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The Box - Architectural Solutions with Containers

Sibylle Kramer · Braun Publish,Csi; New edition
Format: Hardcover

Shipping containers are the most conspicuous symbol of the globalized world economy – 20 or 40 feet of pure steel reduced to the essentials. They are robust, standardized, inexpensive, universally available, and quickly assembled. Whether as single units, piled on top of each other,...
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Grow Native: Bringing Natural Beauty to Your Garden

Lynn M Steiner · Cool Springs Press
Pages: 208
Format: Print book

Learn how to transform your yard into a beautiful landscape using native plants!You don't have to compromise beauty for natural landscapes with ecological responsibility and sustainability. In master gardener Lynn Steiner's book Grow Native, you'll find guidance for planting...
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Unearthed: Love, Acceptance, and Other Lessons from an Abandoned Garden

Alexandra Risen · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

In this moving memoir, a woman digs into a garden and into the past and finds secrets, beauty, and acceptance. Alex's father dies just as she and her husband buy a nondescript house set atop an acre of wilderness that extends into a natural gorge in the middle of the city. Choked with weeds...
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The Flower Farmer's Year: How to Grow Cut Flowers for Pleasure and Profit

Georgie Newbery · Uit Cambridge Ltd
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

The Flower Farmer's Year is a light, entertaining look at how to plant, maintain, and keep evolving a productive cut-flower garden. Whether you want to devote a corner of your garden to a stand of sweet peas and some cosmos, take up flower production for gate sales, or make a livelihood...
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The Garden Classroom: Hands-On Activities in Math, Science, Literacy, and Art

Cathy James · Roost Books

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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Landscape and Garden Design Sketchbooks

Tim Richardson · Thames & Hudson, 2015.
Pages: 318
Format: Print book

An intimate glimpse into the private sketchbooks of the world's foremost landscape and garden designers Garden and landscape designers are adept at interpreting outdoor spaces and transforming them into creatively conceived environments. Their ideas rarely come spontaneously: rather,...
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All the Presidents' Gardens: Madison's Cabbages to Kennedy's Roses, How the White House Grounds Have Grown with America

Marta McDowell · Timber Press
Pages: 328
Format: Print book

"This informative gem of a book is for readers fascinated by either gardening or presidential history." - Library Journal The eighteen acres that surround the White House have been an unwitting witness to history--a backdrop for soldiers, suffragettes, protestors, and activists....
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How to Prune Trees & Shrubs: Easy Techniques for Timely Trimming. A Storey BASICS® Title

Barbara Ellis · Storey Books
Pages: 128
Format: Print book

How to Prune Trees and Shrubs stresses the importance of determining the unique needs of each plant and then developing a plan before pruning it. It helps readers develop the skill and knowledge they need, whether they're motivated gardeners or beginners who simply want to maintain...
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Anouska Hempel

Marcus Binney · Rizzoli New York
Pages: 287
Format: Print book

There has never been a designer quite like Anouska Hempel. With the sheer creativity of her work, its originality, its awe-inspiring ambition - and its lasting influence - few contemporary designers approach her importance. This book is a first: it is both a breathtaking exploration of her achievement;...
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The Gentleman's Farm: American Hunt Country Houses

Laurie Ossman · Rizzoli
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

This sumptuous volume features gracious country homes that blend the very best of vernacular tradition, classical architecture, and high-style elegance. For four centuries, the ideal of the gentleman's farm has inspired Virginians to create extraordinary homes on landscapes of unparalleled...
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