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The Rock Garden Plant Primer: Easy, Small Plants for Containers, Patios, and the Open Garden
The Rock Garden Plant Primer: Easy, Small Plants for Containers, Patios, and the Open Garden
by Christopher Grey Wilson
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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)

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Moss Gardening: Including Lichens, Liverworts, and Other Miniatures
Moss Gardening: Including Lichens, Liverworts, and Other Miniatures
by George Schenk
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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)

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A Rage for Rock Gardening: The Story of Reginald Farrer, Gardener, Writer & Plant Collector
A Rage for Rock Gardening: The Story of Reginald Farrer, Gardener, Writer & Plant Collector
by Nicola Shulman
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A hundred years ago there was a pronounced change in the direction of British gardening. The garden was transformed from a plaything for the rich to a democratic exercise, a hobby for the millions. Few figures were more central to and prominent in this... (read more)

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The Art of Spiritual Rock Gardening
The Art of Spiritual Rock Gardening
by Donna Schaper
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From choosing the right rocks and plants to weeding and night gardening, this book shows how to start and maintain a rock garden. It describes the sacred meaning of stones and rocks in many of the world's cultures and spiritual traditions, including... (read more)

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Best Rock Garden Plants
Best Rock Garden Plants
by Stefan Buczacki
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Simplify the process of cultivating beautiful, but exacting, rock garden alpines. Gardeners will benefit from the detailed advice on growing these plants year-round, and each one's advantages. Includes plentiful information on building a rock garden or... (read more)

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Lewisias
Lewisias
by Roy Davidson
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These charming plants, greatly prized by rock gardeners, are showcased by an expert famous for having visited practically every known native Lewisia population. Lewisias is that rare book that seamlessly blends various disciplines and perspectives to... (read more)

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Alpines :step by step to growing success
Alpines :step by step to growing success
by Mary A. Robinson
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Alpines are for everyone. They are not difficult to grow, they do not die every winter, and they are the perfect answer for the smaller gardens of today, allowing a wide range of plants to be grown in a limited area. This guide is an attempt to lead the... (read more)

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Saxifrages: A Definitive Guide to 2000 Species, Hybrids & Cultivars
Saxifrages: A Definitive Guide to 2000 Species, Hybrids & Cultivars
by Malcolm Mcgregor
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The exquisite symmetry of the star-shaped blooms of saxifrages has captivated gardeners for centuries. Close observation of their fine markings, artful color combinations, and graceful presence makes it eminently clear why they attract such an... (read more)

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Bulbs for the Rock Garden
Bulbs for the Rock Garden
by Jack Elliott
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An excellent introduction to small bulbs for use in the rock garden, including some unusual and somewhat tender bulbs for warmer climates.... (read more)

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Alpine Plants: Ecology for Gardeners
Alpine Plants: Ecology for Gardeners
by John Good
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Alpine Plants: Ecology for Gardenersexplores ecosystems above the treeline on mountains and beyond the treeline in sub-polar regions from a gardener's perspective. It looks at the effects of geology and soils, low temperatures, precipitation, drought... (read more)

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The Rock & Water Garden Expert (Expert Series)
The Rock & Water Garden Expert (Expert Series)
by D G Hessayon
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128 pages (all in color), 7 1/4 x 9 3/8. <BR>... (read more)

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Alpine Plants of Europe
Alpine Plants of Europe
by Jim Jermyn
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With this reference, gardeners can successfully replicate alpine plants' native conditions, allowing them to grow such choice alpines as gentians, daphnes, and Dianthus. Dramatic photographs and descriptions take readers through the Pyrenees, Alps... (read more)

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Rock Garden Plants
Rock Garden Plants
by Baldassare Mineo
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Baldassare Mineo is owner of Siskiyou Rare Plant Nursery in Medford, Oregon, one of the world's great sources of plants for rock gardens. Mineo's own photographs are supplemented with many by the renowned horticulturist Fritz Kummert. This authoritative... (read more)

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Alpine Gardening
Alpine Gardening
by Chris Wheeler
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A comprehensive guide to these attractive and easy to manage plants.... (read more)

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Alpine Plants of North America: An Encyclopedia of Mountain Flowers from the Rockies to Alaska
Alpine Plants of North America: An Encyclopedia of Mountain Flowers from the Rockies to Alaska
by Graham Nicholls
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North America is replete with beautiful aplines, and this guide is equally useful to the traveler or the gardener for its identification, propagation, and cultivation information.... (read more)

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Rock garden plants of North America :an anthology from the Bulletin of the North American Rock Garden Society
Rock garden plants of North America :an anthology from the Bulletin of the North American Rock Garden Society
by Jane Mcgary
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A survey of American alpine flora in the form of an anthology of the North American Rock Garden Society journal's writing from the Society's first 50 years. The 55-some articles offer first- hand information on native North American species, broken... (read more)

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Success with Alpine Gardening (Success With...)
Success with Alpine Gardening (Success With...)
by Graham Clarke
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Alpine plants are beautiful, but have a reputation for not thriving outside of their natural rocky environment. In fact, these misunderstood plants are extremely versatile and can be grown as attractive features in any garden. Success with Alpine... (read more)

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Rock garden plants.
Rock garden plants.
by Dk
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These flexibound, lavishly illustrated, user-friendly guides identify every type of garden plant with up to ten salient features, at-a-glance information on height, spread, and color, and useful cultivation symbols. There are also separate sections on... (read more)

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Rock gardening :a guide to growing alpines and other wildflowers in the American garden
Rock gardening :a guide to growing alpines and other wildflowers in the American garden
by H Lincoln Foster
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This is the perfect book to aid those who wish to create a rock garden, perhaps as an attractive adjunct to an open terrace, doorway entrance, flagstone walk, driveway, or winding woodland path. Author H. Lincoln Foster presents a wide variety of... (read more)

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Serious Gardener: Rock Gardens
Serious Gardener: Rock Gardens
by New York Botanical Garden
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A master gardener relates the history of rock gardening in Europe and America; discusses the classic definitions of rock gardens, alpine gardens, and rockeries; and provides practical and aesthetic information on arranging and moving boulders, rocks and... (read more)

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