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The Community Gardening Handbook: The Guide to Organizing, Planting, and Caring for a Community Garden

Ben Raskin · Lumina Media
Pages: 144
Format: Print book

Community gardens are "cropping" up all over, allowing neighbors to work together, grow together, and reap the delicious rewards of their labor together. As more and more people become interested in getting back to nature and growing their own food, the community-gardening movement...
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Modern bonsai parctice : 501 principles of good bonsai horticulture

Larry Morton · Larry Morton
Pages: 341
Format: Print book

The most current, useful information on growing Bonsai. Fresh, practical, definitive, comprehensive reference guide to the finest art of horticulture: growing miniature trees. Common sense bonsai answers separating myth from fact with depth and detail. Appropriate for both bonsai hobbyists...
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Essential Native Trees and Shrubs for the Eastern United States: The Guide to Creating a Sustainable Landscape

Tony Dove · Imagine
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

A go-to guide for gardeners of all skill levels planting east of the Mississippi looking to add sustainable native flora to any horticultural project.Gleaned from the authors' 75 years of landscaping experience, this user-friendly reference offers suggestions on species selection based...
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Living in Wood: Architecture & Interior Design

Chris van Uffelen · Braun Publishing
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

An important material for many centuries and used in countless diverse ways before being almost despised for a long time in the modern era, wood has now become a source of fascination and inspiration in contemporary architecture. The sustainable and locally available building material is easy...
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Self Sufficiency for the 21st Century, Revised & Updated

Dick Strawbridge · Dk Publishing
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Self Sufficiency for the 21st Century makes it easy to be green and helps you live a more simple, cleaner lifestyle.Self Sufficiency for the 21st Century is a manual for the modern age to help anyone take the proper steps to live more sustainably. This informative, practical guide, written...
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Straw Bale Solutions: Creative Tips for Growing Vegetables in Bales at Home, in Community Gardens, and around the World

Joel Karsten · Cool Springs Press
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback

Half a Million Straw Bale Gardeners Can't Be Wrong From Australia to France to the UK and far beyond, Straw Bale Gardening is making an impact. The revolutionary method of growing food in bales has been on the scene for just a few years, but in that time it has spread across the world...
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The Secret Gardeners: Britain's Creatives Reveal Their Private Sanctuaries

VICTORIA SUMMERLEY · Frances Lincoln
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

The Secret Gardeners is a captivating photographic portrait of the private gardening passions of 25 of the UKs foremost artists, designers, actors, producers, composers, playwrights, sculptors and musicians. Accompanying meaty essays explaining the owners inspiration and passion are photographs...
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Sleep Rituals: 100 Practices for a Deep and Peaceful Sleep

Jennifer Williamson
Format: Hardcover

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Miniature Japanese Gardens: Beautiful Bonsai Landscape Gardens for Your Home

Kenji Kobayashi · Tuttle Publishing
Pages: 112
Format: Hardcover

Japanese gardens don't have to be large or elaborate to be beautiful.Bring the tranquility of Japanese garden design into any space in your home or office. Miniature Japanese Gardens shows you how to create simple Japanese-style container gardens using inexpensive plants and materials...
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Architects' Homes

Bethany Patch · Images Publishing Dist Ac
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

This stunning book takes a rare glimpse into the intriguing and unique homes of some of the world's best-known architects. How do these architects design their own private domains? How do their furnishing styles impact on the structural integrity of the space? How do these individuals...
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Floret Farm's Cut Flower Garden: Grow, Harvest, and Arrange Stunning Seasonal Blooms

Erin Benzakein · Chronicle Books
Pages: 308
Format: Print book

From Erin Benzakein, a leader in the locaflor farm-to-centerpiece movement and owner of internationally renowned Floret Flower Farm, Cut Flower Garden is equal parts instruction and inspiration - a book overflowing with lush photography of magnificent flowers and breathtaking arrangements...
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Cathedrals of Britain: London and the South East

BERNADETTE FALLON · Pen and Sword History
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback

**Pointing persistently to heaven: A guide to UK cathedrals**Power, glory, bloodshed, prayer: cathedrals in the UK are as much about human drama as spiritual sanctuary, as much about political wrangling as religious fervour. From Christian beginnings in the Middle Ages through Reformation,...
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Build Your Own Sheds & Outdoor Projects Manual: Over 200 Plans Inside

Design America Inc. · Creative Homeowner
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback

From basic storage sheds to playhouses, gazebos, and workshops, there is a growing trend toward standalone spaces as attractive alternatives to home additions. Build the outdoor structure of your dreams by doing all or part of the work yourself. This essential do-it-yourself guide will...
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The Book of Seeds: A Life-Size Guide to Six Hundred Species from around the World

P P Smith · University Of Chicago Press
Pages: 656
Format: Hardcover

Seeds are nature's consummate survivors. The next time you admire a field of waving green grassland or a stunning grove of acacia, stop to consider how it got that way - often against incredible odds. Seeds can survive freezing temperatures and drought. They can pass through our digestive...
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Urban Flowers: Creating abundance in a small city garden

Carolyn Dunster · Frances Lincoln Pub Ltd
Pages: 192
Format: Print book

Creating colour and interest in a small urban garden by growing a range of flowers and other decorative plants brings with it many rewards. Carolyn Dunster shows you what to grow and how to use your own blooms, leaves and berries in a range of indoor displays and hand-tied bouquets. Locally-grown...
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