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The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World by Michael Pollan Publisher Comments Every schoolchild learns about the mutually beneficial dance of honeybees and flowers: The bee collects nectar and pollen to make honey and, in the process, spreads the flowers genes far and wide. In The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan ingeniously... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Wicked Plants: A Book of Botanical Atrocities by Amy Stewart Staff Pick It's not easy being green. Mostly, everything else eats you. But some plants fight back with thorns and poisons. Some plants are: Wicked Plants by Amy Stewart.... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Hardcover
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"A Rich Spot of Earth": Thomas Jefferson's Revolutionary Garden at Monticello by Peter J Hatch Publisher Comments Were Thomas Jefferson to walk the grounds of Monticello today, he would no doubt feel fully at home in the 1,000-foot terraced vegetable garden where the very vegetables and herbs he favored are thriving. Extensively and painstakingly restored under... (read more) Your price: $35.00 New - Hardcover
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Wicked Bugs by Amy Stewart Publisher Comments In this darkly comical look at the sinister side of our relationship with the natural world, Stewart has tracked down over one hundred of our worst entomological foes — creatures that infest, infect, and generally wreak havoc on human affairs. From... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Meaning of Flowers: Myth, Language & Love by Gretchen Scoble Publisher Comments Should you send a rose of crimson or of white to the one you love? What gift of flowers best expresses thanks to a dear friend? From ancient days, long before words complicated what we say to one another, flowers have been our messengers, invested with... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World by Michael Pollan Publisher Comments Every schoolchild learns about the mutually beneficial dance of honeybees and flowers: The bee collects nectar and pollen to make honey and, in the process, spreads the flowers’ genes far and wide. In The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Hardcover
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Sissinghurst, an Unfinished History: The Quest to Restore a Working Farm at Vita Sackville-West's Legendary Garden by Adam Nicolson Publisher Comments A bestselling author's passionate memoir about restoring life to one of the world's greatest gardens Sissinghurst Castle is a jewel in the English countryside. Its chief attraction is its celebrated garden, designed in the 1930s by the poet Vita... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Magnificent Flora Graeca: How the Mediterranean Came to the English Garden by Stephen Harris Publisher Comments The publishing of the Flora Graeca was a landmark event in 1830. Only 25 copies were published, due to the books size of 10 double folio volumes and its numerous illustrations, and it cost over £620, a colossal sum at the time. The Flora... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price: $24.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Founding Gardeners: The Revolutionary Generation, Nature, and the Shaping of the American Nation by Andrea Wulf Publisher Comments From the author of the acclaimed The Brother Gardeners, a fascinating look at the founding fathers from the unique and intimate perspective of their lives as gardeners, plantsmen, and farmers. For the founding fathers, gardening, agriculture, and botany... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $21.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce, and Obsession by Adam Leith Gollner Publisher Comments Delicious, lethal, hallucinogenic and medicinal, fruits have led nations to war, fueled dictatorships and lured people into new worlds. An expedition through the fascinating world of fruit, The Fruit Hunters is the engrossing story of some of Earth's... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Tulip: The Story of a Flower That Has Made Men Mad by Anna Pavord From Powells.com Extraordinary fact: In Amsterdam in 1838 the asking price for a single tulip bulb, the "Semper Augustus," was 13,000 florins. Anna Pavord explains in her elegant tome The Tulip that at the time this amount was "more than the cost... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Flower Confidential by Amy Stewart Publisher Comments Award-winning author Amy Stewart takes readers on an around-the-world, behind-the-scenes look at the flower industry and how it has sought -- for better or worse -- to achieve perfection. She tracks down the hybridizers, geneticists, farmers, and... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Apple: A Global History (Reaktion Books - Edible) by Erika Janik Publisher Comments Gravenstein. Coe’s Golden Drop. Mendocino Cox. The names sound like something from the imagination of Tolkien or perhaps the ingredients in a dubious magical potion rather than what they are—varieties of apples. But as befits their enchanting... (read more) Your price: $17.00 New - Hardcover
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How Carrots Won the Trojan War: Curious (But True) Stories of Common Vegetables by Rebecca Rupp Publisher Comments How Carrots Won the Trojan War is a delightful collection of little-known stories about the origins, legends, and historical significance of 23 of the world’s most popular vegetables. Curious cooks, gardeners, and casual readers alike will be... (read more) Your price: $14.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean Publisher Comments A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK A modern classic of personal journalism, The Orchid Thief is Susan Orleans wickedly funny, elegant, and captivating tale of an amazing obsession. From Floridas swamps to its courtrooms, the New Yorker writer follows one... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Hybrid: The History & Science of Plant Breeding by Noel Kingsbury Publisher Comments Disheartened by the shrink-wrapped, Styrofoam-packed state of contemporary supermarket fruits and vegetables, many shoppers hark back to a more innocent time, to visions of succulent red tomatoes plucked straight from the vine, gleaming orange carrots... (read more) Your price: $20.00 New - Trade Paper
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Gertrude Jekyll (Shire Library) by Twigs Way Publisher Comments Almost eighty years after her death, Gertrude Jekyll (1843-1932) is still one of the most influential of all English garden designers. Best known for her superb use of colour schemes in her hallmark flower borders, she combined an early training in art... (read more) Your price: $12.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Scent of Scandal: Greed, Betrayal, and the World's Most Beautiful Orchid (Florida History and Culture) by Craig Pittman Publisher Comments “FANTASTIC. If I did not know most of the main players I would have thought the author had a vivid and twisted imagination.”—Paul Martin Brown, author of Wild Orchids of Florida “A fascinating true story of obsession, greed... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Hardcover
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Founding Gardeners: The Revolutionary Generation, Nature, and the Shaping of the American Nation (Vintage) by Andrea Wulf Publisher Comments For the Founding Fathers, gardening, agriculture, and botany were elemental passions: a conjoined interest as deeply ingrained in their characters as the battle for liberty and a belief in the greatness of their new nation. Founding Gardeners is... (read more) Your price: $18.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Garden of Invention: Luther Burbank and the Business of Breeding Plants by Jane S. Smith Publisher Comments The wide-ranging and delightful history of celebrated plant breeder Luther Burbank and the business of farm and garden in early twentieth- century America At no other time in history has there been more curiosity or concern about the food we eat-and... (read more) Your price: $12.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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