Sow Now for the Late Summer Gap
Sow annuals now to bring colour to the garden after the June peak Within a few weeks most gardens will be at their peak. Roses, clematis, delphiniums, foxgloves, lupins, irises, lavender and other stalwarts of the English country garden will be ... [... more]
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Thimbleberry Stories
 Thimble"boring" Stories: I rated this book with 4 stars because the illustrations are completely engaging, filled with rustic charm, cute little animals, thatched roof cottages, pretty flowers like foxgloves and climbing roses. Maggie Kneen [... more]
CDN$8.00
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Gardener's Latin: A Lexicon
Botanical Pleasure: For lovers of plants, language, and beautiful books, this is a perfect book. The translation of botanical latin is helpful to anyone interested in the origin of plant names. The sketches, marginal notes and quotations, layout and size [... more]
CDN$12.95
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Bontanical Illustration in Watercolor
Absolutely the BEST BOOK on botanical illustration: This is the best book on botanical illustration I have found. It is suitable for all levels including complete beginners like myself. Although some artistic talent is certainly an asset, closely [... more]
CDN$27.95
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Death: the Time of Your Life
Not Gaiman's best...: It is a fun read, but not as thought provoking as Gaiman's other Endless stories. I agree with an eariler review stating the character of Death suffers in this story. I kind of took my impressions of this book and swept them under a [... more]
CDN$18.02
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Giant Perennials: Star Performers for the Garden
Bold and beautiful plants: This is a fairly basic book that will help new, or fairly new gardeners select and grow large perennials. Perennials - flowers that bloom year after year - are the backbone of many gardens. However many people with small city [... more]
CDN$29.95
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Giant Perennials: Star Performers for the Garden
Bold and beautiful plants: This is a fairly basic book that will help new, or fairly new gardeners select and grow large perennials. Perennials - flowers that bloom year after year - are the backbone of many gardens. However many people with small city [... more]
CDN$21.95
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Death: The Time of Your Life
Not Gaiman's best...: It is a fun read, but not as thought provoking as Gaiman's other Endless stories. I agree with an eariler review stating the character of Death suffers in this story. I kind of took my impressions of this book and swept them under a [... more]
CDN$17.50
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A Witch's Brew of Plants
The poisonous consequences of some angelic plants this Halloween. For the Halloween season, we examine plants that have poisonous consequences. Brugmansia, Datura, mistletoe, Dumb Cane,Kalanchoe, Deadly Nightshade, rhubarb, Foxgloves, Castor ... [... more]
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A Foxglove for Every Garden
Exuberant, extravagant, and home to the garden fairies, the foxgloves are quintessential cottage garden plants yet well suited to every garden style. Foxgloves seed themselves about in an apparently indiscriminately random melee and thus bring a ... [... more]
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The Lonely Scarecrow
beautifully illustrated!: Despite the actually scary scarecrow, my 2 1/2 yr old boys love this book. They bring it to us to read several times a week. They love feeling the embossed pictures and telling me what they see. As the reading parent, I don't [... more]
CDN$17.95
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