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The Garden Interior is the beautiful and inspired story of how one great garden raised a family and of what goes on inside the heart and mind of a gardener. Against the backdrop of the story of one modern-day family growing up in a rambling old arts and crafts house with a gorgeous acre of lush, mature gardens, this loving memoir is filled with gardening wisdom, humor, and nostalgia for growing up in the 1960s and 70s; it is also loaded with distinctive...
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Learn how to create a lovely Italian garden and then create delicious dishes with your produce using this easy-to-use Italian cookbook and gardening guide.Author Rosalind Creasy offers suggestions for those who live in any North American zone. Using simple techniques, its possible to grow most of the plants in this book in most climate conditions. She devotes a section to growing and harvesting the "wild" greens so popular on Italian hillsides. She...
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"Jim's superb guide will motivate landowners to embrace their environmental responsibilities no matter what ecosystem they live in." Douglas Tallamy - Author of Bringing Nature Home and Nature's Best Hope
SUBURBITAT - will be a great benefit to city planners, developers, landscape architects, HOA boards, homeowners, and anyone interested in creating beautiful landscapes that restore native biodiversity and conserve natural resources. This book...
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Want to Teach Your Kids the Names of Vegetables & Spices in Ukrainian?Wonder How They're Pronounced?Enhance your learning experience with our complimentary audio recordings. Follow the link in the book to not only read but also listen and familiarize yourself with authentic Ukrainian pronunciation.Delight in learning Ukrainian with our vivid picture book!Key Features of the Book: Ukrainian Names for Vegetables & Spices.Vibrant Illustrations of Each...
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The largest edible fruit native to the United States tastes like a cross between a banana and a mango. It grows wild in twenty-six states, gracing Eastern forests each fall with sweet-smelling, tropical-flavored abundance. Historically, it fed and sustained Native Americans and European explorers, presidents, and enslaved African Americans, inspiring folk songs, poetry, and scores of place names from Georgia to Illinois. Its trees are an
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Are you interested in growing bonsai trees, but don't know where to start? Look no further than "Organic Bonsai for Beginners"! This easy-to-follow guide is the perfect resource for anyone looking to start their own bonsai journey. You'll learn everything you need to know about caring for your bonsai, from choosing the right tree to watering, pruning, and repotting.With "Organic Bonsai for Beginners", you'll have everything you need to create a beautiful...
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Bell peppers are crunchy, colorful, and delicious! Through vibrant images and leveled text, this title helps young readers explore the life cycle of bell peppers from seed to fully grown pepper. A picture glossary helps readers understand unfamiliar terms, while special features lay out the life cycle of a bell pepper, show what they need to grow, and provide examples of how people use bell peppers. This colorful book is sure to engage beginning readers!...
208) See an Avocado Grow
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Avocados are bumpy fruits used to make many delicious dishes. In this low-level title, leveled text and colorful photos help young readers learn about the avocado's life cycle. A picture glossary provides support for unfamiliar terms, and special features highlight what avocados need to grow, show how avocados are used, and put the steps of the avocado's life cycle in one place.
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Lynne Mackenzie is a qualified Usui and Tibetan Reiki Master and an Angelic Reiki Master. 'Reiki For A Healthier Lifestyle' is a new book that not only explains to the reader what Reiki is and how it is of benefit to people from all walks of life BUT how it can help alleviate all sorts of health issues. Lynne challenges the reader to forget all preconceptions of Reiki and alternative therapies and explains in details how Reiki works on the human body....
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Little Farm in the Henhouse brings you the joys and challenges of keeping a backyard flock of laying hens--with tips and techniques for healthy, happy chickens!When city girl Susan moves out to the country to start a homestead, getting a few hens seems like a great idea. Problem: what little she knew about farm animals was what she read in books. Still, since Susan and her husband John are big on self-reliance, they forge ahead with their plan for...
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Want to Teach Your Kids the Names of Vegetables & Spices in Indonesian?Wonder How They're Pronounced?Enhance your learning experience with our complimentary audio recordings. Follow the link in the book to not only read but also listen and familiarize yourself with authentic Indonesian pronunciation.Delight in learning Indonesian with our vivid picture book!Key Features of the Book: Indonesian Names for Vegetables & Spices.Vibrant Illustrations of...
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50 DIY crafts, cooking, decorating, and gardening projects from the experts at the Smithsonian Institution
The Smithsonian Institution presents a uniquely curated collection of lively how-to projects and historical narratives of four realms of American domestic arts: cooking, crafts, decorating, and gardening. Perfect for hobbyists interested in the historical context of what they create for their homes, this beautifully illustrated book contains...
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Plants, Essential Oils and Aromatherapy as Natural Remedies
"Trust your intuition, go with your instincts, and listen to your heart. By following these three simple guidelines, you'll be able to craft healing, and more importantly, meaningful and inspired ideas to enrich your life." ―Arin Murphy-Hiscock, author of The Herbal Alchemist's Handbook
The Herbal Healing Handbook is a spiritual guidebook for using plants, essential oils, aromatherapy,...
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"In November 2012, voters in Colorado and Washington passed landmark measures to legalize the production and sale of cannabis for social use-a first not only in the United States but also the world. Medical cannabis is now legal in eighteen states and Washington, D.C., and more than one million Americans have turned to it in place of conventional pharmaceuticals. Yet the federal government refuses to acknowledge these broader societal shifts and continues...
216) Herbs and Spices
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This clear and concise directory provides all the essential information readers need to grow, use, and store a wide selection of flavor-enhancing herbs and spices. Some herbs are annuals, some are perennials, and some can be grown indoors-but all of those highlighted here can be grown either in pots or directly in the soil. Each individual plant profile includes detailed growing advice. Home and garden expert Linda Gray tells how to prepare the soil,...
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Increasing numbers of urban dwellers has led to many of us feeling alienated from the natural world. This is not how we are meant to live, and we don't have to. Even in the most built-up environment, nature makes its presence felt. All we have to do is let it in. This book offers 50 invigorating activities and step-by-step projects to do exactly that, for anyone craving a connection with the natural world, but especially those living in cities and...
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Bring Monet's paintings and gardens to life using this gorgeously illustrated book that will teach you how to create a Monet lifestyle from your living room to your kitchen to your garden-from the documentarian and author of Monet's Palate Cookbook, with the support of the American steward and all the head gardeners at Giverny.
Aileen Bordman has long been influenced by the work of Claude Monet, one of the founders of French Impressionist painting...