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Gardening for Butterflies: How You Can Attract and Protect Beautiful, Beneficial Insects

Scott Hoffman Black · Timber Press
Pages: 287
Format: Print book

Library Journal Starred Review Welcome the world's most exquisite visitors to your garden! Gardening for Butterflies, by the experts at the Xerces Society, introduces you to a variety of colorful garden guests who need our help, and shows you how to design a habitat where they will thrive....
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The Plant Lover's Guide to Magnolias

Andrew Bunting · Timber Press
Pages: 232
Format: Print book

Magnolias - beloved for their iconic spring blossoms - are among the most popular flowering trees. In The Plant Lover's Guide to Magnolias expert Andrew Bunting shares information on garden use, design, culture, and maintenance. The plant directory includes hundreds of the best cultivars...
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Wildlife in Your Garden: Planting and Landscaping to Create a Backyard Sanctuary

Karen Lanier · i-5 Publishing
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

Imagine a thriving garden in your backyard, bursting with vibrantly colored blooms and lush green leaves, shaded by tall trees. Now imagine the same garden, alive with buzzing and flapping and chirping and croaking. Imagine the ecological impact of encouraging natural pollinators. Imagine...
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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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National Electrical Estimator 2017

MARK C TYLER · CRAFTSMAN BOOK CO
Format: Print book

Current installation costs for all common electrical work: conduit, wire, boxes, fixtures, switches, outlets, loadcenters, panelboards, raceway, duct, signal systems, and more. Provides material costs, manhours per unit, and total installed cost. Explains what you should know to estimate...
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Succulents Simplified: Growing, Designing, and Crafting with 100 Easy-Care Varieties

Debra Lee Baldwin · Timber Press; 5.5.2013 edition
Format: Paperback

Succulents are hot. And Debra Lee Baldwin, the bestselling author of Designing with Succulents and Succulent Container Gardens, is the ideal guide for gardeners, crafters, and DIYers looking for an introduction to these trendy, low-maintenance, drought-tolerant plants. Succulents Simplified...
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Heirloom Plants: A Complete Compendium of Heritage Vegetables, Fruits, Herbs & Flowers

Lorraine Harrison · Ball Publishing
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

It s nearly impossible for gardeners to resist the allure of heirloom plants. Their names alone sound inviting Flanders Purple kale, Golden Marconi sweet peppers, Moon & Stars watermelons, Turk s Turban squash, Scarlet Emperor running beans, and Jefferson plums and many growers claim...
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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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Compost

David Squire · Creative Homeowner Press
Pages: 80
Format: Print book

In our ecologically aware times, composting is one smart way to minimize our carbon footprint and help the earth. This new entry in the highly successful Specialist series gives gardeners all the guidance they need to start making, storing, and using their own compost. It offers Information...
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Ultimate Guide: Plumbing, 4th Updated Edition

Editors of Creative Homeowner · Creative Homeowner
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

This updated and expanded edition of Creative Homeowner's comprehensive, bestselling plumbing how-to book covers the most up-to-date products and techniques. Strong emphasis in the how-to information is placed on doing things correctly, so all of the projects use only code-compliant...
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All the Presidents' Gardens: Madison's Cabbages to Kennedy's Roses, How the White House Grounds Have Grown with America

Marta McDowell · Timber Press
Pages: 328
Format: Print book

"This informative gem of a book is for readers fascinated by either gardening or presidential history." - Library Journal The eighteen acres that surround the White House have been an unwitting witness to history--a backdrop for soldiers, suffragettes, protestors, and activists....
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The Field Guide to Peppers

Dave DeWitt · Timber Press, 2016.
Pages: 308
Format: Print book

The essential guide for pepper enthusiasts! In this fiery guide, Dave DeWitt and Janie Lamson help you identify hundreds of the most popular chile pepper varieties. The 400 profiles include all the major types of peppers and are packed with information on culinary use, interesting facts,...
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Fine Gardening Easy-to-Grow Vegetables: Greens, Tomatoes, Peppers & More

Editors of Fine Gardening · The Taunton Press, Inc.
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

This book is a true beginner's guide to growing vegetables easily and productively and contains great tips and techniques for even practiced gardeners. These surprisingly easy basics will have your garden filled to the brim with tomatoes, squash, peppers, and so many more favorites....
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Gardening with Less Water: Low-Tech, Low-Cost Techniques; Use up to 90% Less Water in Your Garden

David A Bainbridge · Storey Publishing
Pages: 127
Format: Print book

Are you facing drought or water shortages? Gardening with Less Water offers simple, inexpensive, low-tech techniques for watering your garden much more efficiently - using up to 90 percent less water for the same results. With illustrated step-by-step instructions, David Bainbridge shows...
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Seed Saving

CALEB WARNOCK · HOBBLE CREEK PR
Pages: 128
Format: Print book

The goal of all seed saving is to prevent seeds from becoming wild. Stop wasting money on storebought seeds and create a garden you can truly call your own. With easytofollow instructions for lettuce, beans, corn, onions, and much more, you'll soon be creating your very own heirloom...
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