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ALMANAC & PEST-CONTROL PRIMER: A month-by-month guide and journal for planning, planting, and tending your organiz garden (Gardner to Gardner series)
edited by Vicki Mattern & Fern Marshall Bradley. B&W drawings illustrate. Condition:NEW 2000 St. Martin's Press soft cover, first printing. Content: In "Organic Gardening" magazine, the popular "Gardener to Gardener" column is a forum for gardeners across the country to reveal their most ingenious ideas to one another. Now, this unique format is combined with the best of a practical record-keeping tool and a garden almanac, offering readers a gardening book unlike any other on the market. 100 two-color illustrations. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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ALMANAC & PEST-CONTROL PRIMER: A month-by-month guide and journal for planning, planting, and tending your organiz garden (Gardner to Gardner series)
edited by Vicki Mattern & Fern Marshall Bradley. B&W drawings illustrate. Condition:NEW 2000 St. Martin's Press hardcover (pictorial boards - no DJ issued), first printing. Content: In "Organic Gardening" magazine, the popular "Gardener to Gardener" column is a forum for gardeners across the country to reveal their most ingenious ideas to one another. Now, this unique format is combined with the best of a practical record-keeping tool and a garden almanac, offering readers a gardening book unlike any other on the market. 100 two-color illustrations. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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AMERICAN GARDENING SERIES: BULBS (Burpee)
by Suzanne Frutig Bales. Color photos illustrate. Color maps. Condition:NEW 1992 Prentice Hall large softcover, first printing. Content: Selecting, planting, and caring for Bulbs. Also a section on common pests and how to control them. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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AMERICAN GARDENING SERIES: FLOWERING SHRUBS (Burpee)
by Ken Druse. Color photos & maps illustrate. Condition:NEW 1992 Prentice Hall large softcover, first printing. Content: Detailed descriptions of more than 130 flowering shrubs, including recommended varieties and tips for design, color, and companion planting. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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AMERICAN GARDENING SERIES: SHADE GARDENING (Burpee)
by Anne M. Zeman. Color photos illustrate. Condition:NEW 1991 Prentice Hall large softcover, first printing. Content: What to do with that shade in your garden? This book suggests excellent perennials, annuals, bulbs and shrubs that thrive in every condition from light to dense shade. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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THE BUG BOOK: Harmless Insect Controls
by Helen and John Philbrick. B&W illustrations by Cathy Baker. Condition: Gently pre-read, if at all, 1991 Storey Communications Trade Paperback, 21st printing. Interior clean & tight, but there is a name on the top Title Page. Content: This book, first published in 1971, is already a classic among dedicated gardeners. It tells and shows how to identify both the helpful and the destructive insects that inhabit your gardens. Learn how to take advantage of the "good" bugs and how to eliminate the bad ones safely. [1 copy available]
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CITY GARDENING: Planting, Maintaining, and Designing the Urban Garden
by Deirdre Colby. Color photos. Condition: UNREAD 1988 Simon & Schuster over-sized hardcover (lavender boards) & DJ (in mylar jacket), first printing. Content: Urbanites will want to study this comprehensive garden-planning book. Colby, a garden and travel writer, presents the peculiarities of urban gardening for both the backyard and elevated terrace, balcony, roof or penthouse garden. Particular plants are recommended and general gardening advice proffered, but this information is not central to the book nor detailed. Rather, Colby ably discusses concerns specific to the city garden pollution, integrating architecture and neighboring gardens into a motif, container gardening, city codes and weight restrictions, proximity to garden-supply centers. For city dwellers too inexperienced or busy to take on the time-consuming work and responsibility of a garden, Colby suggests hiring professionals for carpentry (building platforms), lighting and maintenance (watering and pruning). Occasionally, the writing is clumsy, but that is more than counterbalanced by the appealing design of the book and the beautiful photographs of many exquisite gardens. [1 copy available]
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THE FINE ART OF SALAD GARDENING
by E. Annie Proulx. B&W detailed drawings by Jean Siebert. Condition: UNREAD 1985 Rodale Trade paperback, first printing. Light edgewear with a few light rubbings on front hinge. Interior perfect. Content: Everything you wanted to know about growing your own salad ingredients - great detailed B&W drawings by Jean Siebert, how-to's, history of the ingredients. Neat book from the woman who gave us "Brokeback Mountain" - go figure that one. Several recipes included, but not primarily a cookbook. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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THE GREENS BOOK
by Susan Belsinger & Carolyn Dille. Color photos by Joe Coca. Condition: UNREAD 1995 Interweave Press soft cover (with its own DJ - in mylar jacket), first printing. Content: In the comprehensive, gracefully written introduction, they offer descriptions, historical background and cultural information for greens from around the world (with the odd exception of parsley). Broadening the concept of "green," they include red-leaved radicchio, purple amaranth, blue kale and golden orach. A real boon to gardeners, they recommend the best-tasting varieties of each vegetable, and-just as valuable-tell what not to do (don't randomly combine packets of seeds from the hardware store for a DIY "salad mix"). The recipes reflect the authors' eclectic and sophisticated tastes: Ancho Corn Pudding, Sushi with Perilla, Naples-Style Cabbage and Endive Soup, Jamaican-Style Greens. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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GROWING GREAT VEGETABLES IN THE HEARTLAND
by Andrea Ray Chandler. Great color photos illustrate. Condition: UNREAD 2001 Taylor Publishing (Dallas) Trade Paperback, first printing. Tiny edgeweaer with light lift front cover fore edge. Content: This book is chock-full of extra information often not found in generic gardening books: How to harvest, rather than plant spinach on St. Patricks Day; How to grow the same amount of plants using one-fourth less water, nutrients and time; How to double your tomato harvest; The unique Barrow Composting method allows the busy gardener to easily add several inches of compost to the garden in just a season’s time, with very little work; Compares various methods for garden layout, debunks common myths, and offers advice for selecting tools; and more. Since anyone growing vegetables also eats them, there’s a chapter of tested recipes and herb-growing information. An extensive Bibliography, and an entertaining Glossary helps novices understand terms used in the horticultural world. Tables give equivalencies in both English and Metric lengths and volumes, plus handy formulas for those calculations you forgot after graduating school, such as finding circumference and area of circles [useful for building tomato cages], figuring the height of a tree without trigonometry, and more. Great book! [1 copy available]
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HERB GARDENS OF DELIGHT: Plants For Every Mood and Purpose
by Adelma G. Simmons. B&W illustrations and cover art by Kathleen Bourke. Condition: Gently pre-read 1974 Hawthorne hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), Book Club Edition. Book is in excellent condition, but the DJ has edgewear top edge. Content: Eight plot palns - for fragrance, culinary, and decorate gray-and-silver herb gardens - a Shakespeare garden - two saints' gardens - medicinal herb and dye gardens - plus inventories of herbs for these special gardens. [1 copy available]
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THE MEXICAN KITCHEN GARDEN
by John Meeker. Neat color drawings illustrate. Condition: NEW 1998 Andrews McMeel small hardcover (pictorial boards) & DJ (in mylar jacket), no printing given. Content: This book is a must-have for any gardener and cook who dreams of growing the perfect tomato for the perfect salsa. It includes descriptions of Mexican vegetables and herbs (each entry features tips for getting teh plant started, keeping it going, preventing pests and diseases, and harvesting); general gardening guidelines; information on preserving your harvest; a list of seed and plant sources; and authentic Mexican recipes. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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MONET'S GARDENS (Themes & Reflections Series)
by Edmund Swinglehurst. Cover art: Monet's 1908 Nympheas (Waterlilies). Beautiful color repros of Monet's paintings. Condition: UNREAD 1997 Smithmark hardcover (pictorial boards) & DJ (in mylar jacket), first printing. Interior perfect with wonderful glossy, sleek paper. Content: Claude Monet's passion for flowers and landscape began, as it did for other Impressionist painters, in a desire to paint directly from nature in the open air. The hours that Monet spent painting, often in the gardens or fields which surrounded the various houses he lived in, opened his eyes to the ever-changing tones and colors displayed by the countryside at different times of day. Color revealed by light, Monet discovered, created different worlds out of the same hills, trees and flowers. This book reproduces his wonderful nature paintings. [1 copy available]
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MORNING GLORIES & MOONFLOWERS: A Guide to Climbing, Trailing & Cascading Plants
by Anne Halpin. Great color photos illustrate. Condition: UNREAD 1996 Simon & Schuster large hardcover (10 x 9.8 x 0.8) and DJ (in mylar jacket), first printing. Light shelf wear top DJ spine. Interior perfect with wonderful glossy, sleek paper. Content: This book introduces a host of climbing, trailing, and cascading plants and their care and feeding. [1 copy available]
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THE SUNNY BORDER: Sun-Loving Perennials for Season-Long Color
Brooklyn Botanic Gardens 21st-Century Gardening Series
by C. Colston Burrell. Beautiful color photos illustrate. Condition: NEW 2002 Brooklyn Botanic Gardens, Inc. Trade Paperback, no edition given. Content: In this book you will learn how to make the most of the colors, forms, and textures of perennials in stunning combinations that keep your garden in flower from spring to frost. Excellent book! [1 copy available]
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THE WILDFLOWER BOOK From the Rockies West: An Easy Guide to Growing and Identifying Wildflowers
by Donald and Lillian Stokes. Beautiful color photos & maps. Condition: NEW 1993 Little, Brown large softcover. Perfect. Content: Copiously illustrated with maps, line drawings, and full-color photographs, each of these large-format (8 1/2 x 10 7/8) paperback books contains the essential information that backyard nature enthusiasts want and need -- to attract, identify, and understand birds and butterflies, and to grow and identify beautiful wildflowers at home. Beautiful photos - especially of our Columbines. [1 copy available]
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WILDFLOWERS OF THE EAST COAST (Of Australia)
by Michael & Irene Morcombe. Wonderful color photos. Condition: UNREAD 1970 Periwinkle Books soft cover, assumed first edition. Tiny edgewear. Interior perfect. Content: Details of the wildflowers of the eastern coast of Australia. Nice section on collecting & preserving. Questions welcome [1 copy available]
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WILDFLOWERS OF TEXAS
by Geyata Ajilvsgi. Beautiful color photos by the author. Condition: Good+, 1991 Shearer Publishing (Fredericksburg) soft cover, third printing. No major problems, just pre-read. Content: The entries are color colded, i.e., yellow flowers, white flowers, etc. There's also a nice color-codes map of Texas vegetation zones. The photos are clear and bright. The book contains a glossary and an illustrated glossary. Just the book you need when stalking the "wild flowers" of Texas. 414 glossy pages. Questions welcome [1 copy available]
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WILDLIFE-FRIENDLY PLANTS
by Rosemary Creeser. Beautiful full-color photos illustrate. Condition: NEW 2004 Firefly Books Trade Paperback, first printing. Content: No matter what size the garden or where it's located, attracting and supporting wildlife is one of the most beneficial of gardening activities. Although the common perception is that wildlife can only be found on large tracts of country land, Creeser demonstrates that, in nature, the "field of dreams" rule applies: if you build it, she says, they will come. By they, she means insects, birds, butterflies, and amphibians that can add life to the garden, and that need a garden habitat in order to survive. Knowing how to encourage wildlife is only part of a successful approach. The other is determining which plants are wildlife-friendly, and to that end, Creeser provides a comprehensive plant directory of perennials, trees, and shrubs. Complemented by breathtaking color photographs, each entry features informative symbols for at-a-glance reference. As beneficial wildlife populations diminish, it is more important than ever that gardeners plan and plant with these creatures in mind. Creeser's compact new guide makes that easy to do. Questions welcome [1 copy available]
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A WOMAN'S HARDY GARDEN: Growing the Best Flowering Plants and Shrubs
by Helena Rutherfurd Ely. Foreword by Charles Elliott. B&W Garaden "Plans." Condition: NEW 1999 Lyons Press Trade Paperback, first printing. Content: Originally published in 1903. Love of flowers and all things green and growing is with many men and women a passion so strong that it often seems to be a sort of primal instinct. So writes Helena Rutherford Ely in this engaging book on hardy flowers that is both instructional and charming to read. Chapters include instruction on how to prepare the soil, design a garden, and plant a small plot. The middle section of the book includes detailed information on annuals and perennials and other flowers, all of which are lovingly and thoroughly described. And the final part includes accents that can further enhance the beauty of the garden--water, walks, sundials, and others. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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THE WOODLAND GARDEN: Planting in Harmony with Nature (Revised Edition)
by Roy Forster and Alex Downie. Color photos, B&W photos and maps illustrate. Condition: NEW 2004 Firefly soft cover, revised edition, first printing. Content: The Woodland Garden is a valuable source of information and a practical how-to guide on hundreds of plant species ideally suited for planting in the woodland environment. Here is all the information needed to get started, from design, plant selection and initial planting through ongoing maintenance, using principles that can be applied anywhere in North America in almost any size garden - from large estate to city lot. [1 copy available]
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