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Peony: The Best Varieties for Your Garden

DAVID C MICHENER - Timber Press
Format: Hardcover

Peony features growing advice for one of the most beautiful and popular flowering plants. You'll learn the history of the plant, discover the different types of peonies available, and enjoy profiles of the best 194 varieties. Growing information includes details on climate, soil,...
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The Book of Summers

Emylia Hall - Mira; Original edition
Format: Paperback

For nine-year-old Beth Lowe, it should have been a magical summer-sun-kissed days lounging in rickety deck chairs, nights gathered around the fire. But what begins as an innocent vacation to Hungary ends with the devastating separation of her parents. Beth and her father return home alone,...
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Choosing Plant Combinations: 501 beautiful ways to mix and match color and shape in the garden

Cathy Wilkinson Barash - Better Homesand Gardens Books
Format: Print book

This book does the homework for anyone who wants to create a beautiful garden but lacks the time to plan and design. It helps readers achieve maximum effect with minimum effort, with examples of combinations in the book for a bold or subdued look.Gorgeous, full-color photographs of different...
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Gardentopia: Design Basics for Creating Beautiful Outdoor Spaces

Jan Johnsen - Countryman Press
Format: Hardcover

Expert tips and beautiful photography from a veteran landscaperWhether it's ten square feet or ten acres, a backyard is something everyone wants to use to their best advantage. No matter the size or shape, an outdoor green space can be transformed from a neglected or untamed patch of dirt...
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Sabrina & Corina: Stories

Kali Fajardo-Anstine - One World
Format: Hardcover

Latinas of Indigenous descent living in the American West take center stage in this haunting debut story collection - a powerful meditation on friendship, mothers and daughters, and the deep-rooted truths of our homelands. Kali Fajardo-Anstine's magnetic story collection breathes life...
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Plantiful : start small, grow big with 150 plants that spread, self-sow, and overwinter

Kristin Green - Timber Press
Format:  Book : Document  Computer File : English : First ed

A bountiful garden is easy to create, and gardeners can save big by choosing plants that grow quickly and spread vigorously. The fragrant stems and dusty-blue flower spikes of anise hyssop will pop up throughout the garden when the plant goes to seed. A cascade of golden Japanese forest...
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The New Seed-Starter's Handbook

Nancy Bubel - Rodale Pr
Format: Hardcover

The New Seed-Starter's HandbookWhy start plants from seed?* Earlier harvests* Greater variety* Heathier seedlings* Lower costs* SatisfactionFor the most complete, up-to-date information on starting plants from seed, turn to The New Seed-Starter's Handbook. Written by a gardener...
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The Ensemble: A Novel

Aja Gabel - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover

The addictive novel about four young friends navigating a cutthroat world and their complex relationships with each other, as ambition, passion, and love intertwine over the course of their lives.Jana. Brit. Daniel. Henry. They would never have been friends if they hadn't needed each other....
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Everyday Roses: How to Grow Knock Out® and Other Easy-Care Garden Roses

Paul Zimmerman - Taunton Press
Format: Paperback

More and more homeowners are adding easy-care roses to their gardens after discovering their versatility, range of color, and season-long foliage and bloom cycle. In this book, rose expert Paul Zimmerman debunks common rose myths and outdated care instructions, and instead imparts practical...
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MARTHA'S FLOWERS : growing and arranging my favorite blooms

MARTHA STEWART - CLARKSON POTTER

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What Should Be Wild: A Novel

Julia Fine - Harper
Format: Hardcover

"Delightful and darkly magical. Julia Fine has written a beautiful modern myth, a coming-of-age story for a girl with a worrisome power over life and death. I loved it." - Audrey Niffenegger, author of The Time Travelers Wife and Her Fearful SymmetryFinalist for the Bram Stoker...
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The Language of Flowers: A Novel

Vanessa Diffenbaugh - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

The Victorian language of flowers was used to express emotions: honeysuckle for devotion, azaleas for passion, and red roses for love. But for Victoria Jones, it has been more useful in communicating feelings like grief, mistrust and solitude. After a childhood spent in the foster care...
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Grow Your Own Herbs: The 40 Best Culinary Varieties for Home Gardens

Susan Belsinger - Timber Press
Format: Paperback

Nothing tastes better than herbs harvested fresh from the garden!Grow Your Own Herbs shares everything you need to know to grow the forty most important culinary herbs. You'll learn basic gardening information, including details on soil, watering, and potting. Profiles of 40 herbs...
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Peony in Love: A Novel (Random House Large Print)

Lisa See - Random House Large Print; First Edition edition
Format: Large Print]

“I finally understand what the poets have written. In spring, moved to passion; in autumn only regret.”For young Peony, betrothed to a suitor she has never met, these lyrics from The Peony Pavilion mirror her own longings. In the garden of the Chen Family Villa, amid the scent...
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The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession

Susan Orlean - Ballantine Publ.
Format: Paperback

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK A modern classic of personal journalism, The Orchid Thief is Susan Orlean's wickedly funny, elegant, and captivating tale of an amazing obsession. Determined to clone an endangered flower - the rare ghost...
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