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New Complete Home Landscaping
Catriona Tudor Erler
Creative Homeowner, 2004
A step-by-step guide for amateur & professional landscapers
+ New Complete Home Landscaping
+ Definitely complete
Over 950 photographs and watercolor paintings illustrate New Complete Home Landscaping, a step-by-step guide for amateur and professional landscapers alike. Internationally recognized garden writer Catriona Tudor Erler discusses how to choose the right plants for one's climate and soil conditions, ...
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The Garden in Winter: Plant for Beauty and Interest in the Quiet Season
Suzy Bales
Rodale Books, 2007
A great book for both novices and seasoned gardeners
+ Inspiring & Uplifting Garden Reference
+ To The Rescie
+ The Ultimate Winter Gardening Guide!
+ Just in time for the Holidays!
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Orchids for Dummies
Steven Frowine, National Gardening Association
For Dummies, 2005
Orchids for Dummies
+ A VERY INFORMATIVE AND READABLE WORK.
+ Orchids for dummies
+ start at the beginning
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All New Square Foot Gardening
Mel Bartholomew
Cool Springs Press, 2006
No dig gardening
+ All New Square Foot Gardening
+ Awesome! Fun!
+ Awesome Book
+ Excited Again About Gardening
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American Horticultural Society Great Plant Guide (American Horticultural Society Practical Guides)
DK Publishing
DK ADULT, 2004
Inspiring Collection of Dreamy Plants
+ It's so handy...
+ Contains 3,000 recommended plants
If you dream of finding beautiful flowers, the new updated and revised American Horticultural Society Great Plant Guide is impressive. With over 3000 recommended plants and guides for plants for containers, this book was rather handy when planting a new container garden.
On page 674 and 675 you ...
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Month-by-Month Gardening in Louisiana: Revised Edition: What to Do Each Month to Have a Beautiful Garden All ...
Dan Gill
Cool Springs Press, 2007
Great Resource
+ Excellent Gardening book
Creating a garden and keeping color in Louisiana is difficult. The heat and clay soil don't make it easy for plants or gardners. This book offers really great advice on making the most of your garden inspite of the problems the state's climate poses.
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Start Your Own Lawn Care or Landscaping Business (Entrepreneur Magazine's Start-Up)
Eileen Figure Sandlin, Entrepreneur Press
Entrepreneur Press, 2007
Good coverage of the business end
+ Lawn Care or Landscaping
The landscaping business aspects are definitely here, the accounting, the equipment, the scheduling, even the make and model of truck to buy to pull your trailer full of equipment. I was expecting to learn something about the finer points of lawn care, mixing plants, use of mulch, how to protect ...
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The Biltmore Nursery: A Botanical Legacy
Bill Alexander
The History Press, 2007
This landmark book tells the story of the Biltmore Nursery in two fascinating ways: a revealing overview history and a complete reproduction of the 1912 Biltmore Nursery Catalog. The history tells the story of the nursery from its establishment in 1889 to its destruction in a catastrophic flood in 1916, and the profusely illustrated catalog offers a guide to the cultivated trees, shrubs and ...
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The Vegetable Gardener's Bible: Discover Ed's High-Yield W-O-R-D System for All North American Gardening ...
Edward C. Smith
Storey Publishing, LLC, 2000
The Vegetable Gardener's Bible
+ MUST HAVE gardners reference
+ Just Plain Wow!
+ I feel like an expert gardener!
+ Great book, but I hope to see corrections and clarifications in a future edition!
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Rodale's Illustrated Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening
DK ADULT, 2005
Brilliant! Buy this book.
+ Organic Gardening Book
+ perfect!
+ Gardening made easy.
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Llewellyn's 2008 Moon Sign Book: A Gardening Almanac & Guide to Conscious Living (Llewellyn's Moon Sign Book ...
Llewellyn
Llewellyn Publications, 2007
Llewellyn Moon Book
+ eh,
+ Review: Lewellyn's 2008 Moon Sign Gardening
+ Great Book !
+ If You Like Almanacs, You'll Love This Book!
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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
Barbara Kingsolver, Camille Kingsolver, ...
HarperCollins, 2007
A guide to change your eating
+ Great theme, Interesting Topics are sometimes lost in the Preaching
+ Local is better
Barbara Kingsolver uses her very readable style to encourage us all on a journey to understand the effects of the standard American diet on our own health as well as the health of the earth. This book is a fun and heart-touching read that also contains great recipes and short insightful inserts ...
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Rain Gardens: Managing Water Sustainably in the Garden and Designed Landscape
Nigel Dunnett, Andy Clayden
Timber Press, Incorporated, 2007
A great book on sustainable design!
+ Great Informational Book
+ rain gardens review
+ Perhaps not what you are expecting ...
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Natural Florida Landscaping
Dan Walton and Laurel Schiller
Pineapple Press (FL), 2007
A perfect primer for newcomers to Florida or to natural landscaping.
+ TRY IT, YOU'LL LIKE IT
This little book is deceptively slim. Actually, it provides a compact but comprehensive overview of the significant differences between creating a natural landscape with native plants vs. a conventional contemporary Florida landscape of decorative exotics. It will give you a context within which ...
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Llewellyn's 2008 Herbal Almanac (Llewellyn's Herbal Almanac)
Llewellyn
Llewellyn Publications, 2007
Great Info!
+ Llewellyn's 2008 Herbal Almanac
I love all my LLewellyn's Almanacs. There's always some info in them that I don't agree with but most of it is well worth savoring.
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