B. B.Mackey Books

Thomas Powell may be known to you as the distinguished, award winning editor and publisher of the monthly newsletter, The Avant Gardener, and the author of popular garden books. But, back in the...

Best of Green Space: 30 Years of Composted Columns, by Duane Campbell, with ink drawings by Betty Mackey. Here is garden technique, duffer to advanced, crossed with curmudgeonly humor. This book...

Grow it! Find the best types for your garden! Use it! Here are recipes for drinks, food, beauty products, household products, insect repellents, and more. Don't waste the fruit, peels, or even the...

Now available in paperback, here is the authoritative guide to creating and planting wonderful garden troughs. Troughs, those elegant antique stone containers so treasured by rock and alpine...

Fairy gardens are arranged with the kinds of miniature plants and accessories that might tempt a fairy to visit. In this illustrated book, Betty Earl tells what fairy gardens are and how to make and...

Nellie Neal says, "Yes, we can garden organically down South!" And in this book she tells us how. This book makes the creation of safe and satisfying organic gardens easy. The South has special...

Q & A for Deep South Gardeners, Second Edition, by Nellie Neal Gardeners in the Deep South are faced with everything from overgrown kudzu to extreme weather and unpredictable seasons. Conditions here...

This book tells the stories behind the plants, describing them and the many people who live on as plants in our gardens. It is the paperbound, North American edition of the well-known British book...