Ornamental Grasses For Shade - Carex, The Sedges
If you're looking for ornamental grasses for a shady garden, the sedges are hard to beat. This is the first in a series on ornamental grasses for shade Grasses have been of tremendous economic importance since the beginning of agriculture -- in ... [... more]
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Mammals of the Great Lakes Region: Revised Edition
 Whistle Pigs, Bog Lemmings, and Wolverines: One of the first things I learned from "Mammals of the Great Lakes Region" is not to chase away the woodchuck that has made its den (actually its 'plunge hole') right beneath my bedroom window. It may [... more]
CDN$19.74
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Grasses: An Identification Guide
Useable, but flawed: As another review noted the range of this book is limited, from Minnesota to Kentucky and Maryland south, and north to Maine, although some of the grasses are more widespread. The copyright date is 1979 and while that does not [... more]
CDN$18.50
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Wildflowers of the Northern Great Plains: With a New ...
Very helpful, excellent illustrations & photos: I have used the earlier version of this book for a while and liked the fine photographs and concise, well chosen information on each page. The photos are interspersed with line drawings of critical [... more]
CDN$20.02
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How to Identify Grasses: And Grasslike Plants
Excellent manual on morphology of these difficult groups.: As a former student of the late Dr. Harrington who taught me much about plant classification, I highly recommend this book. It is similar to his How to Identify Plants, but the diagrams are much [... more]
CDN$12.45
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Forest plants of Central Ontario
Review of Forest Plants of Central Ontario: I used this plant guide in Killarney Provincial Park (Ontario) and found it useful for identifying major plant species of the area. This guide is interesting because it includes both a photograph and a line [... more]
CDN$31.20
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The Color Encyclopedia of Ornamental Grasses: Sedges, ...
From Amazon.com: Much has changed in the role and use of ornamental grasses over the past 100 years. Whereas turn-of-the-century gardeners had perhaps a dozen perennial grasses to choose from, today's gardeners have hundreds. Ornamental grasses now [... more]
CDN$70.17
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Field Guide to the Grasses, Sedges, and Rushes of the ...
Quick! But accurate?: This book travels well and with the index dog-eared makes for quick and dirty referencing (espeically of Fam Graminae). But I found a few of the plates, although well illustrated, confusing (i.e. determining the key number [... more]
CDN$5.75
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A New CD-Rom on Grasses and Their Relatives
Many consider grasses, sedges, and their relatives to be the backbone of a perennial garden. The CD reviewed in this article features these plant species. Timber Press has introduced its first book on cd-rom rather than in the traditional book ... [... more]
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Plants For The Damp Garden - Sedges, Rushes & Flags
Damp gardens - or damp areas in a garden - are perfect spots for some of the grass-like ornamentals like sedges, rushes and sweet flags. My damp garden is beginning to look like something. This was taken a couple of weeks ago, as the primroses ... [... more]
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The Writer's and Photographer's Guide to Global Markets
This is a must own book for freelancers: If you are interested in increasing your writing income - and who's not - then this book must be in your marketing reference library. It tells you how and where you can share in the money you're missing by not [... more]
CDN$24.95
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