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Vertical Gardening Grow up, Not Out, for More Vegetables and Flowers in Much Less Space

Derek Fell - Rodale
Format: Hardcover

The biggest mistake gardeners make each season is starting out too big and then quickly realizingtheir large plot requires too much weeding, watering, and backbreaking labor. Vertical gardening guarantees a better outcome from the day the trowel hits the soil--by shrinking the amount of floor...
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Fine Gardening Beds & Borders: design ideas for gardens large and small

Editors & Contributors of Fine Gardening - Taunton Press
Format: Paperback

A collection of the most popular design ideas, planting solutions, and quick front- and backyard fixes that the editors of Fine Gardening have to offer. Fine Gardening Beds and Borders offers easy planting solutions for creating gardens that add color and texture, help zone a property,...
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Plantiful: Start Small, Grow Big with 150 Plants That Spread, Self-Sow, and Overwinter

Kristin Green - Timber Press (OR)
Format: Paperback

Whoever coined the phrase "money doesn't grow on trees" must not have been a resourceful gardener. While we may not be able to harvest physical money, with the right plants and techniques gardeners can rely on nature to give itself away for free. Plantiful shows you how to have...
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Garden Up! Smart Vertical Gardening for Small and Large Spaces

Susan Morrison - Cool Springs Press
Format: Book

Filled with design tips, plant ideas and over 200 photos, Garden Up! offers inspiration and how-to information for enhancing any outdoor space with vertical elements. Authors Morrison and Sweet cover everything from living wall projects simple enough for a home gardener to tackle to creative...
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The Postage Stamp Vegetable Garden: Grow Tons of Organic Vegetables in Tiny Spaces and Containers

Karen Newcomb - Ten Speed Press

This classic gardening bestseller (over 500,000 copies sold) uses ecologically friendly, intensive biodynamic methods to produce large amounts of vegetables in very tiny spaces. Revised for an all new generation of gardeners, the 40th anniversary edition includes brand new information on the variety...
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Hellstrip Gardening: Create a Paradise between the Sidewalk and the Curb

Evelyn Hadden - Timber Press; First Edition edition
Format: Book

In this fresh and enchanting book, Evelyn Hadden invites you to use your gardening power to convert your "hellstrip" - the space between the street and the sidewalk - into a rewarding garden that generates smiles and celebrates nature. And you don't need to stop there: if you have...
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Gardening Like a Ninja: A Guide to Sneaking Delicious Edibles into Your Landscape

Angela England - Hobble Creek Press
Format: Print book

Turn your yard into the envy of the neighborhood while adding to your dinner table! Learn how to garden like a ninja as you sneak in plants that you can use for everyday cooking, creating a sustainable and beautiful landscape that's easy to maintain. Save time and money using the visually...
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Jerry Baker's Year-Round Bloomers: Hundreds of Super Secrets for the Backyard Gardener

Jerry Baker - American Master Products, Inc.
Format: Hardcover

Gardeners from the sunny south to the frigid north will learn to make their landscapes look as beautiful in January as they do in June with this handbook that reveals the secrets of how to create a vibrant, colorful garden all year round. Offering great design ideas and "old-fashioned...
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The American Meadow Garden: Creating a Natural Alternative to the Traditional Lawn

John Greenlee - Timber Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

If theres one lesson every homeowner must learn, its this The traditional lawn is a huge, time consuming, synthetic-chemical sucking mistake. The time has come to look for new ways to create friendly, livable spaces around our homes.In The American Meadow Garden, ornamental grass expert...
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Jerry Baker's Year-Round Bloomers: Hundreds of Super Secrets for the Backyard Gardener

Jerry Baker - American Master Products, Inc.
Format: Hardcover

Gardeners from the sunny south to the frigid north will learn to make their landscapes look as beautiful in January as they do in June with this handbook that reveals the secrets of how to create a vibrant, colorful garden all year round. Offering great design ideas and "old-fashioned...
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Jerry Baker's Year-Round Bloomers: Hundreds of Super Secrets for the Backyard Gardener

Jerry Baker - American Master Products, Inc.
Format: Hardcover

Gardeners from the sunny south to the frigid north will learn to make their landscapes look as beautiful in January as they do in June with this handbook that reveals the secrets of how to create a vibrant, colorful garden all year round. Offering great design ideas and "old-fashioned...
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Jerry Baker's Year-Round Bloomers: Hundreds of Super Secrets for the Backyard Gardener

Jerry Baker - American Master Products, Inc.
Format: Hardcover

Gardeners from the sunny south to the frigid north will learn to make their landscapes look as beautiful in January as they do in June with this handbook that reveals the secrets of how to create a vibrant, colorful garden all year round. Offering great design ideas and "old-fashioned...
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Zen Gardens: The Complete Works of Shunmyo Masuno, Japan's Leading Garden Designer

Mira Locher - Tuttle
Format: Hardcover

Shunmyo Masuno, Japan's leading garden designer, is at once Japan's most highly acclaimed landscape architect and an 18th-generation Zen Buddhist priest, presiding over daily ceremonies at the Kenkoji Temple in Yokohama. He is celebrated for his unique ability to blend strikingly...
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Gardening for the Birds: How to Create a Bird-Friendly Backyard

George Adams - Timber Press

You may already have a bird feeder in your yard, but you can attract a far wider range of species, and they will stay longer, if you create a bird-friendly landscape. Gardening for the Birds shows you how.With the right native plants, arranged to mimic natural ecosystems, you will provide...
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Landscaping with Fruit: Strawberry ground covers, blueberry hedges, grape arbors, and 39 other luscious fruits to make your yard an edible paradise.

Lee Reich

Discover the joy of homegrown apples, fresh-picked cherries, and dozens of other fruits with this definitive guide to creating a more delicious backyard! Lee Reich shows you how to grow temperate-zone fruit at home, from site analysis and climate assessment through plant selection
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Landscaping for Small Spaces

Cynthia Overbeck Bix
Format: Book

Great Gardens for Small Spaces:
Plan your garden the way professional landscape designers do, using their secrets to maximize space and make the area seem larger Discover gardening space you didn't know you had - on hillsides and in narrow side yards, on decks and patios, up walls...
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Understanding Garden Design: The Complete Handbook for Aspiring Designers

Vanessa Gardner Nagel APLD - Timber Press
Format: Hardcover

Designing a garden is a complex task. Where do you start? What kind of skills do you need? What are the logical steps in creating a design? How do you communicate your ideas to a client, and how do you accommodate a client’s requests while maintaining the integrity of the project?...
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Frederick Law Olmsted: Plans and Views of Public Parks

Frederick Law Olmsted - Johns Hopkins University Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Lavishly illustrated with over 470 images -- 129 of them in color -- this book reveals Frederick Law Olmsted's design concepts for more than seventy public park projects through a rich collection of sketches, studies, lithographs, paintings, historical photographs, and comprehensive...
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Royal Horticultural Society Small Garden Handbook: Making the Most of Your Outdoor Space

Andrew Wilson - Firefly Books
Format: Paperback

A comprehensive guide to planning planting and maintaining a small garden This in-depth reference packs a lot of information and expert advice into one easy-to-use resource It is designed to help home gardeners discover the potential in a small piece of land and guide them step-by-step...
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Home Outside: Creating the Landscape You Love

Julie Moir Messervy - Taunton Press
Format: Print book

An Outside-the-Box Guide to Outdoor Living. Let's face it: most of us have the confidence to improve the inside of our homes with a fresh coat of paint, new rugs, furniture, and fixtures. But when it comes to the outside of our most prized possession, we don't know where to start. That's...
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Fences and Hedges: And Other Garden Dividers

Richard Bird

Showing how to create and embellish fences, hedges, walls, plant screens, and trellises, this seventh volume in the series features 20 exciting projects, including a fruit wall, formal and informal hedges, a picket fence and a rose arch. 50 color photos and 300 illustrations.
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