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An American Cutting Garden: A Primer for Growing Cut Flowers Where Summers Are Hot and Winters Are Cold - Hardcover

$72.90

by Suzanne McIntire (Author)In An American Cutting Garden Suzanne McIntire describes how to plan a cutting garden, choose suitable plants, keep the garden in good order, and harvest a bountiful crop--all with charm and humor. Using both common and botanical names, she discusses in depth a wide variety of herbaceous perennials, biennials, annuals, and bulbs. McIntire includes information on topics such as the length of stems one might expect from the cutting garden, how many plants are needed ...

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Foreign Trends in American Gardens: A History of Exchange, Adaptation, and Reception - Hardcover

$135.00

by Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto (Editor) Foreign Trends in American Gardens addresses the influence of foreign, designed landscapes on the development of their American counterparts. Including essays from an array of significant scholars in landscape studies, this collection examines topics ranging from the importation of Western and Eastern styles of design and theoretical literature to the adaptation of specific plant types. As the variety of topics and influences discussed demonstrates, the...

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Gardening for Moths: A Regional Guide - Paperback

$36.95

by Jim McCormac (Author), Chelsea Gottfried (Author)This guide to moths, native plants, and their environmental roles is an indispensable resource for gardeners, conservationists, and nature enthusiasts across the midwestern United States.Gardening for Moths is the first book to show midwestern gardeners and naturalists why they should attract specific moth species to their properties and how to do it. The book's stunning color photographs and intriguing facts reveal the fascinating world of ...

Vanished Gardens: Finding Nature in Philadelphia - Paperback

$31.27

by Sharon White (Author)New to living and gardening in Philadelphia, Sharon White begins a journey through the landscape of the city, past and present, in Vanished Gardens. In prose now as precise and considered as the paths in a parterre, now as flowing and lyrical as an Olmsted vista, White explores Philadelphia's gardens as a part of the city's ecosystem and animates the lives of individual gardeners and naturalists working in the area around her home. In one section of the book, White tou...

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An Introduction to Tree-Ring Dating - Paperback

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by Marvin A. Stokes (Author), Terah L. Smiley (Author)Tree-ring dating, or dendrochronology, is the study of the chronological sequence of annual growth rings in trees. This book--a seminal study in its field--provides a simple yet eloquent introduction to the discipline, explaining what a dendrochronologist does both in the field and in the laboratory. Authors Stokes and Smiley first explain the basic principles of tree-ring dating, then describe details of the process, step by step, from t...

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The Midwestern Native Garden: Native Alternatives to Nonnative Flowers and Plants - Paperback

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by Charlotte Adelman (Author), Bernard L. Schwartz (Author)Midwestern gardeners and landscapers are becoming increasingly attracted to noninvasive regional native wildflowers and plants over popular nonnative species. The Midwestern Native Garden offers viable alternatives to both amateurs and professionals, whether they are considering adding a few native plants or intending to go native all the way. Native plants improve air and water quality, reduce use of pesticides, and provide vital foo...

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Midwestern Native Shrubs and Trees: Gardening Alternatives to Nonnative Species: An Illustrated Guide - Paperback

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by Charlotte Adelman (Author), Bernard L. Schwartz (Author)In this companion volume to the bestselling The Midwestern Native Garden: Native Alternatives to Nonnative Flowers and Plants, Charlotte Adelman and Bernard L. Schwartz offer another indispensible guide to replacing nonnative plants with native alternatives. This time, their subject is the native woody species that are the backbone of our gardens and landscapes. Among other ecological benefits, native shrubs and trees provide birds a...

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by Gail Gibbons (Author)Explore a lush garden of plant life. . . . from your bookshelf! Packed with science concepts, this picture book will tell you everything you need to know about flowers. With her signature combination of clearly-labeled diagrams, infographics, and accessible language, Gail Gibbons introduces the basics and life cycle of flowers. Sweet-smelling violets, delicate roses, vibrant tulips-- and many more-- come alive on the profusely illustrated pages. Including information o...

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The Art of Outdoor Living: Gardens for Entertaining Family and Friends - Hardcover

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by Scott Shrader (Author), Lisa Romerein (Photographer), Jean-Louis Deniot (Foreword by)For anyone who wants to live well in their garden, here is a guide to creating stylish and livable outdoor spaces--for entertaining, playing, and relaxing. Pools made private by lush plantings, bedrooms open to the back yard, bar seating by the outdoor oven. California native and exterior architect Scott Shrader is known for creating covetable outdoor rooms for clients including Ellen DeGeneres and Patrick...

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Kengo Kuma: Portland Japanese Garden - Hardcover

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by Botond Bognár (Author), Balazs Bognar (Author), Kengo Kuma (Introduction by)A detailed examination of the beautiful and sensitively realized addition to the famed Portland Japanese Garden by contemporary Japanese architect Kengo Kuma. Kengo Kuma: Portland Japanese Garden introduces the star Japanese architect's first public project in the United States. Kuma won the Portland Japanese Garden invitational competition by proposing a design that, while executed with contemporary materials and ...

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English Gardens: From the Archives of Country Life Magazine - Hardcover

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by Kathryn Bradley-Hole (Author), The Duke of Devonshire (Foreword by)This is the definitive and most authoritative book ever published on the glories of English gardening--historically and horticulturally, a tour de force. An unprecedented in-depth look at the English garden by one of Britain's foremost garden writers and authorities, this book showcases the enduring appeal of the English garden whose verdant lawns and borders of colorful plants are the inspiration for garden lovers worldwid...

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by Blanca Pons-Sorolla (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Monica Rodriguez Subirana (Text by (Art/Photo Books))Valencian master Sorolla's Impressionist paintings depict the most beautiful gardens and architecture in Spain. Like Claude Monet's celebrated plein air landscapes at Giverny, the series collected in this book represents among the best-loved examples of Joaquín Sorolla's (1863-1923) work, and a window into the Spanish painter's quest to capture the essence of a garden. Described by Monet a...

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Garden Design Master Class: 100 Lessons from the World's Finest Designers on the Art of the Garden - Hardcover

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by Carl Dellatore (Editor)The author of Interior Design Master Class brings together essays by 100 landscape architects and garden designers reflecting on universal gardening questions, illustrated with photos of each designer's work. 2020 HONORABLE MENTION FOR THE FOREWORD INDIES AWARD IN NATURE A classic in the making, Garden Design Master Class brings together 100 essays by some of the top garden designers working today, from acknowledged experts such as Nancy Goslee Power on sunlight and ...

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The Grumpy Gardener: An A to Z Guide from the Galaxy's Most Irritable Green Thumb - Hardcover

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by Steve Bender (Author), The Editors of Southern Living (Author)Definitive gardening advice - along with a story or two - for the novice or expert from one of the nation's most-trusted, and Grumpy, sources. Gardeners from across the country have turned to Southern Living Senior Garden Editor Steven Bender - known affectionately as "The Grumpy Gardener" - for his keen knowledge and gardening know-how with equal doses sarcasm and sidesplitting humor for nearly 35 years. Finally, the collected...

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by Charlotte Moss (Author), Barry Friedberg (Foreword by), Barbara L. Dixon (Contribution by)Celebrated interior designer and renowned tastemaker Charlotte Moss turns her eye to the garden as a resource for interiors, entertaining, and good living. Charlotte Moss's greatest muse is the garden, and this book shows the myriad ways the garden provides inspiration every day--indoors and outdoors. Touring readers through her own gardens, Moss offers insights on how to bring the garden into home li...

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Capability Brown: Designing the English Landscape - Hardcover

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by John Phibbs (Author), Joe Cornish (Photographer)In celebration of his 300th year, a definitive survey of Capability Brown's most famous gardens and landscapes in Britain. Widely acknowledged as the most influential landscape designer of his age, Lancelot "Capability" Brown was to England what Frederick Law Olmsted was to America--responsible for shaping the very ideal of the nation's parkland. Brown's ambition was to bring out of a landscape the best of its potential rather than impose his...

The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady - Hardcover

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by Edith Holden (Author)A charming addition to Rizzoli's carefully curated program of bringing classic books back into print. This beautifully packaged facsimile of Edith Holden's original diary is filled with a naturalist's masterful paintings and delightful observations chronicling the English countryside throughout 1906. As one of the few true records of the time in print, the handwritten thoughts and paintings contained in The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady transport readers to a more...

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Garden Wild: Wildflower Meadows, Prairie-Style Plantings, Rockeries, Ferneries, and Other Sustainable Designs Inspired by Nature - Hardcover

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by Andre Baranowski (Author), Dorothy Kalins (Foreword by)This book is a survey of 12 breathtakingly beautiful gardens by award-winning photographer Andre Baranowski, whose eye for beauty will embolden readers the world over to embrace their inner instincts and create their own garden wild. The new movement in contemporary gardening is about going back to the wilderness, creatively landscaping with native plants to enrich their environments and seamlessly merge with their natural surroundings...

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Gardens of Style: Private Hideaways of the Design World - Hardcover

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by Janelle McCulloch (Author)The inspiring private gardens of celebrated fashion and design tastemakers, and how these beautiful sanctuaries have influenced their creative work.Mother Nature has always been a grand muse, particularly in the world of fashion and design. Many fashion designers, from Christian Dior to Carolyne Roehm, have drawn on gardens and their beguiling botanicals to inspire and inform their collections. These designers and their interior design counterparts, such as Celeri...

The Edible Flower: A Modern Guide to Growing, Cooking and Eating Edible Flowers - Hardcover

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by Erin Bunting (Author), Jo Facer (Author)On a seven-acre small holding in rural Northern Ireland, organic gardener Jo Facer and head chef Erin Bunting run fork-to-fork supper club, organic small-holding and fledgling cooking and growing school, The Edible Flower. In their first cookbook, learn to grow and cook edible flowers with Jo and Erin's delicious recipes inspired by the seasonal produce they grow in their kitchen garden and the wild food they forage from their local shores and hedge...

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John Ike: 9 Houses/9 Stories: An Architect and His Vision - Hardcover

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by John Ike (Author), Mitchell Owens (Author)Featuring beautiful photographs, John Ike: 9 Houses/9 Stories explores the creativity and the craft of nine stunningly singular projects by the renowned architect. A signature shingled house in a New York suburb, a renovated mid-century modern house in San Diego, a glass-and-brick house near Seattle, a beach house on the Atlantic coast, a reimagined historic building in Brooklin, Maine--these architectural projects vary widely in style, location, ...

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The Two-Wheel Tractor Handbook: Small-Scale Equipment and Innovative Techniques for Boosting Productivity - Paperback

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by Zach Loeks (Author)Small but mighty - a comprehensive guide to the use of two-wheel tractors for gardeners, homesteaders, landscapers, and farmers More affordable than four-wheel tractors and infinitely more versatile than single- purpose power equipment such as rototillers, two-wheel tractors are an ideal solution for an astonishing array of garden, landscaping, and agricultural applications. Two-wheel tractors are multifunctional, economical, practical, maneuverable, portable, and low i...

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Ultimate Book of Step-By-Step Cooking & Gardening Projects for Kids: The Best-Ever Book for Budding Gardeners and Super Chefs with 300 Things to Grow - Paperback

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by Nancy McDougall (Author), Jenny Hendy (Author)Cook something yummy or grow something amazing - fun how-to projects to delight children everywhere. Number of Pages: 512 Dimensions: 1.3 x 8.6 x 6.6 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: August 07, 2018

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by Linda Jane Holden (Author), Roger Foley (Photographer), Peter Crane (Introduction by)Throughout her long and storied life, Rachel "Bunny" Mellon's greatest passion was garden design. She and her husband, Paul Mellon, one of the wealthiest men in America, maintained homes in New York, Cape Cod, Nantucket, Antigua, and Upperville, Virginia, and she designed the gardens at all of them. She also designed gardens for some of her dearest friends, including the Rose Garden and the East Garden at ...

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The Hidden Geometry of Flowers: Living Rhythms, Form and Number - Paperback

$55.00

by Keith Critchlow (Author), The Prince of Wales (Foreword by)Can we imagine a world without flowers? Flowers are beautiful, offering us delight in their color, fragrance and form, as well as their medicinal benefits. Flowers also speak to us in the language of the plant form itself, as cultural symbols in different societies, and at the highest levels of inspiration. In this beautiful and original book, renowned thinker and geometrist Keith Critchlow has chosen to focus on an aspect of flowe...

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Gardening When It Counts: Growing Food in Hard Times - Paperback

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by Steve Solomon (Author) Discover forgotten low-input food gardening methods for surviving uncertain times ahead. Gardening When It Counts helps readers rediscover traditional methods to produce healthy food. Back Jacket "... a magnificent synthesis of garden science, original garden research, and agricultural history. It shows us how to garden like our ancestors gardened - how to grow all our family's food with just hand labor, with just four basic hand tools, and with little or no electr...

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The Permaculture Handbook: Garden Farming for Town and Country - Paperback

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by Peter Bane (Author), David Holmgren (Foreword by) Permanent agriculture - abundance by design "The wealth of practical knowledge in The Permaculture Handbook is a welcome addition to North America's canon of books on permaculture design, and will serve other regions as well. Peter Bane's broad and well-tested experience in ecological living will guide homeowners, gardeners, and small farmers toward designing and living in lushly productive and harmonious landscapes." &horbar; Tob...

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Bioshelter Market Garden: A Permaculture Farm - Paperback

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by Darrell Frey (Author)"This well-illustrated case study . . . will help students of permaculture, of sustainability, of earth regeneration and of integrated eco-social design." --Prof. Declan Kennedy, Chairman, Advisory Board, gaiauniversity.org To ensure food security and restore the health of the planet, we need to move beyond industrial agriculture and return to the practice of small-scale, local farming. The Bioshelter Market Garden: A Permaculture Farm describes the creation of a sust...

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Aquaponic Gardening: A Step-By-Step Guide to Raising Vegetables and Fish Together - Paperback

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by Sylvia Bernstein (Editor)Dive into home aquaponics with this definitive do-it-yourself guideAquaponics is a revolutionary system for growing plants by fertilizing them with the waste water from fish in a sustainable closed system. A combination of the best of aquaculture and hydroponics, aquaponic gardening is an amazingly productive way to grow organic vegetables, greens, herbs and fruits, while providing the added benefits of fresh fish as a safe, healthy source of protein. On a larger s...

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The Intelligent Gardener: Growing Nutrient-Dense Food - Paperback

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by Steve Solomon (Author), Erica Reinheimer (With)"It is bold, it is courageous, and it challenges many of our preconceptions about food, about soils, about farming, and about health." --Michael Ableman, farmer, author of Farm the City To grow produce of the highest nutritional quality, the essential minerals lacking in our soil from intensive agriculture must be replaced. The Intelligent Gardener is the practical, step-by-step guide for any serious gardener who wants to: Demystify this pr...

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by Moreka Jolar (Author), Heidi Scheifley (Author), Andrew Weil (Foreword by)Hollyhock center chefs celebrate thirty years of exquisite meals on Canada's Cortes Island with more than two hundred sustainable, garden-fresh recipes. World renowned as an unparalleled center of learning and connection, Hollyhock exists to inspire, nourish and support people who are making the world better. At the heart of this unique institution, located on beautiful Cortes Island, is Hollyhock's spectacular orga...

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by Ehrenfried E. Pfeiffer (Author)This wonderful little book covers everything you need to know about the types of plants known as weeds. Ehrenfried Pfeiffer discusses the different varieties of weeds, how they grow and what they can tell us about soil health. The process of combatting weeds is discussed in principle as well as in practice, so that it can be applied to any situation. First written in the 1950s, this is still one of the best overviews of the subject available.Author BiographyE...