The Edith Emerson Garden Library presents

Snowflakes & Christmas Wishes

Punk Gothic Skeleton Dolls

Escape the everyday and bring extraordinary worlds to life with color. Edith Emerson’s adult coloring books invite you to explore striking artwork, imaginative scenes, and intricate details. From the beauty of nature and wildlife to mysterious Gothic settings and fantastical creatures, each book offers a different creative adventure. Choose your own palette, experiment with bold combinations or gentle shades, and make every scene your own. Enjoy a quiet afternoon of coloring, a creative break, or hours spent adding detail at your own pace. For adults who love art, imagination, and self-expr

Day of The Dead Coloring Book

Escape the everyday and bring extraordinary worlds to life with color. Edith Emerson’s adult coloring books invite you to explore striking artwork, imaginative scenes, and intricate details. From the beauty of nature and wildlife to mysterious Gothic settings and fantastical creatures, each book offers a different creative adventure. Choose your own palette, experiment with bold combinations or gentle shades, and make every scene your own. Enjoy a quiet afternoon of coloring, a creative break, or hours spent adding detail at your own pace. For adults who love art, imagination, and self-expr

Sasquatch Wild and Peaceful

Escape the everyday and bring extraordinary worlds to life with color. Edith Emerson’s adult coloring books invite you to explore striking artwork, imaginative scenes, and intricate details. From the beauty of nature and wildlife to mysterious Gothic settings and fantastical creatures, each book offers a different creative adventure. Choose your own palette, experiment with bold combinations or gentle shades, and make every scene your own. Enjoy a quiet afternoon of coloring, a creative break, or hours spent adding detail at your own pace. For adults who love art, imagination, and self-expr

Fallen Dragons Giants at Rest

Escape the everyday and bring extraordinary worlds to life with color. Edith Emerson’s adult coloring books invite you to explore striking artwork, imaginative scenes, and intricate details. From the beauty of nature and wildlife to mysterious Gothic settings and fantastical creatures, each book offers a different creative adventure. Choose your own palette, experiment with bold combinations or gentle shades, and make every scene your own. Enjoy a quiet afternoon of coloring, a creative break, or hours spent adding detail at your own pace. For adults who love art, imagination, and self-expr

Robotic Spiders & Woodland Skulls

Escape the everyday and bring extraordinary worlds to life with color. Edith Emerson’s adult coloring books invite you to explore striking artwork, imaginative scenes, and intricate details. From the beauty of nature and wildlife to mysterious Gothic settings and fantastical creatures, each book offers a different creative adventure. Choose your own palette, experiment with bold combinations or gentle shades, and make every scene your own. Enjoy a quiet afternoon of coloring, a creative break, or hours spent adding detail at your own pace. For adults who love art, imagination, and self-expr

Gothic Western

Escape the everyday and bring extraordinary worlds to life with color. Edith Emerson’s adult coloring books invite you to explore striking artwork, imaginative scenes, and intricate details. From the beauty of nature and wildlife to mysterious Gothic settings and fantastical creatures, each book offers a different creative adventure. Choose your own palette, experiment with bold combinations or gentle shades, and make every scene your own. Enjoy a quiet afternoon of coloring, a creative break, or hours spent adding detail at your own pace. For adults who love art, imagination, and self-expr

Dark Dreamworld

Escape the everyday and bring extraordinary worlds to life with color. Edith Emerson’s adult coloring books invite you to explore striking artwork, imaginative scenes, and intricate details. From the beauty of nature and wildlife to mysterious Gothic settings and fantastical creatures, each book offers a different creative adventure. Choose your own palette, experiment with bold combinations or gentle shades, and make every scene your own. Enjoy a quiet afternoon of coloring, a creative break, or hours spent adding detail at your own pace. For adults who love art, imagination, and self-expr

Thanksgiving At the Cottage

Bring the warmth of a cottage Thanksgiving into your home with Thanksgiving at the Cottage by Edith A. Emerson. Created for beginners, this beautifully illustrated guide walks you through planning a welcoming gathering, preparing a traditional turkey dinner, and adding thoughtful handmade touches. Explore Southern, West Coast, and East Coast menu inspiration alongside comforting recipes for appetizers, turkey, gravy, side dishes, dessert, and warm autumn drinks.

Something Wicked is Cooking

**Something Wicked Is Cooking… and you’re invited!** Turn your Halloween gathering into a candlelit Gothic feast with irresistible recipes, decadent desserts, bewitching drinks, and elegant entertaining ideas. In *Something Wicked Is Cooking: A Halloween Feast of Frights and Delights*, Edith A. Emerson invites you to set a table filled with autumn flavors, rich colors, and a little delicious mystery. Created for adult Halloween entertaining, this richly illustrated cookbook pairs tempting food with the romance of candlelight, burgundy velvet, antique silver, and moonlit manor windows.

Petals, Spells & Pretty Little Jars.

Petals, Spells & Pretty Little Jars Petals, Spells & Pretty Little Jars is an illustrated cottage‑ green witch book blending botanical beauty, symbolic “spells,” and imaginative rituals into a gentle, cozy, garden‑themed experience. It is not a spellbook promising result — it is a decorative craft book with storytelling, symbolism, and atmospheric visuals.

Hummingbirds in the Garden

Discover the wonder of tiny wings, colorful flowers, and remarkable little lives. Hummingbirds in the Garden by Edith A. Emerson invites readers on an illustrated journey from Alaska to Mexico, with side trips into the forests, foothills, and mountains where these fascinating birds live. Created for curious readers ages eight to adult, this approachable guide combines colorful illustrations, easy-to-understand explanations, fun facts, and Young Explorer Questions.

Wings of the Pacific Coast

Discover the colorful world of wings along the Pacific Coast. From a Monarch resting among garden flowers to a brilliant dragonfly hovering over a pond, remarkable discoveries await those who pause and look closely. In Wings of the Pacific Coast: Butterflies, Dragonflies, and Moths from Alaska to Mexico, Edith Emerson invites curious readers to explore the insects that bring movement, color, and wonder to our gardens and wild places. Richly colored illustrations pair with approachable explanations of their lives, habitats, and connections to the plants around them.

Spiders of the Pacific Northwest

Meet the spiders of the Pacific Northwest—up close, in realistic pictures, and without the scary myths. Written for curious readers ages 10 to adult, this friendly guide introduces dozens of spiders found in gardens, homes, forests, and other local habitats. Each profile shares a spider’s common and scientific names, favorite foods, preferred hiding places, and how it hunts or builds its home. You’ll also learn whether it can bite and what to know about its venom.

The Complete Hydrangea Handbook

• Identify and care for the most popular hydrangea types • Choose the best planting location and prepare the soil • Water, mulch, and feed hydrangeas properly • Prune each variety at the correct time • Grow hydrangeas successfully in containers • Propagate new plants through cuttings, layering, and division • Diagnose common pests, diseases, and growing problems • Protect plants through summer heat and winter weather • Cut, dry, preserve, and arrange beautiful hydrangea blooms

Growing Dahlias

Inside, you will learn how to: • Grow dahlias from both seeds and tubers • Choose healthy tubers and identify the crown, neck, body, and eyes • Start seeds indoors and care for young seedlings • Prepare garden beds, raised beds, and containers • Plant, water, fertilize, pinch, stake, and support growing plants • Recognize common pests, diseases, and growing problems • Harvest and condition flowers for beautiful bouquets • Save dahlia seeds and explore the possibility of entirely new flowers

Growing Peonies

Growing Peonies from Bare Root and Seed to A Lifetime of Beautiful Blooms: A Complete Guide to Planting, Long-Term Care, Petal Jellies, Teas, Recipes, Traditional Wellness Uses and Safety

How to Grow Poppies from seed to Bloom

Discover the timeless beauty of poppies with this comprehensive vintage botanical guide designed for gardeners of every skill level. Whether you dream of brilliant Oriental poppies, cheerful California poppies, delicate Iceland poppies, elegant Shirley poppies, or rare collector varieties, this beautifully illustrated book will guide you from your very first seed to breathtaking blooms year after year. Inside you'll learn how to: • Choose the best poppy varieties for your garden • Successfully start poppies from seed indoors and outdoors

Growing Echinacea, Rudbeckia & Echibeckia

Bring lasting color, pollinator activity, and cottage-garden beauty into your landscape with three remarkable members of the coneflower family. Growing Echinacea, Rudbeckia & Echibeckia is a beautifully illustrated guide to cultivating classic purple coneflowers, cheerful Black-Eyed Susans, and the extraordinary Echibeckia hybrids that combine qualities of both. Written for beginning and experienced gardeners alike, this book offers practical, easy-to-follow guidance from planting through the end of the growing season.

Growing Sunflowers

Bring the warmth, beauty, and usefulness of sunflowers into your garden with this beautifully illustrated, large-print growing guide. Growing Sunflowers takes you through the complete sunflower journey—from choosing varieties and planting seeds to caring for mature plants, harvesting flowers, and saving seeds for another season. Clear instructions and vintage botanical artwork make this book approachable for beginning gardeners while offering plenty of practical information for experienced growers.

A Gothic Cottage Garden

Inside, you will learn how to: • Combine black, burgundy, white, and silver plants • Design layered Gothic cottage borders • Choose flowers and foliage for sun and shade • Create seasonal displays from spring through winter • Grow dark shrubs, perennials, bulbs, succulents, and ornamental grasses • Use black gravel, stone, mulch, fences, and pathways • Decorate tastefully with antique urns, baskets, milk cans, wash basins, and garden art • Build beautiful containers with simple planting recipes • Arrange sophisticated Gothic bouquets

Growing Hollyhocks

Step into a garden filled with towering hollyhocks, gentle busy bees, and the timeless beauty of an English cottage garden. Growing Hollyhocks is a beautifully illustrated and practical guide to cultivating one of the garden’s most beloved flowers. Whether you are planting your first packet of seeds or tending a well-established cottage border, Edith Emerson offers clear, encouraging guidance for growing healthy hollyhocks and enjoying them throughout the seasons. Inside, you will discover how to: Grow hollyhocks successfully from seed And so much more

The Joyful art of Growing Orchids

The Joyful Art of Growing Orchids Simple Care for Beautiful Blooms, Even If You’ve Never Grown One Before Bring the extraordinary beauty of orchids into your home—and discover just how enjoyable growing them can be. The Joyful Art of Growing Orchids is a beautiful, beginner-friendly guide that teaches you to see what to do as you learn it. Filled with gorgeous orchid photography and easy-to-follow visual lessons, this book takes the mystery and intimidation out of orchid care.

Pacific Northwest Bouquet Fillers

Step into the meadows, woodlands, riverbanks, and lakeshores of the Pacific Northwest, where wildflowers, herbs, grasses, seed heads, ferns, greenery, and branches offer endless inspiration. Pacific Northwest Wildflower Bouquet Fillers: A Day in the Wild with Her Dog is a richly illustrated field guide and creative companion for nature lovers, gardeners, flower enthusiasts, and rustic-craft makers. Follow Bella and her faithful cattle dog through a beautiful day in the wild as they discover plants that can add color, texture, movement, and character to bouquets and botanical projects.