Back Home & Garden | November Newsletter

SelectReads News
Simple News Pro
  Home & Garden  
Homebody: A Guide to Creating Spaces You Never Want to Leave

JOANNA GAINES · Harper Design
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

#1 New York Times Bestseller

In Homebody: A Guide to Creating Spaces You Never Want to Leave, Joanna Gaines walks you through how to create a home that reflects the personalities and stories of the people who live there. Using examples from her own farmhouse as well...

Read More check catalog
 
 
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...
Read More check catalog
 
 
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...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Black & Decker Complete Guide to DIY Greenhouses 2nd Edition: Build your own greenhouses, hoophouses, cold frames and greenhouse accessories

Cool Springs Press. · Cool Springs Press
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback

Find all of the most up-to-date information you need to design and equip your own greenhouse, all in one place!

Black & Decker Complete Guide to DIY Greenhouses is a new edition to the popular Complete Guide to Greenhouses & Garden Projects. Laser-focused...

Read More check catalog
 
 
The Aromatherapy Garden: Growing Fragrant Plants for Happiness and Well-Being

Kathi Keville · Timber Press, 2016.
Pages: 280
Format: Print book

Immerse yourself in the healing power of fragrance! The Aromatherapy Garden explains how fragrant plants can be as therapeutic as they are intoxicating, and how easy it is to add this captivating element to gardens large and small. It reveals the scents, secrets, and science behind fragrant...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Essential Oil Maker's Handbook

Bettina Malle · Spikehorn Press, 2015.
Pages: 144
Format: Print book

Extracting, Distilling, and Enjoying Plant Essences & Hydrosols: With their pleasing scents and uses in natural remedies, essential oils are more in demand now than ever. Unfortunately, modern production methods and unscrupulous labeling practices make it extremely difficult for consumers...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Building with Secondhand Stuff, 2nd edition: How to Reclaim, Repurpose, Re-use & Upcycle Salvaged & Leftover Materials

CHRIS PETERSON · Cool Springs Press
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback

From Craig's List, your basement, and estate sales, you can salvage what you need to upcycle all kinds of cool things. You can build tables, install vintage hardwood floors and salvaged windows, mason reclaimed stone walls, and do much more using free or very inexpensive, high-quality,...

Read More check catalog
 
 
Crave: A Memoir of Food and Longing

Christine S. O'Brien · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

"Do you mind that I'm going to be writing a book about the fact that I was hungry?" I asked my mother. "Just tell a good story," she replied.

Hunger comes in many forms. In her memoir, Crave, Christine S. O'Brien tells a story of family turmoil and incessant...

Read More check catalog
 
 
All New Backyard Idea Book

Sandra S. Soria · Taunton Press
Pages: 185
Format: Paperback

Completely revised and updated edition of the best-seller The All New Backyard Idea Book has been completely updated to bring together hundreds of fresh ideas and unique solutions for making the most of any backyard or outdoor spaces. With all-new photos that demonstrate design ideas,...

Read More check catalog
 
 
The Tree Doctor: A Guide to Tree Care and Maintenance

DAN PRENDERGAST · Firefly Books
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback

A practical reference for experienced and novice tree owners alike.

If you are fortunate enough to live on property that includes trees, The Tree Doctor is the ideal, fully-illustrated manual for care and maintenance. A sapling requires different care than does a young...

Read More check catalog
 
 
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...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Daylilies in my Garden

JOANNE MCKINNON · Blurb
Pages: 64
Format: Paperback

This edition of Daylilies in my Garden includes 12 more varieties, 4 illustrations, and an index. Over the years, I have grown and lost hundreds of plant varieties, but never a daylily. As a collector's garden, the design is modest. My garden, now more than 20 years old, is still a work...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Garden photography workshop : expert tips and techniques for capturing the essence of your ... garden

Andrea Jones · Timber Press
Pages: 220
Format: Paperback

Learn to take better garden photos!

One of the most rewarding aspects of gardening is sharing its beauty, both physically with those who visit and virtually with those who only see it on a screen. But capturing a garden's true essence is difficult, and often the moments worth...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Home Gardener's Herb Gardens

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

Home Gardeners Herb Gardens is the essential guide to growing herbs and designing, planting, improving, and caring for herb gardens. People now use herbs in their cooking on an everyday basis and there's nothing nicer than being able to go out into your garden, snip some fresh herbs...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Life to the Extreme: How a Chaotic Kid Became America's Favorite Carpenter

Ty Pennington · Zondervan
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

As a kid, Ty Pennington had too much energy. He was chaotic, bouncing off the walls, and on a first-name basis with the local emergency room staff. Back then there wasn't public awareness of attention deficit disorder yet. People just thought Ty was rambunctious. A trouble maker. What...

Read More check catalog