Gardening
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Gardening at the Dragon's Gate: At Work in the Wild and Cultivated World
by Wendy Johnson  
Powells.com Staff Pick An indispensable guide filled with useful information culled from a lifetime of experience. Reading Johnson's delightful book is a Zen-like experience in itself. Recommended by Ted, Powells.com...
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You Grow Girl: The Groundbreaking Guide to Gardening
by Gayla Trail
Powells.com Staff Pick This is one of the freshest, hippest, most complete and accessible beginning gardening books I've ever seen. From amending your soil and saving seed, to water recycling and sewing up your own garden apron, You Grow Girl has it all. Consider this book as...
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Outside the Not So Big House
by Julie Moir Messervy and Sarah Susanka
Powells.com Staff Pick For years I've drawn inspiration from the architectural principles in Sarah Susanka's Not So Big House series. Now, at last, Susanka (with landscape designer Julie Moir Messervy) opens the doors to extend her principles into the yard. Yes, many of the...
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The Secret Life of Plants
by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird
Powells.com 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...
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Square Foot Gardening
by Mel Bartholomew
Powells.com Staff Pick It is so easy to get bogged down in the stages between desiring a garden and actually planting it. It can be tough to find a book that will provide enough information to give you confidence in your first steps without overwhelming you with more...
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Flower Confidential: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful in the Business of Flowers
by Amy Stewart
Powells.com Staff Pick The magic of a great writer is that she can elevate any topic to fascinating status. In Flower Confidential, Amy Stewart uses equal parts journalism and florid writing to illuminate the machinal underpinnings of the flower industry. From the grail-like...
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The Earth Moved: On the Remarkable Achievements of Earthworms
by Amy Stewart
Powells.com Staff Pick A blind, lungless little plow that sifts our soil a teaspoon at a time is responsible for engineering our entire ecosystem. Amy Stewart has uncovered the earthworm's purposeful cycle into a delightful read that also serves as a reminder to savor our...
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Solviva: How to Grow $500,000 on One Acre and Peace on Earth: Learning the Art of Living with Solar-Dynamic, Bio-Benign Design
by Anna Edey
Powells.com Staff Pick Solviva's subtitle goes on even more — "Revealing the Truth about how we can provide electricity, heating, cooling, transportation, food, solid waste and wastewater management in ways that reduce pollution and depletion of resources by 80...
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The Rodale herb book: how to use, grow, and buy nature's miracle plants,
by Rodale
Powells.com Staff Pick I love finding Rodale books, especially the older ones. Rodale publishing is based in Emmaus, Pennsylvania so perhaps I have a soft spot for them, also being a PA native. Rodale has used organic gardening techniques for decades. Their guides are full of...
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Outside the Not So Big House: Creating the Landscape of Home
by Julie Moir Messervy
Powells.com Staff Pick For years I've drawn inspiration from the architectural principles in Sarah Susanka's Not So Big House series. Now, at last, Susanka (with landscape designer Julie Moir Messervy) opens the doors to extend her principles into the yard. Yes, many of the...
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How Does Your Garden Grow?: Great Gardening for Green-Fingered Kids
by Clare Matthews
Powells.com Staff Pick The forty rewarding projects in this book take youngsters away from the TV and out into the fresh air to channel youthful energies in exciting new ways. And parents share in the fun too — whether it's helping to grow an herb garden in a box or...
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Gardening with Clematis: Design and Cultivation
by Linda Beutler
Powells.com Staff Pick With a unique combination of talents as a floral and garden designer, and an unabashed clematis obsessive (she has over 250 types of clematis in her garden), Portland author Linda Beutler is uniquely suited to address all aspects of clematis planting...
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Dryland Gardening: Plants That Survive and Thrive in Tough Conditions
by Jennifer Bennett
Powells.com Staff Pick I read Dryland Gardening last winter in between laying 600 feet of soaker hoses and adding quadruple shut-off valves to all my spigots. The incredibly dry weather was conjuring summer vignettes of scorched earth and sun-bleached plants slumped in the...
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Quick & Easy Container Water Gardens
by Philip Swindells
Powells.com Staff Pick Part of the Quick and Easy series, Container Water Gardens is full of photographs and illustrations that take you through every step of the gardening process. Numerous design choices are offered and each includes a list of all the supplies needed to...
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