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The Illustrated Virago Book of Women Gardeners by Deborah Kellaway Synopsis An illustrated anthology of garden writing dedicated to some of the finest female gardeners and a tribute to their contribution to the horticultural world. From diggers and weeders to plantswomen and landscape designers the book is aimed at both the... (read more) Your price: $14.95 New - Trade Paper 
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Garden Party: Collected Writings 1979-1999 by Roy C. Strong Publisher Comments A collection of Sir Roy Strong's articles on all aspects of gardens and gardening. A mixture of old and new, the articles offer lively insights and embrace a wide cultural perspective. From what is a garden?, Strong moves on to look at the art of... (read more) Your price: $38.50 New - Hardcover
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The Armchair Book of Gardens: A Miscellany by Jane Billinghurst Publisher Comments People have always created gardens. Once a link to the divine, gardens have been celebrated for centuries by painters, sculptors, poets, and novelists from all parts of the world. This marvelous collection of prose and images explores gardens from many... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Hardcover
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Growing Season: A Healing Journey into the Heart of Nature by Arlene Bernstein Publisher Comments ... to nourish the hungry soul. Growing Season finds answers to the deepest needs of the questing heart in that place where humans and nature join in joyful collaboration -- the garden. Book jacket.... (read more) List Price $6.48 Your price: $5.75 Google eBooks - Electronic
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An Ecology of Enchantment: A Year in the Life of a Garden by Des Kennedy Publisher Comments In Crazy About Gardening, Des Kennedy led happy readers down the garden path with a series of wisely funny essays on the wonderful idiosyncrasies of gardening and gardeners. In An Ecology of Enchantment, Des swings open his own garden gate once again to... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $16.82 Google eBooks - Electronic
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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 Garden by William Alexander Publisher Comments A wry gardening memoir furnishes advice from a backyard gardener on growing everything from apples to zucchini, and presents his gardening experiences and the realization that the love of gardening often drove him to use costly and time-consuming methods.... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $12.38 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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My Natural History: The Evolution of a Gardener by Liz Primeau Publisher Comments Written with the author's trademark blend of enthusiasm and insight, My Natural History describes how gardening has always been Liz Primeau's therapy, obsession, and reward. Full of fascinating gardening lore, personal history, and practical insight... (read more) List Price $26.50 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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Beautiful Madness: One Man's Journey Through Other People's Gardens by James Dodson Publisher Comments During an amazing year of living botanically, James Dodson went behind the scenes of the world's two most important garden shows (the Philadelphia Flower Show and the Chelsea Garden Show in New York City); spent time with the Botticelli of Bulbs... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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Of Flowers & a Village: An Entertainment for Flower Lovers by Wilfrid Blunt Publisher Comments Wilfrid Blunt (1901and#8211;1987) is probably best known today as a biographer of Linnaeus and as the author of the classic study The Art of Botanical Illustration. But Blunt also had his lighter side. Of Flowers andamp; a Villageis a novel written in... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Hardcover
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Hortus Revisited: A 21st Birthday Anthology by David Wheeler Synopsis A richly diverse selection from the original garden writings produced by the quarterly periodical Hortus over the last twenty-one years. 'Some of the best garden writing you could find anywhere.' Anna Pavord, The Independent 'Offering the finest garden... (read more) Your price: $40.00 New - Hardcover
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A Gardener's Gripe Book: Musing Advice and Comfort for Anyone Who Has Ever Suffered the Loss of a Petunia by Abby Adams Publisher Comments A Maddening Endeavor Perennials behaving like annuals, dead and gone after just one season. Neighbors' tomatoes that always come in a week earlier than yours. Fickleness, hard work, and ethical dilemmas (you've live-trapped the woodchuck-now what?). It's... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price: $0.95 Used - Trade Paper
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In the Garden: Blooming Stories by John Miller Publisher Comments It was Will and Ariel Durant who suggested that gardening was the most ephemeral of all the arts. Certainly, what a gardener plants in the cool of the evening will not be what he sees the next sunup.... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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The New American Landscape: Leading Voices on the Future of Sustainable Gardening by Thomas Christopher Publisher Comments Gardeners are the front line of defense in our struggle to tackle the problems of global warming, loss of habitat, water shortages, and shrinking biodiversity. In The New American Landscape, author and editor Thomas Christopher brings together the... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $28.00 Used - Hardcover
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Fern House by Deborah Schenck Synopsis At last, best-selling photographer Deborah Schenck brings her exquisite images to book form. Through her eyes we discover the pleasure found in creating a luxurious garden set against the backdrop of her nineteenth century home in Vermont. Leafing... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Postcards from the Hedge: Seasons in a Suburban Garden by Jill Appenzeller Publisher Comments In Postcards from the Hedge, Jill Appenzeller reflects on life, family, and human nature in the context of her ever-changing garden. The book is a collection of vivid vignettes that span all four seasons as well as decades of memories both in and out of... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $8.87 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Cultivating Delight: A Natural History of My Garden by Diane Ackerman Publisher Comments In the mode of her bestseller A Natural History of the Senses, Diane Ackerman celebrates the sensory pleasures of her garden through the seasons. Whether she is deadheading flowers or glorying in the profusion of roses, offering sugar water to a... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Going to Seed: Dispatches from the Garden by Charles Goodrich Publisher Comments "In Going to Seed: Dispatches from the Garden, Charles Goodrich chronicles the changing seasons manifested in his garden. He evokes plants and animals, and our deep human congress with the earth in exquisitely drawn poems, but the heartbeat at the center... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Paradise by design :native plants and the new American landscape by Kathryn Phillips Book News Annotation A personal portrait of the struggles and successes of Californian landscape architect Joni Janecki, who uses native plants to create landscapes that draw people and their natural surroundings closer together. This insider's narrative recounts her... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Why We Garden: Cultivating a Sense of Place by Jim Nollman Publisher Comments This book is full of helpful tips from Jim Nollman's decades of gardening experience, plus the Zen of gardening--the sense of place and purpose, what tending the land means to us.... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Gardener's Year by Karel Capek Publisher Comments It is seldom that a practical guide to gardening attains the level of a literary masterpiece, still more seldom that a book on gardening can amuse and instruct even those who have no garden to plant., nor the faintest interest in acquiring one. The... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $25.00 Used - Trade Paper
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