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Hydrangeas for American Gardens
Michael A. Dirr · Timber Press
Format: Illustrated]
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The sheer number of choices among Hydrangea species, hybrids, and cultivated varieties can be overwhelming even for the most advanced gardeners. How to choose from among the hundreds of mopheads, climbers, lacecaps, and oakleafs, to name just a few? And how to care for hydrangeas in American... |
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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
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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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Growing a Garden City: How Farmers, First Graders, Counselors, Troubled Teens, Foodies, a Homeless Shelter Chef, Single Mothers, and More are ... of Local Agriculture and Community
Jeremy N. Smith · Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Fifteen people—plus a class of first graders—tell how local food, farms, and gardens changed their lives and their community...and how they can change yours, too. Growing a Garden City includes: Fifteen first-person stories of personal and civic transformation from a range... |
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The Home Within Us: Romantic Houses, Evocative Rooms
Bobby McAlpine · Rizzoli; 1st Ed. edition
Format: Hardcover
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Architect and designer Bobby McAlpine creates idyllic houses that wed historical precedent with gracious modern living. His distinguished firms, McAlpine Tankersley Architecture and McAlpine Booth & Ferrier Interiors, are renowned nationwide for their talent in designing residences... |
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Growing Tasty Tropical Plants in Any Home, Anywhere:
Laurelynn G. Martin · Storey Publishing, LLC
Format: Paperback
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Imagine a cup of coffee brewed from beans grown right in your own kitchen. Or juice from an orange harvested from the living room. A salad sprinkled with olives plucked from a tree in the dining room. It's now possible in any climate, with Growing Tasty Tropical Plants in Any Home,... |
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The Garden Classroom: Hands-On Activities in Math, Science, Literacy, and Art
Cathy James · Roost Books
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Creative ways to use the garden to inspire learning, for kids ages 4-8Packed with garden-based activities that promote science, math, reading, writing, imaginative play, and arts and crafts, The Garden Classroom offers a whole year of outdoor play and learning ideas - however big or small... |
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What a Plant Knows: A Field Guide to the Senses
Daniel Chamovitz · Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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How does a Venus flytrap know when to snap shut? Can it actually feel an insect’s tiny, spindly legs? And how do cherry blossoms know when to bloom? Can they actually remember the weather? For centuries we have collectively marveled at plant diversity and form—from Charles... |
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Raised Bed Revolution: Build It, Fill It, Plant It ... Garden Anywhere
Tara Nolan · Cool Springs Press
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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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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Saving Seeds, Preserving Taste: Heirloom Seed Savers in Appalachia
Bill Best · Ohio University Press; 1 edition
Format: Book
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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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