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Landscaping with Trees in the Midwest: A Guide for Residential and Commercial Properties

Scott Zanon · Swallow Press; 1 edition
Format: Book

Trees not only add beauty and value to property but also enhance the physical environment by providing shade, reflecting heat, and blocking wind. Choosing the right trees for the right location and conditions, however, is not always easy: each species has its own requirements for sunlight,...
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Potted: Make Your Own Stylish Garden Containers

Annette Goliti Gutierrez · Timber Press
Pages: 228
Format: Print book

Hand-made style for outdoor living Outdoor style often comes at a high price, but it doesn't have to. This lushly designed guide empowers you to create your own show-stopping containers made from everyday materials such as concrete, plastic, metal, terracotta, rope, driftwood, and fabric....
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The Family Cabin: Inspiration for Camps, Cottages, and Cabins

Dale Mulfinger · Taunton Press
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

Dale Mulfinger is widely acknowledged as the foremost expert on cabins in North America. His first book, The Cabin: Inspiration for the Classic American Getaway, has sold almost 200,000 copies and has consistently been the leading book in the category since it was published in 2001. In this...
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The Well-Tended Perennial Garden: The Essential Guide to Planting and Pruning Techniques, Third Edition

Tracy Disabato-Aust · Timber Press
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

"This practical guide is lush with clear, step-by-step advice." - Real Simple Gardeners everywhere have benefited from the trusty advice, reassuring tone, and helpful illustrations of The Well-Tended Perennial Garden. Now this completely revised third edition introduces a new generation...
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Reese Witherspoon · Touchstone
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Academy Award-winning actress, producer, and entrepreneur Reese Witherspoon invites you into her world, where she infuses the southern style, parties, and traditions she loves with contemporary flair and charm.Reese Witherspoon's grandmother Dorothea always said that a combination of beauty...
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Designing with Succulents

Debra Lee Baldwin · Timber Press
Pages: 356
Format: Hardcover

"Designing with Succulents is inspiring, practical, and complete - a treasure for any gardener who loves these otherworldly beauties." - Kathleen N. Brenzel, Sunset Succulents offer dazzling possibilities, requiring only minimal maintenance and very little water to remain lush...
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Family Handyman Do-It-Yourself Basics: Save Money, Solve Problems, Improve Your Home

FAMILY HANDYMAN. · Reader's Digest
Pages: 256
Format: Spiral-bound

Save Thousands! Tackle the Easy Fixes Yourself Over 120 Step-by-Step Secrets Revealed The Basics Everyone Can Master Don't pay a professional tons of money! We make it so easy for you to tackle the tasks yourself. Below are some of the everyday projects you will find in here to make...
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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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Detox Your Home: A Guide to Removing Toxins from Your Life and Bringing Health into Your Home

Christine Dimmick · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 196
Format: Hardcover

Cancer affects 1 in 2 persons, and nearly everyone has an autoimmune-related disease or allergy. We live in a world where the incidence of illness grows as fast as the GDP. Industrialization has created a world that puts products before human and environmental health. Exercise and eating...
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Grow For Flavor: Tips and Tricks to Supercharge the Flavor of Homegrown Harvests

James Wong · Firefly Books, 2016.
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

Gardeners can be disappointed by the insipid flavor of the vegetables and fruit that they have so carefully nurtured. The problem, according to botanist James Wong, is that many conventional gardening practices are based on pure myth or faulty science. They create bumper crops at the expense...
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Your Best Home: 5 x spaces x 5 design steps = a better life

Joe Snell · Murdoch Books
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

This 'manual for a better life' is all about getting back to the basics of good shelter. It's a guide to help you apply and optimise the five fundamental factors in home design - space, air, light, view and sound - to the five most common spaces in all our homes - entry, living area, kitchen,...
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Slow: Simple Living for a Frantic World

Brooke McAlary · Sourcebooks
Pages: 289
Format: Hardcover

Free yourself from the frantic and embrace the joy of slow..."After reading this book, you'll have an amazing list of ingredients that can help you create a meaningful life, too!" -- The Minimalists Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus"Finally, a slow living guide for the imperfect...
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Cozy Minimalist Home: More Style, Less Stuff

Myquillyn Smith · Zondervan
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

More Style, Less StuffCozy Minimalism isn't about going without or achieving a particular new, modern style. Nope. It's simply a mindset that helps you get whatever style YOU LOVE with the fewest possible items.You want a warm, cozy, inviting home, without using more resources, money, and stuff...
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Outstanding American Gardens: A Celebration: 25 Years of the Garden Conservancy

Page Dickey · Stewart, Tabori & Chang
Format: Hardcover

The Garden Conservancy is celebrating its 25th anniversary with this beautifully illustrated book that documents a selection of the outstanding public and private gardens it has worked with since its founding in 1989. The book showcases eight gardens the conservancy has helped preserve...
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The Martha Manual: How to Do

MARTHA STEWART · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

Essential life skills from America's most trusted lifestyle expert - together in one beautiful and practical handbook, with hundreds of ideas, instructions, and inspirations Martha Stewart is America's go-to source for the best answers to nearly every question. As an authority on the many...
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