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100 Plants to Feed the Bees: Provide a Healthy Habitat to Help Pollinators Thrive

Xerces Society · Storey Publishing
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

The international bee crisis is threatening our global food supply, but this user-friendly field guide shows what you can do to help protect our pollinators. The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation offers browsable profiles of 100 common flowers, herbs, shrubs, and trees that attract...
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The Modern Organic Home: 100 DIY Cleaning Products, Organization Tips, and Household Hacks

NATALIE WISE · Good Books
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

Home is a haven, a place of refuge. But did you know it might be making you sick? If your home is cluttered, overwhelming, and full of chemicals, it's time to detox. The Modern Organic Home helps you de-clutter and clean with natural, homemade products that are healthy for you and your...
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domino: Your Guide to a Stylish Home

Domino. · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

From the editors of domino magazine comes your essential guide to discovering your personal style and creating a space you love.Since launching in 2005, domino has attracted a fiercely loyal following, which looks to the brand as the definitive source for decorating and style. The brand's...
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She Sheds: A Room of Your Own

Erika Kotite · Cool Springs Press
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover

Create your very own hideaway right at home with She Sheds.They've got their man caves, and it's time for you to have a space of your own. She Sheds shows you how to create cozy getaways with inspiration from across the country. Start by defining the goal and purpose of your space. Will...
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Plumbing

Steve Cory · The Taunton Press
Pages: 249
Format: Print book

Stanley's Plumbing: A Homeowner's Guide is a comprehensive, visual handbook packed with step-by-step photographs and authoritative, reliable information. Eventually, every homeowner needs to repair, replace, or upgrade a plumbing fixture. Save heaps of money by learning how to do it yourself....
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Green: A Pocket Guide to Pot

Dan Michaels · Chronicle Books
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

Addressing a generation of pot smokers living at a time when over half of America has legalized medical marijuana, this paperback edition of the successful Green delivers the planet's best bud photography in an accessible package and irresistible price point. Organized alphabetically,...
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Better Than New: Lessons I've Learned from Saving Old Homes

Nicole Curtis · Artisan
Pages: 239
Format: Print book

A New York Times and USA Today Bestseller For the first time, Nicole Curtis, the star of the megahit HGTV and DIY Network show Rehab Addict, reveals her private struggles, her personal victories, and the inspiring lessons we can all learn from them. Part celebrity memoir and part self-help...
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House of Plants: Roco's Gude to Living with Succulents, Air Plants and Cacti

Rose Ray · Frances Lincoln
Pages: 192
Format: Print book

House of Plants is a guide to how to love and care for your succulents, cacti and air plants. These plants are practical, hardy and perfect for urban living - and this book is a comprehensive companion, showing you how to care for these plants, as well as how to stylishly arrange them in your...
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Midwestern Native Shrubs and Trees: Gardening Alternatives to Nonnative Species

Charlotte Adelman · Ohio University Press
Pages: 430
Format: Paperback

In this companion volume to the bestselling The Midwestern Native Garden: Native Alternatives to Nonnative Plants, Charlotte Adelman and Bernard L. Schwartz offer another indispensible guide to replacing nonnative plants with native alternatives. This time, their subject is the native woody...
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Lovable Livable Home: How to Add Beauty, Get Organized, and Make Your House Work for You

Sherry Petersik · Artisan
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

This New York Times bestselling book is packed with thoughtful advice and inspiring photos to help you create a home filled with beauty and meaning. In the three years since Sherry and John Petersik wrote their bestselling book Young House Love, they have bought a new house and had a new baby,...
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Indoor Green: Living with Plants

Bree Claffey · Thames & Hudson Australia
Pages: 208
Format: Print book

A visual ode to the transformative power of the houseplant in home décor, with practical information for arranging your own indoor greenFor centuries, plants have transformed interiors. Today the plant-filled home is an inspiration to every avid shelter-blog reader or expert Pinterest-board...
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The Permaculture Transition Manual: A Comprehensive Guide to Resilient Living

Ross Mars · New Society Publishers
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

Caught between climate change and a fossil fuel-driven economy that demands ever more growth, the world faces a great transition - by design or disaster - away from fossil fuels to a less energy intensive future.But what proven tools are available to aid in making a successful, deliberate...
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Garden Renovation: Transform Your Yard Into the Garden of Your Dreams

Bobbie Schwartz · Timber Press
Pages: 264
Format: Paperback

A do-it-yourself guide to a complete garden rehab Gardens, just like houses, sometimes need makeovers. The changes can be as minor as replacing a shrub or as major as pulling everything up and starting from scratch. No matter the size of your space or the scope of the project, the sage...
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Your First Garden: A Landscape Primer for New Home Owners

Judith Adam · Firefly Books
Pages: 120
Format: Print book

Praise for the author's Landscape Planning: Practical Techniques for the Home Gardener: "Highly recommended as one of the most comprehensive, up-to-date works on general gardening." -- Chicago Botanic Garden "This book is worth its weight in gold." -- The Globe...
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Goodbye, Things: The New Japanese Minimalism

Fumio Sasaki · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 259
Format: Hardcover

The best-selling phenomenon from Japan that shows us a minimalist life is a happy life.Fumio Sasaki is not an enlightened minimalism expert or organizing guru like Marie Kondo -- he's just a regular guy who was stressed out and constantly comparing himself to others, until one day he decided...
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