Recommended Reading on natural landscaping

Landscaping

• Bringing Nature Home: How You Can Sustain Wildlife With Native Plants by Douglas Tallamy - Every gardener should read this book!
• Naturescape Manitoba
• Teaming with Microbes: The Organic Gardener’s Guide to the Soil Food Web by Lowenfels & Lewis
• Eco Yards, Simple Steps to Earth Friendly Landscapes by Laureen Rama
• Native Plants for Prairie Gardens by June Flanagan
• Requiem for a Lawnmower by Sally Wasowski
• The Ontario Naturalized Garden by Lorraine Johnson
• Grow Wild ! Native Plant Gardening in Canada and Northern U.S. by Lorraine Johnson
• The Naturalist’s Garden by Ruth Shaw Ernst
• Noah’s Garden : Restoring the Ecology of Our Own Backyards by Sara Stein
• Planting Noah’s Garden : Further Adventures in Backyard Ecology by Sara Stein
• Landscaping for Wildlife by Carrol Henderson
• The Natural Habitat Garden by Ken Druse
• The Natural Shade Garden by Ken Druse
• Second Nature: A Gardener’s Education by Michael Pollan
• How to Get Your Lawn Off Grass by Carole Rubin
• Landscaping With Nature : Using Nature’s Designs to Plan Your Yard by Jeff Cox
• Gardening With Prairie Plants by Wasowski & Wasowski
• Ornamental Grass Gardening by Thomas Rheinhardt Et al
• Ornamental Grasses : The Amber Wave by Carole Ottesen
• Gardening With Grasses by M. King & Piet Oudolf

Butterflies, Bugs, Bees & Pollinators

• Attracting Native Pollinators : Protecting North America’s Bees & Butterflies by Xerces Society
• Pollinators of Native Plants:Attract, Observe & Identify Pollinators & Beneficial Insects with Native Plants by H. Holm
• Manitoba Butterflies, A Field Guide by Simone Hebert Allard
• Butterfly Gardening : Creating Summer Magic in Your Garden by Smithsonian & Xerces Society
• The Butterflies of Manitoba by Klassen, Westwood, Preston, & McKillop
• Four Wings and A Prayer : Caught in the mystery of the Monarch Butterfly by Sue Halpern
• The Prairie Gardener’s Book of Bugs by Nora Bryan and Ruth Staal
• An Obsession With Butterflies : Our Long Love Affair With A Singular Insect by Sharman A. Russell
• Good Bugs For Your Garden by Allison Starcher
• Handbook for Butterfly Watchers by Robert Pyle
• The Forgotten Pollinators by Buchmann & Nabhan
• Dead Snails Leave No Trails by Nancarrow & Taylor (Natural Pest Control)
• Dead Daisies Make Me Crazy by Nancarrow & Taylor (Natural Pest, Disease, Weed & Critter Control )

Plants – General

• Prairie Phoenix, The Red Lily in Saskatchewan by Lawrence & Leighton
• Hedgemaids & Fairycandles by Jack Sanders
• The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s Eye View of the World by Michael Pollan
• The Orchid Thief : A True Story of Beauty & Obsession by Susan Orlean

Identification & Reference

• Wildflowers Across the Prairies by Vance, Jowsey & McLean
• Plants of the Western Boreal Forest & Aspen Parkland by Johnson, Kershaw, McKinnon & Pojar
• Orchids of Manitoba : A Field Guide by Native Orchid Conservation Inc. (Manitoba)
• Gardening Naturally: A Chemical Free Handbook for the Prairies by Hugh Skinner & Sara Williams
• Edible & Medicinal Plants of Canada by MacKinnon, Kershaw, Arnason, Owen, Karst, Hammersley Chambers
• Manitoba Wayside Wildflowers by Linda Kershaw
• 620 Wild Plants of North America by Tom Reaume Available at Nature Manitoba