Recommended Reading

This book is a field guide that provides an illustrated overview of the most significant common grasses growing in South Texas. The guide catalogs 250 taxa, representing 9 subfamilies, 15 […]

This book is a field guide that provides an illustrated overview of the most significant common grasses growing in the Texas Hill Country. The guide catalogs over 170 species of […]

Robert B. Shaw, and the team at Texas A&M University Institute of Renewable Natural Resources, provide an indispensable reference to the world’s most economically important plant family.

This book is a book written by Edward O. Wilson, a biologist and environmental advocate. The book discusses the threat of mass extinction, known as the Sixth Extinction, taking place […]

This book is a collection of essays that describe the ecology of the Texas Hill Country, including the native habitat, the land, the water, the plants, the animals, the people, […]

In this invaluable book, Jim Stanley charts a practical course for understanding and handling a variety of problems that both new and established landowners in the Texas Hill Country will […]

This book provides practical information about growing native plants in Texas and the Southwest. It offers strategies for making and maintaining a diverse, layered landscape that provides outdoor rooms and […]

120 plant profiles, with detailed information on their significance to hummingbirds.

Written for a general audience, with spectacular images for birders and nature enthusiasts at every level, Hummingbirds of Texas reveals the enormous appeal of this tiniest and shiniest of birds. […]

This book is about the author’s personal laboratory for ecological studies, which he created by replacing the Bermuda grass in his suburban Arizona lawn with gravel, cacti, and fairy dusters. […]

This book is about the role of insects in garden ecology and how they can be beneficial to the garden ecosystem. Grissell suggests that it might be time to declare […]

This book provides a comprehensive guide to identifying and understanding the plants that are changing the North American landscape forever. The book features full-color photos and descriptions of more than […]

Inviting Pollinators and Other Wildlife Into Your Garden is not only a how-to on building natural habitats for native wildlife, but is also a complete guide. Readers new to native […]

This book is a definitive guide to landscaping in the Southwest, featuring exotic plants of tremendous potential seldom used in Southwest landscapes. The book contains full-color photos and descriptions of […]

In this comprehensive, richly illustrated guide, author George Oxford Miller provides the “how-to,” “when-to,” and “what-to” for gardeners, landscapers, and homeowners throughout Texas. Have you ever planted a beautiful—and expensive—shrub […]

In this work, Louv highlights the declining exposure of children to nature in American society, coining the term “nature-deficit disorder.” He delves into how this lack of connection with the […]

In this book, Penick explores innovative ways to transform traditional lawns into more eco-friendly, low-maintenance landscapes. Here are the key points from the book: Whether you’re a seasoned gardener or […]

This book is a comprehensive guide to the vascular plants of Texas. It includes detailed descriptions and illustrations of over 5,000 species of plants, as well as information on their […]

Veteran botanist and educator Roy L. Lehman describes Texas marine plants in four major sections: common shoreline plants, seagrasses, mangroves, and marine algae (red, brown, and green seaweeds.) Each section […]

This book is a comprehensive exploration of Matagorda Island, one of the barrier islands along the Texas coastline. The book sheds light on the island’s natural wealth and ecological fragility. […]

This Grow Green guide was created to help you select plants that are native to and adapted for the Austin area. These plants tend to be drought tolerant, most need […]

This user-friendly, heavily illustrated field guide describes 101 native larval host plants in Texas. Each plant species includes descriptive information on the plant, a distribution map, and photos of both […]

Like butterflies, moths require native plant species in order to lay their eggs and feed the caterpillar stage. This user-friendly follow-up to Lynne and Jim Weber’s Native Host Plants for […]

You’ll learn how with native plants it’s possible to achieve a beautiful yard without the need to overhaul your entire landscaping, sacrifice your aesthetic, or remove all your grass. You […]

For gardeners who want to conserve water, the color, fragrance, shade, and lush vegetation of a traditional garden may seem like a mirage in the desert. But such gardens can […]

In this insightful guide, the focus is on the unique flora of Trans-Pecos Texas, an arid and rugged region known for its challenging climate. The authors delve into the remarkable […]

This time-proven classic explores 600 gardens that make the most of the Lone Star State’s home-grown native greenery.

Landscape designs for every ecoregion and terrain found across Texas.

With clarity and depth of knowledge, Naturalist’s Austin: A Guide to the Plants and Animals of Central Texas provides a tour that includes nearly 700 species of plants and animals […]

Nature’s Best Hope shows how homeowners everywhere can turn their yards into conservation corridors that provide wildlife habitats. Because this approach relies on the initiatives of private individuals, it is […]

This middle grade edition of the groundbreaking bestseller by Doug Tallamy will inspire kids to use their backyard to help save the planet.

This book shows us how our landscape style of neat yards and gardens has devastated suburban ecology, wiping out entire communities of plants and animals by stripping bare their habitats […]

This book provides information on accurate identification and effective control of the 33 nonnative plants and groups that are currently invading the forests of the 13 Southern States, showing both […]

Over 340 species in full color with close-ups of leaves and flowers, details in bulleted format for field identification, soil types in which to find the plant, bloom times, common […]

Honey bees get all the press, but the fascinating story of North America’s native bees—endangered species essential to our ecosystems and food supplies—is just as crucial. Through interviews with farmers, […]

Over time, with industrialization and urban sprawl, we have driven nature out of our neighborhoods and cities. But we can invite it back by designing landscapes that look and function […]

This book provides an accessible and reliable identification guide to all of the plants, excluding grasses, of the region—some 823 species. In clear, nontechnical language, Alfred Richardson gives a brief […]

For everyone who studies or simply enjoys the impressive variety of wild plants that grow in the counties of Texas’ coastal bend, here is an authoritative, user-friendly book that will […]

This is is the first comprehensive book to illustrate the specific relationships between native pollinators and native plants. Organized by plant communities, the book profiles over 65 perennial native plants […]

In its most extensive prime, the Texas Blackland Prairie formed a twelve-million-acre grassy swath across the state from near San Antonio north to the Red River. Perhaps less than one […]