Gardening & Horticulture

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Tree and Shrub Gardening for Minnesota and Wisconsin - Paperback

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by Don Engebretson (Author), Don Williamson (Author)With this beautiful book at your fingertips, you can select, plant and care for the trees and shrubs that suit the conditions present in your garden: * Detailed listings for 75 different species of trees and shrubs, along with information on more than 850 recommended varieties and cultivars best suited for Minnesota and Wisconsin gardens * Size, shape and growing zone * Notes on the best features of each species or variety * What tree or shr...

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by Debra Knapke (Author), Alison Beck (Author)A great new gardening book for Ohio This handy omnibus guide by Ohio's Garden Sage Debra Knapke and veteran garden writer Alison Beck is packed with over 300 of the best plant varieties you'll want for your garden: annuals, perennials, trees, shrubs, vines, climbers, roses, bulbs and herbs. Small enough to take to the garden center or nursery yet filled with beautiful color photos, it contains all the gardening information you need in order to de...

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by Ilene Sternberg (Author), Alison Beck (Author)Perennial gardening can be easy, fun and rewarding, especially when you have this beautifully illustrated guide at your fingertips. With detailed accounts of 89 different perennials, along with information on 621 recommended varieties and cultivars perfect for Pennsylvania gardens, this book takes the guesswork out of perennial gardening. The authors' practical, commonsense advice will help bring color and variety to your garden: * Flower and f...

Best Garden Plants for Michigan - Paperback

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by Tim Wood (Author), Alison Beck (Author)Be sure to have this handy little guide with you on your next trip to the garden center. It features those varieties of annuals, perennials, trees, shrubs, vines, climbers, roses, bulbs and herbs best-suited to Michigan growing conditions. Plant information is complemented by over 300 beautiful full-color photographs.Author BiographyAlison Beck is one of Canada's bestselling garden writers. She has written or co-authored more than 30 gardening guides,...

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Best Garden Plants for Washington and Oregon - Paperback

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by Marianne Binetti (Author), Don Williamson (Author)A great new gardening book for the Northwest This handy omnibus guide by popular gardening personality Marianne Binetti is packed with the best plant varieties you'll want for your garden: annuals, perennials, trees, shrubs, vines, climbers, roses, bulbs and herbs. Small enough to take to the garden center or nursery yet filled with beautiful photos, it contains all the gardening information you need in order to decide which varieties to s...

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by Glyn Church (Author) Hydrangeas have so many winning attributes, it's hard to imagine an easier group of plants to grow, or any other flowering shrubs capable of providing vibrant color for so long a season -from the Introduction The large number of hydrangea cultivars developed in recent years has done much to increase their popularity across North America. Gardeners in colder regions, who could not grow these brilliant bloomers, now have many choices available. Today there are new super...

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Best Garden Plants for Pennsylvania - Paperback

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by Ilene Sternberg (Author), Alison Beck (Author)A handy little guide that will fit easily in your backpack on your next trek to the garden center. Over 1609 accounts feature the best plant varieties for Pennsylvania growing conditions in nine different categories: annuals, perennials, trees, shrubs, vines, climbers, roses, bulbs and herbs. Over 300 beautiful full-color photographs complement handy tips on what each plant needs to grow well.Author BiographyAlison Beck is one of Canada's bests...

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Growing Trees from Seed: A Practical Guide to Growing Native Trees, Vines and Shrubs - Hardcover

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by Henry Kock (Author), Paul Aird (Author), John Ambrose (Author) Native trees grow much faster than non-native trees. But even experienced horticulturists can be mystified about how nature sows and germinates seeds especially acorns and walnuts. Thanks to this book, any gardener can now grow trees from seeds within as little as ten years. The secrets are to know what seeds to collect and how to prepare and plant them. From their extensive knowledge, the authors guide the reader in identifyi...

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A Year on the Garden Path: A 52-Week Organic Gardening Guide - Paperback

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by Carolyn Herriot (Author)Full of seasonally relevant, practical information, this bestselling weekly gardening guide can be picked up any day of the year for timely advice on how to create a beautiful, healthy ornamental landscape and food garden. Full of helpful tips and recipes, this highly illustrated book covers everything from soil building to pruning to four-season food growing and seed saving, interspersed with recipes, poetry and humour.Organic gardening expert Carolyn Herriot digs ...

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Sow Simple: 100+ Green and Easy Projects to Make Your Garden Awesome - Paperback

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by Christina Symons (Author), John Gillespie (Author)Plants thrive thanks to back-sparing and thrifty techniques for propagation, fertilization and transplanting, plus tips on beneficial fungi and bugs, magical mulches, edible weeds, water-wise wildflowers and native plants. Design-wise, make a spectacular entrance with a living gate, or see how easy it is to create a vertical or rooftop garden, a whimsical water garden or a stone courtyard. Home-crafted concrete troughs stuffed with succulen...

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Edible Landscaping: Urban Food Gardens That Look Great - Paperback

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by Senga Lindsay (Author)While interest in sustainable food practices is spreading, for urban dwellers who don't have much space or suburbanites who aren't ready to rip out the front lawn and replace it with hills of potatoes, growing any significant amount of food can seem like an impossible endeavour. But it doesn't have to be Edible Landscaping demonstrates just how simple it can be to grow a stash of tasty vegetables, fruits and herbs while creating a beautiful green space. Whether one's...

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Greenhouse Gardener's Companion, Revised and Expanded Edition: Growing Food & Flowers in Your Greenhouse or Sunspace - Paperback

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by Shane Smith (Author), Majorie Leggitt (Illustrator)The most comprehensive book on greenhouse gardening available today. Today, greenhouses and sunrooms are real living spaces where gardeners spend as much time with a book and a cup of coffee as they do with a watering can and a pair of pruning shears. In this fully revised edition of a best-selling classic, veteran gardener Shane Smith embraces this new lifestyle approach to greenhouse gardening. Through lively writing that balances wit wi...

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Grow What You Eat, Eat What You Grow: The Green Mana's Guide to Living & Eating Sustainably All Year Round - Paperback

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by Randy Shore (Author)Randy Shore's father and grandfather grew up on farms, yet he didn't even know how to grow a radish. Author of The Green Man column in the Vancouver Sun, he spent five years teaching himself how to grow food for his family and then how to use the resulting bounty to create imaginative and nourishing meals the year round. In Grow What You Eat, Eat What You Grow, Randy reveals the secrets to creating and maintaining a fully functioning vegetable garden, from how to make y...

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City Farmer: Adventures in Urban Food Growing - Paperback

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by Lorraine Johnson (Author)City Farmer celebrates the new ways that urban dwellers across North America are reimagining cities as places of food production. From homeowners planting their front yards with vegetables to guerilla gardeners scattering seeds in neglected urban corners, gardening guru Lorraine Johnson chronicles the increasing popularity of innovative urban food growing. Author BiographyLorraine Johnson is the author of eight previous books, including Grow Wild!, 100 Easy-to-Grow...

The Complete Book of Bonsai: A Practical Guide to Its Art and Cultivation - Hardcover

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by Harry Tomlinson (Author), Elvin McDonald (Foreword by)CLASSIC STYLES EXPLAINED The origins and development of bonsai are traced, and the underlying principles of this fascinating art clearly explained. The classic styles are listed and illustrated, together with full descriptions of how they were derived from models in the world. Outstanding examples of plantings in all of the various styles are shown. The types of containers are detailed, and the importance of their use for different tree...

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Secret Teachings in the Art of Japanese Gardens: Design Principles, Aesthetic Values - Paperback

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by David A. Slawson (Author)The art of the Japanese garden is a 1,500-year-old landscape design tradition that is still evolving, still instructive. Secret Teachings in the Art of Japanese Gardens explains the fundamental principles of this tradition and describes how those principles may be applied to a much wider range of environments than exists in Japan. In the first section the author draws on his own experience as an apprentice to a master gardener in Kyoto, as well as his considerable ...

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Hechizos Y Conjuros: Recetas Para El Amor, La Prosperidad Y La Protección = Charms, Spells, and Formulas - Paperback

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by Ray T. Malbrough (Author)Contrarreste los efectos del "mal de ojo", limpie su nueva vivienda de energías negativas, incremente su poder de seducción, interprete sus sueños proféticos. Obtenga todo lo que desea a través de Hechizos y Conjuros. Por medio de velas, hierbas o cualquier cosa que tenga a la mano, aprenderá la práctica de la magia folklórica basada en viejas tradiciones europeas y africanas. English Translation: Counteract the effects of the "evil eye," cleanse your new home of ...

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Create Your Own Japanese Garden: A Practical Guide - Hardcover

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by Motomi Oguchi (Author), Joseph Cali (Author)In this book, renowned garden designer Motomi Oguchi offers the reader a step-by-step, practical approach to creating Japanese gardens, drawn from a wealth of experience that covers thirty years and encompasses the design of more than 400 gardens. The author uses real examples from gardens he has designed, constructed, and photographed to illustrate his key points, approaching each work from the perspective of the home or building owner. Oguchi b...

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Cass Turnbull's Guide to Pruning: What, When, Where & How to Prune for a More Beautiful Garden - Paperback

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by Cass Turnbull (Author)The gardening world's favorite expert on pruning offers tips and tricks on how to prune your trees, shrubs, and other plants so they grow to be healthy and beautiful. Covering 160 plants with clear instructions and illustrations, Cass Turnbull will show you exactly how to prune any plant in your garden. This third edition of Cass Turnbull's Guide to Pruning covers more than twenty additional plants in three new chapters. The result is the new definitive guide for the...

Herbs and the Earth: An Evocative Excursion Into the Lore & Legend of Our Common Herbs - Paperback

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by Henry Beston (Author), Roger B. Swain (Introduction by)Lavender, basil, hyssop, balm, sage, rue -- the thinking gardener's guide to herbs. Writer/naturalist Henry Beston, a founding father of the environmental movement, believed that a strong connection to nature is essential. "It is only when we are aware of the earth and of the earth as poetry that we truly live," Beston says in his now-classic Herbs and the Earth. In this book, Beston shares one of those connections as seen through the...

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Perennials for the Pacific Northwest: 500 Best Plants for Flower Gardens - Paperback

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by Marty Wingate (Author)This is the A-List of flowering plants recommended for Pacific Northwest gardens--updated to include the current crop of available perennials--in a lavishly photographed and definitive guide, which will aide in selecting the best perennials to build a successful garden. These are the plants that can winter over and return with showy brilliance the following year, and in the gentle climate of the northwest, there are so many to choose from. But which is the best white ...

Growing Vegetables West of the Cascades, 35th Anniversary Edition: The Complete Guide to Organic Gardening - Paperback

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by Steve Solomon (Author), Marina McShane (Author)The ultimate bible for organic vegetable gardening in the Pacific Northwest, featuring extensive updates and new material on soil health, natural pest control, and more Now in its seventh edition, this complete guide to organic vegetable, herb, and flower gardening addresses issues of soil, seeds, compost, and watering. Growing Vegetables West of the Cascades has evolved from a self-published pamphlet into the master guide to organic gardenin...

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Gardener's Yoga: 40 Yoga Poses to Help Your Garden Flow - Paperback

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by Veronica D'Orazio (Author), Frida Clements (Illustrator)Here are 40 yoga poses specifically designed for gardeners' bodies and spirits to stretch, relax, and grow through the seasons. With the right sequence of yoga poses, a gardener's body can bend with the wind and stretch to the sky to alleviate the aches that come from all that digging, pulling, and carrying. In this beautifully illustrated book, yoga poses are divided into seasonal sequences--or flows--each addressing the gardener's b...

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Rosemary Verey: The Life & Lessons of a Legendary Gardener - Hardcover

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by Barbara Paul Robinson (Author)Rosemary Verey was the last of the great English garden legends. She was a natural teacher, encouraging Americans to believe that they were fully capable of creating beautiful gardens in a native vernacular. She also re-introduced the English to their own gardening traditions. Drawing from garden history and its literature, she developed a language of classical formal design, embellished with her exuberant planting style. This is Rosemary Verey's story and the...

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by Celia Thaxter (Author), Childe Hassam (Illustrator)The illustrated classic of an inspired woman and her flower garden on Appledore Island. Celia Thaxter's small garden with hollyhocks and poppies and scarlet flax was much admired by friends, neighbors, and visitors to the island off the coast of Portland, Maine. There, she wrote this collection of remembrances and gardening advice that was originally published in 1894, shortly before her death. It has never been out of print since. In viv...

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Sand & Soil: Creating Beautiful Gardens on Cape Cod and the Islands - Hardcover

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by C. L. Fornari (Author)The perfect how-to guide for gardening on Cape Cod and the islands. Plants for screening, blue hydrangeas, salt tolerant plants, gardening for the seaside and sandy soil--the author deftly disentangles the many idiosyncrasies and potential pitfalls of growing a healthy and beautiful garden, both on the Cape and on the surrounding islands of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket, a climate in equal measure challenging and rewarding. C. L. Fornari has herself lived and garden...

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by Mark Mathew Braunstein (Author)Microgreens - the young seedlings of herbs, vegetables, beans, seeds, and grains contain four to six times the vitamins and phytochemicals found in mature leaves of the same plants. These great tasting nutritional powerhouses are cropping up in gourmet restaurants and trendy farmers markets everywhere. This comprehensive resource explains everything readers need to know to grow microgreens at home, inexpensively and easily. It provides extensive instructions ...

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by Jason Johns (Author)A vertical garden can run the gamut from a simple arrangement of flowers in a large container on a deck to an elaborate display of strawberries and geraniums amid climbing peas and vines of small squash growing up a backyard fence. Any upright structure that can support vegetables, fruits, herbs, or flowers, whether these plants are in containers or in the ground, can be used in vertical gardening. Although vertical gardening is of particular interest to apartment dwell...

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Flower Mandalas Coloring Book - Paperback

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by Thaneeya McArdle (Author)Enter a world of creative self-expression with this relaxing coloring book for adults. Inside you'll find 30 amazing art activities that will take you to a mystical garden of patterning, shading, and coloring. These whimsical images of beautiful flower mandalas offer an easy way to de-stress and unleash your inner artist. Thaneeya McArdle's transcendental art explores a visual language of shape, form, line, and color. Each vibrantly detailed illustration is designe...

Gardening With the Native Plants of Tennessee: The Spirit of Place - Paperback

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by Margie Hunter (Author)"An invaluable resource for the home or commercial gardener who wishes to plant native species."--Edward W. Chester, Austin Peay State University The natural landscape of Tennessee represents a unique treasure for gardeners and nature lovers. Encompassing several geographically distinctive regions, from the 6,000-foot peaks of the Unaka Mountains to the swampy floodplain of the Mississippi River, the state boasts nearly 3,000 native plant species. This stunning divers...

The Complete Language of Flowers: A Definitive and Illustrated History - Paperback

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by S. Theresa Dietz (Author)The Complete Language of Flowers is a comprehensive encyclopedia providing the meanings, powers, facts, and folklore for over 1,001 flower species. Along with a beautiful visual depiction, each entry provides the flower's scientific and common names, characteristics, and historic meanings and powers from mythology, medieval legends, folklore, and flower poetry. For centuries, symbolic flower meanings have fascinated readers, writers, poets, and suddenly smitten ...

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Cannabis: A Beginner's Guide to Growing Marijuana - Paperback

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by Danny Danko (Author), Jorge Cervantes (Foreword by)This is the most accessible, attractive, and easy-to-use beginner's guide to growing marijuana. In only 144 illustrated pages, High Times editor, Danny Danko, covers the basics of successful pot cultivation. "This book gives new growers the exact information they need to grow successful cannabis crops. Danny's simple, direct writing style shines through in his new book that gives you the essentials of success." --World renown grow author J...