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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Landscaping Earth Ponds: The Complete GuideA fixture of beautiful, ecologically-minded landscape designs, earth ponds are cherished for their innate aesthetic appeal, economic value, and the unique recreational opportunities they offer. Everyone knows that installing a well-designed pond can dramatically improve the value of a piece land, but detailed instructions...
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The Food and Heat Producing Solar Greenhouse: Design, Construction and OperationMove your family toward self-sufficiency with The Food and Heat Producing Solar Greenhouse. This modern reprint contains the same priceless information that launched the solar-greenhouse revolution in the 1970s. From greenhouses improvised out of PVC pipe and Plexiglas, to big-budget, state-of-the-art structures, the design...
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The New Zen Garden: Designing Quiet SpacesThe New Zen Garden enlivens a tradition dating back 1500 years and introduces the contemplative Japanese space in all its varied forms. Author Joseph Cali guides you through the basics of theory, design, and construction, blending age-old techniques with modern innovation.Beginning with a brief...
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Ontario Garlic: The Story from Farm to FestivalThe taste of Ontario garlic is as rich and varied as its history. Used mainly for medicinal purposes in the nineteenth century, people turned up their noses at the aromatic bulb as it became associated with new immigrants. The once acceptable ingredient became undesirable...
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Super Simple Fairy Gardens: A Kid's Guide to GardeningHelp kids make a magical garden! Kids will be able to plant a fairy garden in their backyard, grow enchanting plants, set up fairy houses and furniture and more. Super Simple Fairy Gardens will help them learn how. Dig into the world of gardening!...
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Outdoor Wood Projects: 24 Projects You Can Build in a WeekendCreate something to show for your weekend If you're looking for projects that you can start and finish in just a weekend's time, look no further than Outdoor Wood Projects. This collection of 24 projects for the backyard and garden can be completed with...
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Otherwise Normal People: Inside the Thorny World of Competitive Rose GardeningTwice a year America's rose lovers cut the prettiest blossoms off their best plants and travel to the national rose show, where they lovingly groom their precious blooms for hours in a frigid hall in order to contend for the highest honor: the Queen...
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Managing Manure: How to Store, Compost, and Use Organic Livestock Wastes. a Storey Basics(r)TitleAnyone who raises livestock or keeps horses must deal with manure. This Storey BASICS(R) guide shows you how to make this process manageable, useful, and even profitable. Organic dairy farmer and soil scientist Mark Kopecky explains the fundamentals of storing, composting, and spreading manure;...
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Magnolias: A Gardener's GuideAn authoritative book that arms the reader with all the information necessary for the proper selection, planting, and care of magnolias. This is a black-and-white edition.Author: Jim GardinerPublisher: Timber Press (OR)Published: 07/18/2012Pages: 330Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.45lbsSize: 10.00h x 8.00w x 0.69dISBN: 9781604694314About the AuthorGardiner,...
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The Art of Gardening: Design Inspiration and Innovative Planting Techniques from Chanticleer"Delightful " --The New York Times Book Review Discover a world of beauty and creativity Chanticleer has been called the most romantic, imaginative, and exciting public garden in America. It is a place of pleasure and learning, relaxing yet filled with ideas to take...
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Maples of the WorldThe first truly comprehensive treatment of the genus Acer. This is a black-and-white edition.Author: H. J. Oterdoom, D. M. Van Gelderen, P. C. De JongPublisher: Timber Press (OR)Published: 04/02/2010Pages: 478Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 2.53lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.25w x 1.04dISBN: 9781604692099About the AuthorOterdoom, H. J.: -...
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CliviasDetails the history, charms, and horticulatural future of the genus Clivia.Author: Harold KoopowitzPublisher: Timber Press (OR)Published: 04/02/2010Pages: 384Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.39lbsSize: 8.56h x 5.55w x 1.07dISBN: 9781604691788About the AuthorKoopowitz, Harold: - Harold Koopowitz is Professor of Ecology at the University of California at Irvine....
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Phalaenopsis: A MonographA definitive monograph on the orchid genus Phalaenopsis, the first thorough treatment sin Herman Sweet's revision in 1969.Author: Eric A. ChristensonPublisher: Timber Press (OR)Published: 10/30/2009Pages: 394Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.40lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.52w x 1.17dISBN: 9781604691719
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Everyday Herbs in Spiritual Life: A Guide to Many PracticesEnhance and enrich your spiritual journey with the power of herbs.Herbs have been essential to spiritual beliefs and practices throughout time and history. From Christian Scripture to Hindu observances, Jewish ritual to early Islamic literature, Native American traditions to Buddhist symbolism, plants are seen...
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Complete Guide to Florida GardeningMore comprehensive than ever, the Complete Guide to Florida Gardening explains in step-by-step fashion how to create one's own personal outdoor paradise. Addressing the needs of gardening notvices, seasoned hobbyists, and horitculture professionals alike, Stan DeFreitas has, once again, created a reference book that...
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Secrets to Great Soil: A Grower's Guide to Composting, Mulching, and Creating Healthy, Fertile Soil for Your Garden and LawnGood soil leads to thriving gardens, and it's easy to create Elizabeth Snell shows you how to properly use composted plant materials and animal manure to make soil that is perfectly suited to your growing goals. She provides all the information you need to...
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Pocket Guide to Houseplants: Over 240 Easy-Care FavoritesLooking to make your home greener? The most comprehensive and complete guide to house plants you'll ever need, take this conveniently compact guide with you the next time you feel inspired to bring new plants home to help you decide With plant descriptions and...
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An Island GardenThe 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...
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Lois Hole's Bedding Plant FavoritesFailsafe instructions and practical wisdom for choosing the best plants for your garden type. Lois outlines the choices available, the unique characteristics and quirks of each variety, specific seeding and growing tips and much more.Author: Lois HolePublisher: Lone Pine PublishingPublished: 07/01/1996Pages: 272Binding Type: PaperbackWeight:...
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Companion Planting Secrets - Organic Gardening to Deter Pests and Increase Yield: Chemical Free Methods to Reduce Pests, Combat Diseases and Grow Bett"Companion Planting Secrets - Organic Gardening to Deter Pests and Increase Yield" is for anyone who wants to learn more about companion planting. Discover how you can reduce your use of chemicals, attract beneficial insects and improve the quality of fruits and vegetables just...
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