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What Grows Here? Favorite Plants for Better Yards
What is so user-friendly about this book is that it is written as a series of frequently-asked gardening questions, the perfect format for the gardener who likes to participate in a forum community.
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 MAGAZINE
The English Garden
For the traditionalist, The English Garden magazine is a small slice of heaven. A sister magazine to The English Home, it provides a wonderful array of features for the amateur and enthusiast alike.
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Gardening in Eden
Part memoir, part history, and part gardening tutorial, Arthur T. Vanderbilt's Gardening in Eden should delight passionate gardeners.
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Noah's Garden: Restoring the Ecology of Our Own Backyards
Sara Stein, already an accomplished author, wrote this book after realizing that her efforts at gardening, were in fact hurting her land and environment, not helping it, however unintentionally.
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McGee & Stuckey's: The Bountiful Container
Separated into three parts, the book can be read from beginning to end as easily as it can be utilized as a handy at-your-fingertips plant encyclopedia.
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STUFF
Pisces Soap
While I'm a tad old for scratch n'sniff stickers (admitedly I still have my sticker collection in a box somewhere) I was delighted to discover that an adult version of such luxury exists in the genius soap creations produced by Pisces Soap.
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Plants For A Future: Edible & Useful Plants For A Healthier World
The scope of this book is massive, with lofty environmental and practical
goals, which are surprisingly made entirely achievable by the simple
gardening methods presented in the introduction.
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urban EDEN
This book is a blessing to the urban gardener stuck in tight spaces with limited gardening resources.
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TOOL
CobraHeadTM Precision Weeder and Cultivator
From the moment I pulled my CobraHeadTM tool from its package, I knew it was going to be a kick-ass weeder and cultivator. With its sturdy handle and sharp metal blade (aka Steel Fingernail TM), this tool was built to rip through clay dirt like butter.
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The Strangest Plants in the World
Not all plants can be tamed indoors or contained in a quaint little cottage garden. Some plants are so unusual and bizarre they should only belong in a greenhouse freak show.
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The Organic Gardener's Handbook of Natural Insect and Disease Control
Knowing your enemy is the first step in guarding against it effectively. As someone who aims to grow organically, I have yet to find a book that better provides me with the knowledge necessary to fight disease and pests in a safe, effective manner...
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Cultivating Delight: A Natural History of My Garden
....author Diane Ackerman takes us on a journey through the life cycle of her garden. Not so much a garden diary as a year-long
Walden, the book brings us with Ackerman as she connects emotionally to each
season, each garden pest, each gardening process.
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Organic Gardening
How many gardening magazines do you know of that could double as
collector’s items?
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Succulents: The Illustrated Dictionary
How many times have you purchased a succulent whose only identification was a tag that said "cacti or succulent"? Or perhaps you were lucky enough to be informed of the genus or family name but little more?
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The New Whole Foods Encyclopedia: A Comprehensive Resource for Healthy Eating
It is an incredibly comprehensive A-Z reference volume that covers the heath and nutritional benefits of just about anything edible.
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The Gardens of Kyoto
These are people you can imagine. These are people prior to the age of psychoanalysis.
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 MUSIC
Seeds and Songs To Make 'em Grow
According to the cd jacket, it was created for both children and adults. The music is very mellow, mostly acoustic guitar.
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STUFF
ElementsTM by Snapple Beverages
There has been a growing trend surfacing on the grocery shelves within the last few years towards creating products that contain exotic or unusual ingredients.
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Night Gardening
This is a lovely little story about a romance between two mature people who love to garden.
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The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-eye View of the World
The author and various reviewers have claimed that this book shows how certain plants have exploited humans in order to become successful species.
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 MAGAZINE
GardenWise
The newest magazine for B.C. gardeners. Weighing in at 78 pages for the premiere issue, it's packed full of useful information.
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SOFTWARE:
Garden Catalogue Profiles by Wendy Fries
With this "mail-order nursery guide for the personal computer" you can now locate and order only the catalogs you really want.
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planted
This is the most exciting and contemporary gardening book available and really takes the concept of gardening where it needs to go. If you can afford one book about gardening this year, I highly recommend that planted be the one you get.
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