Companion Plants
Companion plants are ones that can benefit others when planted in close proximity. This symbiotic relationship can produce a healthier, more pest-free, more diverse garden. When planning a garden, the normal approach is to choose plants for their ... [... more]
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How Groundhog's Garden Grew
 Great way to get kids interested in gardening: My three year old and I are planning a garden and this book has been an excellent companion to the process. Cherry does a great job of explaining how to create a garden through this story. In it Squirrel [... more]
CDN$24.99
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Shakkai: Woman of the Sacred Garden
What next: As I tried keeping up with the images and story line, I felt it effecting me like a bad LSD trip. I am not sure what I was supposed to learn from these latest adventures into Wonderland but I will say this was the least entertaining of the [... more]
CDN$15.58
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Gardening in Eden: Seasons in a Suburban Garden
Winter Tonic for the Gardener: I read Arthur T. Vanderbilt's book, "Gardening in Eden" as a nor'easter raged outside, blasting our house with a vile wintry mix, and his book brought inside the wonderfully soothing world of the garden in all [... more]
CDN$18.99
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New Complete Guide to Landscaping
greatest landscaping book I've seen so far: This is really a great and very comprehensive book, I love it. I saw it the first time in a store and I was really impressed by it, so I decided to look for it on amazon. My favorite part is the different ways [... more]
CDN$34.95
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The Gardener's A-Z Guide to Growing Flowers from Seed to ...
Follow the directions and get results: Eileen Powell's The Gardener's A-Z Guide to Growing Flowers from Seed to Bloom provides detailed information on germination, growing and care in a format that is easy to read. She also provides the growing zone in [... more]
CDN$27.95
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Architecture in the Garden
Practical and beautiful: With gardening books more prolific than cyanophyta on a neglected pond, I was expecting typically lovely photos accompanied by a heavy-handed lecture on what HAD to be done and NOT done. This book is so wonderfully not that. The [... more]
CDN$59.95
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A Cook's Guide to Growing Herbs, Greens, and Aromatics
From Amazon.com: Millie Owen was a New Yorker transplanted to rural Vermont. She arrived in the country knowing little about growing things but dug into the subject with enthusiastic dedication, teaching herself all about gardening and edible plants [... more]
CDN$25.95
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Lois Hole's perennial favorites
Confidence-building perennial book! Absolutely!: Midwest perennial gardener here! This is the easiest, most helpful gardening book I own for choosing a new perennial or figuring out what's going wrong with an older one. All the pictures are in color and [... more]
CDN$20.79
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Memorial Gardens -Gardens for Healing 1-Planning
Planning a garden, however large or small, to commemorate our dead is a form of healing. In this two part series we look first at what a memorial garden is and what it can do to help us to heal. My father was a funeral director. Because of that ... [... more]
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Planning an Organic Garden
Organic Gardens should include a variety of features such as beneficial animal habitat, ease of access, and a compost pile. Planning an organic is slightly different from planning a garden that depends on synthetic fertilizers and pesticides. ... [... more]
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Gardening with Nature: How James van Sweden and Wolfgang ...
My top choice!: I borrowed a dozen books on naturalistic planting from a friend of mine that is REALLY into gardening. All of the books had beautiful photographs and some were interesting to read but only "Gardening With Nature" told me how to [... more]
CDN$63.00
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