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If you want to grow healthy vegetables at home but have hesitated because it seems too hard and time consuming, Organic Gardening for Everyone is your perfect hands-on guide-an "if I can do it, you can do it" case study that addresses your concerns and gets you started.
Loaded with practical advice and step-by-step guidance, “Organic Gardening for Everyone” takes a very personal and friendly approach to a subject that can be intimidating. It...
2) Garden Allies: The Insects, Birds, and Other Animals That Keep Your Garden Beautiful and Thriving
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The birds, mammals, reptiles, and insects that inhabit our yards and gardens are overwhelmingly on our side-they are not our enemies, but instead our allies. They pollinate our flowers and vegetable crops, and they keep pests in check. In Garden Allies, Frédérique Lavoipierre shares fascinating portraits of these creatures, describing their life cycles and showing how they keep the garden's ecology in balance. Also included is helpful information...
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Chosen by the American Horticultural Society as one of the seventy-five greatest books ever written about gardening, Second Nature has become a manifesto for rethinking our relationship with nature. With chapter ranging from a reconsideration of the Great American Lawn and a dispatch from one man's war with a woodchuck to reflections on the sexual politics of roses, Pollan captures the rhythms of our everyday engagement with the outdoors in all its...
4) Who Are We?
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Who Are We?, the fifth book of the Ringing Cedars Series, describes the author's search for real-life 'proofs' of Anastasia's vision presented in the previous volumes. Finding these proofs and taking stock of ongoing global environmental destruction, Vladimir Megre describes further practical steps for putting Anastasia's vision into practice. Full of beautiful realistic images of a new way of living in co-operation with the Earth and each other,...
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Who's in your garden?
Gardening. It's one of the most peaceful activities you can enjoy. The solitude of the plants, the sun, fresh air, and the fragrance of flowers.
Then you look around. "Wait," you say. "Who took a bite out of that tomato?" "What was that sting on my leg?" "Did I just see a Garden Fairy disappear behind a flower?" "Is that a dinosaur?"
You are not alone!
Turns out, you're never really alone in the garden, and in Creatures and...
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What could be better than watching the natural world out your window or on your television? Going out and experiencing it firsthand. In these fifty essays, acclaimed nature and science writer Sy Montgomery takes her readers on a season-by-season tour of the wilderness that is often as close as the backyard. Sy invites - almost dares - readers to follow her and form hands-on relationships with the plants, animals, birds, and even the insects that share...
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“Down to Earth” is a book that speaks to the soul of the passionate gardener of any experience level, exploring and detailing all the pleasures that gardeners enjoy from this hobby. Rochester encourages readers to garden for self-gratification. No hoeing, no tilling, no turning of piles. No chemical insecticides or herbicides, either. The author's goal is to encourage and enable gardeners to simplify tasks, saving time and money, while making...
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Gardening enthusiasts and those who love to read about gardening will be delighted by this new collection of Elizabeth Lawrence's work. A gifted landscape architect and writer, Lawrence (1904-85) chronicled her experiences with plants in a voice treasured for its distinctive blend of horticultural expertise and stylistic elegance. Through her six books, all still in print, Lawrence continues to inspire an ever-widening circle of dedicated readers...
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In this rollicking read, Des Kennedy demonstrates his unerring skill with a satirical pitchfork. The 13 short pieces here roam widely and wildly, examining, among other things, common idiosyncrasies and the collective chaos of garden clubs. The book hilariously ponders the host of psychopathologies that afflict plants people," from weather phobias and general anxiety disorders to obsessive-compulsive behavior such as the chronic moving of plants....
10) Garden Voices
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Countless garden books tell us what, when, where and how to plant. Few explore the reasons why gardening becomes central to so many people's lives. In Garden Voices, Carolyn Rapp explores the relationships of women with their gardens, revealing sources of joy that go far beyond the pleasure of harvesting flowers, herbs or vegetables. As the 12 women tell their stories, readers will share the heartache and triumph set within plots of lovingly cultivated...
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A lo largo de los siglos, en todas las culturas, desde Babilonia, Grecia, Persia, China o Japón, los seres humanos han creado, con paciencia y a veces con enormes esfuerzos, monumentos de verdor y acequias labradas en piedra para evocar un mítico lugar ideal, frondoso, donde siempre es primavera, los animales son serenos, los hombres pocos y pacíficos, y el alimento abundante. En breves e intensos capítulos, Mario Satz ahonda en la construcción...
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Writer, environmentalist and gardener Des Kennedy has gathered together his best, most outrageous and most contemplative articles and essays of the past decade into a book full of playful wit and insight. Kennedy recounts one newspaper's April Fool's Day prank that had men across the UK buying heather in order to propagate a poor-man's Viagra, expands on his trials creating a sod sloped roof, admits he once wanted to write a stump-puller's guide to...
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Peeling off sheets of skin from a sunburned back. Visiting five nurseries and spending $1,000 in an afternoon. Raising 200 monarch butterflies. Feeding grasshoppers to a spider. Hearing the wings of geese thirty feet overhead at sunset. How one piece of mulch can make all the difference. These are the stories of Benjamin Vogt's 1,500 foot native prairie garden over the course of three years. After a small patio garden at his last home teases him into...
14) Gartenglück
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Elsemarie Maletzke hat sich nicht nur einen Namen mit ihren großen Biographien über die Brontës, Jane Austen und Elizabeth Bowen gemacht. Sie hat auch Geschichten über ihre Reisen quer durch europäische Gärten geschrieben, die erstmals in diesem Band versammelt werden. GARTENGLÜCK erzählt mit Witz und Esprit von dem sinnlichen Vergnügen, Gärten zu erschaffen.
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Finally! A gardening book with answers to all the questions asked by anyone, who has ever felt lost in a garden center or wondered how to become a gardener.
I wrote this book as a guide to help you think like a gardener. I want you to feel confident as you step out into your garden, whether that garden is just one houseplant in a four-inch clay pot or a huge garden covering several acres out in the country.
Using a combination of humor and good...
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An important horticultural memoir articulating a new landscape art that's both environmentally sensitive and rich in creativity.
Janet Marinelli left her comfortable city garden to join a botanist colleague in search of the rare Seabeach Amaranth--one of our many native species that is in danger of extinction. The result of the ensuing seven-year odyssey, Stalking the Wild Amaranth is a work of science and a work of art. Marinelli tells the story...
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Their Paths Are Peace tells the story of the creation of The Cleveland Cultural Gardens, a unique collection of landscaped, themed gardens each representing a different ethnic group/organization in Cleveland. First published in 1954 (and long out of print) this 60th anniversary edition presents the original content (with minor corrections) in a fresh layout.
This book is being replaced with a 6x9" 65th anniversary edition.
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Through this collection of delightful essays and beautiful illustrations, long-time contributor to “Country Living Gardner” Sharon Lovejoy shares the boundless joys of a country garden. Lovejoy has chosen to focus on the natural world to be found just outside the door, including hummingbirds, caterpillars, and dragonflies, but her informative and witty prose also covers traditional plant care. The very titles of her sketches convey pleasure in...
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Diana Wells, author of 100 Flowers and How They Got Their Names now turns her attention to something bigger-our deep-rooted relationship with trees. As she investigates the names and meanings of trees, telling their legends and lore, she reminds us of just how innately bound we are to these protectors of our planet. Since the human race began, we have depended on them for food, shade, shelter and fuel, not to mention furniture, musical instruments,...
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