gary Paul Nabhan. The Forgotten Pollinators

Grissell, Eric. Insects and Gardens: In Pursuit of a Garden Ecology

Mizejewski, David. National Wildlife Federation Attracting Birds, Butterflies, and Backyard Wildlife

The Xerces Society and The Bee Works. Pollinator Conservation Handbook

Websites:

http://www.plants.usda.gov

http://www.nature.org

http://www.newfs.org

http://wildflower.org

http://nwf.org/backyard

http://for-wild.org

http://hgcny.org

http://stewardshipgarden.us

http://timberpress.com search for “Native Plants of the Northeast” by Don Leopold

http://newfs.org “The New England Wild Flower Society Guide to Growing and Propagating Wildflowers of the US” and “Native Trees, Shrubs & Vines” by William Cullina

http://newfs.org/nursery.htm

http://www.audubon.org/bird/at%5Fhome/

http://www.fingerlakesnativeplantsociety.org/