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Seeing Flowers: Discover the Hidden Life of Flowers

Teri Dunn Chace · Timber Press
Format: Hardcover

Weve all seen red roses, blue irises, and yellow daffodils. But when we really look closely at a flower, whole new worlds of beauty and intricacy emerge. Seeing Flowers is a visual feast that gloriously highlights 343 popular garden flowers. Using a unique photo process that includes stitching...
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The Complete Compost Gardening Guide: Banner batches, grow heaps, comforter compost, and other amazing techniques for saving time and money, and ... most flavorful, nutritous vegetables ever.

Barbara Pleasant · Storey
Pages: 319
Format: Paperback

Barbara Pleasant and Deborah L. Martin turn the compost bin upside down with their liberating system of keeping compost heaps right in the garden, rather than in some dark corner behind the garage. The compost and the plants live together from the beginning in a nourishing, organic environment....
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Decorating Idea Book (Taunton Home Idea Books)

Heather Paper · Taunton Press
Pages: 313
Format: Paperback

Decorating is about being creative-being bold, taking a risk, trying something new. There's no right or wrong, only what works for you and your home. "Decorating Idea Book" is filled with over 500 approachable ideas for every room in the house. To spark your own creativity...
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Green Interior Design

Lori Dennis · Allworth Press; 1 edition
Format: Paperback

Award-winning designer and author Lori Dennis proves interior design can be both stylish and environmentally sustainable in this easy-to-use, entertaining guide. Dennis discusses every aspect of interior design—furniture and accessories, window treatments, fabrics, surface materials,...
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Sprinklers and Watering Systems (Better Homes & Gardens)

Scotts · Wiley; 1 edition
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback

• Practical advice for planning watering zones appropriate to climates and landscape varieties.• Tips for successful do-it-yourself installation or for planning a system with a professional.• Complete how-to for installing sprinkler equipment from a variety of manufacturers.•...
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Joinery

Taunton Press · The Taunton Press
Pages: 219
Format: Print book

MASTER THE ESSENTIAL WOOD JOINTS All woodworkers worth their sawdust know that joinery -- good, bad, or indifferent -- tells the unvarnished truth; how well a piece is made and how skilled the maker is. Over the decades, no one has proven better at teaching readers how to make beautiful,...
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Raised Bed Revolution: Build It, Fill It, Plant It ... Garden Anywhere

Tara Nolan · Cool Springs Press
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

Join the revolution and create a beautiful raised bed garden with inspiration from the ultimate raised bed gardening guidebook! Raised bed gardening is the fastest-growing garden strategy today, and Raised Bed Revolution is its ultimate guidebook. The book includes information about size...
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Fifth Avenue Style: A Designer's New York Apartment

Howard Slatkin · Vendome Press
Format: Print book

Howard Slatkin’s philosophy is that a home should be a deeply personal refuge that gives pleasure and comfort, and in this book he shows everyone how this is done.In this gorgeously illustrated volume, Slatkin, an interior designer and founder of the iconic home-fragrance and lifestyle...
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Saving Seeds, Preserving Taste: Heirloom Seed Savers in Appalachia

Bill Best · Ohio University Press; 1 edition
Format: Book

The Brown Goose, the White Case Knife, Oras Speckled Bean, Radiator Charlies Mortgage Lifter?—?these are just a few of the heirloom fruits and vegetables youll encounter in Bill Bests remarkable history of seed saving and the people who preserve both unique flavors and the Appalachian...
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Virginia Woolf's Garden

Caroline Zoob · Jacqui Small LLP
Format: Book

A chronological account takes the reader through the key events in the lives of Virginia and Leonard Woolf, and their deaths. This is allied to an account of the garden and its development, and the creation and development of the key areas of the garden. A wonderful selection of full-colour...
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The Four Season Farm Gardener's Cookbook

Barbara Damrosch · Workman
Pages: 485
Format: Paperback

Barbara Damrosch and Eliot Coleman are America's foremost organic gardeners -- and authorities. Barbara is the author of The Garden Primer, and Eliot wrote the bible for organic gardening, The New Organic Grower. Today they are the face of the locavore movement, working through their extraordinary...
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