Guide to Birch Trees
Prairie home owners love birch trees. Although these trees are not particularly well suited to dry prairie conditions, where they are given proper care, birch trees provide attractive long- lived additions to our landscapes. The three most common ... [... more]
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When Evergreens Aren't: Part I Rhizosphaera Needle Cast
Rhizosphaera Needle Cast is a common disease of spruce. Combat this disease with proper tree placement and culture. If you are familiar with the blue spruce, then you most likely have seen them in various stages of decline. These trees have been ... [... more]
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Fitzcarraldo (Widescreen)
 From Amazon.com: Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald (Klaus Kinski), known as Fitzcarraldo to the native Peruvians, is an avid opera lover and rubber baron who dreams of building an opera house in the Peruvian jungle. To accomplish this, he plans to reach an [... more]
CDN$39.97
Amazon CA |
Japanese Maples: Momiji and Kaede
Expecting More ... Disappointing: After looking at the pictures of the book on-line, it appeared to be a publication which was both beautifully photographed and written at an expert level - which would be helpful to the home gardener. Not so. Most of the [... more]
CDN$56.95
Amazon CA |
Forest Giants of the Pacific Coast
GET THIS BOOK!!!!!: This book rocks! It inspires as well as informs! The line drawings are especially amazing. Van Pelt selects specific angles for each drawing, such that he captures the unique qualities of each individual tree. These renderings are [... more]
CDN$40.13
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An Unhallowed Grave
Excellent parallel development of history and mystery: Kate Ellis has developed an approach to mystery that parallels a historical event (in AN UNHALLOWED GRAVE the historical event is the lynch execution of a woman for murdering a child) and a current [... more]
CDN$10.95
Amazon CA |
Fall Color and Woodland Harvests: A Guide to the More ...
Lovely, easy to use basic guide: I've been frustrated for a while now in trying to find a good tree identification guide. I'm a birder, I do know how to use field guides! --but all the tree guides I've tried had one photograph, or one line drawing, which [... more]
CDN$19.74
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What The Little Fir Tree Wore To The Christmas Party
A little disappointing: I looked at this book at the book store and found the pictures very repititious and lacking in charm. The little fir tree did not seem to have that touch of realism that would have made the story believable. I'm a big fan of [... more]
CDN$9.99
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When Evergreens Aren't: Part II Cytospora Canker of Spruce
Trees in the spruce family are often afflicted with diseases. One such disease which may even kill these trees is cytospora canker. Another common and devastating disease of spruce trees is Cytospora canker. Caused by the fungus Initial symptoms ... [... more]
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Planting Under Trees - Part 1
Most of the shade in my USDA zone 7 garden, and I daresay most in your garden, is cast by mature trees. Planting directly under these trees - around their bases - is the greatest shade gardening challenge. Most of the shade in my USDA zone 7 ... [... more]
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Pucker Up for Persimmons
Drive around town and you may have noticed these trees barren of leaves with dozens of bright orange-red fruit hanging from the branches. Welcome to the world of persimmons -- one of the most under-utilized fruit trees around. Unlike their more ... [... more]
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Beneath the Trees
ingenious: I don't have the CD but I've heard most of it on the radio it is really good tasteful music. Calm at times but adding a trance effect. I have no idea what kind of genre you could classify it as Industrial/Trance/Classical/Techno?!?! But [... more]
CDN$19.99
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