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Mosaic Garden Projects: Add Color to Your Garden with Tables, Fountains, Bird Baths, and More

Mark Brody - Timber Press
Format: Book

No plant can truly offer year-round color in the garden, but a beautiful mosaic can. This hands-on guide includes a primer on the fundamentals of mosaic, with information on materials and three mosaic methods. Mosaic artist Mark Brody then walks you step-by-step through the creation of 25 decorative...
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Potted: Make Your Own Stylish Garden Containers

Annette Goliti Gutierrez - Timber Press
Format: Print book

Hand-made style for outdoor living Outdoor style often comes at a high price, but it doesn't have to. This lushly designed guide empowers you to create your own show-stopping containers made from everyday materials such as concrete, plastic, metal, terracotta, rope, driftwood, and fabric....
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Herbs & Spices: The Cook's Reference

Jill Norman - DK; Revised edition
Format: Hardcover

Herbs & Spices is the essential cook's companion, now redesigned and updated with all new recipes. A classic reference, the best-selling Herbs & Spices is a trusted resource in the kitchen, with more than 200 unique herbs and spices from around the world showcased alongside...
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Big Ideas for Small Spaces: Creative Ideas and 30 Projects for Balconies, Roof Gardens, Windowsills and Terraces

Kay Maguire - Firefly Books
Format: Paperback

A practical guide to creating a green oasis in the city. Big Ideas for Small Spaces is for anyone with a small outdoor space that they wish to "green up". While the projects and advice are valuable to any gardener, they are especially useful to urbanites surrounded...
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The Garden Bible: Designing Your Perfect Outdoor Space

Barbara Ballinger - Images Publishing Group
Format: Print book

A full-color, richly illustrated and comprehensive guide on creating your own great gardenBudget-friendly suggestions and ideasThis book focuses on 20 case studies of the most popular garden trends from around the United States, how they transformed a site, demonstrating how various challenges...
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Modern Pioneering: More Than 150 Recipes, Projects, and Skills for a Self-Sufficient Life

Georgia Pellegrini - Potter Style
Format: Paperback

A cookbook and backyard gardening and homesteading guide for women who want to grow food efficiently, cook seasonal recipes, or even try foraging, camping, and living off the land.Self-sufficiency is the ultimate girl power Georgia Pellegrini, outdoor adventurer and chef, helps...
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100 Plants to Feed the Bees: Provide a Healthy Habitat to Help Pollinators Thrive

Xerces Society. - Storey Books
Format: Print book

The international bee crisis is threatening our global food supply, but this user-friendly field guide shows what you can do to help protect our pollinators. The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation offers browsable profiles of 100 common flowers, herbs, shrubs, and trees that attract...
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Happy Home Outside: Everyday Magic for Outdoor Life

Charlotte Hedeman Gueniau - Jacqui Small
Format: Hardcover

Colour and a sense of fun are central to the RICE ethos. Fresh from the success of her first interiors book, Happy Home, Charlotte has taken RICE style outside.This is a fun-loving collection of outdoor decorating and styling solutions, from seating and other furniture to lighting...
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Fairy Houses: How to Create Whimsical Homes for Fairy Folk

Sally J Smith - Cool Springs Press
Format: Hardcover

Add an exquisite flourish of design to your beloved green space or garden by adding tiny fairy homes inter-woven with nature. Fairy Houses gives you the instruction and inspiration you need! Have you ever seen a real fairy house? Not the ceramic ones at cavernous home improvement...
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The Field Guide to Peppers

Dave DeWitt - Timber Press, 2016.
Format: Print book

The essential guide for pepper enthusiasts! In this fiery guide, Dave DeWitt and Janie Lamson help you identify hundreds of the most popular chile pepper varieties. The 400 profiles include all the major types of peppers and are packed with information on culinary use, interesting facts,...
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Weeds of the upper midwest

Teresa Marrone - Adventure Pubns

Learn to identify common backyard weeds! Hundreds of full-color photos with easy-to-understand text make this a great visual guide to learning about more than 150 species of weeds -- toxic, edible or otherwise interesting -- found in the Upper Midwest, including Illinois, Indiana, Iowa,...
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The Beginner's Guide to Building a Garden One Project at a Time: 326 Fast, Easy, Affordable Ways to Transform Your Yard

Sally Roth - Timber Press
Format: Print book

A fresh approach and simple way to transform your yard! The prospect of revamping a yard is daunting. Where do you start? How do all the various areas come together in a beautiful, cohesive way? The Beginner's Guide to Starting a Garden simplifies the process by showing you how to spend...
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Bright Bazaar: Embracing Color for Make-You-Smile Style

Will Taylor - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

Dive into a refreshing take on color from one of the world's leading interiors bloggers, Will Taylor of Bright.Bazaar, West Elm's "go-to blogger for color inspiration." What began as a popular blog attracting over 400,000 readers a month is now a gorgeous, color-popping...
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National Geographic Birds, Bees, and Butterflies: Bringing Nature Into Your Yard and Garden

Nancy J Hajeski - National Geographic
Format: Print book

Generously illustrated and full of practical information, this approachable reference covers the wide world of birds, butterflies, and pollinating insects, including honeybees, and how to bring them into a yard and garden. For the new homeowner choosing shrubs and flowers for landscaping...
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Kitchen Upgrades

Taunton Press - Taunton Press
Format: Paperback

Kitchen Upgrades is a compilation of the very best expert design and product advice, using real-world remodels to help professionals and passionate amateurs remodel a kitchen of any shape and size, on any budget. The pros take you through every step of the remodeling process, with over...
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Magical Miniature Gardens & Homes: Create Tiny Worlds of Fairy Magic & Delight with Natural, Handmade Dcor

Donni Webber - Page Street Pub Co
Format: Print book

Celebrate the cute, tiny, magical and whimsical world of fairy gardens using this resourceful and inspiring book as the guide. Donni Webber crafter, fairy gardening guru and creator of FairyGardens. com takes readers on a journey to build unique gardens, houses and accessories for fairies....
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Vern yip's design wise : your smart guide to a beautiful home

Vern Yip - Running Press
Format: Print book

Vern Yip is one of the most beloved and recognizable interior designers in America. Over the course of his near-decade at HGTV, he has counseled thousands of people on beautifying their homes on limited budgets. Through his shows, as well as in his regular column "Learn from Vern"...
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Raised Bed Revolution: Build It, Fill It, Plant It ... Garden Anywhere

Tara Nolan - Cool Springs Press
Format: Hardcover

Join the revolution and create a beautiful raised bed garden with inspiration from the ultimate raised bed gardening guidebook! Raised bed gardening is the fastest-growing garden strategy today, and Raised Bed Revolution is its ultimate guidebook. The book includes information about...
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The Gardener's Guide to Weather and Climate: How to Understand the Weather and Make It Work for You

Michael Allaby - Timber Press
Format: Print book

You may be at the whim of a changing climate, but you don't have to let it ruin your garden. Weather expert Michael Allaby comes to the rescue with practical advice on adapting your garden to create optimum conditions for plants. You'll learn how weather works, how to predict different...
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Roses Without Chemicals: 150 Disease-Free Varieties That Will Change the Way You Grow Roses

Peter Kukielski - Timber Press
Format: Book

Spray no more!Roses have a reputation for being finicky garden plants that require chemicals and fertilizers to stay healthy and disease free. Fortunately, recent breeding efforts have produced disease-resistant varieties that perform beautifully in all kinds of conditions. Peter E. Kukielski,...
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Essential Pruning Techniques: Trees, Shrubs, and Conifers

Tony Kirkham - Timber Press
Format: Print book

A master class on pruning Pruning is an essential part of garden maintenance; it is necessary to regulate and control growth and to encourage flowering and fruiting on trees and shrubs. It is also one of the most difficult parts of garden maintenance. To prune well, gardeners must have...
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Epic Tomatoes: How to Select and Grow the Best Varieties of All Time

Craig LeHoullier - Storey Publishing, LLC
Format: Print book

Savor your best tomato harvest ever! Craig LeHoullier, tomato adviser for Seed Savers Exchange, offers everything a tomato enthusiast needs to know about growing more than 200 varieties of tomatoes--from sowing seeds and planting to cultivating and collecting seeds at the end of the season....
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Epic Tomatoes: How to Select and Grow the Best Varieties of All Time

Craig LeHoullier - Storey Publishing, LLC
Format: Hardcover

Savor your best tomato harvest ever! Craig LeHoullier, tomato adviser for Seed Savers Exchange, offers everything a tomato enthusiast needs to know about growing more than 200 varieties of tomatoes — from sowing seeds and planting to cultivating and collecting seeds at the end of the season....
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The Dictionary of Science for Gardeners: 6000 Scientific Terms Explored and Explained

Michael Allaby - Timber Press (OR)
Format: Hardcover

This must-have reference will help you navigate the complex world of science. It defines more than 6,000 words from 16 branches of science that are of particular interest to gardeners, from abscission (a plant's rejection of an organ) to zoochary (the dispersal of seeds by animals)....
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The Joy of Bird Feeding: The Essential Guide to Attracting and Feeding Our Backyard Birds

JIM CARPENTER - Scott & Nix, Inc.
Format: Paperback

The Joy of Bird Feeding is the ultimate reference for backyard bird watchers and bird feeders. It offers practical tips and solutions to attracting and identifying birds, offering the best foods for the birds you want to see, and how to deter those unwanted guests to feeding stations. Each...
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The Allergy-Fighting Garden: Stop Asthma and Allergies with Smart Landscaping

Thomas Leo Ogren - Ten Speed
Format: Paperback

The Groundbreaking Guide to Health-Conscious Gardening If you are one of the millions of people with allergies or asthma, this totally unique book shows you how to avoid plants that trigger allergies and to create a garden that will actually protect you by trapping pollen and cleaning...
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A Beautiful Mess Happy Handmade Home: Painting, Crafting, and Decorating a Cheerful, More Inspiring Space

Elsie Larson - Potter Style
Format: Book

Step inside the world of Elsie and Emma, the sisters behind the dcor blog A Beautiful Mess. With tiny budgets and a crafty, can-do attitude, they overhauled each room in their first homes with DIY projects using family photos, vibrant fabrics, flea-market finds, and affordable furniture....
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domino: Your Guide to a Stylish Home

Domino. - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book

From the editors of domino magazine comes your essential guide to discovering your personal style and creating a space you love.Since launching in 2005, domino has attracted a fiercely loyal following, which looks to the brand as the definitive source for decorating and style....
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The Bee-Friendly Garden: Design an Abundant, Flower-Filled Yard that Nurtures Bees and Supports Biodiversity

Kate Frey - Ten Speed Press
Format: Print book

For every gardener who cares about the planet, this guide to designing a bee garden helps you create a stunningly colorful, vibrant, healthy habitat that attracts both honeybees and native bees.In The Bee-Friendly Garden, award-winning garden designer Kate Frey and bee expert Gretchen...
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The Art of Butterfly Gardening: How to Make Your Backyard into a Beautiful Home for Butterflies

Mathew Tekulsky - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Print book

Butterfly gardening is the practice of attracting beautiful butterflies to your garden by growing common plants and flowers that they use for food and nectar. This fun and wonderfully simple activity will bring color, light, and beauty to your garden and home. With the relaxing and rewarding...
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How To Draw Modern Florals: An Introduction To The Art of Flowers, Cacti, and More

Alli Koch - Paige Tate Select
Format: Hardcover

If you feel like your busy schedule is preventing you from becoming the next Monet or Van Gogh, let us introduce you to Alli. Alli has mastered the art of turning simple doodles into beautifully designed floral illustrations, and she is giving you her expertise in her book How To Draw Modern...
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The Downsized Veggie Garden: How to Garden Small - Wherever You Live, Whatever Your Space

Kate Copsey - St. Lynn's Press
Format: Print book

Small is beautiful, and integrating a small, easy-to-manage garden into hectic everyday life is easy. In The Downsized Veggie Garden, low maintenance is the mantra. And so is making smart, creative use of the space we have - whether it's outdoors, indoors, in-ground, in containers, on a balcony...
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Shed Decor: How to Decorate and Furnish Your Favorite Garden Room

Sally Coulthard - Lark Books (NC)
Format: Paperback

In need of a place to work, play, or relax? A shed's the perfect solution! Small in space and investment, it easily fits in a backyard or garden and, as this inspirational design guide shows, can also be beautiful. From seemingly unpromising potting sheds to tired old summerhouses ripe...
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Grow For Flavor: Tips and Tricks to Supercharge the Flavor of Homegrown Harvests

James Wong - Firefly Books, 2016.
Format: Print book

Gardeners can be disappointed by the insipid flavor of the vegetables and fruit that they have so carefully nurtured. The problem, according to botanist James Wong, is that many conventional gardening practices are based on pure myth or faulty science. They create bumper crops at the expense...
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The Complete Guide to Stonescaping: Dry-Stacking, Mortaring, Paving & Gardenscaping

David Reed - Lark Crafts
Format: Paperback

Two bestselling books - now in one comprehensive volume! Together, The Art & Craft of Stonescaping and The Art & Craft of Stonework make up the best beginner-friendly guide available for anyone wanting to build stone walls (freestanding, retaining, dry-stacked or mortared)...
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Real Life Organizing: Clean and Clutter-Free in 15 Minutes a Day

Cassandra Aarssen - Mango
Format: Paperback

#1 Amazon Best Seller! Clutter-Free Solutions for an Organized HomeStorage solutions and advice to help you create a Pinterest worthy home on a small budget: Learn how to organize your home, simplify life and have more time for things you love. Organizational expert Cassandra 'Cas' Aarssen,...
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Small-Space Vegetable Gardens: Growing Great Edibles in Containers, Raised Beds, and Small Plots

Andrea Bellamy - Timber Pr
Format: Book

"If I could recommend one book for small-space vegetable gardening, this would be it. Andrea Bellamy nailed it!" - Joe Lamp'l, Growing a Greener WorldSmall-Space Vegetable Gardens explains the basics of growing a bounty of edibles in a minimal amount of space. Andrea...
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