Gardening
Find top gardening books and essential reads for green thumbs at our online bookstore, featuring the best books on gardening for beginners, vegetable gardening, and organic gardening. Discover must-read and best-selling titles, including books about planting and gardening for dummies.
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Fine Foliage: Elegant Plant Combinations for Garden and ContainerFoliage comes in a mind-boggling variety of color, shape and growth habit. But which ones complement each other and work best for the many garden situations people have? Fine Foliage gives the home gardener 60+ examples of plant combinations that work for every purpose,...
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Native Trees and Shrubs of the Hawaiian Islands: An Extensive Study GuideThis extensive study gives botanical data about the trees and shrubs of Hawaii with a clarity that can be easily understood by everyone. The author describes the plants, gives common names, mainland equivalents--if there are any--and tells their uses in the changing world of...
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Native Texas Plants: Landscaping Region by RegionIn this indispensable guide, you'll find landscape designs for every type of terrain found in Texas--from the Gulf Coast to the Panhandle, and from East Texas to West of the Pecos. This book also includes 21 landscaping design plans that are sure to inspire...
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Growing and Marketing Ginseng, Goldenseal and Other Woodland Medicinals: 2nd EditionThe most comprehensive, truly practical guide to the cultivation of woodland botanicals Not all saleable crops are dependent on access to greenhouses or sun-drenched, arable land. Shade-loving medicinal herbs can be successfully cultivated in a forest garden for personal use or as small-scale cash...
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Gardens of Style: Private Hideaways of the Design WorldThe 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,...
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American Plants for American GardensUndeservedly out of print for decades, American Plants for American Gardens was one of the first popular books to promote the use of plant ecology and native plants in gardening and landscaping. Emphasizing the strong links between ecology and aesthetics, nature and design, the...
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Fresh from the Garden: An Organic Guide to Growing Vegetables, Berries, and Herbs in Cold ClimatesFresh is simply best. To get the tastiest, most nutritious produce, you have to grow your own, and in a cold climate this presents unique challenges. Fresh from the Garden will help you extend the growing season to produce the best vegetables, berries, and...
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Native Plant Landscaping for Florida WildlifeSimple steps to bring birds and other wildlife into your yard"Native plant enthusiasts wishing to increase wildlife in their home landscapes will find this book filled with valuable information."--Richard P. Wunderlin, author of Guide to the Vascular Plants of Florida"Huegel has combined personal passion...
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The Garden Diary of Martha Turnbull, Mistress of Rosedown PlantationRecovered in the mid-1990s from the attic of a Turnbull family descendant, Martha Turnbull's garden diary offers the most extensive surviving first-hand account of nineteenth-century plantation life and gardening in the Deep South. Landscape architecture professor and preservationist Suzanne Turner spent fifteen years transcribing...
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Inheriting Paradise: Meditations on GardeningThe garden is a personal place of retreat and delight and labor for many people. Gardening helps us collect ourselves, much as praying does. For rich and poor- it makes no difference- a garden is a place where body and soul are in harmony....
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A Field Guide to the Trees and Shrubs of the Southern AppalachiansAlthough the title suggests this is a guide to plants in a limited geographic range, the plants here are found in many areas of eastern North America, and the book can therefore be used as a guide for this larger area. But for naturalists...
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A Curious Herbal: Elizabeth Blackwell's Pioneering Masterpiece of Botanical ArtIn the 1730s, Elizabeth Blackwell (1699-c. 1758) found herself penniless, with her ne'er-do-well husband confined to a London debtor's prison. A talented artist, she came up with a unique and ambitious moneymaking scheme: the publication of a new illustrated guide to medicinal plants, including...
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Baltimore's Historic Parks and GardensFull 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...
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Neighboring With Nature: Native Herbs for Purpose & PleasureNeighboring with Nature is a gardening guide for people eager to foster a closer relationship with their local landscapes by planting gardens designed both for their ecological and aesthetic values. We have reached the point where our plantings can no longer be just ornamental...
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Native Treasures: Gardening with the Plants of CaliforniaNevin Smith has spent his life growing plants and exploring the wild California landscape. A highly respected horticulturalist and practitioner who is also a gifted writer, Smith shares his years of experience growing native California plants in this lively, informative book. Rather than being...
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Henry Mitchell on GardeningFor readers who like gardening (and love the English language), this posthumous collection of Henry Mitchell's Washington Post "Earthman" columns is "equal parts entertainment and shrewd horticultural advice" (Science News). Henry Mitchell is "beloved for his witty, smart, informed, philosophical, wide-ranging and often wickedly...
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Pecan: America's Native Nut TreeWritten in a manner suitable for a popular audience and including color photographs and recipes for some common uses of the nut, Pecan: America's Native Nut Tree gathers scientific, historical, and anecdotal information to present a comprehensive view of the largely unknown story of...
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The Vintage Journal California PoppiesThe Vintage Journal California Poppies pocket journal features a travel poster illustration of a bunch of Poppy Flowers with a blue background. This journal has full color decorative vintage art on the cover, and is the perfect companion for your next trip, writing project,...
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VERMICOMPOSTING (Worm Farming): All You Need to Know About Compost Farming, Vermiculture and Making Worm Bins for BeginnersVERMICOMPOSTING (Worm Farming): All You Need to Know About Compost Farming, Vermiculture, and Making Worm Bins for Beginners. Did you know that you can turn food waste into gold? We're not talking about alchemy here; instead, we're talking about vermicomposting. Worm farming, also known...
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January: A Farmhouse Victory Garden Calendar for KidsEnjoy the story of Davy, Prue, and the Chief Gardener and learn to create a victory garden as a family with a book of tasks and war time gardening knowledge for every month of the year!This book is annotated with excerpts from the following:...
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