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The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
by Michael Pollan  
Publisher Comments In 1637, one Dutchman paid as much for a single tulip bulb as the going price of a town house in Amsterdam. Three and a half centuries later, Amsterdam is once again the mecca for people who care passionately about one particular plant -- though this...
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On Guerrilla Gardening: A Handbook for Gardening without Boundaries
by Richard Reynolds
Powells.com Staff Pick The best book on the subject so far, On Guerrilla Gardening brings a lighter touch to political movement. Richard Reynolds gives us history and how-to in one book, just in time for spring! Recommended by Beth, Powells.com...
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Heirloom: Notes from an Accidental Tomato Farmer
by Tim Stark Publisher Comments Situated beautifully at the intersection of Michael Pollan, Ruth Reichl, and Barbara Kingsolver, Heirloom is an inspiring, elegiac, and gorgeously written memoir about rediscovering an older and still vital way of life. Fourteen years ago, Tim Stark was...
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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 soughtand#8212;for better or worseand#8212;to achieve perfection. She tracks down the hybridizers, geneticists, farmers...
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The Oxford Companion to the Garden
by Patrick Taylor Publisher Comments Devoted to gardens of every kind and the people involved in their making, The Oxford Companion to the Garden provides comprehensive coverage in 1,750 alphabetical entries detailing all aspects of the garden--from the ancient to the avant garde. It...
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The Orchid Thief
by Susan Orlean
Publisher Comments The orchid thief in Susan Orlean's mesmerizing true story of beauty and obsession is John Laroche, a renegade plant dealer and sharply handsome guy, in spite of the fact that he is missing his front teeth and has the posture of al dente spaghetti. In...
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Landscape Design: A Cultural and Architectural History
by Elizabeth Ba Rogers Publisher Comments People have shaped the landscape around them since prehistoric times, creating places as diverse in form and meaning as Stonehenge, the Forbidden City of Beijing, Versailles, and New York's Central Park. Overflowing with hundreds of plans, drawings, and...
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Restoring American Gardens: An Encyclopedia of Heirloom Ornamental Plants, 1640-1940
by Denise Adams Publisher Comments Today's gardeners have more plants and design ideas to choose from than ever before. But is there something missing in their gardens if they ignore their ties to the past? Denise Wiles Adams has written a remarkable book of history and horticulture that...
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The Tulip
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...
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Gardens: An Essay on the Human Condition
by Robert Pog Harrison Publisher Comments Humans have long turned to gardens—both real and imaginary—for sanctuary from the frenzy and tumult that surrounds them. Those gardens may be as far away from everyday reality as Gilgamesh’s garden of the gods or as near as our own...
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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...
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The Botanist and the Vintner: How Wine Was Saved for the World
by Christy Campbell Publisher Comments In the mid-1860s, grapevines in southeastern France inexplicably began to wither and die. French botanist Jules-Émile Planchon was sent to investigate. Magnifying glass in hand, he discovered that the vine roots were covered in microscopic yellow...
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Wordsworth's Gardens
by Carol Buchanan Publisher Comments Readers of the poems of William Wordsworth have encountered his love of the garden and gardening. Each year, thousands visit the grounds of Dove Cottage and Rydal Mount to see the Wordsworth family gardens. You can enjoy their beauty again and again in...
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Garden History: Philosophy and Design 2000 BC - 2000 Ad
by Tom Turner Publisher Comments Tom Turner, well-known teacher and writer in landscape architecture, garden design and garden history here explores more than 150 gardens over four millennia of Western garden design. He considers the why, the what, the how and the where of garden design...
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City Bountiful: A Century of Community Gardening in America
by Laura J. Lawson Publisher Comments "The social history of American cities would not be complete without a full account of the rise of community open spaces. Lawson does exactly this by providing a compelling and poetic account of the history and making of urban gardens. Combining solid...
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The Naming of Names: The Search for Order in the World of Plants
by Anna Pavord Publisher Comments Anna Pavord takes readers on a thrilling adventure into botanical history, traveling from Athens in the third century BC, through Constantinople, Venice, the medical school at Salerno to the universities of Pisa and Padua to reveal man's quest to sort...
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Nature's Palette: The Science of Plant Color
by David Lee Publisher Comments Though he didn’t realize it at the time, David Lee began this book twenty-five years ago as he was hiking in the mountains outside Kuala Lumpur. Surrounded by the wonders of the jungle, Lee found his attention drawn to one plant in particular, a...
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The Garden and Farm Books of Thomas Jefferson
by Robert C Baron Publisher Comments Includes Jefferson's correspondence, drawings, and plans for Monticello's gardens....
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The Sun King's Garden: Louis XIV, Andre Le Notre and the Creation of the Gardens of Versailles
by Ian Thompson Publisher Comments Presents an illustrated account of the creation of one of the world's most dazzling and extensive gardens, the gardens at the palace of Versailles, noting the unique four-decade friendship between Louis XIV, the creator of the garden, and Andre Le Ntre...
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Gods and Goddesses in the Garden: Greco-Roman Mythology and the Scientific Names of Plants
by Peter Bernhardt Synopsis Bernhardt reveals the rich history and mythology that underlie the origins of many scientific plant names in a series of interlocking stories. Each chapter opens with a short version of a classical myth, then links the tale to plant names, showing how...
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