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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 Gardener's Book of Color

Andrew Lawson · Firefly Books
Pages: 232
Format: Paperback

A comprehensive guide to using color in the garden to best advantage. "Color is the most potent weapon in a gardener's armory," Andrew Lawson writes. "Nothing in a garden makes more impact." This guide takes color way beyond the existing guides for gardeners. It adds...
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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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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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A Beginner's Guide to Succulent Gardening: A Step-by-Step Guide to Growing Beautiful & Long-Lasting Succulents

· Tuttle Publishing
Pages: 96


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Infinite Succulent: Miniature Living Art to Keep or Share

Rachael Cohen · Countryman Press
Pages: 168
Format: Hardcover

Take your succulents to the next level with these stylish and creative projectsFrom blue- green to purple and pink, flower-shaped to squat and spiky or tall and fuzzy, the variety, versatility, and low-maintenance care of succulents makes them go-to plants for home gardeners. Here, succulent...
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Mini Meadows: Grow a Little Patch of Colorful Flowers Anywhere around Your Yard

Mike Lizotte · Storey Publishing, LLC
Pages: 152
Format: Paperback

The word "meadow" conjures images of wide expanses of land, but a mini meadow - a kind of informal flower garden started with seed sown directly into the soil - can be any size; plus, it's fun, easy to grow, and good for the planet. With as little as 50 square feet and for less...
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Practical Cactus and Succulent Book: The Definitive Guide to Choosing, Displaying, and Caring for more than 200 Cacti

Fran Bailey · DK
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback

Choose the right plant from 200 varieties of cacti and succulents, and learn how to grow and show them off with help from this comprehensive guide.How can you encourage your bunny ear cactus to flower and flourish? What is the best method for propagating an Echeveria or Kalanchoe? What...
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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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Gardening with Biochar: Supercharge Your Soil with Bioactivated Charcoal: Grow Healthier Plants, Create Nutrient-Rich Soil, and Increase Your Harvest

Jeff Cox · Storey Publishing, LLC
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback

Bio-activated charcoal - called biochar - is the new darling of organic gardeners, embraced for its outstanding abilities to enrich the soil and improve plant growth. Gardening with Biochar is the first comprehensive guide to understanding, making, and using it effectively in the home...
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