Small Plot, Big Harvest

Aimed at both urban and suburban gardeners with small plots, who want to be part of the grow-your-own phenomenon, "Small Plot, Big Harvest" celebrates what the vast majority of people have -- a little bit of patio or garden that is precious to them.
With at-a-glance crop planners, step-by-step gardening techniques -- such as preparing soil, sowing, planting, watering, feeding, and growing under cover -- and instructions and charts showing when to sow and when to harvest, "Small Plot, Big Harvest" brings foolproof vegetable growing for gardeners with little space.
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Natural Companions: The Garden Lover's Guide to Plant Combinations

In Natural Companions, acclaimed garden writer Ken Druse presents recipes for perfect plant pairings using diverse species that look great together and bloom at the same time. Organized by theme within seasons, topics include color, fragrance, foliage, grasses, edible flowers and much more, all presented in photographs of gardens that show planted combinations from a wide variety of climates and conditions. Natural Companions also features more than one hundred special botanical images of amazing depth and color created in collaboration with artist Ellen Hoverkamp using modern digital technology. Filled with an incredible amount of horticultural guidance, useful plant recommendations, and gardening lore--all written in Druse's charming, witty style--this book is a must-have for gardeners and lovers of plants and flowers.
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Gardening: The Complete Guide

"Gardening: The Complete Guide" will satisfy those readers who enjoy the process of gardening as much as the finished product. It contains equal parts of inspirational photographs and hands-on instructional pictures. The book presents the latest gardening techniques for the 21st century gardener with an emphasis on time-saving, efficient practices. There is considerable space devoted to growing herbs, flowers, vegetables, and fruit. This book is perfect for the gardener who wants to know how things grow and why certain practices are more effective.
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Landscaping Solutions for Small Spaces: 10 Smart Plans for Designing and Planting Small Gardens

Landscaping Solutions for Small Spaces - Turn your small garden or yard into a showplace by adapting these custom landscape designs.- Change your garden into a multifunctional landscaped space by using plants and structures to create separate areas for relaxing and entertaining.- Create interest in your landscape with distinctive planters, glamorous lighting, and soothing water features.
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Thrifty Gardening: From the Ground Up

Bestselling author and gardening columnist Marjorie Harris offers a timely and entertaining guide for gardeners at every stage of life. Whether you're moving into your first apartment or condo, upgrading to a house, or downsizing to smaller digs, Harris shares the best tips on how to create a beautiful garden for any space -- all on a budget.
The highly anticipated sequel to her popular book "Thrifty: Living the Frugal Life with Style," "Thrifty Gardening" marries Harris's passion for gardening with her thrifty lifestyle savvy so that everyone can create a natural oasis whatever their living situation is -- and without breaking the bank.
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Planting the Dry Shade Garden: The Best Plants for the Toughest Spot in Your Garden

Award-winning author Rice has written more than 20 books that speak to gardeners on both sides of the Atlantic. He tackles the garden's heart of darkness: dry shade, the space under trees or overhangs where plants go to die from lack of light and water. This man has ideas to change that; his experience includes training at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew, England, which has plenty of trees casting shade. He goes into detail that helps gardeners better understand the situation and possible solutions: not all shade is the same; some mulches are better than others. The heart of the book profiles more than 130 plants that are made in the shade. Little is written on this common and trying garden condition, as his reading list indicates, so Rice fills a need. Owners of shaded gardens, rejoice. Includes 125 color photos. (Aug.) Copyright 2011 Reed Business Information.
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The Art of Creative Pruning: Inventive Ideas for Training and Shaping Trees and Shrubs

Imaginative pruning and shaping of living plants can create landscapes, evoke far off places and memories, . . . surprise and even shock, with interconnected species resulting not in defined categories but rather a family tree, or a map of a river system of endless tributaries, flood plains . . . or . . . some vast web of interconnected strands. In smoothly flowing, evocative text, Hobson introduces recent approaches to topiary, ranging from an amateur's gravity-free South Carolina garden to the professionally developed, extraordinary topiary in the French Marqueyssac Garden, captured poetically in the early morning fog. Deciduous hedges segue from screens to architecture: arches forming gateways, buttresses creating seating bays, crenelated battlements defining fortifications, and sophisticated, bare-trunked, raised hedges elegantly lining a garden thoroughfare. Hobson presents examples of Asian aesthetics that involved microcosms of nature created without removing plants from their natural state, as with Western pruning, but instead manipulating and enhancing that natural state. A love affair with living sculpture, this coffee-table book exceeds expectations with how-to diagrams, tips on maintenance and tools, and a list of references accompanying genuinely breathtaking full-color photos.
(Booklist, copyright 2011, American Library Association.)
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