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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Minnesota

A Walk in the Himalaya

A combination memoir and travel journal details an adventure through the mountains of Nepal in search of native flowers and plants that could grow in Vermont, encountering guerrillas, Sherpas, yaks, and spectacular landscapes on the way.

Among Flowers

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#paperback #fiction #botany #plants #ecoterrorists #savetheearth 

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Oregon

***Named one of "the 7 best books from indie publishers right now" in 2017 by PBS

From the author of House Arrest and On Hurricane Island comes a thrilling new activist novel that begs the question, "How far is too far?"

He was nine when the vines first wrapped themselves around him and burrowed into his skin. Now a college botany major, Jeremy is desperately looking for a way to listen to the plants and stave off their extinction. But when the grip of the vines becomes too intense and Health Services starts asking questions, he flees to Brooklyn, where fate puts him face to face with a group of climate-justice activists who assure him they have a plan to save the planet, and his plants. As the group readies itself to make a big Earth Day splash, Jeremy soon realizes these eco-terrorists' devotion to activism might have him--and those closest to him--tangled up in more trouble than he was prepared to face. With the help of a determined, differently abled flame from his childhood, Zoe; her deteriorating, once-rabble-rousing grandmother; and some shocking and illuminating revelations from the past, Jeremy must weigh completing his mission to save the plants against protecting the ones he loves, and confront the most critical question of all: how do you stay true to the people you care about while trying to change the world?

Kinship of Clover

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An uncommon book for the plant lover. Pages crisp with faint yellowing at edges. 48 pages of color photos. Book measures 6.5” x 8.25”, 119 pages. No dust jacket. Half-inch circular stain on front cover and very light foxing on top page edges (see photos).  #plants #botany #flowers #hardcover #uncommon #gardening #nonfiction (Shelf 3B)

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

New Jersey

Tropical Flowers

#paperback #nonfiction #indoorplants #gardening #botany #plants #cactus #horticulture 

Virginia

And Make It Love You Back (a Modern Gardening Book for a New Generation of Indoor Gardeners)

Aimed at a new generation of indoor gardening enthusiasts, this book is a perfect guide for anyone keen to see their plant offspring thrive. Gaining ground on food and pet photos on social media, plants have found popularity in the small home, and are being proclaimed the new stars of Instagram. This beautiful little book is ideal for the novice 'plant parent', providing tips on how to choose plants, where to place them, and above all how to care for them and keep them thriving. Indoor-plant experts and Instagrammers Erin Harding and Morgan Doane bring the subject to life alongside their beautiful photographs of happy plants in the home.

How to Raise a Plant

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Summer Rayne Oakes

Arkansas

Cultivate Green Space in Your Home and Heart

Summer Rayne Oakes, an urban houseplant expert and environmental scientist, is the icon of wellness-minded millennials who want to bring nature indoors, according to a New York Times profile. Summer has managed to grow 1,000 houseplants in her Brooklyn apartment (and they're thriving!) Her secret? She approaches her relationships with plants as intentionally as if they were people. Everyone deserves to feel the inner peace that comes from taking care of greenery. Beyond the obvious benefits--beauty and cleaner air--there's a strong psychological benefit to nurturing plants as a path to mindfulness. They can reduce our stress level, lower our blood pressure, and improve our overall outlook. And they offer a rare opportunity to find joy by caring for another living being. When Summer Rayne Oakes moved to Brooklyn from the Pennsylvania countryside, she knew that bringing nature indoors was her only chance to stay sane. She found them by the side of the road, in long-forgotten window boxes, at farmers' markets, and in local garden shops. She found ways to shelve, hang, tuck, anchor, secure, and suspend them. She even installed a 150-foot expandable hose that connects to pipes under her kitchen sink, so she only has to spend about a half-hour a day tending to her plants--an activity that she describes as a "moving meditation." This is Summer's guidebook for cultivating an entirely new relationship with your plant children. Inside, you'll learn to: • Pause for the flowers and greenery all around you, even the ones sprouting bravely between cracked pavement • Trust that your apartment jungle offers you far more than pretty décor • See the world from a plant's perspective, trading modern consumerism for sustainability • Serve your chlorophyllic friends by learning to identify the right species for your home and to recreate their natural habitat (Bonus: your indoor garden won't die!) When we become plant parents, we also become better caretakers of ourselves, the people around us, and our planet. So, let's step inside the world of plants and discover how we can begin cultivating our own personal green space--in our homes, in our minds, and in our hearts.

How to Make a Plant Love You

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Has light outside wear with a small tear to two pages at the beginning (see pictures), else rest of book is clean and tight. #paperback #adventure #travel #botany

Washington

A Horticultural Tale of Love, Lust, and Lunacy

Explores the lesser-known political and bureaucratic adventures surrounding the orchid; reveals its esoteric uses, from elephant medicine to aphrodisiac; and considers its horticultural mysteries and the lengths to which some have gone for its cultivation. Reprint.

Orchid Fever

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#paperback #nature #gardening #children #plants ##ecology #discovernature #botany #flowers

Texas

Things to Know and Things to Do

Combines dozens of simple, non-intrusive activities with detailed illustrations and informative text to provide a friendly introduction to hands-on study of the garden. Perfect for adults and children.

In the Garden

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Allen J. Coombes

Florida

Dictionary of Plant Names

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Michigan

A Novel of Officious Advice from the Contessa of Compost

This rather deceptive work purports to be the collected horticultural columns of one opinionated Mertensia Corydalis. As Mertensia answers her readers' innocent gardening questions, she reveals more than she intends about her life, her relationships (from her prissy ex-husband to questionable interactions with her employees, Miss Vong and Tran), and her state of mind.

Radical Prunings is a literate, funny, and surprisingly bittersweet fiction debut from a writer with a sharp wit and a very green thumb.

Radical Prunings

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#horticulture #onemansgarden #plants #garden #botany #iris #tulip #seasons #roses. For similar 🔖Bookmark Journey 📚 titles, click #bookmarkjourneynonfiction

Illinois

Henry Mitchell on Gardening

Essays extol the seasons, gardens, and the natural world, and include observations and advice on gardening

The Essential Earthman

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Has a spine break in the middle, pictured, and a very stained cover, and writing inside the front cover.

Colorado

Western United States and Canada

The successor to Petrides's classic Field Guide to Trees and Shrubs, this is probably the most beautifully illustrated and cleverly organized guide to trees ever published. 96-page color insert, illustrations and maps.

Field Guide to Western Trees

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Meg Lowman

Sylvia A. Earle

New York

A Life Discovering the Eighth Continent in the Trees above Us

Nicknamed the “Real-Life Lorax” by National Geographic, the biologist, botanist, and conservationist Meg Lowman—aka “Canopy Meg”—takes us on an adventure into the “eighth continent” of the world's treetops, along her journey as a tree scientist, and into climate action One of the world’s first tree-top scientists, Meg Lowman is as innovative as MacGuyver and as can-do as the Unsinkable Molly Brown. A pioneer in her field—she invented one of the first treetop walkways—she is a tireless advocate for the earth and has spent decades educating citizens across the globe. In a voice as infectious in its enthusiasm as in its practical optimism, The Arbornaut chronicles her irresistible story. From climbing solo hundreds of feet into Australia's rainforests to measuring tree growth in the northeastern United States, from searching the redwoods of the Pacific coast for new life to studying leaf-eaters in Scotland's Highlands, from a bioblitz in Malaysia to conservation planning in India to collaborating with priests in Ethiopia's last forests—Lowman launches us into the life and work of a scientist and ecologist. She also offers hope, specific plans, and recommendations for action; despite devastation across the world, we can still make an immediate and lasting impact against climate change. A blend of memoir and fieldwork, The Arbornaut is for fans of Hope Jahren’s Lab Girl and the work of E. O. Wilson, Jane Goodall, Robert MacFarlane, and Helen MacDonald. Come live among scientists and travel the world (even in a hot-air balloon)! The Arbornaut is the engrossing story of how a nerdy tree climber and the only girl at the science fair grew into an inspiring innovator and international leader. Includes black-and-white illustrations

The Arbornaut

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Diana Wells

Provides a short history and illustrations of one hundred common flowers, from abelias to zinnias

100 Flowers and How They Got Their Names

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Northwestern Oregon and Western Washington 

Winter Twigs

Tyler Whittle

Charles Elliott

North Dakota

Tales of the botanist explorers who enriched our gardens.

The Plant Hunters

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Botanical Names and Their Common Name Equivalents

Wonderfully useful and complete, this little book includes common name cross-references, geographical distribution, and name origins, all at a bargain price. Pronunciations given are decidedly Britannic, but this seems a trivial matter in a book that fills so essential a need so conveniently.

Gorgeous color photographs of plants and animals. Has a spine break in the first few pages, otherwise excellent condition.

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

The Audobon Society Nature Guides

Deserts

Morgan Doane

Erin Harding

West Virginia

California

Charles Jeffrey

V. H. Heywood

For the Systematics Association

Biological Nomenclature

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So many ideas and photos for both indoors and outdoors. Clean pages with no writing and no owner name. Glossy photos on all pages. Book measures about 7” x 9”, 512 pages. #gardening #plants #softcover #nonfiction #botany #containergardening (Shelf 4B)

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

The Complete Practical Guide to Container Gardening, Indoors and Outdoors

Presents complete and detailed information on both indoors and outdoors container gardening, explaining and illustrating what you need for growing plants in a container, in any weather and with only a little space. Great for beginning or experienced gardeners.

Container Gardening

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Liberty Hyde Bailey

With "knowledge, authority, charm and eloquence," author explains reasons for scientific nomenclature, history of terms, components, other helpful material.

How Plants Get Their Names

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D. Gledhill

This book provides both a handy reference to the scientific names of plants and a clearly written account of the ways in which the naming of plants has changed with time and why these changes were necessary. It deals with the problems of using common names for plants against the historical background of our increasing discrimination of kinds of plants. It then goes on to consider landmarks in the standardization of both common and 'scientific' names and the development of internationally agreed principles governing the format and use of names in botany, sylviculture, agriculture and horticulture. From the alphabetical list the reader may interpret the scientific names of plants from any part of the world. For this second edition a number of changes and corrections in both parts have been made. The author has attempted to keep the first part acceptable to the amateur gardener by resisting a temptation to make it a definite guide to the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature. Others have done this already and with great clarity. Revision has allowed the inclusion of a brief comment on both synonymous and illegitimate botanical names and reference to recent attempts to accommodate the various traits and interests in the naming and names of cultivated plants.

The Names of Plants

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The Plants That Create the World's Great Drinks

The Essential, New York Times–Bestselling Guide to Botany and Booze “A book that makes familiar drinks seem new again . . . Through this horticultural lens, a mixed drink becomes a cornucopia of plants.”—NPR's Morning Edition “Amy Stewart has a way of making gardening seem exciting, even a little dangerous.” —The New York Times Sake began with a grain of rice. Scotch emerged from barley, tequila from agave, rum from sugarcane, bourbon from corn. Thirsty yet? In The Drunken Botanist, Amy Stewart explores the dizzying array of herbs, flowers, trees, fruits, and fungi that humans have, through ingenuity, inspiration, and sheer desperation, contrived to transform into alcohol over the centuries. Of all the extraordinary and obscure plants that have been fermented and distilled, a few are dangerous, some are downright bizarre, and one is as ancient as dinosaurs—but each represents a unique cultural contribution to our global drinking traditions and our history. This fascinating concoction of biology, chemistry, history, etymology, and mixology—with more than fifty drink recipes and growing tips for gardeners—will make you the most popular guest at any cocktail party.

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Jamaica Kincaid

Among Flowers

Ellen Meeropol

Kinship of Clover

Jeanne Garrard and Hans W Hannau

Tropical Flowers

Morgan Doane; Erin Harding

How to Raise a Plant

Summer Rayne Oakes

How to Make a Plant Love You

Eric Hansen

Orchid Fever

Jim Conrad

In the Garden

Allen J. Coombes

Dictionary of Plant Names

Bonnie Thomas Abbott

Radical Prunings

Henry Mitchell

The Essential Earthman

George A. Petrides

Field Guide to Western Trees

Meg Lowman; Sylvia A. Earle

The Arbornaut

Diana Wells

100 Flowers and How They Got Their Names

Oregon State University Press

Winter Twigs

Tyler Whittle; Charles Elliott

The Plant Hunters

Allen J. Coombes (Editor)

Dictionary of Plant Names

James A. MacMahon

Deserts

Morgan Doane; Erin Harding

How to Raise a Plant

Morgan Doane; Erin Harding

How to Raise a Plant

Charles Jeffrey; V. H. Heywood

Biological Nomenclature

Stephanie Donaldson; Peter McHoy

Container Gardening

Liberty Hyde Bailey

How Plants Get Their Names

D. Gledhill

The Names of Plants

Amy Stewart

The Drunken Botanist