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The popularity of fairies and fairy houses has soared, as has the growing movement to get children interested in outdoor activities such as gardening. This new how-to book for parents and kids combines the best of both worlds. It includes basic information for beginning gardeners, such as soil preparation, planting, and watering, then branches into appropriate categories for every fairy gardener:
• making miniature gardens and terrariums that are...
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Timber Press
Language
English
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"The Essential Garden Design Workbook guides the reader through every stage of planning a garden - how to survey a site, how to choose landscaping materials, and how to develop planting schemes. This fully revised and updated second edition features new U.S. case studies and new photographs. Valuable tips on green gardening are new to this edition, and include how to harvest rainwater, how to design a green roof, tips on sustainable planting, and...
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Timber Press
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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"In this groundbreaking resource, two school garden pioneers offer parents, teachers, and school administrators everything they need to know to build school gardens and to develop the programs that support them. Today both schools and parents have a unique opportunity - and an increasing responsibility - to cultivate an awareness of our finite resources, to reinforce values of environmental stewardship, to help students understand concepts of nutrition...
5) My garden
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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After helping her mother weed, water, and chase the rabbits from their garden, a young girl imagines her dream garden complete with jellybean bushes, chocolate rabbits, and tomatoes the size of beach balls.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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After noticing that a visiting hummingbird likes her pink petunias, Annie and her rabbit Snowball, accompanied by Henry and his dog Mudge, fill the garden with pink objects to attract more hummingbirds.
Author
Publisher
Timber Press
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 online resource (280 p.)
Language
English
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"Color is the first and most important design choice a garden designer makes. Over the past decade, landscape architects and garden designers have moved away from the more sedate shades commonly found in traditional gardens and have used plants and hardscape to experiment with explosions of color. From the layered and textural colors of Piet Oudolf to the high contrast colors of Tom Stuart Smith, this increased focus on color is a trademark of today's...
Author
Publisher
Timber Press
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 online resource (280 p.)
Language
English
Description
"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 One reviews fine art principles and shows how they can be successfully applied to plant compositions by grouping plants into three heights: ground...
Author
Publisher
Storey Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
1 online resource (32 p.)
Language
English
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"With today's schedules, few people are able to enjoy their gardens during prime daylight hours. But there is a way you can delight in the fragrance and beauty of flowers after dark: Plant a night-blooming garden! Also known as moon gardens, night-blooming gardens are expressly designed for evening enjoyment. While attractive during the day, they take on a whole new look and feel at dusk, casting a magical spell. Pale-colored flowers reflect light...
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Publisher
Timber Press
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 online resource (180 p.)
Language
English
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"Renowned garden artist Keeyla Meadows sees the world in strong, saturated shades. Fearless Color Gardens brings this unique vision to life by showing how to use wild, uninhibited color to connect indoor and outdoor spaces and turn a garden into a work of art. Learn how to pick colors that work together; how to coordinate the colors of walls, benches, containers, and garden art; how to organize garden spaces through the use of color; and how to...
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Publisher
Timber Press
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 online resource (284 p.)
Language
English
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"For too long, garden design has given pride of place to architecture, artifice, and arbitrary principles. The results? Soulless landscapes where plants play subordinate roles. With passion and eloquence, Scott Ogden and Lauren Springer Ogden argue that only when plants are given the respect they deserve does a garden become emotionally resonant. Plant-Driven Design shows designers how to work more confidently with plants, and gives gardeners more...
13) The New Low-Maintenance Garden: How to Have a Beautiful, Productive Garden and the Time to Enjoy It
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Publisher
Timber Press
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 online resource (284 p.)
Language
English
Description
"Do you ever lament that you'd love to be able to garden more, but just don't have the time? The demanding pace of modern life leaves little space for the pleasures of gardening. On the other hand, gardening itself could be the culprit: elaborate, traditional perennial borders; water-hungry or disease-prone plants; needy lawns; and high-maintenance plants that require staking or clipping all suck up precious hours. Simply put, we need to start...
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Publisher
Timber Press
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 online resource (236 p.)
Language
English
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"Designing a garden is a complex task. Where do you start? What kind of skills do you need? What are the logical steps in creating a design? How do you communicate your ideas to a client, and how do you accommodate a client's requests while maintaining the integrity of the project? The answers to these questions, and many more, can all be found in Understanding Garden Design. Most books on garden design focus on only one or a few aspects of garden...
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Publisher
Timber Press
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 online resource (296 p.)
Language
English
Description
"The hellstrip-the space between a street and a public sidewalk, also known as a tree park, boulevard, meridian, and planting strip-is finally getting the attention it deserves! Gardeners everywhere are taking advantage of the space as an environmentally friendly way to add curb appeal to their homes, expand the size of their gardens, and conserve resources. Hellstrip Gardening by Evelyn Hadden, the author of the acclaimed Beautiful No-Mow Yards,...
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Publisher
Timber Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (392 pages)
Language
English
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Many gardeners today want a home landscape that nourishes and fosters wildlife. But they also want beauty, a space for the kids to play, privacy, and maybe even a vegetable patch. Sure, it's a tall order, but The Living Landscape shows how to do it. By combining the insights of two outstanding authors, it offers a model that anyone can follow. Inspired by its examples, you'll learn the strategies for making and maintaining a diverse, layered landscape-one...
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Publisher
Timber Press
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 online resource (312 p.)
Language
English
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"Brandywine Cottage is David Culp's beloved two-acre Pennsylvania garden where he mastered the design technique of layering - interplanting many different species in the same area so that as one plant passes its peak, another takes over. The result is a nonstop parade of color that begins with a tapestry of heirloom daffodils and hellebores in spring and ends with a jewel-like blend of Asian wildflowers at the onset of winter. The Layered Garden...
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Publisher
Victoria Mason
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
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"AVAILABLE NOW!Gardening Book Reveals Tips for Managing a Garden All Year Long Gardening with Success! - Quick Tips and Ideas for Having a BEAUTIFUL Garden ALL YEAR Long! is a newly released book by Victoria Mason that covers numerous topics for having a successful garden. The book features many tips and ideas for cultivating a garden that will represent one's love for the outdoors and nature year round. Both passersby and friends and family can be...
Author
Publisher
Timber Press
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 online resource (228 p.)
Language
English
Description
"Much of modern garden design is about controlling nature to achieve a desired effect. But for the eco-conscious homeowner, the best garden designer is Mother Nature, and following her lead can result in a beautiful low-maintenance landscape that requires fewer resources, attracts natural wildlife, and saves time and money. In The Naturescaping Workbook, author Beth O'Donnell Young sets forth an easy-to-follow, do-it-yourself plan for...
Author
Publisher
Timber Press
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 online resource (208 p.)
Language
English
Description
"Homeowners spend hundreds of dollars watering their yard, but there is an easy way to save money and resourcesrain gardening. But what is it? As simple as collecting rain to reuse in front and backyards. Creating Rain Gardens is a comprehensive book for the DIY-er, covering everything from rain barrels to simple living roofs, permeable patios, and other low-tech affordable ways to save water in the garden. Water conservation experts Cleo Woelfle-Erskine...
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