Helpful books, articles and other resources
Books
Guidebook to Ecological Landscaping in the Highlands, by Haliburton County Master Gardeners
A New Garden Ethic, by Benjamin Vogt
Prairie Up, by Benjamin Vogt
Planting: A New Perspective, by Piet Oudolf and Noel Kingsbury
New Naturalism, by Kelly D Norris
Planting in a Post-Wild World, by Thomas Rainer and Claudia West
Naturalistic Planting Design, by Nigel Dunnett
100 Easy-to-Grow Native Plants for Canadian Gardens, by Lorraine Johnson
Haliburton Flora, by Eleanor G Skelton and Emerson W Skelton
Articles
Ten Elements of Natural Design, by Larry Weaner
The Matrix Planting Approach to Garden Design, by Eric Browne-Grivas
Your Garden is Killing the Earth, by Dana Millbank
Designing a Natural Garden with Plant Communities, by Benjamin Vogt
Paradise Gardening, by Joe Hollis
An Ecological Ponzi Scheme, by Jason Anthony
An Ethics of Wild Mind, by David Hinton
Why wildlife gardeners need to become garden designers ASAP, by Benjamin Vogt
Other Haliburton County resources
Haliburton County Master Gardeners on shoreline restoration (link to PDF includes species list)
Coalition of Haliburton Property Owners Associations has a wealth of information on healthy shorelines.
The Land Between on shorelines and native plant gardens