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Attracting Beneficial Bugs to Your Garden: A Natural Approach to Pest Control

Jessica Walliser · Timber Press
Pages: 240
Format: Book

It may seem counterintuitive to want bugs in a garden, but insects are indeed valuable garden companions. Especially those species known for eating the bugs that eat plants. Assassin bugs, damsel bugs, and predatory stink bugs are all carnivores that devour the bugs that dine on a garden.Attracting...
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Groundbreaking Food Gardens: 73 Plans That Will Change the Way You Grow Your Garden

Niki Jabbour · Storey
Pages: 263
Format: Paperback

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...
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Orchids For Dummies

Alan Koch · Wiley Publishing
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

Packed with photos, including 8 pages in full color Color your world with orchids Orchids are beautiful, fragrant, wonderfully varied, and surprisingly affordable. But aren't they hard to grow at home? No! says orchid grower extraordinaire Steve Frowine. In this handy guide, he shows...
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Growing Windowsill Orchids

Philip Seaton · Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; Reprint edition

From the elegant, warmth-loving moth orchid to the perennially popular slipper orchid, Growing Windowsill Orchids tells indoor gardeners everything they need to know in order to grow these exquisite flowering plants at home. With more than thirty years of experience growing and writing...
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Bright Bazaar: Embracing Color for Make-You-Smile Style

Will Taylor, (Blogger) · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 191
Format: Hardcover

Dive into a refreshing take on color from one of the world's leading interiors bloggers, Will Taylor of Bright.Bazaar, West Elm's "go-to blogger for color inspiration." What began as a popular blog attracting over 400,000 readers a month is now a gorgeous, color-popping...
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Gardener of Versailles: My Life in the World's Grandest Garden

Alain Baraton · Rizzoli International Publications, Incorporated
Pages: 290
Format: Hardcover

INDIEFAB Book of the Year Awards -- 2014 FinalistFor gardening aficionados and Francophiles, a love letter to the Versailles Palace and grounds, from the man who knows them best. In Alain Baraton's Versailles, every grove tells a story. As the gardener-in-chief, Baraton lives on its grounds,...
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House Beautiful Color: The Perfect Shade for Every Room

Lisa Cregan · Hearst; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

House Beautiful has created the ultimate vibrant, gorgeous guide to using color in the home, filled with photos, swatches, and lively commentary from designers explaining exactly how and why they make their choices. Going shade by shade, it shows how to select the perfect hue for any room,...
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Mister Owita's Guide to Gardening: How I Learned the Unexpected Joy of a Green Thumb and an Open Heart

Carol Wall · Penguin Group (Canada)
Pages: 294
Format: Book

"In this profoundly moving memoir, Owita teaches Wall how to find grace amid heartbreak and to accept that beauty exists because it is fleeting - as in her garden, as in life." - People, 4 stars"A perfect spring awakening." - Good HousekeepingA true story of a unique...
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A Beautiful Mess Happy Handmade Home: Painting, Crafting, and Decorating a Cheerful, More Inspiring Space

Elsie Larson · Potter Style

Step inside the world of Elsie and Emma, the sisters behind the décor blog A Beautiful Mess. With tiny budgets and a crafty, can-do attitude, they overhauled each room in their first homes with DIY projects using family photos, vibrant fabrics, flea-market finds, and affordable furniture....
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