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The Rock Garden Plant Primer: Easy, Small Plants for Containers, Patios, and the Open Garden by Christopher Grey Wilson Publisher Comments It's not necessary to have a traditional rock garden to enjoy rock garden plants. In fact, these colorful, small plants are perfect for the pots, containers, window boxes, and raised beds that are the mainstays of modern gardens. World-renowned botanist... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The American Meadow Garden: Creating a Natural Alternative to the Traditional Lawn by John Greenlee Staff Pick If you enjoy weeding, mowing, and triple-digit water bills, then the traditional lawn is for you. But for those of us who've grown tired of that high-maintenance expanse of green carpet, The American Meadow Garden offers some breathtaking alternatives... (read more) Your price: $34.95 New - Hardcover
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The Edible Front Yard: The Mow-Less, Grow-More Plan for a Beautiful, Bountiful Garden by Ivette Soler Publisher Comments People everywhere are turning patches of soil into bountiful vegetable gardens, and each spring a new crop of beginners pick up trowels and plant seeds for the first time. They're planting tomatoes in raised beds, runner beans in small plots, and... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Rain Gardens: Sustainable Landscaping for a Beautiful Yard and a Healthy World by Lynn M. Steiner Publisher Comments Rain gardens allow rainwater to follow the natural course of the water cycle—absorbed into the ground, taken up by plants, and evaporated back into the atmosphere. This landscaping choice encourages rainfall on your property to stay on your... (read more) Your price: $24.99 New - Trade Paper
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Lavender: The Grower's Guide by Virginia Mcnaughton Publisher Comments With their heady perfume and stunning visual appeal, lavenders have been prized by gardeners since ancient times. Lavender is a truly comprehensive study that enables the reader to research and identify more than 200 lavender species and varieties. With... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Edible Landscaping by Rosalind Creasy Staff Pick Originally published in 1982 as The Complete Book of Edible Landscaping, Rosalind Creasy's revolutionary book went on to win several awards before its out-of-print status transformed it into a highly sought-after collectible. With five chapters devoted... (read more) Your price: $39.95 New - Trade Paper
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Gardening with Shape, Line and Texture: A Plant Design Sourcebook by Linden Hawthorne Publisher Comments Gardening with Shape, Line and Texture bridges the gap between garden design books and plant reference encyclopedias. Leading landscaper Linden Hawthorne looks at plants from a designer's perspective (where color is often a secondary consideration) and... (read more) List Price $49.95 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Garden Up!: Smart Vertical Gardening for Small and Large Spaces by Susan Morrison Publisher Comments Vertical gardening is the latest, most talked about trend in gardening. Outdoor living walls planted with anything from succulents to vegetables, are springing up in urban and suburban areas and even commercial spaces. Home gardeners... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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American Horticultural Society A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants by Christopher Brickell and H. Marc Cathey Publisher Comments With over 15,000 entries and updated from the original "A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants"Qwhich sold over 190,000 copiesQthis is undoubtedly the most complete and authoritative garden plant guide ever published. Includes hundreds of new plants and... (read more) List Price $80.00 Your price: $39.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Wild Garden by William Robinson Publisher Comments William Robinson's revolutionary book, The Wild Garden, envisioned an authentically naturalistic approach to gardening that is more vital today than ever before. First published in 1870, The Wild Garden evolved through many editions and remained in print... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $14.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Education of a Gardener by Russell Page Publisher Comments Russell Page, one of the legendary gardeners and landscapers of the twentieth century, designed gardens great and small for clients throughout the world. His memoirs, born of a lifetime of sketching, designing, and working on site, are a mixture of... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Envisioning the Garden: Line, Scale, Distance, Form, Color, and Meaning by Robert Mallet Publisher Comments What style to give a garden and how best to lay it out are perennial puzzles for creators of gardens. Gardener/designer Robert Mallet shows how the basic elements of design--line, scale, distance, shape, color, and other sensory associations--can open... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $26.77 New - Trade Paper
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Beautiful No-Mow Yards: 50 Amazing Lawn Alternatives by Evelyn J Hadden Publisher Comments What has your perfect green lawn done for you lately? Is it really worth the time, effort, and resources you lavish on it? Armed with encouragement, inspiration, and cutting-edge advice from award-winning author Evelyn Hadden, you can liberate yourself... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $16.72 New - Trade Paper
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The Vertical Garden: From Nature to the City by Patrick Blanc Publisher Comments Nobody is more familiar than Blanc with the secrets of the plants, from all over the world, that live on almost nothing, in the most unlikely situations, carpeting the forest understory in semi-darkness or clinging to rocky cliff faces. From Paris to... (read more) Your price: $65.00 New - Hardcover
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Landscaping with Fruit: Strawberry Ground Covers, Blueberry Hedges, Grape Arbors, and 39 Other Luscious Fruits to Make Your Yard an Edible Par by Lee Reich Publisher Comments Fruit trees, shrubs, and vines are true two-for-one plants. Many varieties are strikingly beautiful -- well suited to doing double duty as delicious sources of sweet, organic fruit and as ornamental additions to the home landscape. Backyard fruit plants... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Sweet Pea Book by Graham Rice Publisher Comments An inspiring and comprehensive guide, The Sweet Pea Bookis for anyone interested in growing these most exquisite of fragrant flowers and using them in the garden. It covers the colorful history of the sweet pea, provides detailed practical advice on seed... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Bringing Nature Home: How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants by Douglas Tallamy Publisher Comments With the accelerating pace of development and subsequent habitat destruction, the pressures on wildlife populations are greater than ever. But there is a surprisingly important and relatively simple step toward reversing this alarming trend: Everyone... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Perennial Ground Covers by David S Mackenzie Publisher Comments Ground covers take on new meaning in this enlightening book designed to make gardeners' work easier. Hostas, stonecrops, smaller rhododendrons, prayer plants, pyracanthas, box huckleberry, hellebores, daylilies, grasses, alpine willows, and unsupported... (read more) List Price $27.25 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Moss Gardening: Including Lichens, Liverworts, and Other Miniatures by George Schenk Publisher Comments A delightful book that encourages gardeners to pay closer attention to the subtle beauty of miniature landscapes and introduces one of the glories of Japanese gardens into American designs. The author writes entertainingly of mosses on rocks and walls... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $24.50 Sale - Hardcover
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Fearless Color Gardens: The Creative Gardener's Guide to Jumping off the Color Wheel by Keeyla Meadows Synopsis Renowned garden artist Keeyla Meadows sees the world in strong, saturated shades. Fearless Color Gardens brings this unique vision to life by showing how to use wild, uninhibited color to connect indoor and outdoor spaces and turn a garden into a work of... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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