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What if, one step at a time, we could make our gardens and landscapes more eco-friendly? Barbara W. Ellis's colorful, comprehensive guide shows homeowners, gardeners, garden designers, and landscapers how to do just that for the large and beautiful Chesapeake Bay watershed region. This area includes...

This ebook guide helps first-time and experienced gardeners discover the incredible beauty and fragrance of antique or heirloom roses to grow in their flower garden. This publication highlights a few gorgeous classical roses gardeners can enjoy. These roses are slowly disappearing, and within...

How do you design a landscape book suitable for its intended uses? How can the natural qualities of a landscape be enhanced with new features and focal points? How can you make pedestrians stay on the footpath? What kind of plant, path or wall should you put where, and what sort of contract should...

Long famous for its charming courtyard gardens in the peninsula’s historic district, Charleston, South Carolina, has a remarkable southern landscape that also includes dozens of exquisite private gardens, city parks, cemeteries, institutional gardens, and even an urban farm. In Charleston: City...

This book will guide you through the process of painting one of Sydney's most iconic scenes - Palm Beach viewed from the Bible Garden. Bible Park is a tiny park on Mitchell Road, above the South end of Palm Beach. This is not a prescriptive method, but rather a series of processes which enable...

Using informative, evocative text and stunning imagery, garden writer and broadcaster Tony Russell captures the very essence of the finest gardens within Wales, covering their history, design, plants and personalities along the way. From Anglesey in the north-west to the Wye Valley in the south-east,...

This is the third in a series of books celebrating the finest gardens in Britain and follows on from the best-selling 'The Cotswold's Finest Gardens' and 'The Finest Gardens in Wales'. The Finest Gardens of the South West is an inspirational celebration of the very best gardens in the West Country...

Buddleia, or Butterfly Bush, can be the finest addition to the full sun perennial flower garden a gardener can choose. Buddleia davidii not only boasts beautiful flowers, the flowers can attract a multitude of butterflies and moths to the flower garden. Gardeners can use the Gardener’s Guide To...

Gardening with Shape, Line and Texture bridges the gap between garden design books and plant reference encyclopedias. Leading landscaper Linden Hawthorne looks at plants from a designer's perspective (where color is often a secondary consideration) and emphasizes the important roles of plant shape. Part...

Creating and maintaining the perfect yard on the prairies isn’t as hard as you might think, but the short growing season doesn’t give you much time to transform your winter-weary yard into a glorious garden. To help homeowners in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba get the jump on the short season,...

Easy Elegance roses are some of the easiest roses to grow your yard or garden. They require little care and are quite disease-resistant. This rose comes in many colors, including white and many shades of red, pink, and yellow.

This early work on concrete pottery and garden furniture is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. It contains instructions and illustrations for vases, fences, benches and much more. This is a fascinating work and is thoroughly recommended for anyone interested in the skills of DIY....

25 full-size realistic patterns for common North American garden flowers.

Award-winning quiltmaker Jane Sassaman is known for her bold designs celebrating the energy and miraculous beauty of garden flowers and plants. Joy and enthusiasm radiate from every quilt! Now, in her first book, Jane shares her methods and inspirations.