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The Art and Craft of Stonescaping: Setting and Stacking Stone

California Home Landscaping (2027 readers)

Contributed by amazon 05.01 2007 on 10:26:49 Topic: Other / Books Match on Title and Article's text

Make a California home landscape more attractive and functional with California Home Landscaping. Like the other titles in this series, this book contains three parts: Design Portfolio, Guide to Installations, and Plant Portraits. In the Design Portfolio section, readers will find 48 designs created by landscape professionals in California. ...

Conifers of California (499 readers)

Contributed by amazon 14.05 2007 on 09:05:35 Topic: Other / Books Match on Title and Article's text

Conifers of California is the first book entirely devoted to the states native cone-bearing trees and shrubs. Richly illustrated, it serves as both a natural history and field guide. Each species narrative is accompanied by a full-page color botanical illustration, photographs from the wild, detailed indentification information, and a range map. ...

Gardening with a Wild Heart (553 readers)

Contributed by amazon 31.08 2007 on 10:19:55 Topic: Other / Books Match on Title and Article's text

Restoring Californias Native Landscapes at Home | Judith Lowrys voice and experiences make a rich matrix for essays that include discussions of wildflower gardening, the ecology of native grasses, wildland seed-collecting, principles of natural design, and plant/animal interactions. This lyrical and articulate mix of the practical and the poetic combines personal story, wildland ecology, restoration gardening practices, and native plant horticulture. ...

The Home Orchard (512 readers)

Contributed by amazon 18.09 2007 on 11:28:54 Topic: Other / Books Match on Title and Article's text

Developed especially for use by backyard orchardists, rare fruit growers, and small-scale growers, The Home Orchard offers a comprehensive look at standard growing methods, as well as some innovative practices that enthusiasts have developed in recent years, some of which are uniquely suited to the small-scale grower. You will learn how trees grow, which species grow best in the different regions and soils, varieties from which to select, preparing the soil, planting, watering and fertilizing, p ...

The Landscaping Ideas of Jays (472 readers)

Contributed by amazon 09.07 2007 on 10:46:04 Topic: Other / Books Match on Title and Article's text

A Natural History of the Backyard Restoration Garden | Elegantly organized by season, this lyrical yet practical guide to backyard restoration gardening celebrates the beauty, the challenges, and the rewards of growing native plants at home. Judith Larner Lowry, winner of the prestigious John Burroughs award, here builds on themes from her best-selling Gardening with a Wild Heart, which introduced restoration gardening as a new way of thinking about land and people. ...

Designer Plant Combinations (369 readers)

Contributed by amazon 16.09 2008 on 09:31:33 Topic: Other / Books Match on Title and Article's text

105 Stunning Gardens Using Six Plants or Fewer | For every gardener who has hesitated over plant pairings or wondered if an array of favorite plants will work well together in the garden, Designer Plant Combinations inspires and delights with professionally designed combinations using just two to six plants. Here are the secrets to combining French lavender with California fuchsia ; prairie coneflower with hummingbird mint ; and tall purple moor grass with dwarf Korean lilac in a small garden be ...

New Garden Design Inspiring Private Paradises (599 readers)

Contributed by amazon 17.07 2008 on 11:23:30 Topic: Other / Books Match on Title and Article's text

From vegetable and succulent gardens to sculpture and rose gardens to mountain and waterfront gardens , New Garden Design covers a range of interpretations incorporating walls, fountains, pavilions, canals, pools, terraces and groves in unexpected ways. The resulting new garden is a pleasure garden vested with spiritual, symbolic and ecological intent. A modernist interpretation of Roman stone furniture and freestanding walls punctuate the space behind a 1970s ranch house. A home designed by Ber ...