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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]
$ 4.49 + $ 3.29 media shipping.

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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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 Natural Guide to MEDICINAL HERBS AND PLANTS
by Frantisek Stary. Beautiful color illustrations by Hana Storchova. Condition: UNREAD 1992 Dorset Press hardcover (pictorial boards) & DJ (in mylar jacket), no printing given. Light tanning to white DJ. Content: This is a fascinating guide to the therapeutic properties of 100 commonly found herbs and plants. It includes practical tips for simple herbal recipes for teas and compresses. Each species is fully decribed and illustrated in finely drawn color plates. [1 copy availaable]
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WHO DOES YOUR GARDEN GROW?
by Alex Pankhurst. B&W photos illustrate. Condition: NEW 1992 Earl's Eye (UK) hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), 3rd printing. The book could be a bit sturdier, but all of them are the same way. Content: This book tells the stories behind the plants, describing them and the many people who live on as plants in our gardens. This book traces the background of over a hundred famous plant cultivars. The book describes the plants, how they came about, and the many talented people they commemorate. How did a French dressmaker's obstinacy bring her immortality? What well-known plant do we owe to a pulled train stop signal? Why should the Bishop of Llandaff be a scarlet dahlia? [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 COLORADO (Colorado Littlebooks series)
by John Fielder. 34 beautiful color wildflower photos. Condition: UNREAD 1996 Westcliffe Publishers hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), no printing given. Content: Ok, so this isn't history, but I wanted to place it where you would see it. Each of the 34 pictures is accompanied by a well-matched poem. The combination of good photography and verse makes this a very enjoyable work, exercising different areas of the reader's brain. A great gift item for somone who really loves Colorado. [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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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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