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A definitive guide to the spectacular world of architectural plants, packed with practical advice on how to liven up your garden using the striking shapes and wonderful exoticism of this distinct new area of planting. Whether amateur or expert, this ebook is essential reading for any gardener looking for something a bit special to grow.
This area of horticulture is fast becoming popular with people keen to experiment and incorporate new ideas for...
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For beginning gardeners and homeowners, this handbook shows you exactly how to plan, build, and plant a simple raised bed. Fully illustrated step-by-step instructions make it easy and ensure success! In just a weekend, using a few basic materials and minimal building skills, you can set up a complete garden bed adapted for vegetables, flowers, or herbs.
A Storey BASICS title addresses the popular topic of raised-bed gardening with this introduction...
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Make your garden bloom with spectacular color throughout the entire season. Lee Schneller's simple, no-fail formula teaches you how to select flowers and create a blueprint for a garden that will remain vibrant from early spring through the last days of autumn. With strategies and tips for gardens of all sizes and soil types, and a stunning photograph-filled catalog of 220 easy-to-care-for plants, you'll have plenty of options for personalizing your...
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SQUARE FOOT GARDENING
Whatever motivates you to grow and tend to a garden, you need a strategy that will not only provide order but also help your crops mature quickly and healthily. While you may have heard of numerous planting techniques to achieve an abundant, healthy, and fast yield, very few are as successful as square foot gardening for small-scale gardens.
Inside this book, you will gain such knowledge as which crops are most suitable...
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Create the flower garden of your dreams. This comprehensive guide includes expert advice on everything from choosing an appropriate growing site to maximizing the lifespan of your plants. Charming illustrations and photographs accompany helpful tips on how to improve soil, fight off pests, and make all your flowers bloom with radiant color. Whether you're a beginning gardener or a seasoned florist, The Flower Gardener's Bible is a useful resource...
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"A veritable goldmine for gardeners." -Plant Talk
We've all seen gorgeous perennial gardens packed with color, texture, and multi-season interest. Designed by a professional and maintained by a crew, they are aspirational bits of beauty too difficult to attempt at home. Or are they?
The Know Maintenance Perennial Garden makes a design-magazine-worthy garden achievable at home. The new, simplified approach is made up of hardy, beautiful plants...
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Do you love fresh vegetables? Do you like to save money on grocery bills? Then it's time to grow veggies in your backyard patch or nurture delicious tomatoes and zesty peppers on your patio! Yes, you can with helpful tips found in Quick Tips on Vegetable Gardening.
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*what to do to get ready for gardening,
*how toilet paper is a necessity for planting your garden,
*how to plan a garden for four seasons of eating enjoyment,
*when and how to...
68) The Edible Landscape: Creating a Beautiful and Bountiful Garden with Vegetables, Fruits and Flowers
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As the fresh food revolution sweeps the nation, more and more people are seeking out delicious offerings from local growers. We have had our fill of tasteless, woody tomatoes from the far reaches of the globe and have begun tasting again-thanks to farmers' markets and co-ops-the real flavors we remember from childhood. Inspired by these events, people have started growing food in the most unlikely places, including rooftops, abandoned parking lots,...
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Take your garden to the next level-organic, native, and natural!
Permaculture is an important but often misunderstood method of growing food and building homes in a manner that works with nature, rather than against it, to create beautiful, healthy, and useful gardens. Blending ecology, organic agriculture, green home design, appropriate technology, and biology can be confusing and overwhelming, but Permaculture for Beginners simplifies this vast...
70) Old Herbaceous
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Delightful descriptions and characterizations enliven this tale of an old-time gardener in an English countryside garden and his love of plants. With tender mentoring and the luck of winning a prize at the flower show, young Herbert becomes what he had dreamed of. This is the amusing story of an awkward orphan child with one leg a bit longer than the other who rises from unremarkable school-boy days spent picking wild-flowers and dodging angry farmers...
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When faced with financial uncertainty or a potential disruption to the food supply, more people turn to vegetable gardening-for the joy, satisfaction, and sense of security that comes from growing food. Today's gardeners want a bit of everything-vegetables, fruit, medicinal herbs, flowers for pollinators, and even chickens for eggs. The dream is to build a diverse landscape that serves multiple functions but achieving that goal can be intimidating...
72) The Container Gardening Beginners Guide: Helping You Grow Your Own Vegetables, Fruits, and Herbs In
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All you need to know to get yourself started on your Container Garden journey! Whether you have lots of space outdoors or a small patio, live in an apartment or down on the ground floor, container gardening is a practical method for urban and suburban gardeners who want to grow their favorite vegetables and plants.
The Container Gardening Beginners Guide is full of information and advice for using different types of containers to grow your own vegetables,...
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Think you don't have enough room for beautiful blooms? My Tiny Flower Garden is bursting with amazing ideas and savvy solutions to help you transform any small space into a floral feast. With colourful cutting patches, sweet-scented city streets and pickup trucks perfect for pollinators, we've unearthed 25 amazing unconventional plots. Meet the couple packing pavements with flowers, the landscape architect who has constructed a meadow in the middle...
74) Covering Ground
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Ground covers are a pretty and practical way to bring diversity, elegance, and durability to open sweeps of lawn. Give your landscape a vibrant new palette that is both sustainable and low-maintenance through plantings of herbs, shrubs, mosses, and more. Barbara W. Ellis provides a variety of full-color lawn designs and professional planting advice to get you started. You'll be amazed as your ordinary lawn transforms into a striking display of color...
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Small Gardens and How to Make the Most of Them is a vintage guide to gardening designed for people with restricted space for their plants and flowers. It offers the reader information on what the best plants for smallholdings are, with details on when and where to plant, propagation, hybrids, planting, cutting, and much more. This guide contains a wealth of timeless information and is perfect for the modern green-fingered enthusiasts with limited...
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For architect and educator Leon van Schaik, the way we understand our world is not an abstract consideration, but deeply rooted in physical experience. Our family houses and places of work, the gardens we have played and rested in, the landscapes we have travelled through and those we have come to call home- all of these inflect what van Schaik describes as our spatial intelligence. For better or worse, this understanding informs our interpretation...
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Follow your zany muse and get creative with your vegetable garden. Niki Jabbour brings you 73 novel and inspiring food garden designs that include a cocktail garden featuring all the ingredients for your favorite drinks, a spicy retreat comprising 24 varieties of chile peppers, and a garden that's devoted to supplying year-round salad greens. Created by celebrated gardeners, each unique design is accompanied by both plant lists and charming anecdotes....
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Elevate your backyard veggie patch into a work of sophisticated and stylish art. Kitchen Garden Revival guides you through every aspect of kitchen gardening, from design to harvesting-with expert advice from author Nicole Johnsey Burke, founder of Rooted Garden, one of the leading US culinary landscape companies, and Gardenary, an online kitchen gardening education and resource company.
Participating in the grow-your-own movement is important to...
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¿Por qué comprar en tiendas especializadas cuando puedes cultivar legalmente hierba en casa por menos dinero (aunque nunca hayas cultivado un día en tu vida)? El fin de semana está aquí, y te diriges a la casa de un amigo para una divertida y casual reunión. Es un gran momento. Tu amigo tiene habitaciones cómodas para relajarse, y algunos amigos trajeron sus instrumentos para una sesión de improvisación para conseguir una buena vibración....
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