Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Minnesota

A Pictorial Guide to the Ornamental Woody Plants of the Northern United State Exclusive of Conifers

Trees, Shrubs, and Vines illustrates and describes broad-leaved woody plants indigenous to the northern United States.This book serves readers as an identification guide and college textbook. The purpose of this work is to identify the ornamental, broad-leaved, woody plants of the northern United States in as simple and straightforward a fashion as practical.

Trees, Shrubs and Vines

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The World of Trees

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

The newest entry in the "Nature Guide Series", this comprehensive, fully-illustrated book presents everything the gardener needs to know about identifying, selecting, and growing for more than 150 varieties of climbing plants. 216 full-color photos and illustrations.

Simon and Schuster's Guide to Climbing Plants

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Burpee Ornamental Trees

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Includes photos and recipes. #herbs #gardening #growing

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

How to Grow and Use Herbs

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Pages are like new but front cover has small bend in upper corner.  #trees #shrubs #landscaping

The Northern Gardener's Library

Landscaping with Trees and Shrubs

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#bark #trees #royalbotanicgardens #nature

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

The Formation, Characteristics and Uses of Bark Around the World

Magnificent photos reveal the beauty of bark, & the text reveals the sometimes surprising ways in which people make use of bark, from cloth & cones to medicine, flavorings, fuel, & fiber, just as insects & animals use it for camouflage, food, or home.

Bark

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Four-Season Plants - Brooklyn Botanic Garden

"Conifers, the most underrated plants in the landscape world, provide the garden with strong form, color and texture in each season. These versatile low-maintenance plants come in an array of shapes other than the ubiquitous pyramid and in umpteen colors - yellows, blues, grays and maroons. This essential guide will help you select the conifers that will set your garden's stage - every day of the year."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Growing Conifers

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2nd printing Feb 1976
#houseplants #plants #gardening

Fun with Growing Odd and Curious House Plants

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2nd edition. 1069 illustrations on 200 plates. Short descriptions, habitats and synonymy of succulent plants other than Cactaceae.  Also has plastic cover shown in last pic.  #succulents #plants #gardening

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Lexicon of Succulent Plants

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

The Complete Reference

Researched for more than three decades, this definitive work provides up-to-date descriptions of all the true conifers of the world, including 545 species of trees and shrubs. Written for accessibility to both horticultural and botanical audiences, it is the first comprehensive update of conifer taxonomy in nearly a century.


Noted conifer taxonomist James E. Eckenwalder also discusses the relationships among the groups, practical usages, champion trees, fossil occurrences, and biology.

 New identification guides for the families and genera are based whenever possible on foliage features and thus should be easier to use than traditional conifer keys, which focus on seasonal, and often microscopic, cone characters. Eckenwalder shares the reasoning behind his taxonomic decisions, many of which are unique to this book, reflecting a comprehensive reevaluation of conifer classification.

He also outlines the features sought in cultivars of each genus, particular cultivation concerns, and conifers recommended for cultivation under various conditions and to achieve different effects. Some 3,000 cultivars have been available in recent times, more than five times the total number of conifer species.

Several hundred original illustrations include drawings of the seed cones for all genera as well as for representative species. Maps of the natural distribution of each genus allow for easy comparison of ranges. Handsome black-and-white photographs of species in their natural habitats and attractive color photos further enrich the volume. More than 100 images reproduce foliage of many genera as an aid in identification.

With its unprecedented attention to detail and extensive bibliography, this major work is an essential reference for botanists, naturalists, and horticulturists.

Conifers of the World

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The Best Choices for Year-Round Interest in Your Garden

With blue, green, and gold foliage and shapes ranging from spiky to weeping, conifers have the potential to be garden design stars. But they are commonly misused in gardens and landscapes, leading to looming spruces squashed against a house or rows of kettledrum-shaped yews along a sidewalk. When used correctly and creatively, conifers can be star players in creating beautiful, long-lasting plant combinations or serene backyard havens.

Designing with Conifers shows readers exactly how to choose the best conifers for specific needs. Chapters cover shape, color, and conifers for specific sites and conditions, including front gardens, hedges and screens, topiary, dwarf conifers, shade gardens, Asian-style gardens, bonsai, and miniature railroad gardens. Also includes useful appendices that list of conifers for various problems and conditions, like conifers for areas plagued by deer and the best conifers for Christmas trees and Southern gardens. Each section is enlivened with gorgeous color photographs.

Whatever landscape situation or challenge a gardener designer faces, Designing with Conifers shows how to make the best choice from this beautiful, useful, and versatile group of plants.


Designing with Conifers

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Trees That Live for 1,000 Years

"...engrossing and visually appealing...intended as a celebration of some of the world's oldest living trees....Trees from all around the world are represented...Parker's many beautiful, full-color images contribute a great deal, but what makes this book especially interesting is a discussion of the roles these trees have played through the ages in human religions, myths, economies, and everyday life....should appeal to a wide audience and is recommended for public, school, and undergraduate college libraries."--Library Journal. Published in Association with the World Wildlife Fund!


Ancient Trees

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Vol 60 Sept-Oct 1988

Cactus and Succulent Journal

The publication of Remarkable Trees of the World took American audiences by storm. Thomas Pakenham embarks on a five-year odyssey to most of the temperate and tropical regions of the world to photograph sixty trees of remarkable personality and presence: Dwarfs, Giants, Monuments, and Aliens; the lovingly tended midgets of Japan; the enormous strangler from India; and the 4,700-year "Old Methusalehs." American readers will be fascinated by Pakenham's first examination of North American trees, including the towering Redwoods of Sequoia and Yosemite, the gaunt Joshua Trees of Death Valley and the Bristlecone pines discovered in California's White Mountains.



Many of these trees were already famous--champions by girth, height, volume or age--while others had never previously been caught by the camera. Pakenham's five-year odyssey, sweating it out with a 30 pound Linhof camera and tripod, took him to most of the temperate and many of the tropical regions of the world. Although North American trees dominate this book, Pakenham also trekked to remote regions in Mexico, all over Europe, parts of Asia including Japan, northern and southern Africa, Madagascar, Australia and New Zealand.



Remarkable Trees of the World is a lavish work that will be treasured for generations by all those who marvel at nature.

Remarkable Trees of the World

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Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Thomas Pakenham's bestselling book of tree portraits. With this astonishing collection of tree portraits, Thomas Pakenham produced a new kind of tree book. The arrangement owed little to conventional botany. The sixty trees were grouped according to their own strong personalities: Natives, Travellers, Shrines, Fantasies and Survivors. From the ancient native trees, many of which are huge and immeasurably old, to the exotic newcomers from Europe, the East and North America, MEETINGS WITH REMARKABLE TREES captures the history and beauty of these entrancing living structures. Common to all these trees is their power to inspire awe and wonder. This is a lovingly researched book, beautifully illustrated with colour photographs, engravings and maps - a moving testimonial to the Earth's largest and oldest living structures.

Meetings with Remarkable Trees

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Throughout much of the world, night skies are growing increasingly brighter, but the force that protects the remaining naturally dark sky, unpolluted by artificial light, is the same that saves its ancient trees--isolation. Staking out some of the world's last dark places, photographer Beth Moon uses a digital camera to reveal constellations, nebulae, and the Milky Way, in rich hues that are often too faint to be seen by the naked eye. As in her acclaimed first volume, Ancient Trees: Portraits of Time, these magnificent images encounter great arboreal specimens, including baobabs, olive trees, and redwoods, in such places as South Africa, England, and California.In her artist's statement, Beth Moon describes the experience of shooting at night in these remote places. An essay by Jana Grcevich, postdoctoral fellow of astrophysics at the American Museum of Natural History, provides the perspective of a scientist racing to study the stars in a world growing increasingly brighter. Clark Strand, the author of Waking Up to the Dark: Ancient Wisdom for a Sleepless Age, takes a different tack, illuminating the inherent spirituality of trees.



Ancient Skies, Ancient Trees

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A Handbook of the Woody Plants of the Northeastern United States and Adjacent Canada

Authoritative, easily accessible guide omits lengthy technical descriptions in favor of easy-to-use keys covering such characteristics as leaves, twigs, bark, buds, seeds, stems, fruit or fruit stalks, and other identifying traits. Over 300 pen-and-ink drawings by Maud H. Purdy, noted botanical illustrator. "I recommend this book most highly." -- Farida A. Wiley, American Museum of Natural History.

Illustrated Guide to Trees and Shrubs

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First edition 1991. Written by member of Logee’s family. #Logees #fragrance #flowers. 

Fragrant Plants for Indoor Gardens

Essence of Paradise

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First Printing 1971
#trees #gardening #wyman

Wyman’s Gardening Encyclopedia 

The Color Nature Library 

Trees

Offers garden lovers profiles of the world's most beautiful gardens around the world, from Spain's famous gardens of the Moorish Alhambra at Granada to San Diego's Healing Garden.

1001 Gardens You Must See Before You Die

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Yearbook of Agriculture 

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Pages are in excellent shape but 1st page showing cover photographs is fallen away from binding as seen in photo. #trees #landscaping

A descriptive guide to ornamental trees discusses the intricacies of identification, provides lists of tree sources, notes places of origin, and describes tree appearances

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Burpee Ornamental Trees

Ann Bonar & Daphne MacCarthy

How to Grow and Use Herbs

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Landscaping with Trees and Shrubs

Anne E. Prance; Ghillean T. Prance (Text by); Kjell B. Sandved (Photographer)

Bark

Susan F. Martin (Editor); R. William Thomas (Editor); Kim Tripp (Editor); Brooklyn Botanic Garden Botanists Staff

Growing Conifers

Virginia F. Elbert; George A. Elbert; Random House Value Publishing Staff

Fun with Growing Odd and Curious House Plants

Herman Jacobsen F.C.S.S.A., F.A.S.P.S.,F.L.S.

Lexicon of Succulent Plants

James E. Eckenwalder

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Designing with Conifers

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Ancient Trees

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Cactus and Succulent Journal

Thomas Pakenham

Remarkable Trees of the World

Thomas Pakenham

Meetings with Remarkable Trees

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Ancient Skies, Ancient Trees

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Illustrated Guide to Trees and Shrubs

Tovah Martin

Essence of Paradise

Donald Wyman

Wyman’s Gardening Encyclopedia

Jacqueline Seymour

Trees

Rae Spencer-Jones (Editor); Elizabeth Scholtz (Preface by)

1001 Gardens You Must See Before You Die

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1949 Trees

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