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Creative recipes and celebrations of seasonal bounties-in the garden, in the kitchen, and on the canvas.
Artist Claude Monet took inspiration from his gardens and the lily ponds at Giverny. Van Gogh, Manet, Matisse, and Cezanne created still life masterpieces of fruit and flowers. Similarly, cooks from Julia Child and Alice Waters to Patricia Wells and Jamie Oliver have taken culinary inspiration from homegrown or fresh local produce.
Now artist...
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Succulents for Beginners is the perfect introduction to this friendly and forgiving plant family. Misa Matsuyama-the bestselling author of The Gardener's Guide to Succulents-shows you how to plant and maintain the most popular varieties of succulents and cacti with reassuring advice and minimum fuss.
This book has over 200 clear, color photos and illustrations and is absolutely packed full of all the basic information you need to keep succulents...
2883) Pohon Dan Tanaman Tahan Api (Fire-Resistant) Yang Bermanfaat Untuk Mencegah Kebakaran Hutan (Wild
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Mari Mengenal Berbagai Jenis Pohon Dan Tanaman Tahan Api (Fire-Resistant) Yang Bermanfaat Untuk Mencegah Kebakaran Hutan (Wildfire) Edisi Bahasa Indonesia. Belakang ini marak terjadi kebakaran hutan yang melanda daerah-daerah di Indonesia. Baik di wilayah pegunungan ataupun lahan-lahan pertanian, hal ini disebut dipicu oleh musim kemarau panjang yang melanda. Kendati demikian, ada beberapa hal pencegahan yang bisa dilakukan agar bencana kebakaran...
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A Field Guide to Succulents introduces you to over 200 popular succulent and cacti species including many you've never seen before!
Each chapter serves as an illustrated field guide that covers the characteristics and needs of a particular succulent family, then zooms in to show you their attributes in detail and from angles that let you truly see what makes these varieties different from one another.
This book gives you:
• All the basics on...
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Introducing Terra Babies at Home, a new board book series that presents plants, animals, and the environment to early readers from the intimacy of their home and helps them connect to the natural world.
My First Book of Growing Food is a beautiful introduction for babies and toddlers to the benefits of growing food, helping them to develop a connection with the natural world. Like other titles in the earth-friendly series Terra Babies at Home, this...
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On a single day in 1939, more than 30,000 people visited the Untermyer Garden-at the time, one of the world's grandest landscapes. Thirty years later, most of the site had been sold or abandoned. Who was the eccentric visionary behind the estate's original glory? What triggered the garden's decline and sparked its restoration?
In Paradise on the Hudson, Caroline Seebohm brings to light the remarkable story of a larger-than-life figure lost mostly...
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Introducing Terra Babies at Home, a new board book series that presents plants, animals, and the environment to early readers from the intimacy of their home and helps them connect to the natural world.
My First Book of Houseplants is a beautiful introduction to the world of houseplants for babies and toddlers, helping them to develop a connection with the natural world. Like other titles in the earth-friendly series Terra Babies at Home, this book...
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A chronicle of the beloved base ingredient, from its origins, agricultural riches, and controversy to the passion, pride, and nostalgia it inspires today.
Over time, the tomato has embodied a range of values and meanings. From its domestication in Central America, it has traveled back and forth across the Atlantic, powering a story of aspiration and growth, agriculture and industry, class and identity, and global transition. In this entertaining,...
2889) Cordon Pruning
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Frederic Theodore Bioletti (1865 – 1939) was an English-born American vintner. He studied at the University of California, Berkeley from 1889 to 1900, where he worked with prominent soil scientist Professor E.W. Hilgard. His work with Hilgard on the fermentation of wines under different conditions were significant in helping California vintners to refine their wine production practices and improving the resulting wines. Bioletti was the first chair...
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Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925–2006) was one of Scotland's leading twentieth-century public intellectuals, and famously one of its most brilliant and combative correspondents. His letters raise issues of particular and widespread interest both within Scotland and further afield. His correspondence with Stephen Bann, the English poet and academic, have a very special place in this context. These letters present in a clear and commensurable form the development...
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Welcome houseplants into your space and use them to make beautiful home decor projects that showcase your plants and your creativity.
It's time to change the way we think about houseplants. For too long we have overlooked potted plants and failed to appreciate the many benefits they can bring into our homes: improved air quality, natural decor, brilliant colors, and a greener lifestyle, just to name a few.
Living Decor is a manual to introducing...
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Botany for Bartenders
Step inside a bartender's apothecary, forage for garnishes, and craft some of the most popular cocktails, mocktails, and beverages. This beautifully photographed compendium of craft cocktails includes examples of garnishes and interesting ingredients to give any drink a botanical twist.
The go-to reference for classic and modern cocktail recipes. Whether it's adding a basil sprig or infusing gin with peaches; Cocktails, Mocktails...
2893) Save Our Species
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Whether you would like to learn how to build a bird box, dig a hedgehog tunnel or implement broader environmental changes in your community, this practical guide to saving our most endangered species will teach you how you can help on an individual, local and national level.
Focusing on thirty of our most loved and most ‘at risk’ inhabitants, this uplifting and hopeful book will give naturalists of any age the tools to respond to the SOS calls...
2894) The Best Fences: A-92
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Since 1973, Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletins have offered practical, hands-on instructions designed to help readers master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. There are now more than 170 titles in this series, and their remarkable popularity reflects the common desire of country and city dwellers alike to cultivate personal independence in everyday life. Since the 1973 publication of Storey's first Country Wisdom Bulletin, our commitment...
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Add a touch of green to your office, bookshelf, coffee table or dorm room with these adorable mini ecosystems!
A Beginner's Guide to Terrariums shows you how to create your own glass container gardens with easy-to-understand instructions and over 230 inspiring lifestyle photos.
With this guide you'll learn all the basics, including how to:
• Decorate using a variety of plants
• Combine plants, rocks and other objects to achieve just the right...
2896) Sheep Keeping
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the Beulah Speckled Face to the Friesland. feeding, right through to lambing time. Britain has a wonderful tradition of keeping sheep, from the Badger Face Welsh Mountain sheep and the Norfolk Horn to the Oxford Down and the Scottish Greyface. Whatever land you have available, this book will help you to choose the right sheep for you. Whether you want to breed lustrous Soay sheep wool or delicious Herdwick lamb, every stage of the sheep keeping process...
2897) We Make a Garden
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This book offers a simple overview of how children can make a garden. Easy-to-read text, labeled photos, and a picture glossary make this book the perfect introduction to the topic.
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Raising healthy and beautiful succulents has never been easier!
This essential beginner's guide provides a complete introduction to growing and combining succulents in ways that are healthy for the plants and pleasing to the eye. It also gives an overview of the most popular succulent and cacti varieties.
Succulent specialists Tokiiro (Yoshinobu Kondo) explains how the plants' appearances shift with the seasons and give advice about how to combine...
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Learn to design and maintain a bountiful flower garden at home with this comprehensive guide on everything from planting to flower arranging.
In this book, brimming with inspirational photographs, interior stylist Clare Nolan reveals her secrets for growing a colorful, fragrant garden and using it to create spectacular floral displays for the home all year-round. Clare takes the mystery out of the growing process, offering clear advice on choosing...
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These letters to (and from) Finlay's friend, the English poet and scholar, Stephen Bann, centre on the initial development of the garden at Stonypath, near Edinburgh, later to become the world renowned 'Little Sparta'. They cover Finlay's turn away from poetry towards sculpture and garden design, and the thinking behind, and consequences of, this development.