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100 Plants to Feed the Monarch: Create a Healthy Habitat to Sustain North America's Most Beloved Butterfly

The Xerces Society
Format: Paperback

The plight of the monarch butterfly has captured public attention and sparked widespread interest in helping to save their dwindling populations. In this in-depth portrait of the monarch butterfly - covering its life cycle, its remarkable relationship with milkweed, its extraordinary...

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The Complete Pebble Mosaic Handbook

Maggy Howarth - Firefly Books, 2016.
Format: Book

"This book is indeed complete with every aspect of design material selection, installation and care considered... Appropriate as a coffee table book and an instructive text; beginner and pro alike will not be disappointed." -- B and B, Washington State Nursery and Landscape...

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Essential Home Skills Handbook: Everything You Need to Know as a New Homeowner

Cool Springs Press - Cool Springs Press
Format: Paperback

BLACK DECKER Essential Home Skills Handbookoffers 100 beginner-friendly solutions for common household headaches, with achievable DIY projects and full-color step photos and illustrations. Whether you're moving from an apartment to yourfirst homeor you're inspired to tackle a particular...

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Joinery

Press - The Taunton Press
Format: Book

MASTER THE ESSENTIAL WOOD JOINTS All woodworkers worth their sawdust know that joinery -- good, bad, or indifferent -- tells the unvarnished truth; how well a piece is made and how skilled the maker is. Over the decades, no one has proven better at teaching readers how to make...

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The Month-by-Month Gardening Guide: Daily Advice for Growing Flowers, Vegetables, Herbs, and Houseplants

Franz Bohmig - ?Timber Press
Format: Paperback

How, when, and where are common questions for every home gardener - no matter their level of experience. How do I prune my lilac? When do I start my tomato seeds? Where should I plant my hydrangea? The Month-By-Month Gardening Guide is here to help. This compendium of practical...

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Nature's Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation that Starts in Your Yard

Douglas W. Tallamy - Timber Press
Format: Book

"Doug Tallamy is a quiet revolutionary and a hero of our time, taking back the future one yard at a time. In Nature's Best Hope, he shows how each of us can help turn our cities, towns and world into engines of biodiversity and human health." - Richard...

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The Virago Book Of Women Gardeners

Deborah Kellaway (Editor) - Virago
Format: Book

From diggers and weeders, to artists and colourists, writers and dreamers to trend-setters, plantswomen to landscape designers, women have contributed to the world of gardening and gardens. Here Deborah Kellaway, author of The Making of an English Country Garden and Favourite Flowers...

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Year of No Clutter

Eve O Schaub - Sourcebooks
Format: Book

Eve has a problem with clutter. Too much stuff and too easily acquired, it confronts her in every corner and on every surface in her house. When she pledges to tackle the worst offender, her horror of a "Hell Room," she anticipates finally being able to throw away all of the unnecessary...

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