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Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
427 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Description
Essential Perennials helps you decide exactly which plants will bring you the beauty you want and will thrive in the conditions you can provide. Trusted garden experts Ruth Rogers Clausen and Thomas Christopher focus on what every gardener needs to know. For each plant you'll find flower color, season of bloom, foliage characteristics, height and width, light requirements, and hardiness and heat sensitivity. You'll also learn cultural tips, the...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
208 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Description
"Naturalistic gardens increase biodiversity, provide refuge for wildlife, and are an essential keystone for reconnecting the human world to the natural one. Knowing how to create a lush, thriving, and ecologically vibrant landscape might seem intimidating and out of reach, but horticulturist Kelly Norris and New Naturalism are here to help you design and plant a stunning oasis of nature-inspired plantings that thrive."--Back cover
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Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
144 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Description
"Upcycle that unwanted wood! The New Pallet Book updates a unique woodworking book with 25+ new ways to take a stack of pallets and put them to use. Join home improvement author Chris Peterson for a complete guide to deconstructing and repurposing pallets. This edition, with tons of new content and more than 50 projects and ideas, features everything from dead-simple builds like pathway pavers and a mug holder to more challenging projects like a recycling...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
259 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"Embrace your inner rebel and create the garden you want--even if it breaks the rules. Loree Bohl, the voice behind the popular blog The Danger Garden, shows how it's done in Fearless Gardening, with zone-busting ideas and success stories. Bohl's own gorgeous home garden inspires, with agaves that shrug off ice storms, palms that thrive in the rain, and planting risks that are beautifully rewarded."--Page 4 of cover.
11) The Tao of vegetable gardening: cultivating tomatoes, greens, peas, beans, squash, joy, and serenity
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
xiv, 265 pages, 16 pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Description
The Tao of Vegetable Gardening explores the practical methods as well as the deeper essence of gardening. In her latest book, groundbreaking garden writer Carol Deppe (The Resilient Gardener, Breed Your Own Vegetable Varieties) focuses on some of the most popular home garden vegetables?tomatoes, green beans, peas, and leafy greens?and through them illustrates the key principles and practices that gardeners need to know to successfully plant and grow...
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Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
333 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Description
Shrubs are the perfect plant -- they are low-maintenance, there is a variety for nearly every need, and they are widely available at garden centers and nurseries. In Shrubs, Andy McIndoe -- one of the world's foremost woody plant experts -- offers the information and advice needed to pick the right shrub for every site and condition. With this handy guide, it's easier than ever to decide which shrubs to add to your home garden. The book includes shrubs...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xiii, 374 pages ; 26 cm.
Description
The Pacific Northwest abounds with native plants that bring beauty to the home garden while offering food and shelter to birds, bees, butterflies, and other wildlife. Elegant trilliums thrive in woodland settings. Showy lewisias stand out in the rock garden. Hazel and huckleberry number among the delights of early spring, while serviceberry and creek dogwood provide a riot of fall color. Gardening with Native Plants of the Pacific Northwest is the...
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
176 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"Discover how to work with nature, instead of against it, by employing permaculture techniques to create a garden that is not just more beautiful and productive, but also more resilient. While the word permaculture might sound intimidating, the principals behind it are not. The main goal of permaculture is to turn your space into a functioning ecosystem that's less reliant on external resources and better able to sustain itself through many seasons...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
287 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Description
"Chapter 1 will focus on succession in the landscape, including lessons from prairies and woodlands. Chapter 2 moves on to how succession can work in the garden. Chapter 3 is about how to "layer" succession onto the home landscape, and the final chapter talks about the foundations of successful succession planting. This approach to gardening has not been explored in such depth and detail in other books; the link between natural processes and the garden...
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