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Price: $19.00
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Sale: $11.56
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Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: James A. Duke::Steven Foster
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Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 581.6340973
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Publication Date: 1999-12-28
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Reading Level: 432
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Description: With more than 300 photos, this new edition shows how to identify more than 500 healing plants. Descriptive text includes information on where the plants are found, as well as their known medicinal uses. An index to medical topics, symbols next to plant descriptions, and organization of plants by colors all make this an essential guide to understanding the traditional medicinal uses of the plants around us. At a time when interest in herbs and natural medicine has never been higher, the second edition of this essential guide shows how to identify more than five hundred kinds of healing plants. More than three hundred new color photos illustrate their flowers, leaves, and fruits. The updated descriptive text includes information on where the plants are found as well as their known medicinal uses. An index to medical topics is helpful for quickly locating information on specific ailments, from asthma and headaches to colds and stomachaches. Symbols next to plant descriptions give readers a quick visual alert to plants that are poisonous or may cause allergic reactions. Organized by plant color for fast identification, this guide is an indispensable tool for understanding the traditional medicinal uses of the plants and herbs around us.
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Price: $17.95
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Sale: $10.92
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Manufacturer: Ten Speed Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: David Arora
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Publisher: Ten Speed Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 589.2220978
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Publication Date: 1991-04
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Reading Level: 256
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Price: $50.00
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Sale: $30.72
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Manufacturer: Clarkson Potter
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Ken Druse
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Publisher: Clarkson Potter
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Dewey Decimal Number: 635
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Publication Date: 2008-11-04
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Reading Level: 288
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Description: Ken Druse, one of today’s most acclaimed and popular garden writers, takes us on a ceaselessly fascinating stroll through the life of the garden, from the botanical marvels displayed by virtually any plant to the exploits of the plant explorers who once—and still do—race across the globe like Indiana Jones in search of rare and exotic specimens, to the need to conserve the threatened diversity of the natural world. Ripe with facts, punctured myths, serious investigation, and practical gardening wisdom, this is a gloriously illustrated and enlightening celebration of the plants that delight and sustain us. For Ken Druse, the garden provides both a refuge from the world and an irresistible invitation to explore the wonders of nature.
In planthropology, Druse celebrates the secret stories of plants and explains their im-portance within daily life, now and since ancient times. A pleasingly random and ever delightful garden stroll of a book, it uncovers scientific facts, dispels myths, exposes controversies, tells some rollicking good anecdotes, and, along the way, casually dispenses an abundance of practical gardening wisdom.
Using many of his own favorite plants as examples, Druse reveals little-known facts about both rare and common beauties. For instance, if you like winding down on a terrace or patio after work, Druse suggests planting petunias. Why? Because they are evening fragrant—their pollinators only come out at night. Perhaps you may not have noticed the beautiful spiraling patterns on sunflower heads; Druse explains that all plants feature such spirals, and that they correspond exactly to mathematical principles that have captivated great thinkers (and artists) throughout history.
With the authority and assurance of someone who demonstrates both deep passion and uncommon ex-pertise, Druse takes us chapter by chapter through the history, biology, economics, and cultural significance of plants. We meet bumblebees who literally shake pollen free from flowers with sonic vibrations. (Druse can’t recommend petting the fuzzy little apian teddy bears as they sleep in a sheltering blossom, but he has tried it!) Here too are the adventures of the plant explorers who sailed and trekked across the world in search of new and exotic specimens, and whose exploits were far more harrowing than you might imagine. Some plants even factored into the instigation of war. But Druse then gives us a handy primer on the language of flowers (a single gardenia says, “I love you in secret,” and acacia blossoms say, “Let us be friends”). He considers the influence of plants on the history of fine and decorative arts, the way we garden now with stalwart, low-maintenance plants, and the ever more critical need for conservation.
Planthropology is a wondrous ac-knowledgment, from one plant lover to his fellow devotees, of the limitless pleasure and deep wisdom to be found in the garden.
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Price: $19.95
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Sale: $10.50
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Manufacturer: Knopf
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Imitation Leather
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Author: NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY
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Publisher: Knopf
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Edition: Chanticleer Press Ed
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Dewey Decimal Number: 582.16097
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Publication Date: 1980-05-12
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Reading Level: 716
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Description: For the untrained observer, it can be quite a challenge to sort out the many trees that make up a stand of older forest in, say, New England or the Ozarks. This well-illustrated guidebook, covering 364 species, comes to the rescue with photographs organized in several ways: by, for example, the shape of the leaf or needle, by the fruit, by the flower or cone, and by autumn coloration. Following one visible characteristic or another, the reader can narrow the range of possibilities, then turn to an informative text that describes a tree's physical characteristics, habitat, and range. Many of the species covered are relatively rare, such as the "stinking cedar" of the Georgia-Florida border; others are locally abundant, such as the paper birch of the boreal forest, used to make ice-cream sticks; still others, such as the smooth sumac, are widespread. The guidebook also covers ornamentals introduced from other continents, such as the Chinese privet and Mahaleb cherry. --Gregory McNamee
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Price: $27.95
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Sale: $15.24
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Manufacturer: Timber Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Douglas W. Tallamy
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Publisher: Timber Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 639.92091733
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Publication Date: 2007-11-06
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Reading Level: 288
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Description: The pressures on wildlife populations today are greater than they have ever been and many gardeners assume they can remedy this situation by simply planting a variety of flowering perennials, trees, and shrubs. As Douglas Tallamy points out in this revelatory book, that assumption is largely mistaken. Wild creatures exist in a complex web of interrelationships, and often require different kinds of food at different stages of their development. There is an unbreakable link between native plant species and native wildlife. When native plant species disappear, the insects disappear, thus impoverishing the food source for birds and other animals. Fortunately, there is still time to reverse this alarming trend, and gardeners have the power to make a significant contribution toward sustainable biodiversity. By favoring native plants, gardeners can provide a welcoming environment for wildlife of all kinds. Healthy local ecosystems are not only beautiful and fascinating, they are also essential to human well-being. By heeding Douglas Tallamy's eloquent arguments and acting upon his recommendations, gardeners everywhere can make a difference.
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Price: $29.95
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Sale: $18.46
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Manufacturer: Timber Press, Incorporated
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Debra Lee Baldwin
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Publisher: Timber Press, Incorporated
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Dewey Decimal Number: 635.9525
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Publication Date: 2007-04-01
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Reading Level: 256
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Description: Succulent plants offer dazzling possibilities for garden design and require only minimal maintenance to remain lush and alluring year round. Featuring the work of more than 50 professional garden designers and creative homeowners, this complete design compendium is as practical as it is inspirational. Lavishly illustrated with over 300 photographs, it gives design and cultivation basics for paths, borders, slopes, and containers; hundreds of succulent plant recommendations; and descriptions of 90 easy-care, drought-tolerant companion plants. Beginners and experienced designers, landscapers, and collectors alike will find what they need to visualize, create, and nurture the three-dimensional work of art that is the succulent garden.
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Price: $34.95
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Sale: $23.07
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Manufacturer: Agarikon Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Paul Stamets::J. S. Chilton
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Publisher: Agarikon Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 635.8
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Publication Date: 1983-12
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Reading Level: 415
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Price: $69.95
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Sale: $44.07
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Manufacturer: Timber Press, Incorporated
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Michael A. Dirr
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Publisher: Timber Press, Incorporated
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Dewey Decimal Number: 635.977097303
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Publication Date: 1997-10-01
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Reading Level: 494
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Description: Dirr's Hardy Trees and Shrubs: An Illustrated Encyclopedia Michael A. Dirr This bestselling encyclopedia, illustrated with brilliant photographs, describes the best woody plants adapted to cooler climates, showing both habit and details of more than 500 species, and including some 700 additional cultivars and varieties. Brief cultural information is supplied for each plant, as well as Dirr's perceptive comments and opinions.
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Price: $45.00
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Sale: $28.00
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Manufacturer: Heyday Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Bonnie J. Gisel
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Publisher: Heyday Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 580.92
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Publication Date: 2008-11-01
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Reading Level: 256
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Description: As a young boy growing up in Wisconsin, John Muir faithfully recorded in his journal that the pasque-flower was a hopeful multitude of large, hairy, silky buds about as thick as one s thumb and that lady s slipper orchid in nearby meadows caught the eye of all the European settlers and made them gaze and wonder like children. Muir was blessed early on with a love and aptitude for botany, a field of study that helped him become one of the most influential environmentalists in the world. One realizes, in reading Nature s Beloved Son, how much Muir s successes as adventurer, writer, and environmental advocate were driven by his belief in nature s irresistible, divine beauty. Surprisingly, however, little has been written about John Muir the botanist. Environmental historian Bonnie J. Gisel takes us through Muir s evolving relationship with the natural world, touching on his childhood in Scotland and Wisconsin, his sojourn in Canada, his thousand-mile walk from Louisville, Kentucky, to the Gulf of Mexico, his ecstatic travels in California s Sierra Nevada, and his thrilling exploration of Alaska. Photographer Stephen J. Joseph s breathtaking prints of Muir s botanical specimens and related correspondence are artfully presented in this book and provide the backdrop for the story of Muir s inordinate fondness for plants. With the help of major foundations and generous individuals, Heyday has produced a book of superlative beauty with the highest of printing and design standards, a book worthy of Muir s great spirit and the ineffable beauty of the plant world.
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Price: $14.95
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Sale: $5.87
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Manufacturer: Golden Guides from St. Martin's Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: C. Frank Brockman
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Publisher: Golden Guides from St. Martin's Press
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Edition: Rev Upd
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Dewey Decimal Number: 582.160973
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Publication Date: 2001-04-14
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Reading Level: 280
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Description: Smell the bark of the aromatic Sassafras. Wonder at the Lodgepole Pine, whose heat-activated cones reseed forests destroyed by fire. Search for the Sugar Maple, whose foliage blazes red and yellow in autumn. North America's trees rank among nature's most awesome creations. This premier field guide features all characteristics-tree shape, bark, leaf, flower, fruit and twig-for quick identification, making it a superior choice for trail walks, creating displays, and scientific or commercial needs.-All of North America in one volume-Over 730 species in 76 families and 160 range maps-Native species and important introduced foreign varieties-Text, range maps, and illustrations seen together at a glance-Common and scientific names-Convenient measuring rules
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