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South Carolina Midlands Master Gardeners Association
18th Annual Spring Symposium - “How Green is Your Garden?”

Book Sale

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Happy Bookseller

We are delighted to have the Happy Bookseller return to the SCMMGA Symposium.  Once again, they will provide a selection of beautiful books filled with practical and inspirational gardening information. This is the perfect time to add exceptional books to your gardening library. The book sale will be located in the main lobby of the Columbia Conference Center.

Join us for book signings by our guest speakers Joe Lamp’l and TamsonYeh, as well as local author Margot Rochester.  Authors will be available for book signings during some of the times listed below.  A schedule for each author will be posted at the book sale table on the day of Symposium.

•Registration (8:30-9:00)
•The scheduled breaks
•The last half hour of the lunch break

Featured Books

Joe Lamp’l:
Over the Fence with joe gardener (2007)
The Green Gardener’s Guide: Hundreds of Tips for Creating an Eco-Friendly Garden (2008)

Margo Rochester:
Earthly Delights: Gardening by the Seasons the Easy Way (2004)

Tamson Yeh:
Can My Petunia Be Saved? Your Plants Want You to Read This Book (2007)

Additional Books

Armitages’s Native Plants. Alan Armitage.

Blueprints for Harmonious Gardens. Tara Dillard.

Bulbs for the South. Scott Ogden.

Can’t Miss Container Gardening. Felder Rushing.

Carolina Gardeners Guide. Toby Bost

Color Encyclopedia of Hostas.  Diane Grenfell.

Complete Compost Gardening. Barbara Pleasant.

Design in the Plant Collector’s Garden. Roger Turner.
 
Ecology for Gardeners. Steven Carroll & Steven Salt.

Encyclopedia of Exotic Plants for Temperate Climates. Will Giles.

Gardener’s Guide To Plant Diseases.  Barbara Pleasant.

Gardener’s Weed Book.  Barbara Pleasant. 

Garden Gallery.  George Little & David Lewis.

Garden Primer, 2nd. ed. Barbara Damrosch.
 
Gardening Notes for South Carolina.  Columbia Garden Club. 

Gardening with Children. Monica Hanneman, et. al..

Gardening with Conifers. Adrian Bloom.
 
Garden Paths and Stepping Stones. Tara Dillard. 

Grasses and Bamboos.  Ian Cooke. 

Hydrangeas for American Gardens.  Michael Dirr. 

Hydrangeas for American Gardens with CD-ROM. M.Dirr.

IPM for Gardeners.  Raymond Cloyd, Nixon, & Pataky.
 
Jewel Box Garden. Tom Hobbs.
 
Landscape Plants of the Southeast. Gordon Halfacre & Anne Shawcroft.

Magic of Monet’s Garden.  Derek Fell.

Making More Plants.  Ken Druse. 

Month-by-Month Gardening in South Carolina. Bob Polomski.

Natural Shade Garden.  Ken Druse. 

P.Allen Smith’s Living in the Garden Home. P. Allen Smith.

Passalong Plants.  Steve Bender. 

Pots in the Garden.  Ray Rogers. 

Pruning Book.  Lee Reich. 

Secrets to Great Soil.  Elizabeth Stell. 

Some Like It Hot.  P.J. Gartin. 

Southern Gardener’s Book of Lists.  Lois Trigg Chaplin. 

Timber Press GT Ornamental Grasses.  Rick Darke. 

Timeless Landscape Design.  Hugh & Mary Palmer Dargan. 

Trowel and Error.  Sharon Lovejoy. 

Truth About Organic Gardening. Jeff Gillman.

Weather Resilient Garden.  Charles Smith.

Well-Designed Mixed Garden.  Tracy Di-Sabato Aust.