The book itself is in excellent condition, but the jacket has a big rip and some marks. 

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Colorado

With Creative Recipes for Conservatory, Edible and Historical Plantings

Seasonal Container Gardening

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#orchids #flowers #diy #hobby #horticulture

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Maryland

Step-by-Step Guide to Growing and Displaying Orchids

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Kansas

Drip Watering Made East

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Washington

Gardening for All Seasons in the Pacific Northwest

Gardeners from Northern California to British Columbia will find plenty to cheer about in The Year in Bloom, a celebration of one of the most ideal gardening climates on earth. This classic volume from Ann Lovejoy, the Pacific Northwest's favorite garden writer, offers year-round inspiration and instruction for gardeners of all abilities.

The Year in Bloom

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Provides a quick reference for 50 of the most common herbs, with photographs of each herb and comprehensive benefits, dosages and usages.

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Michigan

A handy guide for knowing and using 50 common herbs

Herbs for Your Health

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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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Science

This step-by-step text covers the basic principles of horticulture and their practical applications. Topics include: interior plantscape and xeriscaping, biological pest control, seasonal greenhouse crops, fruit and vegetable gardens, Easter lilies, perennials, micro-propagation or tissue culture, bow-making, corsages and boutonnieres, and pesticides.

Introductory Horticulture

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Minor cover wear and marking. It's a little squished out of shape, like it had a much heavier book on top of it at one point, and has a few small notes in the margins like the one pictured. Still perfectly readable and handy. 

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"Gardeners step into the world of imagination as soon as they begin to garden.  They cannot plant a dry seed without awareness of the flame of life inside it, or prune a bare branch without sensing clustered blossoms and leaves." In  the literature of gardening there are many how-to books and nearly an equal number of philosophical essays.  Here is a book that is both.  Carol Williams elucidates with elegant simplicity the basic processes of gardening and the handling of plants.  She also eloquently demonstrates how in bringing a garden to life, the gardener, too, comes to life.  Not just the finished garden but gardening itself is revealed as a source of delight and a profound awakening to nature. From mapping a garden and planting a lettuce seed, to feeding old perennial borders and pruning fruit trees, this book tells not just how but why, and vividly evokes the interest and pleasure of doing the job.  Gardening beginners will be encouraged to take their first steps, while expert gardeners will find new sources of joy in their gardens.  The author shares the practical wisdom of her own rich gardening experience and invokes the golden tradition of poets and philosophers throughout history who have turned to their gardens to read the book of nature. With special sections on annuals, perennials, bulbs, vegetable and herb gardening, pruning, composting, transplanting, and much more, Bringing a Garden to Life is an illuminating vision, not just of growing things, but of being in the world; not just of planting, but of being renewed. With its engaging mixture of step-by-step instruction, essay, story, and poetry, Bringing a Garden to Life addresses both the compelling mysteries and the down-to-earth practicalities of everyday gardening: discovering a place and envisioning your garden the alchemy of making fertile soil the wonders and challenges of starting with seeds weeding--or not the flowering year fresh greens for dinner gardening with and around trees tools--hoes, books, and philosophy and much more

Bringing a Garden to Life

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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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A Novel

One woman, an impossible dream, and the faith it took to see it through, inspired by the life of Hulda Klager
 
German immigrant and farm wife Hulda Klager possesses only an eighth-grade education--and a burning desire to create something beautiful. What begins as a hobby to create an easy-peeling apple for her pies becomes Hulda's driving purpose: a time-consuming interest in plant hybridization that puts her at odds with family and community, as she challenges the early twentieth-century expectations for a simple housewife. 
 
Through the years, seasonal floods continually threaten to erase her Woodland, Washington garden and a series of family tragedies cause even Hulda to question her focus. In a time of practicality, can one person's simple gifts of beauty make a difference? 
 
Based on the life of Hulda Klager, Where Lilacs Still Bloom is a story of triumph over an impossible dream and the power of a generous heart.
 
"Beauty matters... it does. God gave us flowers for a reason. Flowers remind us to put away fear, to stop our rushing and running and worrying about this and that, and for a moment, have a piece of paradise right here on earth."

Where Lilacs Still Bloom

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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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The dust jacket has some general wear and marking, and a crease at the top. The book itself is in good shape, it has some damage to the top corners and the spine, as pictured. Still readable, the text itself is in great shape. 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Pappalardo's unexpected and highly entertaining social history of this scandalous flower stretches from the Stone Age to the Space Age, from its healing role in Hopi tribal rituals to its covert involvement in the Cold War.

Sunflowers

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Lots of cover wear and a name on the title page, pictured, but the main text of the book is in great shape and still readable. 

Design, Construction, and Operation

Includes sun movement charts at various latitudes.

The Food and Heat Producing Solar Greenhouse

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Vintage 1974 edition. Ex library copy. The text itself is in good shape but the cover has definitely seen better days. Tape residue, stains and faded spots. Still readable. 

 #paperback #gardening #plants #flowers #nature #history #gardens #horticulture #flowergardening #vintagebook

A Book about Sweet Scented Flowers and Leaves Vintage

Fullest, best book on growing plants for their fragrances. Descriptions of hundreds of plants, both well-known and overlooked.

The Fragrant Garden

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Overall excellent condition, the jacket has a crease, pictured, but it's not very noticeable.

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

The Comeback Tale of the American Chestnut Tree

American chestnut trees were once found far and wide in North America's eastern forests. They towered up to one hundred feet tall, providing food and shelter for people and animals alike. For many, life without the chestnut seemed unimaginable--until disaster struck in the early 1900s.What began as a wound in the bark of a few trees soon turned to an unstoppable killing force. An unknown blight was wiping out the American chestnut, and scientists felt powerless to prevent it. But the story doesn't end there. Today, the American chestnut is making a comeback. Narrative nonfiction master Sally M. Walker tells a tale of loss, restoration, and the triumph of human ingenuity in this beautifully photographed middle-grade book sure to appeal to fans of the Scientists in the Field series.

Champion

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Has some cover dings, marks and creases, and a spot of sticker residue that you can't see, but can feel. Inside is in good shape. 

 #paperback #nonfiction #gardening #plants #howto #diy #horticulture #nature #gardens #humor 

The Guide for the Horticulturally Hapless

A humorous look at the pitfalls of beginner gardening. Glossary.

A Starter Garden

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Diana Wells

New York

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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Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

Manual of Woody Landscape Plants

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Pennsylvania

Illustrated Encyclopedia of Gardening

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Vintage book from 1973. Definitely getting a little delicate and showing its age, but still a great reference book. Shown are sticker residue and flaws on the cover, and where the cover is beginning to separate from the book. 

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Sunset Ideas for Japanese Gardens

Has some marks on the cover and stains on the top edge, pictured. Still very readable and sturdy. 

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

At Work in the Wild and Cultivated World

A meditative study of the art of gardening draws on the principles of Zen as it provides practical knowledge, garden lore, hands-on techniques, and profound reflections on nature and the human relationship with the natural world. Original. 25,000 first printing.

Gardening at the Dragon's Gate

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The spine is sun faded and has one creased corner on the back, inside is in great shape. Signed and dedicated copy. 

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Limestone, Alkaline Clay and Caliche Soils

Everything you need to know to garden in difficult soils. Includes descriptions of heat-tolerant and lime-loving plant varieties and gardening to attract wildlife: butterflies, hummingbirds, and ticklebees.

Gardening Success with Difficult Soils

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California

Part of the covering on the front cover is coming loose and some noticeable wear, but overall excellent condition.

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Seasonal Container Gardening

Whitecap Books Staff

Step-by-Step Guide to Growing and Displaying Orchids

The Raindrip Guide

Drip Watering Made East

Ann Lovejoy; Patrick Chapin (Illustrator)

The Year in Bloom

Steven Foster

Herbs for Your Health

Morgan Doane; Erin Harding

How to Raise a Plant

H. Edward Reiley

Introductory Horticulture

Carol Williams

Bringing a Garden to Life

Bonnie Thomas Abbott

Radical Prunings

Jane Kirkpatrick

Where Lilacs Still Bloom

Henry Mitchell

The Essential Earthman

Joe Pappalardo

Sunflowers

Bill Yanda

The Food and Heat Producing Solar Greenhouse

Louise B. Wilder

The Fragrant Garden

Sally M. Walker

Champion

Cheryl Merser; Simon Dorell (Illustrator)

A Starter Garden

Diana Wells

100 Flowers and How They Got Their Names

Michael A. Dirr

Manual of Woody Landscape Plants

American Horticultural Society

Trees

The editors of Sunset Books and Sunset Magazine

Sunset Ideas for Japanese Gardens

Wendy Johnson

Gardening at the Dragon's Gate

Scott Ogden

Gardening Success with Difficult Soils

Morgan Doane; Erin Harding

How to Raise a Plant

Royal Horticultural Society

The Rhododendron Handbook