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Price: $25.00
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Sale: $14.92
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Manufacturer: DK ADULT
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: DK ADULT
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Dewey Decimal Number: 635.0484
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Publication Date: 2005-04-18
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Reading Level: 416
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Description: Whether an experienced gardener is looking to go organic or a beginner wants to create a healthy, eco-friendly garden, the Rodale's Illustrated Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening contains the tips and techniques needed to produce beautiful flowers, top-quality herbs, and appetizing, wholesome fruits and vegetables. Explore the latest methods for cultivation without chemicals, discover the benefits of composting, and learn how to maintain an organic garden year-round.
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Price: $23.95
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Sale: $12.99
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Manufacturer: Artisan
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Dan Snow
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Publisher: Artisan
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Dewey Decimal Number: 779.36
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Publication Date: 2008-11-01
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Reading Level: 145
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Description: A master craftsman provides us with the timeless wisdom he has gained from heaving and hewing stone.
In his highly anticipated second book, Vermonter Dan Snow once again proves that he is not just one of America's premier artisans, but also one of our most articulate voices on the natural world and our relationship to it. Snow's medium is stone: He is the nation's premier drystone wall builder. Schooled in this ancient craft, he painstakingly creates structures as breathtaking as sculpture with nothing but gravity as their glue. In Listening to Stone, Peter Mauss's tactile photographs of Snow's artistry are matched by the artisan's quietly compelling prose.
In a voice as expressive as Annie Dillard's and as informed as John McPhee's, Snow demonstrates astonishing range as he touches on such subjects as geology, philosophy, and community. We learn that stone's grace comes from its unique characteristics—its capacity to give, its surprising fluidity, its ability to demand respect, and its role as a steadying force in nature. In these fast-paced times, Snow’s life's work offers an antidote: the luxury of patience, the bounty and quietude of nature, the satisfaction of sweat. "I work with stone," he ultimately tells us, "because stone is so much work."
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Price: $35.00
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Sale: $22.87
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Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Tovah Martin
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Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 635.9092
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Publication Date: 1994-10-05
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Reading Level: 160
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Description: Tasha Tudor's poignant art has fascinated adults and children for decades. Her nineteenth-century New England lifestyle is legendary. Gardeners are especially intrigued by the profusion of antique flowers -- spectacular poppies, six-foot foxgloves, and intoxicating peonies -- in the cottage gardens surrounding her hand-hewn house. Until now we've only caught glimpses of Tasha Tudor's landscape. In this gorgeous book, two of her friends, the garden writer Tovah Martin and the photographer Richard Brown, take us into the magical garden and then behind the scenes. As we revel in the bedlam of Johnny-jump-ups and cinnamon pinks, the intricacy of the formal peony garden, and the volumptuousness of her heirloom roses, we also learn Tasha's gardening secrets. How does she coax forth her finicky camellia blossoms in the dead of a Vermont winter? How does she train that fantastic topiary to model for her artwork? How can she keep her crown imperials from tumbling in the winds? Tasha's garden reflects a wealth of family lore, perfected through the years and years of working the soil. We may be dazzled by the beauty of the garden, but we come away from this book with practical ideas about improving our own plots of land. "Paradise on earth" is how Tasha describes her garden, and along with the flowers and the vegetables that provide her food, her paradise is filled with an enchanting menagerie -- corgies, Nubian goats, cats, chickens, fantail doves, and forty or more exotic finches, cockatiels, canaries, nightingales, and parrots, which inhabit her collection of antique cages. Tasha's beautiful watercolors and her enchanting anecdotes color this sublimely beautiful book.
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Price: $24.95
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Sale: $14.90
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Manufacturer: Chelsea Green Publishing Company
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Brad Lancaster
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Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing Company
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Dewey Decimal Number: 577
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Publication Date: 2006-01
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Reading Level: 200
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Description: Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands: Guiding Principles to Welcome Rain into Your Life and Landscape is the first volume of three-volume guide on how to conceptualize, design, and implement sustainable water-harvesting systems for your home, landscape, and community. This book enables you to assess your on-site resources, gives you a diverse array of strategies to maximize their potential, and empowers you with guiding principles to create an integrated, multi-functional water-harvesting plan specific to your site and needs. Volume 1 helps bring your site to life, reduce your cost of living, endow you with skills of self-reliance, and create living air conditioners of vegetation growing beauty, food, and wildlife habitat. Stories of people who are successfully welcoming rain into their life and landscape will invite you to do the same!
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Price: $24.95
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Sale: $15.32
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Manufacturer: Storey Publishing, LLC
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Tammi Hartung
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Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
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Dewey Decimal Number: 635.7
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Publication Date: 2000-02-15
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Reading Level: 256
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Description: An excellent guide for novices and experts alike, Growing 101 Herbs That Heal combines gardening, cooking, crafts, and natural healthcare into one sturdy manual. The author's care and concern for healthy plants and people are evident on every page, and there's an astonishing amount of detail in every section. Simple plant listings cover multiple pages, outlining everything from drainage preferences to the size and color of blooms. The different garden styles presented range from formal knot gardens to carefree wild gardens, with lots of choices for raised beds and containers. Organic methods for fertilizing and pest control are emphasized--time to get familiar with beneficial nematodes! If you've already got an herbal garden in place and are now wondering what to do with your harvest, look no further. Delicious recipes for breads, soups, and salads are here, along with medicinal tinctures, creams, and bath soaks, which are great for gifts or home use. There are also straightforward tips for starting an herb-based home business from your own creations. The last section is a fascinating materia medica that devotes a separate page to each herb, going into beneficial companion plants, harvesting time, market value, and home pharmacy uses. From common peppermint to the unusual yerba de la negrita, you'll enjoy the lovely pictures at least as much as the helpful information. --Jill Lightner
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Price: $29.00
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Sale: $17.27
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Manufacturer: Kodansha International
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Masakuni Kawasumi II and Masakuni Kawasu III
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Publisher: Kodansha International
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Dewey Decimal Number: 635.9772
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Publication Date: 2006-02-17
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Reading Level: 112
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Description: The Japanese art of bonsai is practiced worldwide, but while basic techniques have been more or less effectively taught, many of the more intriguing ones, as well as recently invented ones, have not. THE SECRET TECHNIQUES OF BONSAI remedies this oversight with the thoughtful instruction of second and third generation experts. SECRET TEACHINGS is by the author of the groundbreaking BONSAI WITH AMERICAN TREES, one of the first books to unveil the secrets of the trade. This time, Masakuni Kawasumi II teams up with his son, Masakuni III, to offer not only the basics for creating perfect bonsai but secret techniques he has developed over years of careful work and observation. Masakuni III, the first qualified tree doctor for bonsai in Japan, adds his unique insights. Between them they offer over eighty years of experience. The techniques are simple and intuitive, yet have been developed only after decades of practice and perfection. Detailed information is provided to start, nurture, and shape bonsai. A number of secret techniques are introduced for beginners and experienced enthusiasts alike. The father-and-son team also delves into bonsai tool usage, another area of their expertise, giving the reader a clear sense of how to use specialized tools—or how to better use the garden and workshop tools they have at home. All these make this an invaluable book for beginners and experienced enthusiasts alike. * Growing bonsai from seedlings or cuttings
* Secret techniques and new shortcuts to better bonsai
* Techniques for shaping, pruning, training, grafting, and repotting
* Step-by-step photos
* Expert advice from Japan's first bonsai tree doctor
* Detailed advice for using numerous bonsai tools to perfect bonsai work
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Price: $39.95
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Sale: $15.48
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Manufacturer: Taylor Trade Publishing
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Neil Sperry
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Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing
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Edition: 2
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Dewey Decimal Number: 635.09764
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Publication Date: 1991-02-25
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Reading Level: 400
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Description: The bible of Texas gardening just got better!
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Price: $19.95
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Sale: $8.00
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Manufacturer: Creative Homeowner
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Pat Sagui
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Publisher: Creative Homeowner
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Edition: 1st
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Dewey Decimal Number: 717
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Publication Date: 2005-02-01
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Reading Level: 224
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Description: Landscaping with Stone is a combination landscape design and project book in one. The first section provides readers with a framework for incorporating stone in their landscape designs, including a look at the different types of stone used in landscapes, sources of inspiration, and ways to think about stone in relation to other landscape elements. The second part of the book provides readers with tips on working with stone, from transporting to cutting and setting. There is also step-by-step instruction on some of the most popular stone projects, including patios, walls, and rock gardens.
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Price: $40.00
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Sale: $20.51
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Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Richard Brown::Tasha Tudor
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Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
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Edition: 1st
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Dewey Decimal Number: 741.642092
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Publication Date: 1992-10-28
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Reading Level: 144
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Description: A passage into the private and anachronistic world of a favorite children's author and illustrator follows her throughout the seasons as she lives on her Vermont farm without electricity, plumbing, or other modern amenities. 30,000 first printing. $35,000 ad/promo.
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Price: $60.00
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Sale: $35.99
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Manufacturer: W.W. Norton & Co.
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Patrick Blanc
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Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.
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Dewey Decimal Number: 684.18
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Publication Date: 2008-08-17
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Reading Level: 192
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Description: The secrets of plants that cling, grip, and climb, from the inventor of the vertical garden.
Patrick Blanc, an artist with a green thumb, has created dozens of his admired botanical tapestries in public and private spaces around the world, including the Marithé & François Girbaud boutique in Manhattan; the Jean Nouvel-designed Quai Branly Museum in Paris; the aquarium in Genoa; the Siam Paragon mall in Bangkok; and the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa, Japan. In this luscious, oversize, all-color book, he explains how to create plant walls using more than one thousand plants, drawing on his observation of natural milieus, his technique of growing on vertical surfaces, his savoir faire, and his passion for plants.
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