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Neil Sperry's Complete Guide to Texas Gardening - Hardcover

$59.95

by Neil Sperry (Author)#4 on Publishers Weekly's Bestselling Gardening Books list This new, completely revised edition has over 500 new photographs, 400 new illustrations, 400 new plants and trees, the latest pest control recommendations, fruit and vegetable recommendations, new tips and plants specifically for Southern Texas, plus everything in the first edition. Number of Pages: 400 Dimensions: 1.09 x 11.36 x 8.7 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: April 01, 1991

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Niwaki: Pruning, Training and Shaping Trees the Japanese Way - Hardcover

$40.00

by Jake Hobson (Author)Over the years, Japanese gardeners have fine-tuned a distinctive set of pruning techniques that coax out the essential characters of their garden trees, or niwaki. In this highly practical book, Western gardeners are encouraged to draw upon the techniques and sculpt their own garden trees to unique effect. After first discussing the principles that underpin the techniques, the author offers in-depth guidelines for shaping pines, azaleas, conifers, broadleaved evergreens...

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Dirr's Encyclopedia of Trees and Shrubs - Hardcover

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by Michael A. Dirr (Author)3500 photographs. Over 380 genera. More than 3700 species and cultivars. Dirr's Encyclopedia of Trees and Shrubs is the most comprehensive visual reference to more than 3700 species and cultivars. From majestic evergreens to delicate vines and flowering shrubs, Dirr features thousands of plants and all the essential details for identification, planting, and care. Color photographs show each tree's habit in winter, distinctive bark patterns, fall color, and more. Dir...

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Japanese Maples: The Complete Guide to Selection and Cultivation - Hardcover

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by J. D. Vertrees (Author), Peter Gregory (Author)Among the first titles published in 1978, with more than 150,000 copies in print in three editions, Japanese Maples is a Timber Press classic. Japanese maples are unlike any other tree. They boast a remarkable diversity of color, form, and texture. As a result of hundreds of years of careful breeding, they take the center stage in any garden they are found. In the last decade, the number of Japanese maple cultivars available to gardeners has d...

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by Rick Darke (Contribution by), William Robinson (Author)First published in 1870, The Wild Garden challenged the prevailing garden style of the day and advocated a naturalistic style, in which hardy plants, both native and exotic, are arranged in groupings that mimic wild landscapes. Thanks to Robinson's passionate advocacy, the naturalistic style triumphed, and Robinson's urgent message continues to resonate today. For this newly designed edition, Rick Darke has written an introductory essa...

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Succulent Container Gardens: Design Eye-Catching Displays with 350 Easy-Care Plants - Hardcover

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by Debra Lee Baldwin (Author)Define your individual style. With their colorful leaves, sculptural shapes, and simple care, succulents are beautiful yet forgiving plants for pots. If grown in containers, these dry-climate jewels--which include but are not limited to cacti--can be brought indoors in winter and so can thrive anywhere in the world. In this inspiring compendium, the popular author of Designing with Succulents provides everything beginners and experienced gardeners need to know t...

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Garden Way's Joy of Gardening - Paperback

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by Dick Raymond (Author)Full of useful tips and practical garden wisdom, this straightforward guide shows you everything you need to know to grow a more bountiful harvest with less work. Stressing the utility of raised beds and wide rows, gardening expert Dick Raymond shares his time-tested techniques for preparing the soil, starting plants, and controlling weeds. With helpful photographs, clear charts, and profiles of reliable garden vegetables, Joy of Gardening will inspire you to grow your...

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Secrets of Plant Propagation: Starting Your Own Flowers, Vegetables, Fruits, Berries, Shrubs, Trees, and Houseplants - Paperback

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by Lewis Hill (Author)Plant propagation is a fun, rewarding, and economical way to add shrubs to your yard or multiply your collection of houseplants. With step-by-step instructions for a variety of proven techniques, this comprehensive guide covers everything you need to know to successfully start your own plants. From raising the best tomatoes to growing your own Christmas trees, veteran nurseryman Lewis Hill helps you successfully reach your propagation goals while steering you clear of co...

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Saving Seeds: The Gardener's Guide to Growing and Saving Vegetable and Flower Seeds - Paperback

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by Marc Rogers (Author)Enjoy a delicious bounty of heirloom vegetables every year. Marc Rogers guides you through the time-honored and cost-effective tradition of collecting seeds from this year's harvest to grow next year's crop. Learn how to select and store seeds from proven varieties of more than 100 common vegetables and flowers. Through saving seeds and growing heirloom plants you'll not only have a thriving garden every summer, you'll be saving money and preserving local flavors at the...

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Granite Kiss: Traditions and Techniques of Building New England Stone Walls - Paperback

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by Kevin Gardner (Author)In this elegant, literate primer, a master stonemason imparts the fundamentals of building traditional New England-style dry stone walls, along with thoughts on the history, aesthetics, and philosophy of the craft of placing stone. In this eminently readable primer on the fundamentals of placing stone, Kevin Gardner distills 25 years of experience in building and repairing New England-style dry stone walls into principles and practices that are adaptable to a wide var...

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by Terry Pierce (Author), Carol Schwartz (Illustrator)So begins this lyrical tribute to the bugs, bees, and birds that make the garden such a busy place. With each turned page, more visitors appear, and all the while the "surprise"--a chrysalis--changes unnoticed until, on the last page, a butterfly emerges and flies away across the garden's well-tended borders. Back-of-book notes about the natural histories of the garden's denizens complete this lovely and lively portrait of backyard nature,...

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by Michael Garland (Author)Snowdrops and crocuses yield to tulips and hyacinths, then dogwood blossoms, iris, lupine, daisies, morning glories, daylilies, geraniums, peonies, sunflowers, roses, and chrysanthemums as spring passes to summer, then autumn. At last the garden slumbers into winter under a blanket of snow, preparing next year's procession of blooms. Like actors crossing a stage, flowers narrate the passing seasons in the first person, each one briefly proclaiming its unique and vit...

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Women Who Dig: Farming, Feminism, and the Fight to Feed the World - Paperback

$27.95

by Trina Moyles (Author), Kj Dakin (Photographer)Weaving together the narratives of female farmers from across three continents, Women Who Dig offers a critical look at how women are responding to and, increasingly, rising up against, the injustices of the global food system Beautifully written with spectacular photos, it examines gender roles, access to land, domestic violence, maternal health, political and economic marginalization, and a rapidly changing climate. It also shows the power of...

The Herbal Medicine-Maker's Handbook: A Home Manual [An Herbalism Book] - Paperback

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by James Green (Author), Ajana Green (Illustrator)A comprehensive, entertaining collection of natural and holistic home remedies for restoring gut health, lowering blood pressure, combatting anxiety, and more, from the renowned herbalist and bestselling author of The Male Herbal "This witty, wise, wonderful, warm, well-written book will turn you into an herbal medicine maker, and it may also revolutionize your ideas of health care as well."--Susun S. Weed, founder of the Wise Woman Center Her...

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Planting the Future: Saving Our Medicinal Herbs - Paperback

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by Rosemary Gladstar (Editor), Pamela Hirsch (Editor)Voted one of the Top 10 books in 2000 by the Vermont Book Publishers Association. A collective endeavor by United Plant Savers, featuring America's most respected and well-known herbalists. Contributors include Don Babineau, Tim Blakley, Mark Blumenthal, Jane Bothwell, Stephen Harrod Buhner, David Bunting, Richo Cech, Tane Datta, Shatoiya and Rick de la Tour, Ryan Drum, Doug Elliott, Steven Foster, Cascade Anderson Geller, Kate Gilday, Rose...

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Herbs: Partners in Life: Healing, Gardening, and Cooking with Wild Plants - Paperback

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by Adele G. Dawson (Author)Adele Dawson's classic guide to the seasonal use of herbs for food, drink, and medicine. - Clear directions for growing and using many wild and cultivated herbs. - Detailed pen-and-ink drawings help readers identify 70 herbs. With irresistible enthusiasm and an endless store of knowledge about the plant kingdom, herbalist Adele Dawson traces the human-plant relationship through the seasons, providing practical and enlightening information about every aspect of herba...

Firescaping: Protecting Your Home with a Fire-Resistant Landscape - Paperback

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by Douglas Kent (Author)This practical guide presents simple strategies for reducing the fire hazard of one's property, including how to minimize the chances that a home will be damaged by wildfire.Author BiographyDouglas Kent began work on Firescaping in 1992. He lived 25 miles northwest of the Tunnel Fire, which had devoured 25 lives and 2,900 homes in the Berkeley/Oakland Hills area of California. Both frightened and inspired, Kent began to compile a guide that would help prevent others fr...

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Marijuana Buds for Less: Grow 8 Oz. of Bud for Less Than $100 - Paperback

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by Seemorebuds (Author)This handy, simple guide walks the novice -- or budget-minded -- gardener through the entire process of cultivating marijuana. Unlike most such books that feature costly high-tech equipment, this one emphasizes household fluorescent bulbs and other inexpensive, easily available supplies. Marijuana Buds for Less is organized around a boldly photographed day-to-day planner, with each page a day in the life of the garden. Growers have a visual reference of their plant's pr...

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Seven Herbs: Plants as Teachers - Paperback

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by Matthew Wood (Author)This book provides a skilled and knowledgeable exploration into to the uses of 7 herbs by a master herbalist. This book would be useful to students and practioners of herbalism, homeopathy, and flower essences, as the information can be utilized across these disciplines. The book clearly explains when and how to use these remedies and gives ample case studies from author's personal experience that further assist the reader in forming a clear picture of the signature of...

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by Clare Leighton (Author), Carol Klein (Introduction by)'Phrases and images fill you with delight... This is the most honest writing I've ever read' Carol Klein.Author BiographyClare Leighton (1898-1989) was an English American writer and artist who was best known for her wood engravings. Number of Pages: 256 Dimensions: 0.7 x 8.4 x 6.1 IN Publication Date: December 31, 2010

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Create an Oasis with Greywater - Paperback

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by Art Ludwig (Author)This twentieth-anniversary edition of the world's best-selling greywater book features a dozen more pages, complete information on the "laundry to landscape" system, new color plates, extensive revisions to every page, and dozens of new photos and figures. Topics include complete instructions for simple to more complex installations, how to deal with freezing, flooding, drought, failing septic tanks, low perk soil, and conditions in non-industrialized regions; coordinat...

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Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 2, 2nd Edition: Water-Harvesting Earthworks - Paperback

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by Brad Lancaster (Author), Andy Lipkis (Foreword by)2020 independent Press Award Winner--Green Book Category Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 2 is a how-to guide enabling you to "plant the rain" by creating water-harvesting "earthworks" or "rain gardens." Earthworks are simple, inexpensive strategies and landforms that passively harvest multiple sources of free on-site water including rainfall, stormwater runoff, air conditioning condensate, and greywater within "living t...

Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 1, 3rd Edition: Guiding Principles to Welcome Rain Into Your Life and Landscape - Paperback

$39.95

by Brad Lancaster (Author)2020 Independent Press Award Winner--Home & Garden Category Turn water scarcity into water abundance Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 1, 3rd Edition is the best-selling, award-winning guide on how to conceptualize, design, and implement life-enhancing water-, sun-, wind-, and shade-harvesting systems for your home, landscape, and community. This book enables you to assess your on-site resources, gives you a diverse array of strategies to maxi...

Good Weed Bad Weed: Who's Who, What to Do, and Why Some Deserve a Second Chance (All You Need to Know about the Weeds in Your Yard) - Spiral

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by Nancy Gift (Author)Good Weed Bad Weed is a friendly, authoritative, easy-to-use guide to the uninvited plants in our yard: who they are, how to control them safely - and why it's a good idea to love some of them just the way they are (including a chart for how best to let our labor-intensive lawns "go native"). Weed expert Nancy Gift considers 50 of the most interesting and noteworthy weeds in our lives, with generous helpings of full-color photos, humor and some tasty weed recipes. Presen...

A Gardener's Notebook: Life with My Garden - Hardcover

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by Doug Oster (Author), Jessica Walliser (Author) Updated and revised from the original 2008 A Gardener's Journal (2593 sold), A Gardener's Notebook appears with a new cover and interior design, while keeping the original's organic gardening tips, short essays, seed planting schedule, "Compost 101," and grid pages for garden planning. This is a friendly, visually welcoming gift book by the authors of Grow Organic as co-authors], Good Bug Bad Bug Jessica's], and Tomatoes, Garlic Basil Doug'...

Good Bug Bad Bug: Who's Who, What They Do, and How to Manage Them Organically (All You Need to Know about the Insects in Your Garden) - Spiral

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by Jessica Walliser (Author)Good Bug Bad Bug, updated 2nd edition, is an indispensable field guide for quickly and easily identifying the most common invasive and beneficial insects in the garden; plus the best organic advice on how to attract the good guys and manage the bad guys - without reaching for the toxic chemicals. Includes strategies for dealing with the "new bugs in town," those worrisome strangers that are starting to show up due to climate change (and some that have just flown in...

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by Cheryl Wilfong (Author)Why compost? And how do you actually get some compost? Then what do you do with it? This humorous collection of short essays talks about the ins and out of compost. Number of Pages: 134 Dimensions: 0.31 x 7.99 x 5 IN Publication Date: April 15, 2015

A Farmer's Love: Living Biodynamics and the Meaning of Community - Paperback

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by Walter Moora (Author)A Farmer's Love is the story of the author's spiritual journey and how his relationship to the Earth evolved from an experience of basic utility to an experience of abiding love.Farmers seldom bare their souls in books, but Walter Moora struggled and wrestled the words in this book from his heart. He offers more than specific descriptions of farming; he tells his life story as a biodynamic farmer and how he learned the lessons of creating healthy ecosystems on the farm...

No Nonsense Vegetable Gardening - Paperback

$19.95

by Donna Balzer (Author), Steven Biggs (Author)NO NONSENSE VEGETABLE GARDENING is an exuberant, design-driven garden gift book with useful, easy-to-digest information on every page. Simple, no-nonsense garden advice cuts through complexities and misinformation. The text is arranged around the whimsical Peter Rabbit-style illustrations and graphics of Mariko McCrae, and full-color photographs. The easy-access charts and he-says, she-says dialogue boxes take the science of gardening and put it ...

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by James Ells Ph. D. (Author) * More than 100 new wildflowers and plants were added to this second edition * Complete, concise, and easy to use with a new design * Authoritative authorship that sets a new standard for flora field guides Most wildflower enthusiasts have several or more books on wildflowers in their libraries, but if you can only have one wildflower book in your pack, make it Rocky Mountain Flora. Wildflower identification is a difficult endeavor. A common name in one region ...

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The Steel City Garden: Creating a One-Of-A-Kind Garden in Black and Gold - Hardcover

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by Doug Oster (Author)Pittsburgh fans are now adding a cheering section to their garden, with black and gold combinations of flowers, plants and yard decor. This fun book is a how-to guide for dressing your garden in Pittsburgh colors. Doug Oster, one of Pittsburgh's best-known garden experts, presents familiar as well as unique plants, like yellow carrots, black radishes, black roses and buttercup shrubs. And he shows how to bring black and gold to the garden with pots, furniture and special...