Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Washington

How to Attract Birds to Your Garden

Arkansas

♻️ The Houseplant Encyclopedia

This brilliantly funny and talented author delivers another winner in the acclaimed bird themed mystery series readers have come to love.￼ A Meg Langslow mystery.

Maryland

The brilliantly funny and talented Donna Andrews delivers another winner in the acclaimed avian-themed mystery series readers have come to love.

 

Meg Langslow’s eccentric parents have a new hobby: growing roses and entering them in highly competitive shows. Dad’s gardening skill and Mother’s gift for selecting and arranging the blossoms should make them an unbeatable team---and Meg is relieved they’ve taken up such a safe, gentle hobby. She even volunteers to help when the Caerphilly Garden Club sponsors its first annual rose show. But after a few hours of dealing with her parents’ competitors, Meg is worried. Rose growers are so eccentric that they make Meg’s family seem almost normal, and so competitive that they will do nearly anything to take home the show’s grand prize---making them prime suspects when Meg discovers that someone is attempting to kill the wealthy woman on whose estate the competition is being held. Of course, the intended victim had other enemies---her treatment of her farm animals had aroused the interest of several animal welfare activists, including Meg’s zoologist grandfather. Meg tries to leave the detecting to the local police and focus on protecting her parents’ chances to win the coveted Black Swan trophy, but she soon finds herself compelled to solve the crime before any more rose growers die.

 

It’s Swan for the Money, two for the show, three to get ready... now go, Meg, go!

Swan for the Money

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Delaware

A Month-by-Month Guide and Journal for Planning, Planting, and Tending Your Organic Garden

Provides advice for planning, planting, and enjoying a garden, and contains lists of tasks based on months and temperature zones.

Gardener to Gardener Almanac and Pest-Control Primer

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Jerry F. Baker

New Jersey

1,776 Super Solutions to Grow, Repair, and Maintain the Best Lawn in the Land!

Learn how to grow perfectly green and gorgeous grass without toxic chemicals and expensive lawn care treatments using methods in this compendium of thousands of lawn care tips, tricks, and tonics. Say goodbye to weeds, disease, and bare spots with these simple yet effective homemade remedies for improving the lawn, such as using beer, baby shampoo, and ammonia to energize soil, green-up turf, and wipe out weeds. Practical problem solvers include techniques that will keep grass alive during a drought, a treatment that is deadly to bugs but harmless to everything else, and a four season routine for growing the greenest grass year round while special features—“Blue Plate Special” tonics, “From the Mailbag,” and “Jerry Baker’s Secrets”—provide additional information and answers.

Jerry Baker's All-American Lawns

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Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Planning, Planting, Building

Helps determine the yard type and its needs by examining privacy and security, sun and shade, patios and decks, and service areas, and provides detailed instructions on landscaping it

Step-by-Step Landscaping

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Hanging Gardens 

Connecticut

Stories, Recipes and Crafts from the Abundant Earth

This text is a treasure-trove of tips, how-tos and trade secrets, organized by the seasons, that presents a profusion of ways to celebrate the bounty of the earth all year round.

Simple Pleasures of the Garden

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Create a Low-Maintenance Landscape to Enjoy Year-Round

Presents projects for gardeners who lack for spare time, including window boxes, trellises, patio gardens, and potted plant arrangements, plus tips on fertilizing, weeding, and planting

Rodale's Weekend Gardener

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Planters, Sculptures, Birdbaths and more!!

Nevada

Making Pots, Planters, Birdbaths, Sculpture and More

Sherri Hunter, author of the best-selling Creating with Concrete, proves once again that concrete isn't just for sidewalks anymore; it's perfect for the garden too. A selection of 30 beautiful designs suggests the range of this increasingly popular material, and the illustrated instructions make the craft's fundamentals easy to learn. Because the simplest projects come first, beginners can work their way through the book progressively, building on their skills. Novices will have fun making the carved trough, sandcast bowl, and elegant relief panel. More sophisticated projects, including a decorative walkway and polished table, come next, and they'll bring charm to any outdoor space. More adventurous artists can unleash their creativity on a "Garden Guardian" sculpture or water feature. A Selection of the Crafters Choice and Homestyle Book Clubs.


Creative Concrete Ornaments for the Garden   #sku flr

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Guy Cooper

Gordon Taylor

Clive Boursnell

♻️ English Herb Gardens

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Kentucky

Gardening

Camilla Arvidsson

Malin Nilsson

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Easy and Inexpensive Containers, Furniture, Water Features and More

For gardeners and backyard do-it-yourselfers, concrete is a revelation. It's durable, weatherproof, impossible to steal, and it provides much-needed insulation for outdoor plants. Concrete weathers beautifully, softening around the edges, developing moss, and becoming more picturesque with age. Concrete Garden Projects takes advantage of concrete's numerous assets, showcasing an inspiring array of creative options. The step-by-step instructions for dozens of easy, do-it-yourself décor ideas include containers of all shapes and sizes, elegant benches and stools, miniature ponds and birdbaths, stepping stones, a barbecue, and a fire pit. The authors use a variety of molds easily found or made, household items like bowls and baking pans, and simple wooden frames and boxes. At pennies per pound, and so simple to use—just mix with water and pour—concrete is the key to hand-crafted backyard décor.

♻️ Concrete Garden Projects

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One of the biggest unidentified trends in the United States today is the increased number of small farms. Too few small farms earn the dollars needed to keep a family in the country. There are profit potentials aplenty in herbs and spices, all of which can produced in the United States. The author has identified several  hundred herbs and spices, all of which could be produced in the United States, that are presently imported. Perfectly valid markets exist for these products, and they have existed for 100 years or more.  Learn the potential of herbs as a cash crop

The Potential of Herbs as a Cash Crop

Michigan

The Book of Shrubs

 #nonfiction #women #Christian Library book from small church library #hardcover #memoir #autobiography #gardening 

Tennessee

How I Learned the Unexpected Joy of a Green Thumb and an Open Heart

"In this profoundly moving memoir, Owita teaches Wall how to find grace amid heartbreak and to accept that beauty exists because it is fleeting—as in her garden, as in life." —People, 4 stars

"A perfect spring awakening." —Good Housekeeping

A true story of a unique friendship between two people who had nothing—and ultimately everything—in common.


Carol Wall, a white woman living in a lily-white neighborhood in Middle America, was at a crossroads in her life. Her children were grown; she had successfully overcome illness; her beloved parents were getting older. One day she notices a dark-skinned African man tending her neighbor’s yard. His name is Giles Owita. He bags groceries at the supermarket. He comes from Kenya. And he’s very good at gardening.
 

Before long Giles is transforming not only Carol’s yard, but her life. Though they are seemingly quite different, a caring bond grows between them. But they both hold long-buried secrets that, when revealed, will cement their friendship forever.

Mister Owita's Guide to Gardening

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Fern Marshall Bradley

Deborah L. Martin

Texas

The Indispensable Resource for Every Gardener

Over 400 entries of the most practical, up-to-date gardening information ever, collected from garden experts and writers nationwide!

"Gardens are places to renew yourself in mind and body, to reawaken to the truth and beauty of the natural world, and to feel the life force inside and around you. And the organic way to garden is safer, cheaper, and more satisfying. Organic gardeners have shown that it's possible to have pleasant and productive gardens in every part of this country without using toxic chemicals. They make their home grounds an island of purity."
Robert Rodale

All-New Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening

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North Carolina

Letters from a Nantucket Gardener

Laura Simon's garden in Nantucket is extraordinary in its beauty and its abundance. In her first work of nonfiction, she imagines a correspondence with Thomas Jefferson, another gardener extraordinaire.The result is an epistolary adventure with life lessons, history, and personalities amongst the blooms. Ms. Simon, looking for a way to express the gardening thrall she'd found herself in, wanted to talk shop, to discuss soil tilth and tillage, to compare varieties of carrots, and to analyze the relative merits of manure. One evening, while the author was sitting by her wood stove, feet buried beneath her dog and a stack of seed catalogs by her side, she wondered, "Why isn't there a 'Thomas Jefferson' around I can talk to?" After all, continued her musing, popular history has it that it was Thomas Jefferson who, at the dawn of our republic, convinced his countrymen that tomatoes weren't poisonous. So began the imagined conversations with Thomas Jefferson. Ms. Simon, whose previous books were historical romances, now finds inspiration from her peppers and peas. Dear Mr. Jefferson is a passionate, sometimes whimsical, always fascinating narrative, construed as letters to Thomas Jefferson. In these letters she tells him of the trials and tribulations of growing vegetables and flowers while relaying Jefferson's own gardening stories and passions as if she were having a dialogue with him. The book's charm and humor is heightened with personal anecdotes borne out of the author's attempt to explain the conundrums and advances of modernity to the eighteenth-century renaissance man. Simon weaves personal anecdote with anecdotal history creating an engaging narrative that titillates, educates, and entertains.

Dear Mr. Jefferson

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Summer Rayne Oakes

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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The Practice and Pleasure of Gardening

Reveals the intricacies of garden tools from the inevitable shovel to the obligatory garden hat.

Tools of the Earth

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Planting and Pruning Techniques

Tracy DiSabato-Aust has devoted years of study to creating show with minimal maintenance. Her methods of pruning and shaping perennials, thoroughly explained and illustrated here, produce more flowers, encourage lush new growth, discourage pests, stagger bloom times, and maintain vigorous health. Readers have given its rave reviews of this book since publication.

The Well-Tended Perennial Garden

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Essential Perennials

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High-Performance Plants for Low-Maintenance Gardens

Provides tips on planting easy-care borders for year-round enjoyment and includes a plant listing of perennials that thrive without constant attention

Easy Borders

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Timeless Bits of Wisdom on How to Grow Everything Organically, from the Food Old Days When Everyone Did

Timeless bits of wisdom on how to grow everything organically, from the good old days when everyone did

Old-time gardeners were ahead of their time! Their ideas for wildflower gardens, children's gardens, organic pest controls, decorating with houseplants, healing with herbs, and more are at the forefront of modern gardening trends. Take a look back to the future of gardening with this incredible collection of gardening advice from successful 17th-, 18th-, 19th-, and early 20th-century gardeners.

Early gardeners knew what they were doing--they had to, since they depended on their plants for food, medicine, home decorations, and recreation! Whether you're growing vegetables, flowers, herbs, fruits, trees, shrubs, wildflowers, houseplants, or lawn grass, these old-time tips will help you get the most out of your plantings. Do you want a lusher lawn? How about more beautiful flowerbeds or hints for making your yard look bigger? You'll find all that and more in 1,001 Old-Time Garden Tips.

Learn how to read weather signs, improve your soil organically, hide landscape eyesores with ease, decorate your home with flowering vines, and soothe sore joints with herbal remedies. Discover creative ways to landscape your home with fanciful topiary tree houses or practical hedges and windbreaks. From fruits to nuts and artichokes to watermelons, you'll find recommendations for healthier harvests--not to mention recipes for unique and tasty side dishes, drinks, and herbal seasonings. Plus: hundreds of organic techniques that have been proven effective by generations of great gardeners! Look for these special features and more:

* "Old-Time Wisdom" boxes present early gardeners' best planting notions.
* Tried-and-true recipes from early kitchens will tickle your tastebuds.
* "Strange but True" boxes reveal weird, wacky, and wonderful gardening techniques.
* A source list makes it easy to locate wonderful old-time plants.
* Authentic old-time illustrations take you back to a time when garden tips were on everyone's lips.
* A "Recommended Reading" list guides you to more great ideas from the past.

1001 Old-Time Garden Tips

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Dan Rouse

How to Attract Birds to Your Garden

Maggie Stuckey

♻️ The Houseplant Encyclopedia

Donna Andrews

Swan for the Money

Vicki Mattern (Editor); Fern Marshall Bradley (Editor)

Gardener to Gardener Almanac and Pest-Control Primer

Jerry F. Baker

Jerry Baker's All-American Lawns

Better Homes and Gardens Editors

Step-by-Step Landscaping

Jack Kramer

Hanging Gardens

Susannah Seton

Simple Pleasures of the Garden

Erin Hynes

Rodale's Weekend Gardener

Sherri Warner Hunter

Creative Concrete Ornaments for the Garden #sku flr

Guy Cooper; Gordon Taylor; Clive Boursnell

♻️ English Herb Gardens

Hilda Buckner

Gardening

Camilla Arvidsson; Malin Nilsson

♻️ Concrete Garden Projects

Richard Alan Richard

The Potential of Herbs as a Cash Crop

Alfred c. Hottes

The Book of Shrubs

Carol Wall

Mister Owita's Guide to Gardening

Fern Marshall Bradley; Deborah L. Martin

All-New Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening

Laura Simon

Dear Mr. Jefferson

Summer Rayne Oakes

How to Make a Plant Love You

Jeff Taylor; Rich Iwasaki (Photographer)

Tools of the Earth

Tracy DiSabato-Aust; Steven M. Still (Foreword by)

The Well-Tended Perennial Garden

Derek Fell

Essential Perennials

Molly Ephraums

Easy Borders

Roger B. Yepson (Editor); Yepsen Yepsen

1001 Old-Time Garden Tips