Winter 2025 New Releases from Timber Press
You don’t want to miss these groundbreaking new gardening books!
Pansies is the big idea flower book we’ve all been waiting for.
While working at the famed Floret Flower Farm, Brenna Estrada was so inspired by the pansies being grown, she began to trial hundreds of varieties of pansies and violas on her own farm, developing a huge following of growers and floral designers. Her innovative approach to growing in full sun results in pansies with long stems, breathtaking fragrance, and unique color. With the instincts of a collector, Brenna encourages gardeners and flower enthusiasts to see the pansy as a reliable, elegant showstopper flower that brings drama, whimsy, and diversity to every garden and arrangement.
Filled with stunning photography that brings to life the intricate details, colors, and textures of this diverse and colorful flower, Pansies is an indispensable guide for growers, florists, artists, and collectors. Readers will discover:
- The fascinating history of pansies and violas, from their origination as a wildflower to a necessary adornment in every household garden
- Everything you need to know about growing pansies (and how to save pansy seeds!)
- How to keep pansies healthy and resilient all year round
- Inspiration for incorporating pansies in crafts, recipes, and in the apothecary
- Inspiring examples of knockout bouquets and arrangements
- Lush profiles on 50 varieties of pansies and violas available today, with information on color, bloom size, season, fragrance, and each cultivar’s personality as a cut flower
Why You’ll Love It:
You’ve never seen pansies like this before — dramatic long stems, breathtaking fragrance, and whimsical varieties. This gorgeous reimagination of pansies brings to life the intricate details, colors, and textures of a resilient flower brimming with personality—a must-have in every garden and arrangement.
Filled with stunning photography that brings to life the intricate details, colors, and textures of this diverse and colorful flower, Pansies is an indispensable guide for growers, florists, artists, and collectors.
Introducing “maximalism” as a garden design trend, here are 20 gardens where more is more
Every gardener is familiar with the impulse to buy more plants, any plants, all the plants. And, increasingly, gardeners and designers want to invite a plethora of beneficial insects, pollinators, and biodiversity to their gardens. Having a maximalist garden is definitely aesthetic; yet it also brings vitality back to the earth, in an abundant expression of more.
Garden to the Max celebrates 20 gardens from across the US that embrace maximalism through joy and wonder, nonstop blooms, and abundant layers. The book is a feast of gorgeous photography by Bob Stefko, showcasing individual quirkiness, wild collections, and bold, personality-packed plant combinations that amplify the grandeur of each garden’s unique vision, packing in plants for their exuberant style and ecological benefits. Featured gardeners include an amateur ornithologist seeking to attract more birds, an event planner’s tropical paradise, a pair of city dwellers reducing their carbon footprint, an urban garden pioneer promoting pollinator gardens, or a life-long biophilic propagating endangered plants to nurture insects.
Longtime garden writer Teresa Woodard shares stories of each garden and its fearless designers, the inspirations for their plant collections, and their hopes for our earth’s future. Information-packed sidebars full of standout plants and growing tips will inspire dreamers and gardeners to embrace their own passions. Garden to the Max gives everyone permission to bring the exuberant interior style into the garden and develop a spirited reverence for plants, celebrating joy and personality in the garden—to the max!
Why You’ll Love It:
These gardens prove you can have it all! This book is bursting with 20 gardens from across the US that embrace maximalism through joy and wonder, nonstop blooms, and abundant layers. A feast of gorgeous photography by Bob Stefko, showcasing individual quirkiness, wild collections, and bold, personality-packed plant combinations that amplify the grandeur of each garden’s unique vision, packing in plants for their exuberant style and ecological benefits.
With the publication of Bringing Nature Home, Douglas Tallamy revealed the critical role native plants play in attracting beneficial insects—and ushered in what is widely considered one of the most consequential movements in gardening. With Nature’s Best Hope, Tallamy expanded his audience from gardeners to homeowners with a passionate advocacy that detailed how everyone with a yard can make a positive environmental impact.
In How Can I Help, Tallamy tackles the questions commonly asked at his popular lectures and shares compelling and actionable answers that will help gardeners and homeowners take the next step in their ecological journey. Topics range from ecology, evolution, biodiversity and conservation to restoration, native plants, invasive species, pest control, and supporting wildlife at home. Tallamy keenly understands that most people want to take part in conservation efforts but often feel powerless to do so as individuals. But one person can make a difference and How Can I Help details exactly how. Whether by reducing your lawn, planting a handful of native species, or allowing leaves to sit untouched, you will be inspired and empowered to join millions of other like-minded people to become the future of backyard conservation.
Why You’ll Love It:
If you want to make a difference protecting and preserving nature but don’t know where to start, this book is for you.
Doug Tallamy, best-selling author of Nature’s Best Hope, keenly understands that most people want to take part in conservation efforts but often feel powerless to do so as individuals. In How Can I Help, Tallamy tackles the questions commonly asked at his popular lectures and shares compelling and actionable answers that will help gardeners and homeowners take the next step in their ecological journey.
One person can make a difference and this book details exactly how. Whether by reducing your lawn, planting a handful of native species, or allowing leaves to sit untouched, you will be inspired and empowered to join millions of other like-minded people to become the future of backyard conservation.
The Curious Kitchen Gardener is for cooks and gardeners interested in bringing novelty and variety into their lives and homes. It follows each season of planting and harvesting—featuring nearly 35 often overlooked edibles, with illustrations, and a delicious recipe for each, encouraging us to see our gardens as an integrated whole and a year-round practice. Calling upon decades of Master Gardener and Master Food Preserver experience, Linda Ziedrich includes fascinating cultural context and personal connections to each plant. The result is the story of how and why an adventurous gardener cultivated a unique cuisine for herself and her family—and how you can too.
Why You’ll Love It:
Adventurous gardeners and adventurers eaters will appreciate nearly 35 often overlooked edibles, with illustrations, and a delicious recipe for each, encouraging us to see our gardens as an integrated whole and a year-round practice.
Calling upon decades of Master Gardener and Master Food Preserver experience, Linda Ziedrich bring novelty and variety to each season of planting and harvesting your garden.
Why You’ll Love It:
Debbie Millman—an award-winning writer, designer, and host of the podcast Design Matters—always thought of herself as a bad gardener. Nevertheless, she kept trying. Over the years she came to realize that no one is a bad gardener, we’re all just questing for a garden, a journey that develops over time, through space, and evolves along with our hearts.
Love Letter to a Garden is a little gem of a book—an inspiring, impulse-friendly story that can be read in one setting, then shared, experienced, pollinated, and perpetuated.
Herbs bring in more bees, more birds, and more beneficial insects to the garden. They add spice and depth to any recipe. Herbs enrich our lives, our health, and our earth in profound and nourishing ways. Herbs in Every Season offers gardeners, herbalists, cooks, and homesteaders a new way of looking at herbs throughout the year. Herbalists will learn how an herb’s growth habits inform its medicinal capabilities, and gardeners will gain insight on herbs as integral culinary plants for the kitchen garden, pollinator plants for perennial borders, and key ingredients for a home apothecary.
With detailed plant profiles on 48 herbs, many of them native plants, Bevin Cohen encourages a year-round perspective on growing and using herbs in tandem with the seasons. He will assure any newcomer that herbs are not only easy to grow, but also forgiving. Readers will take delight in:
- Simple, homegrown recipes and preservation techniques for cooking and concocting herbs in tonics, teas, meals, and treats
- Herbal remedies and useful DIY applications for common ailments such as sunburns and mosquito bites
- Deep insight on how the life cycle of an herb contributes multitudes to its medicinal and culinary properties
- How a seasonal herbal approach can provide a much-needed process of cyclical re-connection to the earth
A practice of living close to the land is deeply enriched through a daily relationship with herbs—in every season.
Why You’ll Love It:
Herbs bring in more bees, more birds, and more beneficial insects to the garden. They add spice and depth to any recipe. Herbs enrich our lives, our health, and our earth in profound and nourishing ways. In this book you’ll learn:
- How a seasonal herbal approach can provide a much-needed process of cyclical re-connection to the earth
- Simple, homegrown recipes and preservation techniques for cooking and concocting herbs in tonics, teas, meals, and treats
- Herbal remedies and useful DIY applications for common ailments such as sunburns and mosquito bites
- Deep insight on how the life cycle of an herb contributes multitudes to its medicinal and culinary properties
New York City may have a reputation as a concrete jungle, but in reality, it’s full of amazing wildlife. You just need to know where to find it! Equal parts natural history, field guide, and trip planner, Wild NYC has something for everyone. It looks at the factors that shape local nature—including fire, floods, and climate—and profiles over 100 local species, from easy-to-spot squirrels and praying mantids to more elusive humpback whales, purple finches, and so many more. Also included are descriptions of day trips that help you explore natural wonders on hiking trails, in public parks, and on your own street.
Why You’ll Love It:
Wild NYC has something for everyone. It’s your guide to experiencing the city’s natural history, a field guide to over 100 local species, and your planner for day trips that help you explore natural wonders on hiking trails, in public parks, and on your own street.
Derek Jarman, a passionate gardener from childhood, combined his painter’s eye, horticultural expertise, and ecological convictions to produce a landscape that combined flints, shells, and driftwood to create a unique paradise. This book is Derek Jarman’s own record of how this garden evolved, from its earliest beginnings in 1986 to 1994, the last year of his life.
More than 150 photographs taken by his friend and photographer Howard Sooley capture the garden at all its different stages at every season. For both gardeners and admirers of this extraordinary man, this 30th anniversary edition, with a foreword by Jamaica Kincaid, marks three decades of the book as a gardening classic, and the ongoing impact of Jarman’s transformative garden—proof of the garden space as one of ideas, philosophy, and myth—more than just a place of retreat.
Why You’ll Love It:
Derek Jarman’s Garden is the last book legendary artist and activist Derek Jarman ever wrote. Like the garden itself, it remains as a fitting memorial to a brilliant and greatly loved artist who, against all odds, made a breathtakingly beautiful garden in the most inhospitable of places.
For both gardeners and the legions of admirers of this extraordinary man, this 30th anniversary edition, with a foreword by Jamaica Kincaid, marks three decades of the book as a gardening classic, and the ongoing impact of Jarman’s transformative garden, proof of the garden as a space not just of retreat but of ideas, philosophy, and myth.
These woefully misunderstood creatures dwell in darkness, inspire fear, and threaten danger. They’ve been viewed as the pawns of evil deities and taken the undeserved blame for the spread of deadly viruses. The Weird and Wonderful World of Bats provides a fresh introduction to these curious flying mammals, explaining how they experience the world through unique senses, where and how they fly, the origins of their complex relationships with humans, and how we can learn from them—not only to coexist, but potentially grow healthier and wiser together.
Over 180 personality-filled photographs showcase the rich diversity of bats from all over the world.
Why You’ll Love It:
The Weird and Wonderful World of Bats, provides a fresh introduction to these curious flying mammals, diving in-depth into how they experience the world through unique senses, where and how they fly, the origins of their complex relationships with humans, and how we can learn from them—not only to coexist but potentially grow healthier and wiser together.
Spot an owl that’s long been watching your every move and darker aspects of its reputation may spring to mind: harbinger of doom, guides through the spirit world, merciless bird of prey. Mythology and superstitions have projected our fear of the unknown onto these mostly night-dwelling creatures. But these wondrous birds are so much more than shadows or silent glides through the night. In The Owl Handbook, lifelong birding enthusiast John Shewey leads us through an exploration of owls’ cultural impact as seen in folklore and mythology, provides in-depth investigations of 19 owls of North America and a survey of 200 owls across the globe, and gives advice on how to respectfully observe and protect these enigmatic birds, brought to life by hundreds of full-color photographs.
Why You’ll Love It:
In The Owl Handbook, lifelong birding enthusiast John Shewey leads us through an exploration of owls’ cultural impact as seen in folklore and mythology, provides in-depth investigations of 19 owls of North America and a survey of 200 owls across the globe, and gives advice on how to respectfully observe and protect these enigmatic birds, brought to life by hundreds of full-color photographs.
When Paula Whyman first climbs a peak in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in search of a home in the country, she has no idea how quickly her tidy backyard ecology project will become a massive endeavor. Just as quickly, she discovers how little she knows about hands-on conservation work. In Bad Naturalist, readers meander with her through orchards and meadows, forests and frog ponds, as she is beset by an influx of invasive species, rattlesnake encounters, conflicting advice from experts, and delayed plans—but none of it dampens her irrepressible passion for protecting this place. With delightful, lyrically deft storytelling, she shares her attempts to coax this beautiful piece of land back into shape. It turns out that amid the seeming chaos of nature, the mountaintop is teeming with life and hope.
Why You’ll Love It:
Conservation doesn’t have to be perfect to make a difference. That’s the lesson author Paula Whyman learns with humor, humility, and her mercurial poodle in tow as she attempts to restore 200 acres of farmland long gone-to-seed in the Blue Ridge Mountains. With delightful, lyrically deft storytelling, she shares her attempts to coax this beautiful piece of land back into shape.
Do you want a garden that makes a real difference? Choose plants native to our Texas. The rewards will benefit you, your yard, and the environment—from reducing maintenance tasks to attracting earth-friendly pollinators such as native birds, butterflies, and bees. Native plant expert Andrea DeLong-Amaya and the world famous Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center make adding these superstar plants easier than ever before, with proven advice that every home gardener can follow. This incomparable sourcebook includes 225 recommended native ferns, grasses, wildflowers, perennials, vines, shrubs, and trees. It’s everything you need to know to create a beautiful and beneficial garden.
Why You’ll Love It:
If you’ve ever taken in the beauty of a field of native Texas bluebonnets, this book from native plant expert Andrea DeLong-Amaya and the world famous Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center is for you. It’s everything you need to know to create a beautiful and beneficial garden that attracting earth-friendly pollinators and reduce maintenance tasks in your garden.
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