Gardening by the Book

Spring is officially in the air, and gardeners are yearning to get outside to plant and to create something artistic, or just plain useful, in the garden. Here are a few books available to guide you along the way.

• Better Homes and Gardens Step-by-Step Yard & Garden Projects ($24.95)
  
• Black & Decker Building Garden Ornaments: 24 Do-It-Yourself Projects To Accent Any Setting, ($14.95)
  
• Family Handyman Landscape Projects (Reader's Digest, $14.95)
  
• Outdoor Projects Step-by-Step by Penny Swift and Janet Szymanowski (The Lyons Press, $19.95)
  
• Taylor's Weekend Gardening Guide to Window Boxes: How to Plant and Maintain Beautiful Compact Flowerbeds by Tovah Martin (Houghton Mifflin Co, $12.95)
  
• Classic Garden Structures: 18 Elegant Projects To Enhance Your Garden by Jan Gertley and Michael Gertley, (Taunton Press, $19.95)
  
• Garden Stone: Creative Ideas, Practical Projects and Inspiration for Purely Decorative Uses by Barbara Pleasant (Storey Books, $29.95)