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Everyone needs flowers in their life. This is an easy guide to growing your own.
Here are forty of the most beautiful and easiest flowers to grow for any space, for any budget, for tricky climates. From bearded irises and roses to pelargoniums and zinnias, there is a flower for every pot, planter box or garden. Learn how to care for your new flower friends with...
42) Lawns
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Keeping a healthy and verdant lawn can be a real challenge. Collins Practical Gardener Lawns looks at all imaginable aspects of starting and maintaining a lawn.
Whether your lawn is mainly for your family or intended as a showpiece, Lawns will provide all the know-how you need to design, prepare for, create and keep a lawn tailored to your needs.
All the technical info is covered from ground roots up, including advice on sowing seeds, laying turf,...
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Growing with Gardening offers step-by-step guidance in planning a year-round horticultural program for therapy, recreation, or education. Developed under the auspices of the North Carolina Botanical Garden, it features more than 250 activities, organized by month, ranging from designing a raised plant bed and building a wheelchair-accessible garden to constructing a plant press and creating crafts from natural plant materials. More than 200 illustrations...
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This maual allows gardeners or small farmers to properly setup their greenhouse for crop production.The purpose of this manual is to aid hobbyists and small farmers on how to setup your greenhouse properly. This short manual provides the greenhouse owner with everything one need to site his greenhouse and then prepare it for growing operations. Siting a greenhouse is important to get maximum solar radiation and to make it readilyt accessible to your...
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A thoughtful and practical book on how to garden in harmony with nature. A leading National Trust gardener reveals the techniques that work at in grand gardens are just as applicable for all gardeners, whether you have a small yard, a veg patch or several acres. His advice covers: How to make a plant healthy from organic spraying with milk, introducing friendly fungi to good nutrition for your plants. Making perfect compost, including hot composting...
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Gardening expert Jack Staub continues his stimulating series on unique additions to your garden with 75 Exceptional Herbs for Your Garden. With fascinating facts, unexpected lore-including its ancient medicinal and culinary employment-elegant prose, and beautiful watercolor illustrations by Ellen Buchert, this keepsake volume offers up 75 of the most extraordinary herbs available. Sometimes masquerading as common denizens of our fields and forests,...
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“Home Gardener's Bonsai” is the essential guide to the art and craft of growing bonsai in the garden or in the house. With topics ranging from watering and feeding to spirit and aesthetics, it provides an all-in-one guide to this ancient and fascinating hobby. The book features advice on looking for and raising trees; handling pests and diseases; using composts; potting; choosing containers; pruning the plants; and displaying them. A convenient...
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For more than a decade, gardeners have been turning to a beautiful little hardcover book called Gardener's Latin, by Bill Neal. Neal understood that as Latin terms began appearing with increasing frequency on nursery tags and gardening catalogs, gardeners would need help. So he weeded through the Latin words that describe and distinguish among plants and flowers and compiled a volume of select, brief, clear definitions.
Gardener's Latin leads us...
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Home Gardener's Container Gardens is the essential guide to gardening with attractive urns, troughs, tubs, hanging baskets, window boxes, and wall pots. No matter how big or small a garden is, there is always room for a container. They can be used on terraces and patios to soften their appearance, form a point of interest at the end of a path, or showcase a particularly wonderful plant. Whatever is needed in a garden, a container can be the answer....
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The Pacific Northwest will be in full bloom with Northwest Home Landscaping, 4th Edition! Find inspiring ideas to make your home landscape more attractive and functional in this must-have resource that is an updated edition of Creative Homeowner's award-winning best seller on landscaping northwest-style. The 48 featured landscape designs are created by professionals from the region and use more than 200 plants that thrive in the northwest. Detailed...
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In order to be a successful gardener, you have to know how to prune-whether to improve growth, increase fruiting qualities or to enable the plant to grow in space-restricted areas or cold environments. This practical book provides advice on pruning garden plants, from infancy to maturity. Included is detailed advice on renovating neglected plants, from shrubs and climbers to fruit trees and bushes. There is also a fun element, with instructions for...
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Explore twelve intriguing and unique New Zealand gardens and learn from the talented gardeners who created them.
From a hidden suburban food forest to a flower farm to an organic vegetable patch to a large station garden, each is described in detail, along with their owners' challenges and delights.
The gardens have been selected for their diversity in style and for the humble, passionate home gardeners who planted them. These growers have developed...
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The Magical Garden is a curious little book of magic, charms, spells, and bits of traditional and historical lore from and for magical gardens and the curious gardeners who tend to them. What gardener would not want to know the flower they were born under, the traditional magical meanings of bells and chimes, or the healing power of geraniums? Many of these nuggets of wisdom and magic have been handed down from Sophia's grandparents, who extensively...
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How to recycle household waste to make quality compost You don't need a science degree or a shed full of sophisticated equipment to make quality compost. What you need to get started is the know-how provided in this basic how-to book along a little elbow grease and the pile of organic materials you regularly throw away. Nature does the rest. Whether you live in the suburbs, country, or city, whether you have a garden or not, you can recycle household...
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Have you wanted to pick up a new hobby? How does saving a few dollars, and eating healthier sound? What if I told you could do all three, all at once? If this sounds good, then keep reading! Why garden, you ask? How about enjoying the best vegetables and fruit you've ever eaten? If you've never tasted garden-fresh food, you will be amazed by the sweet, juicy flavors and vibrant textures. There's absolutely nothing quite like fresh veggies, especially...
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Be inspired by nature's design! From the earliest snowdrops to alpine violet, tulips, and late autumn crocuses, bulbs add interest and color to the garden throughout the year. Renowned naturalistic garden designer Jacqueline van der Kloet has mastered a nonchalant and magical style, where bulbs emerge playfully, dancing among perennials and grasses. Growing Bulbs in the Natural Garden provides inspiration and insights gained from van der Kloet's career,...
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A renowned landscape gardener's guide to less expensive, less water-intensive lawns, whether it's a front yard or a fairway.
A lush green lawn is one of the great pleasures of the natural world, whether it's outside your front door or on a majestic fairway at a legendary golf course. But anyone who's tried to grow the perfect lawn the conventional way knows it requires an endless cycle of watering and applying synthetic fertilizers and toxic chemical...
59) Know Your Soil
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Create a beautiful, healthy garden that never ceases to amaze with Know Your Soil!
Your soil is filled with unique properties that determine what you can grow and how well.
Without knowing your specific soil type-clay, silty, peaty, or one of the others-you could be devoting your time, energy, and money to a garden that doesn't bring you results.
Understanding your soil and what's living in it, like microorganisms and insects, provides the foundation...
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"McCullough is on a mission to debunk thinking that American gardens are simply picket-lined lawns or copy-cats of esteemed European and Japanese cousins. After road tripping from sea to shining sea, he has carefully curated a list that undoubtedly proves the point. American garden designers are creating distinctive gardens with an All-American flair. They embrace the industrial grit of the Midwest, the hospitable grace of the South, the indigenous...
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