2008 Hampton Court Flower Show with an In-depth Look at the Gardens of Gertrude Jekyll
Linda McHam, host
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2009 Gardens of France with The Courson Flower Show & The Chaumont Flower Show
Linda McHam, host
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Design (alphabetical by author)

Creating Period Gardens, Elizabeth Banks, 1991. The Preservation Press, National Trust for Historic Preservation, Washington, DC, ISBN 0-89133-183-2

The Japanese Garden, Text by Elizabeth Bibb, Photographs by Michael S. Yamashita, 1991, Starwood Publishing, ISBN 0-91247-80-5

The Gardens of Gertrude Jeykyll, Richard Bisgrove, 1992. Little, Brown and Company, ISBN 0-316-09657-1

Residential Landscape Architecture, Design Process for the Private Residence, Norman K. Booth and James E. Hiss, 1991. Prentice-Hall, Inc,  ISBN 0-13-775354-3

The Book of Garden Design, John Brookes. 1991; Macmillan Publishing Company,  ISBN 0-02-516695-6

Garden Planning, Edited by John Brookes, 1992. Readers Digest Home Handbook,  ISBN 0-89577-428-3

Garden Design, Sylvia Crowe, 1958, American Edition 1959, Hearthside Press, Inc. New York

Color in Your Garden, Penelope Hobhouse, 1985, 1989 edition. Little, Brown and Company, LCCCN 85-50612. Fifth printing.

The Country House Garden, A Grand Tour, Gervase Jackson-Stops and James Pipkin, Little Brown and Company, 1987, LCCC 87-61055

Gardens of the Mind, Geoffrey Jellicoe, Michael Spens, Antique Collector's Club1992, ISBN 1-85149-088-4

The Principles of Gardening: The Classic Guide to the Gardener's Art, Hugh Johnson, 1979. A Fireside Book, Published by Simon & Schuster, New York,  ISBN 0-671-50805-9

The Inward Garden — Creating a Place of Beauty and Meaning, Julie Moir Messervy, 1995. Little, Brown and Company ISBN 0-316-56792-2 (Garden Writers Association of America 1996, Quill & Trowel Award of the Year)

The Poetics of Gardens, Moore, Mitchell & Turnbull, 1993. MIT Press, (paperback)  ISBN 0-262-63153-9

Landscaping Your Home, Wm. R. Nelson, Jr., 1975. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, College of Agriculture, Cooperative Extension Service.

The Garden Makers, The Great Tradition of Garden Design from 1600 to the Present Day, George Plumptre, 1993. Random House ISBN 0-679-43014-8

Great Gardens, Great Designers, George Plumptre, 1994. Ward Lock ISBN 0-7063-7203-4

The Gardens of Russell Page, Marina Schinz and Gabrielle van Zuylen, 1991. Stewart, Tabori & Chang, Inc., ISBN 1-55670-170-5

Landscape Architecture, 2nd ed., a manual of site planning & design, John Ormsbee Simonds, 1983, 1961. McGraw-Hill, Inc. ISBN0-07--57448-0

The Garden in Winter, Rosemary Verey, 1988. Timber Press ISBN 0-88192-337-0

The Art of Planting, Rosemary Verey, 1990. Little, Brown and Company,  ISBN 90-53297

Rosemary Verey's Making of a Garden, Rosemary Verey, 1995. Henry Holt & Company, Inc. ISBN 0-8050-3956-2

A Small Garden Designer's Handbook, Roy Strong, 1987. Little, Brown and Company, ISBN 0-316-81977-8

English Garden Design, History and Styles since 1650, Tom Turner, Antique Collector's Club, 1986, ISBN 0-907462-25-1

Garden History

Nature Perfected: Gardens Through History, William Howard Adams, 1991. Abbeville Press, NY,  ISBN 0-89659-919-1

Houses and Gardens by E.L.Lutyens, (Country Life, London) Antique Collector's Club, 1994, ISBN 0-902028-98-7

Beatrix Farrand's American Landscapes — Her Gardens & Campuses; Balmori, McGuire & McPeck, 1985. Timber Press, ISBN 0-89831-003-2

Paradeisos: The Art of the Garden, Germain Bazin, 1988. Little, Brown and Company, Boston, ISBN 0-8212-1794-1

Frederick Law Olmsted, Designing the American Landscape, Beveridge & Rocheleau, 1995. Rizzoli ISBN 0-8478-1842-X

Gardens in Central Europe, Patrick Bowe, MT Train, Scala Books, NY, Rizzoli, ISBN 0-85667-399-4

Sissinghurst, Portrait of a Garden, Jane Brown, 1990. Weidenfeld and Nicholson ISBN 0-8109-3807-3

Gardens of a Golden Afternoon — the story of a Partnership: Edwin Lutyens & Gertrude Jekyll, Jane Brown, 1982, 1994. Penguin Books ISBN 0-14-017563-6 (pbk)

Gardens of Historic Charleston, James R. Cothran, 1995. University of South Crolina Press ISBN 1-57003-004-9

The Country House Garden, Country Life, 1897-1939, Brent Elliott, 1995, Mitchell Beazley, ISBN 1-85732-697-0

The Golden Age of American Gardens, Proud Owners, Private Estates, 1890-1940, Griswold, Weller, 1991. Harry N. Abrams, Inc. ISBN 0-8109-3358-6

The Formal Garden: Traditions of Art and Nature, Mark Laird, photographed by Hugh Palmer, Thames & Hudson, 1992, LCCCN 92-70867

The Medieval Garden, Sylvia Landsberg, 1995. Thames and Hudson ISBN0-500-01691-7

The English Formal Garden: Five Centuries of Design, G. Mader & L. Neubert-Mader, 1992, Rizzoli, ISBN 0-8478-2025-4

The Edwardian Garden, David Ottewill, Yale University Press, 1989, ISBN 0-300-04338-4

A Photographic Garden History, Roger Phillips and Nicky Foy, 1995. McMillan Publishers Ltd., ISBN 0-333-63826-3

The Illustrated History of the Countryside, Oliver Rackham, 1994. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, ISBN 0-297-83392-8 (guide to exploring the meaning of the British countryside).

Period Gardens, Patrick Taylor, Pavilion Books, 1991, ISBN 0-87113-439-X

The History of Gardens, Christopher Thacker, 1979, 1992. University of California Press, ISBN 0-520-05629-9

Encyclopedias/References

The Plant Growth Planner, Caroline Boisset, 1992. Prentice-Hall, Inc.,  ISBN 0-13-681230-9

The Garden Sourcebook: A Practical Guide to Planning and Planting, Caroline Boisset and Fayal Greene, 1993. Crown Publishers,  ISBN 0-517-59071-9

The American Horticultural Society Encyclopedia of Garden Plants, Edited by Christopher Brickell, 1989. Macmillan Publishing Company,  ISBN 0-02-557920-7

Garden Primer, Barbara Damrosch, 1989. Workman Publishing Company,  ISBN 0-89489-316-6 (pbk)

The Exuberant Garden and the controlling hand, William H. Frederick, Jr., 1992. Little, Brown and Company,  ISBN 0-316-29255-9

The Oxford Companion to Gardens, Geoffrey and Susan Jellicoe, Patrick Goode, Michael Lancaster, 1986, Oxford University Press ISBN 0-19-286138-7

Gardening at Sissinghurst, Tony Lord, 1995. MacMillan Company ISBN 0-02-860389-3

The Garden, A Celebration: World View, History, Evolution, Design, Practice, Plants, Ornament, Howard Loxton, Key Porter Books, ISBN 1-55013-588-0

The Random House Book of Shrubs, Roger Phillips & Martyn Rix, 1989. Random House,ISBN 0-679-72345-5

The Random House Book of Perennials, Volume 1 and Volume 2, Roger Phillips and Martyn Rix, 1991. Random House,  ISBN 0-679-73797-9 and ISBN 0-679-73798-7

The Year in Trees — Superb Woody Plants for Four-Season Gardens, Kim E. Tripp & J.C. Raulston, 1995. Timber Press ISBN 0-88192-320-6

Maples of the World, D.M. van Gelderen, PC de Jong, HJ Oterdoom, Timber Press, 1994, ISBN 0-88192-000-2

General Gardening

The Green Tapestry, Beth Chatto, 1989. Simon & Schuster, ISBN 0-671-67036-0

The Natural Garden, Ken Druse, 1989. Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., ISBN 0-517-55046-6

Designing with Perennials, Pamela J. Harper, 1991. Macmillan Publishing Company, ISBN 0-02-548180-0

The Garden in Autumn, Allen Lacey, 1990. The Atlantic Monthly Press, New York,  ISBN 0-87113-347-4

Beds and Borders, Traditional and Original Garden Designs, Wendy B. Murphy, 1990. Houghton, Mifflin Company, ISBN 0-395-51759-1

The Ortho Book Gardening Basics, Edited by Norm Rae, 1991. Ortho Books, Chevron Consumer Products Division, ISBN 0-89721-233-9

A Garden for all Seasons, 1991. Reader's Digest, London,  ISBN 0-89577-380-5

Martha Stewart's Gardening, Month by Month, Martha Stewart, 1991. Clarkson N. Potter, ISBN 0-517-57413-6

The Herb Garden, Faith H. Swanson and Virginia B. Rady, 1984. University Press of New England, ISBN 0-87451-297-2 (pbk)

Propagation

Growing & Propagating Showy Native Woody Plants, Richard E. Bir, 1992. The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, ISBN 0-8078-4366-0

Plant Propagation, Philip McMillan Browse, 1988. A Fireside Book pub. by Simon & Schuster,  ISBN 0-67165840-9

The Reference Manual of Woody Plant Propagation: From Seed to Tissue Culture, Michael A. Dirr and Charles W. Heuser, Jr., 1987. Varsity Press, Athens, Georgia, ISBN 0-942375-00-9