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Expert Guide to Lawns (Toro) (174 readers)

Contributed by amazon 22.03 2008 on 17:50:21 Topic: Other / Books Match on Title and Article's text

Pro Secrets for a Beautiful Yard (Toro) | oro knows lawns, and with this book, homeowners will have Toro at their side, helping them maintain a beautiful yard through authoritative step-by-step text, 350 color photos, and 101 full-color illustrations. For more than eight decades, Toro has been intimately involved in the cultivation and maintenance of turfgrass, from both a residential and a professional standpoint. Toro has invested millions of dollars in turf-related research, educational progr ...

Delia's Kitchen Garden (172 readers)

Contributed by amazon 12.03 2008 on 13:26:27 Topic: Other / Books Match on Title and Article's text

A Beginners Guide to Growing and Cooking Fruit and Vegetables | Follow a year in the life of Delia’s kitchen garden while creating your own organic garden. With 56 enticing recipes and 300 colour photographs, it’s sure to be a labour of love. ...

Design Ideas for Home Landscaping (203 readers)

Contributed by amazon 25.01 2008 on 10:04:20 Topic: Other / Books Match on Title and Article's text

Design Ideas for Home Landscaping offers inspiring ideas for achieving a stunning effect with your landscape. Using the information on plant design, expert gardening and planting advice, and the most resilient vegetation for your region, you can maintain a beautiful outdoor haven with this accessible guide for the professional landscape designer and the do-it-yourself homeowner alike. With over 350 magnificent color photographs and illustrations, Design Ideas for Home Landscaping is an essential ...

Viburnums (269 readers)

Contributed by amazon 18.11 2007 on 12:43:12 Topic: Other / Books Match on Title and Article's text

Flowering Shrubs for Every Season | With their abundance of flower, handsome foliage, robust constitution, and frequently stunning fruits, viburnums are among the most beautiful and versatile hardy shrubs available to gardeners. Yet despite these outstanding qualities, there has never been an entire volume devoted to them—until now. In this definitive, comprehensive, generously illustarted guide, internationally renowned woody plant expert Michael Dirr provides a wealth of information about ever ...

Lawns (335 readers)

Contributed by amazon 24.09 2007 on 10:30:00 Topic: Other / Books Match on Title and Article's text

Get the showcase lawn youve always wanted with this comprehensive guide, packed with expert tips and information from turf professionals. Contributing writer David Mellnor even shares his expertise as a groundskeeper for the Boston Red Sox (was top-quality turf a factor in their recent World Championship?). Includes complete information on the newest information, techniques and products you can use to cultivate a superior lawn, plus special information on sportscaping. ...

Tending Your Garden (331 readers)

Contributed by amazon 16.09 2007 on 05:13:56 Topic: Other / Books Match on Title and Article's text

A Year-Round Guide to Garden Maintenance | How to keep any garden looking its best, through the seasons and through the years. Gardening is the primary recreational activity of Americans. Since the 1980s, when gardening caught fire as a national passion, we have spent billions of dollars on what we grow for our own pleasure; and in all that time, not one book has been published on the broad subject of garden maintenance. ...

How to Make a Garden (320 readers)

Contributed by amazon 31.08 2007 on 10:29:12 Topic: Other / Books Match on Title and Article's text

From Canada’s leading garden expert comes a unique and practical step-by-step guide to creating the garden of your dreams. With her inimitable charm and boundless knowledge, noted gardener and author Marjorie Harris establishes the template for creating the garden that is right for your tiny urban plot, barren suburban tract, overgrown meadow, condo roof or balcony. Packed with practical advice, helpful sidebars and attractive photographs, How to Make a Garden takes you through Marjorie’s seven ...

Lawns 1-2-3 (387 readers)

Contributed by amazon 11.08 2007 on 08:43:41 Topic: Other / Books Match on Title and Article's text

A complete step-by-step guide to the care and feeding of lawns across the U.S. Easy-to-follow photos and advice for every situation, from revitalizing a weed-filled lawn to starting from scratch. Expert tips on mowing, fertilizing and watering-plus how to stop weeds and pests in their tracks. All the inspiration and information DIY groundskeepers need to turn ordinary lawns into neighborhood showplaces. ...

Complete Guide to Native Orchids of Australia (375 readers)

Contributed by amazon 18.07 2007 on 10:11:32 Topic: Other / Books Match on Title and Article's text

In this spectacular and comprehensive book, orchid expert David Jones describes more than 1,300 species and subspecies of Australian native orchids. Almost every species is illustrated with a beautiful color photograph, and the detailed species descriptions include information about every part of the plant, as well as its distribution, habitat, how to distinguish it from other similar species and its conservation status. A must for dedicated orchid enthusiasts, professional botanists or anyone i ...

Roses Revealed (393 readers)

Contributed by amazon 18.07 2007 on 10:07:22 Topic: Other / Books Match on Title and Article's text

Find Your Perfect Roses | Offering information on 200 varieties of roses, this definitive illustrated guide for rose enthusiasts and gardeners encapsulates all the romance of the universally popular, long flowering plant. The first section showcases the best rose options for particular purposes in the garden—such as which kinds provide the best ground cover, which look best trailing over a wall, and which are more appropriate for smaller gardens. ...

What's Wrong with My Plant? (482 readers)

Contributed by amazon 07.07 2007 on 11:58:11 Topic: Other / Books Match on Title and Article's text

Expert Information at Your Fingertips (Pyramid Paperbacks) | Whatever’s ailing your plant—from slugs and bugs to molds, rots, and wilts—this guide has the cure. Written by an award-winning garden writer, it helps you get to the root of the problem with expert diagnostic advice, and offers quick and effective solutions for eliminating more than 130 international pests, diseases, and disorders. Gardeners can choose from both chemical and organic remedies for trees, shrubs, annuals, perennials, and ...

Complete Indoor Plants (341 readers)

Contributed by amazon 06.07 2007 on 09:34:42 Topic: Other / Books Match on Title and Article's text

Grow a garden inside! Houseplants bring life and color to any room, and with the right care you can successfully cultivate everything from succulents and bonsai to foliage, flowers, and fruit. This indispensable manual is a complete guide to indoor gardening, with advice on choosing the right plants and helping them thrive, as well as propagation, repotting, grooming, and pest control. ...

Hydrangeas (477 readers)

Contributed by amazon 08.06 2007 on 07:26:54 Topic: Other / Books Match on Title and Article's text

Hydrangeas are one of the most popular flowering shrubs in the world. With many species native to North America and dozens of hardy hybrids developed over the years, there is an overwhelming range of plants to choose from. Here is practical, expert advice for the American gardener looking to add brilliant color and show-stopping blooms to a garden. ...

Growing Plumerias in Hawaii (461 readers)

Contributed by amazon 06.06 2007 on 09:23:47 Topic: Other / Books Match on Title and Article's text

Hawaii is home to some of the most exotic plumerias in the world. Reputed to awaken the senses with their colors, fragrances, shapes and foliage, plumeria blossoms require delicate care and skill. Flora enthusiasts will find a plethora of information here about different types of plumeria, asexual propagation, rooting and media structures, cultivation, pest and weed control hybridization, cross-pollination, collecting and more. For island visitors, tips on taking home plumeria cuttings are inclu ...

Clematis for Everyone (504 readers)

Contributed by amazon 01.06 2007 on 08:10:37 Topic: Other / Books Match on Title and Article's text

Clematis for Everyone brings you over 40 years experience of the internationally renowned clematis expert, Raymond J. Evison. Throughout the book, he brings to life the secrets and pleasures of growing clematis. For the beginner, he takes the headache out of questions like where is the best position for my clematis? and if, when and how should it be pruned? For the adventurous, he encourages using clematis as companion plants, and explores the possibilities of growing them in containers for use ...

Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture (504 readers)

Contributed by amazon 30.05 2007 on 10:19:30 Topic: Other / Books Match on Title and Article's text

Hemenway, a permaculture expert and associate editor of The Permaculture Activist, explains how gardens can function as ecosystems, describes the basic parts of an ecological garden (soil, water, plants, and animals), and shows how to create backyard ecosystems through guilds. Guilds, the author tells us, are groups of plants that function as an ecosystem to provide products for humans, create cover and food for wildlife, nourish the soil, conserve water, and repel pests. A simple example of a g ...

400 Best Garden Plants (466 readers)

Contributed by amazon 18.05 2007 on 08:07:16 Topic: Other / Books Match on Title and Article's text

A Practical Encyclopedia of Annuals, Perennials, Bulbs, Trees and Shrubs | This fully comprehensive guide to the outstanding garden plants of every season should be on the book shelves of both novice gardeners and green-fingered experts. More than 425 full-color photographs illustrate detailed listings for specific varieties of annuals, perennials, bulbs, and trees. ...

The Pruning Specialist (364 readers)

Contributed by amazon 14.05 2007 on 08:54:19 Topic: Other / Books Match on Title and Article's text

The Essential Guide to Caring for Shrubs, Trees, Climbers, Hedges, Conifers, Roses and Fruit Trees (Specialist Series) | Beautifully illustrated and encyclopedic in scope, this is the only guide you’ll ever need to become a pruning expert. It includes a vast wealth of information on trimming all types of plant life, from shrubs, trees, climbers and hedges to conifers, roses and fruit-bearing vegetation. You’ll also benefit from the special sections on working with arches, tunnels and topiary. ...

Bonsai Master Class (619 readers)

Contributed by amazon 26.04 2007 on 14:27:24 Topic: Other / Books Match on Title and Article's text

Join the contemporary artists around the world who are refining and developing the ancient art of bonsai. Find out about state-of-the-art tools invented by Ken Moore. See how Rob Clausen uses latex and fiberglass to create dramatic groupings of trees on a rock base. Explore the breakthrough methods of Singapore’s bonsai masters, with inspiring examples of the results. Covering both basic and advanced techniques and illustrated with step-by-step photographs taken over months, Bonsai Master Class ...

Gardening with Conifers (580 readers)

Contributed by amazon 15.04 2007 on 19:00:34 Topic: Other / Books Match on Title and Article's text

This is the complete guide to coniferous trees and shrubs that are available to the North American gardener. Stunning color photographs show conifers used in a variety of environments, from small gardens to magnificent estates. ...