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Handmade Houseplants: Remarkably Realistic Plants You Can Make with Paper

Corrie Beth Hogg · Timber Press
Pages: 300
Format: Paperback

Houseplants are everywhere - on Instagram, in the media, and in trendy homes all over the world. In Handmade Houseplants, expert crafter and tastemaker Corrie Beth Hogg offers a no-water necessary alternative: plants made from paper! This stylish guide includes step-by-step instructions...
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The Posy Book: Garden-Inspired Bouquets That Tell a Story

Teresa H. Sabankaya · Countryman Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

"Like a favorite recipe, a posy is meant to be savored and shared. Try it yourself, and ... welcome a bit of floral enchantment into your life." -- Amy Stewart, author ofThe Drunken Botanist

Inspired by the Victorian-era language of flowers, a posy is a small, round...
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Pests and Diseases

ANDREW HALSTEAD · DK
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

Diagnose your fruit, vegetable, or ornamental plant problem visually using more than 350 full-color photos--or find it by plant, pest, or disease type--and get organic recommendations for solving 1,000 different pest, disease, and cultivation issues.Protect your harvest and keep your yard...
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Hanging Kokedama: Creating Potless Plants for the Home

CORALEIGH PARKER · Jacqui Small
Pages: 144
Format: Hardcover

Learn all about the Japanese art of creating potless plants, known as kokedama, from botanical extraordinaire, Coraleigh Parker. In Hanging Kokedama, Coraleigh's breath-taking moss ball creations, featuring ferns, succulents, herbs, orchids and even small trees, are suspended in mid-air...
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Pruning Simplified: A Step-by-Step Guide to 50 Popular Trees and Shrubs

Steven Bradley · Timber Press
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback

Paying a professional to prune your trees and shrubs is an unnecessary expense. You can tackle most trees and shrubs on your own, and Pruning Simplified by Steven Bradley makes it easier than ever to learn how to prune. He offers expert advice on the best tools for the job, specific...
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Butterfly Gardening: The North American Butterfly Association Guide

Jane Hurwitz · Princeton University Press
Pages: 288
Format: Flexibound

An indispensable and lavishly illustrated guide to creating a garden that attracts and sustains butterfliesButterfly gardening creates habitats that support butterflies, connecting us with some of the most beautiful creatures in the natural world and bringing new levels of excitement and joy to gardening....
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Climate-Wise Landscaping: Practical Actions for a Sustainable Future

SUSAN REED · New Society Publishers
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

Predictions about future effects of climate change range from mild to dire - but we're already seeing warmer winters, hotter summers, and more extreme storms. Proposed solutions often seem expensive and complex, and can leave us as individuals at a loss, wondering what, if anything,...

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Time to Parent: Organizing Your Life to Bring Out the Best in Your Child and You

Julie Morgenstern · Holt Paperbacks
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

The bestselling organizational guru takes on the ultimate time-management challenge --
parenting, from toddlers to teens -- with concrete ways to structure and spend true quality time with your kids.

Would you ever take a job without a job description, let alone one that...

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Reese Witherspoon · Touchstone
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Academy Award-winning actress, producer, and entrepreneur Reese Witherspoon invites you into her world, where she infuses the southern style, parties, and traditions she loves with contemporary flair and charm.

Reese Witherspoon's grandmother Dorothea always said that a combination...
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Hot Color, Dry Garden: Inspiring Designs and Vibrant Plants for Year-Round Beauty

NAN STERMAN · Timber Press
Pages: 324
Format: Paperback

Dry weather defines the southwest, and it's getting dryer. A water becomes more precious, our gardens suffer. If we want to keep gardening, we need to revolutionize our plant choices and garden practices. Hot Color, Dry Garden provides home gardeners wit a joyful, color-filled way to exuberantly...
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SAM: One Robot, a Dozen Engineers, and the Race to Revolutionize the Way We Build

Jonathan Waldman · Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

A true story of innovation, centered on a scrappy team of engineers - far from the Silicon Valley limelight - and their quest to achieve a surprisingly difficult technological feat: building a robot that can lay bricks.

Humans have landed men on the moon, programmed cars to drive...
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Handcrafted: A Woodworker's Story

Clint Harp · Touchstone
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Clint Harp, maverick carpenter on HGTV's smash hit Fixer Upper and the star of Wood Work on the DIY Network, presents his inspirational memoir that celebrates meaningful work, turning your craft into a career, and recognizing the importance of the journey itself.

While...
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A Woman's Guide to Cannabis: Using Marijuana to Feel Better, Look Better, Sleep Better–and Get High Like a Lady

Nikki Furrer · Workman Publishing Company
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback

A handbook for understanding and using marijuana, written just for women--whether they're using it for medicinal relief or for pleasure. This book is like having a knowledgeable salesperson across the counter at a dispensary who can hand-sell you a product to fit your mood and tastes--because...
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Living with Air Plants: A Beginner's Guide to Growing and Displaying Tillandsia

Yoshiharu Kashima (Protoleaf) · Tuttle Publishing
Pages: 96
Format: Hardcover

Living with Air Plants is the perfect introduction to the world of Tillandsia and the many ways they can be used to design and upgrade your home or work space. It is the work of a prominent horticulturist and a design, lifestyle and gardening expert from Japan, and displays a wonderful...
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The Proven Winners Garden Book: Simple Plans, Picture-Perfect Plants, and Expert Advice for Creating a Gorgeous Garden

Ruth Rogers Clausen · Timber Press
Pages: 188
Format: Paperback

Proven Winners is America's #1 plant brand. They search the world to bring gardeners the healthiest and most beautiful annuals, perennials, and shrubs. And now they bring their expert plant knowledge and creative design ideas to their first book, The Proven WinnersGarden Book....
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