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Gardening Without Work: For the Aging, the Busy, and the Indolent

Ruth Stout · Echo Point Books & Media
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

While everyone loves eating fresh garden produce, not everyone has the time and energy to create a productive garden. But what if growing delicious crops required hardly any effort? What if you could have succulent strawberries, perfect peas, and terrific tomatoes without needing to touch...
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The Bee-Friendly Garden: Design an Abundant, Flower-Filled Yard that Nurtures Bees and Supports Biodiversity

Kate Frey · Ten Speed Press
Pages: 213
Format: Print book

For every gardener who cares about the planet, this guide to designing a bee garden helps you create a stunningly colorful, vibrant, healthy habitat that attracts both honeybees and native bees.In The Bee-Friendly Garden, award-winning garden designer Kate Frey and bee expert Gretchen LeBuhn...
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Habitat: The Field Guide to Decorating

Lauren Liess · ABRAMS
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

Lauren Liess, an interior designer and founder of the popular blog Pure Style Home, fuses her love of design and the great outdoors into all her work. In Habitat: The Field Guide to Decorating, her first book, Lauren invites readers to bring nature inside by mixing the textures of natural...
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The Rockefeller Family Gardens: An American Legacy

Larry Lederman · The Monacelli Press
Pages: 200
Format: Hardcover

Larry Lederman takes readers on a privileged photographic tour through the Rockefeller family gardens in the Hudson Valley and Maine. The Rockefeller family is synonymous with great wealth, extraordinary philanthropy, and exceptional stewardship of unspoiled landscapes. In their private...
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Happy Home Outside: Everyday Magic for Outdoor Life

Charlotte Hedeman Gueniau · Jacqui Small
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

Colour and a sense of fun are central to the RICE ethos. Fresh from the success of her first interiors book, Happy Home, Charlotte has taken RICE style outside.This is a fun-loving collection of outdoor decorating and styling solutions, from seating and other furniture to lighting ideas,...
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The New Bohemians: Cool and Collected Homes

Justina Blakeney · Stewart, Tabori and Chang; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

In The New Bohemians, LA-based designer Justina Blakeney defines the New Bohemians as creative individuals who are boutique owners and bloggers, entrepreneurs and ex-pats, artists and urban farmers. They embrace free-spirited, no-rules lifestyles and apply that attitude to all areas of their...
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Built: The Hidden Stories Behind our Structures

Roma Agrawal · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

The wonders of engineering revealed--by the inspirational female engineer behind The Shard, Western Europe's tallest building.While our cities are full of incredible engineering feats, most of us live with little idea of what goes into creating the built environment, let alone how a new building...
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The Garden Primer: Second Edition

Barbara Damrosch · Workman
Pages: 820
Format: Print book

The most comprehensive, entertaining, down-to-earth one-volume gardening reference ever, and highly praised: "Barbara Damrosch delivers the goods." - Chicago Tribune "Best of the crop." - House Beautiful "Barbara Damrosch's writing has the snap of a good snowpea...
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A Touch of Farmhouse Charm: Easy DIY Projects to Add a Warm and Rustic Feel to Any Room

Liz Fourez · Page Street Publishing
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback

Create the Home You've Always Dreamed of with Easy, Authentic Farmhouse DécorOpening A Touch of Farmhouse Charm is like taking a breath of fresh, clean country air. With the turn of each page, Liz Fourez leads you on a tour through her family's house, restored to its 1940s rustic farm...
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Paint Box: 45 Palettes for Choosing Color, Texture and Pattern

TRICIA GUILD · Quadrille Publishing
Format: Hardcover

Renowned for her unique eye for color and her ability to mix paint, pattern and texture to fabulous effect in creating beautiful spaces, Tricia Guild has now, for the first time ever, resolved to lay bare the secrets of her working methods and spell them out simply for us to follow - not to copy...
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New Bathroom Idea Book

Jamie Gold · Taunton Press
Pages: 217
Format: Paperback

The bathroom continues to be one area of the house that homeowners are willing to spend money on. This all-new edition of Bathroom Idea Book--a virtual designer's notebook of ideas, inspiration, and information--will bea homeowner's first step in turning a dream bath into a real one, whether...
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Air Plant Care and Design: Tips and Creative Ideas for the World's Easiest Plants

Ryan Lesseig · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 176
Format: Print book

Air plants, also known as tillandsias, are some of the easiest plants to grow, which helps explain why they're popping up in stores across the country and appearing in magazines, on blogs, and all over Pinterest. The amazing thing about air plants is that they use their roots to anchor...
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Little Veggie Patch Co. DIY Garden Projects: Easy Activities For Edible Gardening and Backyard Fun

Matt Pember · Hardie Grant Books
Pages: 383
Format: Print book

The Little Veggie Patch Company is a Melbourne based business that specializes in everything that encompasses the edible garden. From the design, installation and maintenance of home, school and corporate veggie patches, to everything you will need to care for them, they are dedicated to helping...
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Simple Matters: A Scandinavian's Approach to Work, Home, and Style

Jenny Mustard · Gibbs Smith
Format: Hardcover

Simplify your home, health, and lifestyle with the help of Scandinavian minimalist sensation, Jenny Mustard. In a beautiful collection of essays, Simple Matters challenges readers to simplify their life by prioritizing emotional and physical health, curating a personal style, and pursuing...
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High-Yield Vegetable Gardening: Grow More of What You Want in the Space You Have

Colin McCrate · Storey Publishing
Pages: 319
Format: Print book

You won't believe your eyes when you see the size of your harvest! In High-Yield Vegetable Gardening, authors Colin McCrate and Brad Halm show you how you can make your food garden much more productive, no matter how big or small it is. You'll learn their secrets for preparing the soil,...
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