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Planning for peaceful co-existence between your pets and your house plants. It's November. Do you know where Fido and Mittens are? I hope they're not expressing their boredom at being back inside by nibbling or gnawing on your house plants. ... [... more]
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Trees of Wisconsin Field Guide
 a simple pocket guide: Great, basic guide book for gaining a more acute sense of native trees in Wisconsin including many common, non-native species as well. 101 different trees are highlighted, 16 conifers and 85 deciduous. The book has a nice layout, [... more]
CDN$12.99
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Illustrated Handbook of Succulent Plants: Crassulaceae
Not great for photographs but wonderful for information.: First I should say that I nearly sent this book back. I was expecting a book with lots of wonderful photographs to identify a family I love very much. Instead I got a book with photographs that [... more]
CDN$181.53
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The Woodbook
This is really something: Anybody taking this book to hand will be impressed. The publisher went all out to make this as luxurious an edition as possible, even providing a plywood box to keep the book in. The printing quality is beautiful and the woods [... more]
CDN$140.00
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Woodworker's Guide to Wood: Softwoods * Hardwoods * ...
The wood book I've been looking for.: I didn't know I could find such a comprehensive resource about wood. I will recomend this to all my woodworking friends. Excellent: This book is an excellent reference for someone who wants to know about timber. [... more]
CDN$29.95
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Seasoning Savvy: How to Cook with Herbs, Spices, and ...
From Amazon.com: Seasoning Savvy is the reference book every cook needs--a comprehensive and clearly written compendium of everything worth knowing about ingredients for flavoring food. Packed into a mere 265 pages (18 of which are black-and-white photos) [... more]
CDN$72.88
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The Pacific Northwest Gardener's Book of Lists
mixed feelings: In one sense, this book is great. If you want a list of plants that fit one certain criteria, just look for that list. The book is fairly easy to use in this sense, and that's why I gave it three stars; it seems like the authors spent a [... more]
CDN$26.95
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Punch! Professional Home Design Platinum V12
Features: All of the features of both industry-acclaimed Punch! Master Landscape & Home Design and Punch! Professional Home Design Suite software, and more LiveView window continually updates your home designs, in real-time 3D, as you draw PhotoView [... more]
CDN$99.95
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Fun Historical Daffodil Facts
DaffyClay on daffodils brings fun and informative facts from the history and legends of daffodils. Affodyle anyone? Daffodil is the English name for the Latin or botanical name, Narcissus is originally from the European Iberian peninsula of ... [... more]
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Dictionary of Plant Names: Botanical Names and Their ...
What Is the Origin of that Plant's Name?: Have you ever been curious about the origin of a plant's botanical name? How and why it got the name and what on earth it has to do with the plant? That's the type of information contained in this easy-to-use [... more]
CDN$17.95
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The Neem Tree
The much revered neem tree has a broader range of benificial uses than most trees. Written by Geoffrey Ian Miller. The neem belongs to the Meliaceae (mahogany) family and is a native of the Indian subcontinent. Neem's botanical name of ... [... more]
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Not Your Grandma's Coleus!!
Stodgy old coleus is sporting a new name and new style as it moves into a starring role in today's gardens. Modern coleus, whose botanical name has now been changed from Coleus blumei to the mouthful Solenostemon scutellarioides, is more robust, ... [... more]
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