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Woodworking for the Garden: 16 Easy-to-Build Step-by-Step Projects

Alan Bridgewater · Creative Homeowner
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback

Create fabulous garden features with the ideal material: Wood!16 stylish outdoor projects from trellises and planters to decking, fences, chairs, benches, tables, sheds, pergolas and moreStep-by-step instructions, construction diagrams, and materials lists accompany each projectOver 300 photos...
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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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The Inspired Houseplant: Transform Your Home with Indoor Plants from Kokedama to Terrariums and Water Gardens to Edibles

Jen Stearns · Sasquatch Books
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

The ultimate go-to guide for aspiring indoor gardeners, this book offers inspiration and instruction to envision and create your own gorgeous in-home garden spaces.

With plentiful images and a distinctly modern and sophisticated feel, this book imparts both easy-to-follow advice...
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A History of Jewelry: Joseph Saidian & Sons

Caroline Childers · Rizzoli
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover

This book offers a unique way of exploring the world of vintage jewelry for experts, newcomers, and anyone with an interest in the topic.Every piece of jewelry tells a story, and none more so than the exquisite pieces in this book, which have passed through several notable owners before...
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Outer Order, Inner Calm: Declutter and Organize to Make More Room for Happiness

Gretchen Rubin · Harmony
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

With clarity and humor, bestselling author of The Four Tendencies and The Happiness Project Gretchen Rubin illuminates one of her key realizations about happiness: For most of us, outer order contributes to inner calm. And for most of us, a rigid, one-size-fits-all solution...
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Living Floral: Entertaining and Decorating with Flowers

Margot Shaw · Rizzoli
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

Brimming with top stylemakers' and designers' innovative floral design ideas to enliven the home, Living Floral will resonate with those who appreciate the beauty and everyday luxury of flowers.

For this inspirational, yet instructive, book Shaw presents portraits of top tastemakers...
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The New Plant Parent: Develop Your Green Thumb and Care for Your House-Plant Family

Darryl Cheng · Abrams Image
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback

For indoor gardeners everywhere, Darryl Cheng offers a new way to grow healthy house plants. He teaches the art of understanding a plant's needs and giving it a home with the right balance of light, water, and nutrients. After reading Cheng, the indoor gardener will be far less the passive...
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The Art of Outdoor Living: Gardens for Entertaining Family and Friends

Scott Shrader · Rizzoli
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

For anyone who wants to live well in their garden, here is a guide to creating stylish and livable outdoor spaces--for entertaining, playing, and relaxing.

Pools made private by lush plantings, bedrooms open to the back yard, bar seating by the outdoor oven. California native and exterior...
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The AHS Encyclopedia of Gardening Techniques: A step-by-step guide to key skills for every gardener

The American Horticultural Society · Mitchell Beazley
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover

The definitive guide to the best gardening techniques from pruning to propagation and planting to harvesting.
This step-by-step guide to essential gardening practice is a must-have reference showing modern methods to a new generation of gardeners. Compiled by leading specialists in every...
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Vegetable Gardening Wisdom: Daily Advice and Inspiration for Getting the Most from Your Garden

Kelly Smith Trimble · Storey Publishing, LLC
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

Sometimes the best gardening advice comes in tidbits shared over the backyard fence from a sage neighbor. In Vegetable Gardening Wisdom, master gardener Kelly Smith Trimble shares her tried-and-true ideas and guidance for finding success and enjoyment in every aspect of vegetable...
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