Combat Zone Envy - Make Microclimates
Pay attention to a few simple factors in your garden and you may be able to grow plants that all the books tell you aren't hardy for you. No matter where a gardener lives they always seem to think that people in other climate zones are better off ... [... more]
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Water Gardening In Containers: Small Ponds Indoors & Out
 Many pretty pictures and neat ideas, but not enough info: This book is well illustrated and is a great "idea book" for people who want to see the many types of container water garden possibilities. There are also several useful tips that make [... more]
CDN$21.95
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Quick and Easy Topiary and Green Sculpture: Create ...
From Amazon.com: The design possibilities for topiary sculpture are virtually limitless--only the imagination and some basic skills are needed to produce fanciful, exotic, traditional, or wildly individual designs with living plants. This is the book [... more]
CDN$21.95
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Martha Stewart's Gardening: Month by Month
Beautiful and Inspiring: This is undoubtedly one of my favorite gardening books of all time. I highly recommend it!!! Actually attainable ideas for the "average" gardener!: I know, I know, this is Martha's stuff, the woman we all love to hate! [... more]
CDN$67.00
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Western Garden Book: Completely Revised And Updated
Everything I was hoping Sunset would provide!: I have anticipated this newest edition of "Sunset" for several years, and find it to be all that I have hoped it COULD be. As a nurseryperson fully aware of all the newer cultivars being made [... more]
CDN$49.95
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The Organic Gardener's Home Reference: A Plant-By-Plant ...
From Amazon.com: This is truly a one-stop comprehensive guide to organic gardening: it is a big book filled with techniques, definitions, solutions to gardening problems, and a huge listing of organic gardening resources. It's one of the most thorough [... more]
CDN$32.95
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The Kingfisher First Animal Picture Atlas
Just right for animal lovers.: My son has been pouring over this book for weeks. We borrowed it from the library and now I am going to buy it.It has beautiful drawings of animals on the maps. My son has learned about climate zones, continents and new [... more]
CDN$11.95
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Botanica's Roses: Over 1,000 Pages & Over 2,000 Roses Listed
This is a smaller version of the hardcover Botanica's Roses: This is a neat little book with great high quality photos. However, the big Botanica's Roses book has two or three times as many roses. So this is not a listing of basically every rose like the [... more]
CDN$20.02
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But it's rated for my zone. . . .
Cold hardiness isn't everything. What a climate zone rating can and can't tell you. At the back of my property is a large stand of black bamboo (phyllostachys nigra) which I planted in an attempt to hide an apartment complex which sprouted, most ... [... more]
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Daffodil Collectibles, Down Under Catalogues, and Warm Fires
January is not prime daffodil time for me in my Zone 5-6 USDA climate zone. Well, I do have some paper whites in bloom. Some friends who have cold greenhouses have told me about the abundance of winter-flowering bulbocodium and cantabricus ... [... more]
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Western Garden Book
Everything I was hoping Sunset would provide!: I have anticipated this newest edition of "Sunset" for several years, and find it to be all that I have hoped it COULD be. As a nurseryperson fully aware of all the newer cultivars being made [... more]
CDN$38.50
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Electromagnetic Wave Propagation Through Rain
Difficult to Follow, Overly Empirical: To start with, the title is really something of a misnomer. A better title would be "Empirically Estimating Long Term Attenuation Statistics of Terrestrial Radio Links". His results do not extend beyond [... more]
CDN$165.99
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