books: gardening with

books: gardening with

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Gardening with

Micro Eco-Farming: Prospering from Backyard to Small Acreage in Partnership with the Earth

Barbara Berst Adams

New World Publishing, 2005

Educational and Inspiring
If you've ever dreamed of having a small, productive farm but didn't know where to begin or how to creatively make money and have fun at the same time, this book is The Source for you. Barbara Berst Adams' "Micro Eco-Farming" is loaded with great ideas, sensible how-to ...

Designing with Succulents

Debra Lee Baldwin

Timber Press, Incorporated, 2007

Designing with Succulents
Designing with Succulents What a terrific book. I am a novice gardener, and found this to be a real page-turner. Color pictures on every page. Plenty of info on care, resources, inventive ideas for really lovely designs - just inspiring. Don't hesitate on this ...

Designing with Plants

Piet Oudolf, Noël Kingsbury

Timber Press, 2008

Wow
The gardens in this book are amazing. As a landscape design student, the designs in this book give me something to aspire to. The authors do a good job of providing most of the plants names for what you see in the pictures. The individual information about the plants ...

Square Foot Gardening: A New Way to Garden in Less Space with Less Work

Mel Bartholomew

Rodale Books, 2005

gardening choices
This book is very helpful to learn a new way of gardening for higer yields in small areas. It has very helpful advice and good graphics to follow. It is easy to read and understand.

Roots, Shoots, Buckets & Boots: Gardening Together with Children

Sharon Lovejoy

Workman Publishing Company, 1999

What a great book!
This is a book packed with ideas for teaching children to love the garden and nature surrounding it. If you love to garden and would love to share it with the children in your life, this is the book! This book can make a garden come alive for children and the place ...

Landscaping with Stone (Home Landscaping)

Pat Sagui

Creative Homeowner, 2005

You'd never know you could do this much with landscaping
What beautiful and innovative designs this book has. My husband and I wanted to landscape much of our property with stone. We actually did more than planned because we were so impressed by much of the ideas in this book. A concern of ours was the price. Much of the ...

An Affair with a House

Bunny Williams, Christine Pettel

"Stewart, Tabori and Chang", 2005

This book has inspired me to stop 'casually dating' my own house and take our relationship to the next level!
Thirty years ago Bunny Williams fell in love with a run down 18th century farmhouse that was being used as a rental by college students. (That should indicate to you just how run down it had become.) She has done so much to restore the house and grounds to their ...

Teaming with Microbes: A Gardener's Guide to the Soil Food Web

Jeff Lowenfels, Wayne Lewis

Timber Press, Incorporated, 2006

Excellent resource
Despite the short length of this book, it was packed with lots of good information and was easy to read. It brought to my attention aspects of fungi versus microbial activity that I was never aware of and how these affect soil quality for gardens versus shrubs. The ...

Gardening with Guineas: A Step-By-Step Guide to Raising Guinea Fowl on a Small Scale

Jeannette S. Ferguson

Morris Publishing, 1999

Great Boook
Was a great help with starting my Guineas. Thank You very much to the Author.

The Well-Designed Mixed Garden: Building Beds and Borders with Trees, Shrubs, Perennials, Annuals, and Bulbs

Tracy Disabato-Aust, Martin Knapp, ...

Timber Press, Incorporated, 2003

Destined to be a classic garden reference.
I'm a master gardener from Illinois,and have heard Tracy Disabato-Aust on a number of occasions. Her book The Well-Tended Perennial Garden has long been our bible for perennials. In this new book, she makes accessible for all gardeners the depth of her experience and ...

Landscaping With Tropical Plants (Sunset Series)

Monica Moran Brandies

Leisure Arts, 2004

Great buy for the Tropical Gardener
If you're like me, you prefer beautiful tropical landscape images over reading text about gardens. This book does an excellent job of that, particularly for the price. I regularly purchase books on tropical gardening, and what I don't want is another listing of ...

Attracting Butterflies & Hummingbirds to Your Backyard: Watch Your Garden Come Alive With Beauty on the Wing ...

Sally Roth

Rodale Books, 2002

Great Resource!
This book was just what I needed to learn about attracting humming birds and butterflies. This has been very useful for figuring out how to start my garden. I am very visual, so the beautiful pictures in the book and the general text design layout makes it easy to ...

Bonsai with Japanese Maples

Peter Adams

Timber Press, Incorporated, 2006

The perfect product for bonsai interested maple lovers
Bonsai with Japanese Maples by Peter Adams has all you will ever need to know about maples in bonsai. Excellent colour photos, techniques are explained in adequate depth and it is well worth the price, I paid shipping to Australia just for this product. The only issue ...

Gardening with Conifers

Firefly Books, 2007

Conifer book
This book is a gorgeous, mouth-watering treatise on gardening with conifers. The photography accompanying the garden descriptions is spectacular with conifers shown in all kinds of light as well as different seasons. It makes you want to begin your gardens all over ...

Gardening with Children (Brooklyn Botanic Garden All-Region Guide)

Monika Hanneman, Patricia Hulse, ...

Brooklyn Botanic Garden, 2007

great projects, beautiful format!
The gorgeous illustrations on every page of this book make learning about nature simple and fun. While children do fun indoor and outdoor plant and garden activities, they will glean important lessons about natural cycles and processes. Bravo to Brooklyn Botanic Garden ...