The Lazy Gardener's Guide To Gift Giving
Why fight the crowds when you can find some terrific gifts for gardeners without ever leaving your desk? Thanksgiving dinner is over and all over the country people who work in retail are girding their loins, trying to get themselves prepared for ... [... more]
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A Desert Gardener's Companion
 Finally, a practical guide for the desert: There has been a rush on new books about desert gardening lately, but most of them don't contain the secrets required to be successful. A Desert Gardener's Companion provides practical, only-learned-through- [... more]
CDN$20.79
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Influential Gardeners: The Designers Who Shaped ...
From Amazon.com: Andrew Wilson's Influential Gardeners portrays who's who among 20th-century landscape designers, pinpointing how they created their effects and shaped gardening taste. Through engaging profiles of 56 garden stars and over 180 superb [... more]
CDN$45.15
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Thoughts from a Wrinkly Gardener
The years are passing quickly and this passionate but wrinkly gardener becomes thoughtful with the passage of time. Take a stroll through her thoughts and her gardens. Smell the roses and see the perennial by looking at the garden photos. The ... [... more]
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Things for Which I Can Be Thankful as an Organic Gardener
It's the month for thanksgiving, and as an organic gardener, I have a lot to be thankful for. In this time of worry and stress, I felt I should take some time out to be thankful for what my garden provides. I can be thankful for the bench on the ... [... more]
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Gifts for Gardeners
If a gardener is on your gift list, why not consider giving a membership in a plant society? Daffodil lovers would surely appreciate a membership in The American Daffodil Society. Membership includes the quarterly publication, The Daffodil ... [... more]
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Gardeners Know the Best (and Worst) Dirt!
All gardeners know at least something about dirt, er in scientific terms, soil. To garden in any capacity is to dig, and digging means dirt. Also laundry, but we won't go into that here. Dirt, or as the more scientifically inclined might call it, ... [... more]
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Winter Gardener's Blues? Not a Chance!
Winter doesn't have to be a dull, dead time of year for organic gardeners. In fact, some of the tasks you do now can help immensely with the condition of your garden come springtime. I enjoyed forcing my first amaryllis bulb this holiday season. ... [... more]
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Where Have all the Gardeners Gone?
Gardening is the number one leisure time activity in the US today - or so they say. If that's true, why are so many garden related businesses in trouble? I don't have any answers for gardeners this week. Instead I have a question - and I ... [... more]
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Agatha Raisin & the Potted Gardener
The sleuth's a winner, the plot is fluffy: I read this at someone else's urging, not being a regular devotee to the mystery genre, and I was pleasantly surprised. Agatha Raisin is delightful, sort of a middle-aged Bridget Jones with brains and business [... more]
CDN$12.01
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Greenhouse Gardener's Companion
COVERS ALL the bases!: I have a lot of greenhouse books- the Ortho greenhouse book and the "Expert Greenhouse" book and others. This book is by far the best. I bought the first release and then upgraded to the (2000) "revised edition." [... more]
CDN$25.50
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The Gardener's Guide to Growing Irises
From an Iris gardener in the US: For a person who needed information on growing Irises outside England and the Pacific Northwest, this would be not be the best first purchase. I can't judge how well it would describe cultural best practice in England but [... more]
CDN$24.95
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