Bold Succulents and Desert Humor
Two books are reviewed in this week's article. This includes a formal book on Agaves and Yuccas and a brief summary of a book about Desert humor. Gardeners worldwide like to push the limits when it comes to the plants they grow in their ... [... more]
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Coming Home To Eat
 From Amazon.com: Does it matter where our food comes from? Do we, our communities, and the planet do better if we choose food grown by local sources we trust? Exploring these and other questions of dietary and spiritual subsistence, Gary Paul Nabhan's [... more]
CDN$35.99
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Hot Plants for Cool Climates: Gardening with Tropical ...
From Amazon.com: Using flamboyant plants to evoke tropical gardens is the hottest trend in the gardening world, perhaps best described as the "banana and canna" style of garden design. Hot Plants for Cool Climates makes clear, for those of us [... more]
CDN$27.95
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The Garden Lover's Guide to Britain
From Amazon.com: There are thousands of British gardens open to the public. Of these, Patrick Taylor has chosen the most distinctive 100, selected for beauty, pleasure, and British horticultural tradition. The great traditional gardens of Hidcote and [... more]
CDN$25.99
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Coming Home To Eat
From Amazon.com: Does it matter where our food comes from? Do we, our communities, and the planet do better if we choose food grown by local sources we trust? Exploring these and other questions of dietary and spiritual subsistence, Gary Paul Nabhan's [... more]
CDN$15.95
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Henry Mitchell on Gardening
From Amazon.com: This posthumous offering from one of America's great garden writers is a gem of a book--not a polished one, for polish was never Mitchell's goal, but brilliant nonetheless. His writing is earthy, rich, and sometimes dark, like good [... more]
CDN$15.95
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Environmental Biology of Agaves and Cacti
Author: Park S. Nobel Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 570 EAN: 9780521543347 ISBN: 0521543347 Number Of Pages: 280 Publication Date: 2003-10-16 [... more]
CDN$65.95
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Agaves, Yuccas, and Related Plants: A Gardener's Guide
Terrific resource: I am the librarian at the Desert Botanical Garden and this book has been a tremendous addition to our collection. I have only had it for two weeks and have already used it several times to answer reference questions. The photos are [... more]
CDN$39.95
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Agaves of Continental North America
The Bible of the Agaves is back in print!: Back by Popular Demand The University of Arizona Press called this week, to let me know that they have reprinted Dr. Howard Scott Gentry's Bible of the Agaves..."Agaves of Continental North America." [... more]
CDN$49.95
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In Search of Paradise: Great Gardens of the World
Around the world in 240 pages!: Gardens are meant to be paradise on earth. The idea of paradise as a garden has a long history, even before the Garden of Eden was presented in the Bible. What the paradise looks like, there is hardly specific description. [... more]
CDN$55.00
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