Quail Botanical Gardens
Escaping from a northeastern winter to a garden in California. The Quail Botanical Gardens were a welcome change when this northeasterner visited them during a harsh winter back home. The season's snowfall was 16 feet, 4.9 meters. If the snow ... [... more]
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Smith and Hawken: 100 English Roses for the American Garden
 From Amazon.com: The rose has always been a popular flower; ancient Romans, Egyptians, Greeks, and Chinese cultivated rose gardens and used the blooms in festivals and funerals. Yet the roses we grow today have generally been in existence for less than a [... more]
CDN$19.95
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Frommer's New Zealand
Frommer's New Zealand: This guide is an excellent introduction to New Zealand for the first-time traveler. The organization is helpful and the area details are of great value in planning self-guided itineraries. We were able to focus our two weeks in the [... more]
CDN$24.99
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Murder at Ford's Theatre
I was hoping for more...: This was not one of Truman's best books. I kept waiting for some action and mystery... and then it did not come. The other Capital Crimes book I read most recently (Murder at the Smithsonian; Library of Congress) had a lot more [... more]
CDN$10.99
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Katak
A Life-Altering Musical Experience: Can I award more than 5 stars? There aren't enough superlatives to describe this album. Well, maybe there are, but this would be an awfully long review. The music is wonderful - the guitars, drums, harmonica, strings [... more]
CDN$17.99
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The Beautiful Bronx 1920-1950
Very good but not enough detail: I loved the book, but was very disappointed that my neighborhood which is around Mckinley Square, Morrisania Library, Fulton Avenue Y, Crotona Park and the Indian lake, Boston Road Yiddish Theater, Jennings Street with [... more]
CDN$34.00
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Botanical Gardens Coloring Book
Author: Dot Barlowe Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 371 EAN: 9780486298580 ISBN: 0486298582 Number Of Pages: 48 Publication Date: 1997-07-11 Reading Level: Ages 9-12 [... more]
CDN$4.50
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Museums, Zoos & Botanical Gardens of Wisconsin: A ...
Author: Anton Rajer Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 917.750444 EAN: 9780966418002 ISBN: 096641800X Number Of Pages: 300 Publication Date: 2006-05 [... more]
CDN$18.70
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Recreating Eden: A Natural History of Botanical Gardens
Author: Mary Soderstrom Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 635 EAN: 9781550651515 ISBN: 155065151X Number Of Pages: 240 Publication Date: 2001-01 [... more]
CDN$19.74
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Gardening and Mythology
We revisited the Allen Botanical Gardens recently when we were in Toronto. Within the Conservatory was a pond and a little island upon which was a statue of One of the more well known tales is the sowing of dragon's teeth and the reaping of armed ... [... more]
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Gasterias of South Africa-A Book Review
The author spent nine years studying specimens from various botanical gardens and in their native habitat, the south-eastern Cape of South Africa. This work documents a total of 16 species, 5 of which were verified as new species during this ... [... more]
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Gardening Inspiration
Stuck for gardening ideas? Where do other gardeners get their inspiration from? Well, one of the best ways is to visit other gardens. Most of the gardens open to the public on a regular basis are on the large scale - botanical gardens, stately ... [... more]
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