Gardening & Horticulture

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The Wild Bee Handbook: The Amazing Lives of Our Wild Species and How to Help Them Thrive - Hardcover

$24.99

by Sarah Wyndham-Lewis (Author)There are over 20,000 species of bee worldwide, of which just seven species are honeybees. In the US alone, there are over 4,000 species of bee, whereas Europe only have nearly 2,000 bee species and the UK has 275. The Wild Bee Handbook is a practical, illustrated guide that will introduce you to the common wild bees you might find in your garden. Through a handy directory, learn how vital wild bees are to the ecosystem and discover how we can garden to offer th...

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Flowerpot Forager: An Easy Guide to Growing Wild Food at Home - Hardcover

$20.99

by Stuart Ovenden (Author)The Flowerpot Forager is a beginners' guide to growing wild food in pots, making foraging easy. The Flowerpot Forager details 30 wild edible plants that can be grown at home in containers with as much effort as you'd put into your tending your herb pot from the supermarket, plus a very simple recipe or two on how to use them--think pink clover lemonade, water mint pesto and dandelion salad. Foraging is a perennially aspirational hobby for gardeners and cooks alike, b...

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Rhs You Will Be Able to Garden by the End of This Book - Hardcover

$24.99

by Simon Akeroyd (Author)A foolproof step-by-step beginner's guide to gardening, backed by the authority of the RHS The title might sound like a bold statement, but you really will be able to garden by the end of this book. Whether you are a budding botanist or just aspire to have greener fingers, this book will hold your 'horticultural hand' and guide you gently through the principles of gardening. Whether you have a tiny courtyard or something a bit bigger, this book will share everything ...

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The Inspired Houseplant: Transform Your Home with Indoor Plants from Kokedama to Terrariums and Water Gardens to Edibles - Paperback

$22.95

by Jen Stearns (Author) Now in paperback--the ultimate go-to guide for aspiring indoor gardeners offers inspiration to envision and instructions to create your own gorgeous in-home garden spaces. Perfect for beginners or anyone looking for DIY plant inspiration, this gorgeous guide will inspire you to beautify your home with greenery. Here, you'll discover: - Plant Basics: beginner-friendly plant care info, including potting, watering, pruning, and feeding- Plant Guide: profiles of popular...

The Kitchen Garden: Sowing, Growing and Cooking for the Garden Enthusiast - Hardcover

$34.95

by Lucy Mora (Author)Focusing on plants destined for the dinner plate, The Kitchen Garden is an illustrated guide to growing edible plants from sowing to harvesting. Learn when to sow, what to grow, and how to make your delicious harvest intoa meal.The book features fifty-five plant profiles ranging from the everydayto the unique. Each profile is illustrated and has an easy-to-comprehend table detailing the most important information: when to sow and harvest; growing time; space needed betwee...

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The Veganic Grower's Handbook: Cultivating Fruits, Vegetables and Herbs from Urban Backyard to Rural Farmyard - Paperback

$29.95

by Jimmy Videle (Author)The Veganic Grower's Handbook is a comprehensive guide that provides the tools, techniques, and insight into food cultivation from seeding to harvest, while wisely considering the totality of Earth's inhabitants. The Veganic Grower's Handbook seeks to give the new, amateur, and professional gardening enthusiast all the tools and techniques to be successful in vegan-organic methods. Mirroring the gardening year, this manual delineates garden planning to seed-starting in...

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Dig In!: 12 Easy Gardening Projects Using Kitchen Scraps - Paperback

$17.53

by Kari Cornell (Author), Jennifer S. Larson (Photographer)Grow your own fruits and vegetables from nothing but kitchen scraps! Rather than throwing away leftovers from food in your kitchen, you can use them to grow more. Learn how to turn a single sweet potato into a pot full of them. Grow a salad from the end bit of lettuce and a lemon tree from a single seed. Several of these projects require nothing more than a jar, a windowsill, and a few pieces of food that would otherwise end up in the...

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New York Green: Discovering the City's Most Treasured Parks and Gardens - Hardcover

$30.00

by Ngoc Minh Ngo (Author)This beautifully photographed guidebook celebrates New York City's most exceptional--and often overlooked--parks and gardens, all open to the public! New York City is filled to the brim with beautiful, unique green spaces--if you know where to look. From the Church of St. Luke in the Fields in the West Village to the Brooklyn Grange rooftop farm in the Navy Yard, the Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum in Queens to New York's Chinese Scholar's Garden in Staten...

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Grow Great Vegetables Michigan - Paperback

$19.99

by Bevin Cohen (Editor)Get the inside dirt, Michigan! The ultimate guide to growing food in the Great Lakes State! This must-have guide to growing vegetables, fruits, and herbs provides you with insider advice on climate zones, average frost dates, and growing season details. Information includes details on sun, soil, fertilizer, mulch, water, and the best varieties for your region. A garden planning section helps with design and crop rotation, and monthly lists explain what to do from Janua...

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Grow Great Vegetables Illinois - Paperback

$19.99

by Bevin Cohen (Editor)Get the inside dirt, Illinois! Grow Great Vegetables Illinois is the ultimate guide to growing food in the Prairie State! This must-have guide to growing vegetables, fruits, and herbs provides you with insider advice on climate zones, average frost dates, and growing season details. Information includes details on sun, soil, fertilizer, mulch, water, and the best varieties for your region. A garden planning section helps with design and crop rotation, and monthly lists ...

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Grow Great Vegetables Minnesota and Wisconsin - Paperback

$19.99

by Bevin Cohen (Editor)Get the inside dirt, Minnesota and Wisconsin! The ultimate guide to growing food in the North Star and Badger states! This must-have guide to growing vegetables, fruits, and herbs provides you with insider advice on climate zones, average frost dates, and growing season details. Information includes details on sun, soil, fertilizer, mulch, water, and the best varieties for your region. A garden planning section helps with design and crop rotation, and monthly lists exp...

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Grow Great Vegetables Indiana - Paperback

$19.99

by Bevin Cohen (Editor)Get the inside dirt, Indiana! The ultimate guide to growing food in the Hoosier State! This must-have guide to growing vegetables, fruits, and herbs provides you with insider advice on climate zones, average frost dates, and growing season details. Information includes details on sun, soil, fertilizer, mulch, water, and the best varieties for your region. A garden planning section helps with design and crop rotation, and monthly lists explain what to do from January th...

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by Bevin Cohen (Editor)Get the inside dirt, Ohio! The ultimate guide to growing food in the Buckeye State! This must-have guide to growing vegetables, fruits, and herbs provides you with insider advice on climate zones, average frost dates, and growing season details. Information includes details on sun, soil, fertilizer, mulch, water, and the best varieties for your region. A garden planning section helps with design and crop rotation, and monthly lists explain what to do from January throu...

Yates Top 50 Fragrant Plants and How Not to Kill Them! - Paperback

$24.99

by Angie Thomas (Author), Yates (Author)How to enjoy thriving fragrant plants in your garden, on your balcony or in your courtyard. Smell the roses! Savour the lavender!Sweet, rich orange blossom; heady, aromatic daphne; sharp, refreshing mint; or subtle, alluring roses - nature's perfumes are a wonder. They tantalise the senses, mark the seasons and evoke memories of people, places and occasions.Fragrant plants - from lovely flowers, vines and herbs to showy shrubs and trees - offer some of ...

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Private Gardens of the Potomac and Chesapeake: Washington, DC, Maryland, Northern Virginia - Hardcover

$34.99

by Claudia Kousoulas (Author)The first-ever survey of private gardens in the Washington, DC, Metro Area and the Eastern Shore, this fascinating tour of 15 gardens by well-known landscape designers illuminates the sophisticated yet inviting landscape style of the Capital region. From urban rooftops and terraces to suburban settings and sprawling country estates, the designers share advice on how to blend existing trees into a plan incorporate regional vernacular capture and extend the natura...

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Amish Gardens of Lancaster County: Kitchen Gardens and Family Recipes - Hardcover

$34.99

by Beth Oberholtzer (Author), Don Shenk (Photographer)There are many garden books, but none that focus on the unique art of Amish gardens. Told from the point of view of the women who plan and tend them, it offers insight into their unusual designs that combine vegetables, fruit, herbs, and colorful flowers, and what this artistic outlet means to them. Color photographs of more than 18 gardens beautifully capture that trademark mix of orderliness and ornamentation: marigolds tucked among the ...

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Up the Garden Path: A Witty Take on Gardening from the Legendary Cartoonist - Paperback

$9.95

by Norman Thelwell (Author)Up the Garden Path brings together a glorious collection of Thelwell's gardening cartoons. This humorous cartoon guide covers all aspects of gardening, from how to make a hole in the frozen fish pond to how to get your mower out of the shed, and includes a calendar of essential work throughout the year.Author BiographyNorman Thelwell contributed more than 1,600 cartoons to Punch magazine, the Sunday Express and Tatler. Thelwell's cartoons remain a popular and wry lo...

Get Guerrilla Gardening: A Handbook for Planting in Public Places - Hardcover

$24.99

by Ellen Miles (Author)Your guide to becoming a green-fingered vigilante - transforming your neighbourhood's neglected corners into bright pockets of plant life.Guerrilla gardening is the global movement of people planting in public places. From scattering wildflower seeds onto road verges to building community allotments on vacant lots, these peaceful acts of rebellion are where flower power meets people power. With no prior knowledge of gardening or activism needed, this 360 handbook conta...

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The Biodiversity Gardener: Establishing a Legacy for the Natural World - Hardcover

$29.95

by Paul Sterry (Author)A personal account of--and guide to--unlocking the wildlife potential of gardens and other plots of land in lowland Britain Over the past decade, wildlife author and photographer Paul Sterry has nurtured, both through action and by doing nothing, what has become a small island of flourishing biodiversity in the half-acre garden that surrounds his north Hampshire cottage. By giving nature a free hand, and fostering habitats appropriate to this part of southeast England, ...

Tobacco Plant Varieties for Home Growers - Paperback

$58.36

by Robert C. a. Goff (Author)This volume presents the reader with 275 named varieties of tobacco, along with photos and descriptions. It represents less than 10% of the named tobacco varieties. But 275 is a lot to choose from. Included in these pages are available representatives of each of the USDA market classes of Nicotiana tabacum: flue-cured, burley, Maryland, cigar wrapper, cigar binder, cigar filler, dark air-cured, dark fire-cured, Hungarian, Oriental and primitives. It also includes ...

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Weed: The User's Guide: A 21st Century Handbook for Enjoying Cannabis - Paperback

$17.95

by David Schmader (Author), Alex DeSpain (Illustrator)Now in paperback - a witty and well-researched illustrated beginner's guide to the world of weed, from cannabis connoisseur David Schmader. "This fun and insightful book is the perfect owner's manual."--Rick Steves This definitive handbook on decriminalized recreational marijuana educates and entertains novice and experienced users alike. Complete with history, ways to enjoy, recipes, safety and legality tips, and medical-use information,...

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by Lorenzo Langstroth (Author)First published in 1853, The Hive and the Honey-Bee remains the definitive authority for managing hives for honey production, pollination or queen rearing. One of the first books about modern bee management, Langstroth's study is an invaluable resource and essential reading for honey farmers and apiarists. Number of Pages: 298 Dimensions: 0.67 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: July 23, 2016

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by Erin Alladin (Author), Andrea Blinick (Illustrator)Now in paperback! A lyrical nonfiction celebration of theoutdoors pairing childlike observation with facts about the natural world Number of Pages: 32 Dimensions: 0.4 x 8.9 x 9.9 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: March 14, 2023

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Let Them Eat Dirt: Homemade Baby Food to Nourish Your Family - Paperback

$23.99

by Andrea Bemis (Author)Recipes Your Babies Will Love, Made with Ingredients You Trust Take charge of your children's health with these delicious, nutrient-dense recipes designed to nourish your little ones. Sorted by the ages and stages of early childhood, these 60 incredible recipes from Andrea Bemis--organic farmer, mother and creator of the popular blog Dishing Up the Dirt--will help you navigate which foods are safe to feed your kids and master the tricky business of introducing solids ...

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The Herb Book: The Stories, Science, and History of Herbs - Hardcover

$40.00

by DK (Author)Immerse yourself in stories and pictures of these useful plants, from herb gardens to remote wildernesses. Herbs have been used by humans throughout history - for cooking, medicine, rituals, and more. They are also a huge part of the modern world, from gardening, food, and cosmetics to medicines fighting diseases such as malaria. With vibrant illustrations and expert knowledge, The Herb Book takes a close-up look at a wide range of herbs from around the world, showcasing their b...

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Biological Pest Control: Using Natural Predators in the Garden - Paperback

$24.99

by Julian Ives (Author)Biological pest control provides a natural, safe and sustainable way to control insect pests. Increasingly recognized by professional and hobby growers alike, it's fast becoming the best solution for insect pest control in the garden. A Gardener's Guide to Biological Pest Control applies the latest practices from professional horticulture and botanical gardens to all garden settings, including greenhouses, vegetable plots, lawns and borders. It guides the gardener from ...

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The Little Guide to Wildflowers - Hardcover

$14.99

by Alison Davies (Author), Tom Frost (Illustrator)Discover the intriguing world of wildflowers with this handy pocket guide. Beautifully illustrated throughout, The Little Guide to Wildflowers offers a fresh perspective on identifying the flowers around you. Featuring 40 of the most beautiful flowers from around the world, including the common wildflowers we know and love, as well as the rare and interesting. Each flower has been delicately illustrated by printmaker Tom Frost to capture its i...

$66.17

by Clarence R. Wharton (Author)Clarence R. Wharton (1873-1941) spent his adult life practicing law in Houston. Legal work made him a prosperous man, which allowed him to indulge in collecting rare volumes of Texas history, and writing works which have become rare. Like this one. His History of the Republic of Texas was published in 1922 and has been almost entirely forgotten. That's a real shame, because Judge Wharton tells the story of the Republic better than anyone. His history reads like...

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by Jessie Oleson Moore (Author)There's nothing we love more than our plants, those steadfast companions that fill our lives with joy and light. Whether you're a newbie or seasoned plant parent, these three miniature beginner-friendly guides contain essential information and tips for taking care of your houseplants. 3 Mini Hardcover Books: Box is 2-7/8 x 3-1/4 inches and includes 3 mini books in the set: Indoor Plants (a practical guide to 100 indoor plants), Outdoor Plants (a practical guide...

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The Kew Gardener's Guide to Growing Cacti and Succulents: The Art and Science to Grow with Confidence - Hardcover

$22.00

by Royal Botanic Gardens Kew (Author), Paul Rees (Author)This inspirational book from Kew Gardens' cacti and succulents expert is the perfect guide to growing and maintaining a wide variety of these fascinating plants. Indoors or outside, in the smallest spaces or as features in large gardens, succulents and cacti are popular in homes and gardens all across the world, regardless of climate. They're resilient, beautiful and easy to care for as long as you're armed with the right knowledge. P...

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by Carole Crimeen (Author), Suzanne Fletcher (Author)Watch a little tree grow! This simple informational text describes how a little seedling grows into a tree, given the right conditions--soil, sun and water. Number of Pages: 16 Dimensions: 0.32 x 5.91 x 8.03 IN Publication Date: January 01, 2023

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Plants Love Compost: Book 18 - Paperback

$10.78

by Carole Crimeen (Author), Suzanne Fletcher (Author)This simple informational text highlights how household food scraps can be recycled to make compost. Bright photos illustrate the types of things that can and cannot be composted and encourages all households to recycle. Number of Pages: 16 Dimensions: 0.32 x 5.91 x 8.03 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: January 01, 2023