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1) Blue dahlia
Author
Series
Publisher
Jove Books
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
367 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts comes the first novel of the In the Garden trilogy. Against the backdrop of a house steeped in history and a thriving new gardening business, three women unearth the memories of the past and uncover a dangerous secret.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
xi, 324 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Weaving together natural history, botanical science and insight from his own travels, a nature writer reveals the many hidden truths behind these scourges of lawns and gardens, and explores how weeds have been portrayed from the Bible all the way to "Invasion of the Body Snatchers."
Author
Publisher
Timber Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The book will feature 235 northeastern natives that are the easiest for the home gardener to find and grow. Introductory chapters will address the why and how of growing native plants. Two-thirds of the book will consist of the plant entries that focus on the must-have information that readers are looking for. The geographic area covered will be Maine south to Delaware, west to Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio, including all of NY State and the New...
Author
Publisher
Harmony/Rodale
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
With growing consumer awareness about the dangers of garden chemicals, turn to The Organic Gardener's Handbook of Natural Pest and Disease Control (by Fern Bradley) as the most reliable and comprehensive guide on the garden shelf. Rodale has been the category leader in organic methods for decades, and this thoroughly updated edition features the latest science-based recommendations for battling garden problems. With all-new photos of common and recently...
6) Red Lily
Author
Series
Publisher
Jove Books
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
304 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Amelia, the psychotic ghost who haunts the grounds of Harper House, is once again gathering strength, and this time she has set her sites on Hayley Phillips, a young mother living in the Harper mansion with her young daughter, Lily. Although the man-hating Amelia has never harmed children and seems to identify with unmarried Hayley, things change when Hayley's friendship with Harper Ashby turns romantic, and possession -and things far more sinister...
Author
Publisher
Rodale
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
xxi, 234 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Orr traveled from coast to coast to find gardens both large and small that show how responsible gardeners are reimaging the definition of a modern garden and addressing design, plant choice, water usage, materials, and more, in exciting, innovative, and often surprising ways.
Author
Publisher
Firefly Books
Pub. Date
c1996
Edition
Rev. & expanded.
Physical Desc
256 p. : col. ill., col. map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Originally published almost a decade and a half ago as The Harrowsmith Northern Gardener, Jennifer Bennett's first book quickly became a classic. Gardeners who regarded Bennett's words as the only available wisdom on organic growing in climate-challenged sites often carried their well worn copies right into the vegetable patch. Today, gardening has earned a place as one of the continent's most popular pastimes, and with this completely redesigned...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 25 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
From previously barren moorland in the Pentland Hills near Edinburgh, Ian Hamilton Finlay has created a unique garden as an encompassing work of art. Little Sparta is a magical combination of culture and horticulture, poetry and planting, philosophy and myth. Ian Hamilton Finlay began his work at Little Sparta in the mid-1960s. With friends and collaborators, around a group of old farm buildings he has fashioned landscapes, streams, bridges, glades,...
10) The orchid thief
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1998
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
x, 284 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
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Description
The Orchid Thief is Susan Orlean’s tale of an amazing obsession. Determined to clone an endangered flower—the rare ghost orchid Polyrrhiza lindenii—a deeply eccentric and oddly attractive man named John Laroche leads Orlean on an unforgettable tour of America’s strange flower-selling subculture, through Florida’s swamps and beyond, along with the Seminoles who help him and the forces of justice who fight him. In the end, Orlean—and the...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
"In the tradition of The Botany of Desire and Wicked Plants, the author of Paradise Under Glass gives us a witty and engaging history of the first botanists interwoven with stories of today's extraordinary plants found in the garden and the lab"--
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
A Fast Food Nation for the foods we grow and depend on.
The bananas we eat today aren't your parents' bananas: We eat a recognizable, consistent breakfast fruit that was standardized in the 1960s from dozens into one basic banana. But because of that, the banana we love is dangerously susceptible to a pathogen that might wipe them out.
That's the story of our food today: Modern science has brought us produce in perpetual abundance-once-rare fruits...
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