Mosses and Other Miniature Plants
Mosses, lichens, liverworts, and other miniature plants make fascinating gardening subjects for tiny gardens or for broad expanses of land. I was amazed when people on the different gardening e-mail lists started asking directions for growing ... [... more]
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Living Wreaths
Living wreaths of succulents, herbs, or seasonal plants make attractive garden hangings or candle wreaths. March is often the height of spring fever for gardeners. For those of us in the north, it really is still too cold to do anything ... [... more]
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In Praise of Plants
 Technical but wondrously informative: It's always a good sign to see that someone has bothered to translate a science book from another language into English. Publishers can usually get some English-language scientist to write a tome on the latest [... more]
CDN$27.95
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Gardener's Directory of Shrubs & Climbers: A practical ...
Very confusing: A nice book to look at - lots of colourful pictures and brief descriptions - but its credibility is suspect based on the extremely confusing zone ratings. The book is printed in the UK, but it shows a US hardiness zone map. However, the [... more]
CDN$14.99
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Discovering Wild Plants: Alaska, Western Canada, T
Wow, what a field guide, and check out all those recipes!: I just got this book (fourth printing, 1998) in my mail, and I can testify that it's well worth the money. It's a really good field guide to plants of The Far North, be it Alaska or Finland. In [... more]
CDN$39.95
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