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AMERICAN HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY'S ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PERENNIALS
Editor in Chief: Graham Rice
Contributing Editor: Kurt Bluemel
Publisher: DK Publishing, Inc. ©2006
496 pages, full color.
Combines thousands of beautiful, close-up plant portraits, along with detailed horticultural information and planting suggestions for more than 5,000 individual species and cultivars, including the newest introductions.

AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SHADE PERENNIALS
Author: W. George Schmid
Publisher: Timber Press ©2002
ISBN: 0-88192-549-7
374 pages, black and white with color insert.
Scientific explanations of hundreds of genera of perennials and their cultivars.

THE COLOR ENCYCLOPEDIA OF HOSTAS
Authors: Diana Grenfell and Michael Shadrack
Publisher: Timber Press ©2004
ISBN: 0-88192-618-3
407 pages, full color.
A comprehensive color encyclopedia of the world's finest hosta cultivars and species. Organized by color, this book provides a full description and color photograph for more than 750 hostas.

THE COLOR ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ORNAMENTAL GRASSES
The Color Encyclopedia of Ornamental Grasses, Sedges, Rushes, Restios, Cat-tails, and Selected Bamboos
Author: Rick Darke
Publisher: Timber Press ©1999
ISBN: 0-88192-464-4
325 pages, full color.
Considered to be the most authoritative and best-illustrated reference ever published on ornamental grasses. In addition to the illustrated encyclopedia of ornamental grasses, Darke discusses how to use ornamental grasses to complement other perennials in the landscape.

THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ORNAMENTAL GRASSES
The Encyclopedia of Ornamental Grasses--How to Grow and use Over 250 Beautiful and Versatile Plants
Author: John Greenlee
Photographer: Derek Fell
Publisher: Rodale ©1992
ISBN: 0-87596-100-2
186 pages, full color.
Contains a comprehensive list of over 250 ornamental grasses and their cultivars, describing each plant in detail including cultural requirements, propagation, and landscape use.

American Horticultural Society
A-Z ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GARDENING
edited by Christopher Brickell and H. Marc Cathey
DK Publishing, 2004

American Horticultural Society New Encyclopedia of Gardening
The Indispensable Illustrated Practical Guide
Edited by David J. Ellis, Fiona Gilsenan, Rita Pelczar, and Graham Rice
Mitchell Beazley/Octopus Books USA; November 2009
Using more than 2,000 easy-to-follow, step-by-step color illustrations and 200 full-color photographs

Sunset Western Garden Book. By the Editors of Sunset Books and Sunset Magazine.
Menlo Park, California, Sunset Publishing Corporation, 1995. The 40th Anniversary Edition.
6th Edition in 1997. Detailed indexes, 624 pages. One of the best standard reference
works for California gardeners. I have each edition of this fine book.

Garden insects of North America : the ultimate guide to backyard bugs
Author: Whitney Cranshaw.
Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, c2004.