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The Paper Garden: An Artist Begins Her Life's Work at 72 by Molly Peacock Publisher Comments In 1772, upon the death of her second husband, Mary Delany arose from her grief, picked up a pair of scissors, and, at the age of seventy-two, created a new art form: mixed-media collage. Over the next decade, Mrs. Delany produced an astonishing 985... (read more) Your price: $20.00 New - Trade Paper 
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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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Merry Hall by Beverley Nichols Publisher Comments First in a trilogy, Merry Hallis the account of the restoration of a house and garden in post-war England. Though Mr. Nichols's horticultural undertaking is serious, his writing is high-spirited, riotously funny, and, at times, deliciously malicious.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Enchanted April (New York Review Books Classics) by Elizabeth Von Arnim Publisher Comments 'The NYRB Classics series is designedly and determinedly exploratory and eclectic, a mix of fiction and non-fiction from different eras and times and of various sorts. The series includes nineteenth century novels and experimental novels, reportage and... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The $64 Tomato: How One Man Nearly Lost His Sanity, Spent a Fortune, and Endured an Existential Crisis in the Quest for the Perfect Ga by William Alexander Publisher Comments Bill Alexander had no idea that his simple dream of having a vegetable garden and small orchard in his backyard would lead him into life-and-death battles with groundhogs, webworms, weeds, and weather; midnight expeditions in the dead of winter to dig up... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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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Second Nature: A Gardener's Education by Michael Pollan Staff Pick Michael Pollan may be incapable of uninteresting writing. Discerning and lucid, his works tend to provoke the reader to engage themselves (at least in thought, if not deed) well beyond the final page. Second Nature: A Gardener's Education is Pollan's... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - 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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The Secret Life of Plants by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird Staff Pick I can't believe I hadn't heard about this book before I found it on the shelf. Published in the 1970s, it explores the relationship between humans and plant life. Numerous scientific studies with lie detector tests, electrodes, and other '70s high-tech... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Laughter on the Stairs by Beverley Nichols Publisher Comments In this, the second volume of the Merry Hall trilogy, Nichols is less concerned with his garden and more with his house, but the story does include the memorable characters Our Rose, the ditzy floral designer, and the cantankerous gardener Oldfield.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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Hortus Miscellaneous: A Gardener's Hodgepodge of Information and Instruction by Lorene Edwa Forkner Publisher Comments From the kinds of trees standing at Great Dixter to the 20 deadliest flowers to the best small garden animals according to the Indiana Department of Agriculture—gardening is a pursuit with no end of information to sift through. Where does... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Old Herbaceous: A Novel of the Garden (Modern Library Gardening Series) by Reginald Arkell Publisher Comments Back in print after fifty years Old Herbaceous is a classic British novel of the garden, with a title character as outsized and unforgettable as P. G. Wodehouse’s immortal butler, Jeeves. Born at the dusk of the Victorian era, Bert Pinnegar, an... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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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Pull Up Your Agapanthus, Your Aster Is Showing by Elizabeth S. Creamer Publisher Comments This little book provides a humorous reference for the gardener who wishes to avoid being horticulturally incorrect when it comes to proper pronunciation of the botanical names of plants. For those curious about the meanings of all those words describing... (read more) Your price: $14.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Gardener's Year (Gardening) by Karel Capek Publisher Comments Karel Capek's delightful book, divided chronologically into chapters for each month, paints a comically self-effacing and impressionistic picture of a gardener's ups and downs as he negotiates the unpredictable forces of nature that govern the life of... (read more) Your price: $14.00 New - Trade Paper
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My Garden (Book) by Jamaica Kincaid Publisher Comments One of our finest writers on one of her greatest loves.Jamaica Kincaid's first garden in Vermont was a plot in the middle of her front lawn. There, to the consternation of more experienced friends, she planted only seeds of the flowers she liked best. In... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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Garden Open Tomorrow by Beverley Nichols Synopsis No devoted reader of Beverley Nichols will want to be without Garden Open Tomorrow. The sequel to his famous Garden Open Today (with its open invitation to readers everywhere to come see his garden for themselves), this is his final garden book and the... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Trade Paper
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Island Garden by Celia Thaxter Publisher Comments Houghton Mifflin originally published this classic, written by a New England poet and illustrated by one of America's greatest impressionist painters, in 1894. Seven years ago, a slipcased facsimile gift edition introduced a new generation of readers to... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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In and Out of the Garden by Sara Midda Publisher Comments This books is a potpourri of garden lore. Here are summer days of raspberry picking, swarms of bees laden with pollen, peas ripe for podding, herbs for flavouring. Every page, including the text, has been hand painted. Dip into it for recipes, poems... (read more) List Price $23.50 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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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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