Gardening & Horticulture

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by Penelope Lively (Author)From the Booker Prize winner and national bestselling author, reflections on gardening, art, literature, and life Penelope Lively takes up her key themes of time and memory, and her lifelong passions for art, literature, and gardening in this philosophical and poetic memoir. From the courtyards of her childhood home in Cairo to a family cottage in Somerset, to her own gardens in Oxford and London, Lively conducts an expert tour, taking us from Eden to Sissinghurst a...

Soils of the Eastern United States and Their Use-- XVII. The Porters Loam and Porters Black Loam - Hardcover

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by Bonsteel Jay Allan (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public...

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Bring Me Some Apples and I'll Make You a Pie: A Story about Edna Lewis - Paperback

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by Robbin Gourley (Author)Long before the natural-food movement gained popularity, Edna Lewis championed purity of ingredients, regional cuisine, and farm-to-table eating. She was a chef when female chefs--let alone African American female chefs--were few and far between. With lyrical text and watercolor illustrations, Robbin Gourley traces the roots of Edna's appreciation for the bounties of nature through the seasons. Folk rhymes, and songs about food are sprinkled throughout the text, and ...

The Medicine Wheel Garden: Creating Sacred Space for Healing, Celebration, and Tranquillity - Paperback

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by E. Barrie Kavasch (Author)The American Indian medicine wheel was an ancient way of creating sacred space and calling forth the healing energies of nature. Now, drawing on a lifetime of study with native healers, herbalist and ethnobotanist E. Barrie Kavasch offers a step-by-step guide to bringing this beautiful tradition into your own life--from vibrantly colorful outdoor circle designs to miniature dish, windowsill, or home altar adaptations. Inside you'll find: - Planting guides for medi...

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by Hillary Clinton (Author), Chelsea Clinton (Author), Carme Lemniscates (Illustrator) Qué compartes con las personas a las que quieres? Abuela Dorothy compartió su amor por los jardines con su hija Hillary y con su nieta Chelsea. Les enseñó que los jardines son lugares mágicos de aprendizaje, asombrosos espacios para el descubrimiento, puntos de encuentro con la familia y bellas áreas donde compartir historias y celebrar acontecimientos especiales. Pero, sobre todo, les enseñó que en su jard...

From Seed to Salad: A Step-By-Step Manual for Backyard Gardening - Paperback

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by Frank Salerno (Author)How to turn your backyard garden into a Green Machine. There is something supremely satisfying about pulling out of the backyard garden a big head of crisp lettuce, a half-dozen ripe, red tomatoes, a basketful of Sugar Snap peas, or any one of the dozen or more fresh vegetables growing there. Well, you too can turn your backyard into a cornucopia of plenty from spring through summer and fall, and you don't need a green thumb. All you need is a little know-how. This bo...

Growing Indica: For Medical Marijuana Patients and Caregivers - Paperback

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by Victoria Young (Author), Justin Griswell (Author)This is another "Professor Grow Guide," part of a series of books dedicated to helping people grow successfully. Growing Indica is a step-by-step guide aimed at Medical Marijuana patients and caregivers. It covers all the basics so a beginning grower can set up and grow their medicine safely and cost effectively. The authors go into detail on how to set up a good clean growing area, practice preventative maintenance, and detect nutrient defi...

Songs in the Garden: Poetry and Gardens in Ancient Japan - Paperback

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by Kyoko Selden (Translator), Marc Peter Keane (Author)The garden as a poem. Not simply a beautiful design to be appreciated by looking, but a living poem that can actually be read. That is the way gardens were thought of in Japan during the Heian period (794-1185). In that ancient society, a detailed understanding of poetry was an essential part of life for people in the literate classes. Poetic anthologies were learned by heart and all manner of communications either included poems or were ...

Culinary Cultivation for Southern California Gardens: A plant guide for food forests in Mediterranean Climates - Paperback

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by Andrew M. Kanzler (Author)This book is a primer for those wanting to grow their own food while maintaining a consciousness of the water security issues in Southern California. After having spent a number of years looking for plants that provide food without needing extra water (or excessive water) in Southern California I decided that there needs to be one place to look for others to find the same information I have gathered over the years. After searching for some time, I have not been ab...

Home Farming Revolution for Drylands - Black and White - Paperback

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by Melanie Rubin (Author), Zoe Wilcox (Author)Developed out of Zoe Wilcox and Melanie Rubin's workshops at Mother Nature Gardens and Sacred Heart Backyard Farm, "The Home Farming Revolution for Drylands" is a step-by step guide to help you convert any plot of land into a micro-farm. Although the book focuses on techniques for the desert Southwest of the United States, the main concepts and principles are applicable anywhere. The benefits of creating home farms in our towns and cities are as p...

Sea Salt Fertilization: Healthier Soil and a Healthier You! - Paperback

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by Eryn Paige (Author)From Eryn Paige, author of How to Grow Glorious Wheatgrass at Home Tutorial - With Salty Sea Mineral Eco-Fertilization for Superior Mineral Rich Soil. What is sea salt fertilization? Is salt really bad for soil, and for us too? Is seawater and its salt destructive, or are they a tremendous secret ally that can grow more nutritious plants that lead to increased disease resistance and better health - for both plants and us? Well, join Eryn Paige on her journey to revealin...

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Understanding Orchids: An Uncomplicated Guide to Growing the World's Most Exotic Plants - Hardcover

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by William Cullina (Author)Orchids are the largest family of plants in the world. With 30,000 known species, you could acquire a different orchid every day for eighty years and still not grow them all. Back in the realm of reality, readers of this beautiful book can quickly and easily find the orchids that are right for them -- which ones will thrive on a windowsill, which prefer artificial lights, and which need a greenhouse; which are for beginners, which for experts. And you can pinpoint t...

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Grafting and Budding: A Practical Guide for Fruit and Nut Plants and Ornamentals - Paperback

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by Donald McEwan Alexander (Author), William J. Lewis (Author)Grafting and Budding is an updated and expanded version of Grafting and Budding Fruit and Nut Trees and now includes the grafting of ornamental plants. It is a comprehensive and clearly written, practical guide on all of the grafting techniques the professional and home gardener is likely to need.The book begins with an introduction to vegetative propagation, which includes growing plants from cuttings as well as from grafts. It pr...

Identifying and Harvesting Edible and Medicinal Plants - Paperback

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by Steve Brill (Author), Evelyn Dean (Author)Identifying and Harvesting Edible and Medicinal Plants in Wild (and Not So Wild) Places shows readers how to find and prepare more than five hundred different plants for nutrition and better health. It includes information on common plants such as mullein (a tea made from the leaves and flowers suppresses a cough), stinging nettle (steam the leaves and you have a tasty dish rich in iron), cattail (cooked stalks taste similar to corn and are rich in...

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Garden Insects of North America: The Ultimate Guide to Backyard Bugs - Second Edition - Paperback

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by Whitney Cranshaw (Author), David Shetlar (Author)This second edition of Garden Insects of North America solidifies its place as the most comprehensive guide to the common insects, mites, and other "bugs" found in the backyards and gardens of the United States and Canada. Featuring 3,300 full-color photos and concise, detailed text, this fully revised book covers the hundreds of species of insects and mites associated with fruits and vegetables, shade trees and shrubs, flowers and ornamenta...

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Butterfly Gardening: The North American Butterfly Association Guide - Paperback

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by Jane Hurwitz (Author)An indispensable and lavishly illustrated guide to creating a garden that attracts and sustains butterflies Butterfly gardening creates habitats that support butterflies, connecting us with some of the most beautiful creatures in the natural world and bringing new levels of excitement and joy to gardening. In this engaging and accessible guide, lavishly illustrated with more than two hundred color photographs and maps, accomplished butterfly gardener Jane Hurwitz prese...

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Where There's Smoke: The Environmental Science, Public Policy, and Politics of Marijuana - Hardcover

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by Char Miller (Editor), Jared Huffman (Foreword by)Over the course of a year, in just one national forest in California, raids on illegal marijuana growing operations yielded 19,710 pounds of infrastructure, 138 ounces of restricted poisons, 4,595 pounds of fertilizer, 12 gallons of common pesticides, 5.6 miles of waterlines, and 102 propane bottles. Even as efforts to legalize marijuana accelerate, such "trespass grows" spread exponentially--as does their effect on the environment. The natu...

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Dream Plants for the Natural Garden: Over 1,200 Beautiful and Reliable Plants for a Natural Garden - Paperback

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by Piet Oudolf (Author), Henk Gerritsen (Author)Join two of the world's most influential garden designers, Piet Oudolf and Henk Gerritsen, as they describe their ideal perennials, bulbs, grasses, ferns and small shrubs for your natural garden. This comprehensive compendium classifies these 1200 plants according to their behaviour, strengths and uses. An ideal plant is one that is both beautiful and robust, performing reliably with very little input from the gardener - and without artificial...

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Secret Gardens of the Cotswolds - Hardcover

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by Hugo Rittson Thomas (Photographer), Victoria Summerley (Author)A captivating portrait of 20 of the greatest British gardens and the lords, ladies and gardeners who own and manage them. Focusing on the counties of Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire, this stunning book features gardens designed by some of the leading contemporary garden designers from across the world. This beautiful corner of England has a rich tradition of garden making, which is explored in this very personal view by phot...

The Gardener's Companion to Medicinal Plants: An A-Z of Healing Plants and Home Remedies - Hardcover

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by Royal Botanic Gardens Kew (Author), Jason Irving (Author)The Gardener's Companion to Medicinal Plants is a beautifully illustrated giftable gardening reference book, which combines exquisite botanical illustrations with practical self-help projects. Every day sees a discovery in the press about the new uses of plants, and it's certain that most of our most important drugs are derived from plants. From willow (used to procure aspirin) to periwinkle (used in chemotherapy to treat lymphoma) m...

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Drought-Resistant Planting: Lessons from Beth Chatto's Gravel Garden - Paperback

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by Beth Chatto (Author), Steven Wooster (Photographer)Legendary gardener and plantswoman Beth Chatto describes how she transformed a piece of wasteland into a lush and blooming garden in this beautiful book, filled with helpful tips and practical advice. The story of how Beth Chatto created her gravel garden on 'possibly the driest, and the most windswept, piece of soil in England' has a message of hope for gardeners everywhere. At the outset she promised herself: 'This garden was not to be ...

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The Kew Gardener's Guide to Growing Herbs: The Art and Science to Grow Your Own Herbs - Hardcover

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by Holly Farrell (Author), Kew Royal Botanic Gardens (Author), Jason Ingram (Photographer)The new Kew guide to planting and cultivating herbs features 12 easy and inspiring projects as well as detailed information on 80 of the most important species to grow, all accompanied by Kew's beautiful botanical illustrations. Herbs provide flavours and scents unlike any other, and the 80 hand-picked herbs in this book are a living trove of fresh flavours for any cook, with power to transform the sim...

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The Kew Gardener's Guide to Growing House Plants: The Art and Science to Grow Your Own House Plants - Hardcover

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by Kay Maguire (Author), Kew Royal Botanic Gardens (Author), Jason Ingram (Photographer)From the Kew Experts series, this book is perfect book for the house plant gardener, filled with invaluable tips, tricks and handy advice to help your plants thrive! Are your house plants forlorn? Do they need more knowledgeable attention? With the help of experts from the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, discover which plants are delicate and which indestructible, whether these are cacti, succulents, air pl...

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Designing, Planting and Using a Therapeutic Garden - Paperback

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by Sue Jefferies (Author)The benefits of therapeutic gardens, where users can interact with plants for the purpose of moving towards a specific outcome or meeting a particular need, is increasingly being recognized in healthcare and beyond. This book provides a practical guide for garden designers, horticulture professionals, landscape architects and therapeutic horticulturalists to create a successful and sustainable therapeutic garden space, whether from scratch or working with an existing ...

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American Organic: A Cultural History of Farming, Gardening, Shopping, and Eating - Hardcover

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by Robin O'Sullivan (Author)In 1947, when J. I. Rodale, editor of Organic Gardening, declared, "the Revolution has begun," a mere 60,000 readers and a ragtag army of followers rallied to the cause, touting the benefits of food grown with all-natural humus. More than a half century later, organic farming is part of a multi-billion-dollar industry, spreading from the family farm to agricultural conglomerates, and from the supermarket to the farmer's market to the dinner tables of families all a...

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A Home in Bloom: Four Enchanted Seasons with Flowers - Hardcover

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by Christie Purifoy (Author)Through enchanting prose and delightful activities, avid writer, gardener and placemaker Christie Purifoy helps readers capture the curious magic of the garden and bring its life and joy into their homes. A flower garden is a place where endless possibilities are contemplated (and celebrated), where reason bows to beauty, and practicality gives way to whimsy. It's where we sink our roots deep, lean into the rhythms of each season, and wish for beautiful things to g...

The Kingdom of Heaven: A Gardening Primer - Board Book

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by Danielle Hitchen (Author), Jessica Blanchard (Artist)The Kingdom of Heaven uses the many allusions to gardening in the Bible to teach little ones about God's kingdom and their role in it. The story of mankind starts in a garden, and references to planting, growing, sowing, and reaping can be found throughout Scripture. Most important, Jesus uses this relatable imagery to describe how his followers are to mature in their faith and share God's truth with others. This stylish and creative bo...

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Baltimore's Historic Parks and Gardens - Paperback

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by Eden Unger Bowditch on Behalf of the Cyl (Author)Full of resplendent parks and gardens, Baltimore has a long history of embracing local flora and greenery. Through the centuries, Baltimore has been at the forefront of park design, playgrounds, and green spaces, counting the Olmsted brothers among their visionary architects. In fact, the city of Baltimore has been internationally recognized for its development and protection of its green spaces. Baltimore's Historic Parks and Gardens explor...

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The Family Garden Plan: Grow a Year's Worth of Sustainable and Healthy Food - Paperback

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by Melissa K. Norris (Author)Grow a Year's Worth of Food for Your Family Do something good for your loved ones by learning how to plant a garden that will yield wholesome, organic fruits and vegetables in surprisingly less space than you would think. Melissa K. Norris, fifth-generation homesteader and host of the popular Pioneering Today podcast, walks you through each step of the process, including how to decide which food crops are best for your area and family plan your garden to maximiz...

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Herbalismo Magico = Magical Herbalism - Paperback

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by Scott Cunningham (Author)Encuentre una fuente m gica en su jard n. Este es un libro sobre m gia tan antigua como el conocimiento sobre las plantas. Aprenda a preparar amuletos y encantamientos, bolsas con hierbas m gicas, inciensos y aceites arom ticos, infusiones y ung entos. Las hierbas son f ciles de conseguir en las tiendas, el campo o en su propio jard n. Sus aplicaciones son infinitas: para ayudar a la visi n ps quica, obtener protecci n, despertar la pasi n y para mantener la salud ...

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Garden Witchery: Magick from the Ground Up - Paperback

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by Ellen Dugan (Author)How does your magickal garden grow?... With violets, rosemary, and yarrow to attract faeries; an apple tree for love and health; and a circle of stones in some tucked-away corner? Whether you live in a cottage in the woods, a home in the suburbs, or a city apartment with a small balcony, a powerful and enchanted realm awaits you. Discover the secret language and magickal properties of the trees and flowers, herbs and plants found growing around you, and learn how to cre...

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Mother Nature's Herbal: A Complete Guide for Experiencing the Beauty, Knowledge & Synergy of Everything That Grows - Paperback

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by Judith Griffin (Author)Step into a world of spiritual rejuvenation and radiant health with the restorative power of herbs. Brimming with herbal folklore, tips for growing and harvesting your own herbs, and over two hundred medicinal and culinary recipes from diverse cultures, Mother Nature's Herbal will become your trusted companion on the path to natural living. Take a tour of the time-honored traditions and healing practices of cultures past and present, including Native and South Americ...