Gardening and Landscaping

This is our catalogue page for gardening books, plant propagation books, and landscaping books.
Our customer service staff has selected some of the most essential, useful, and important gardening, plant propagation, and landscaping books that we people with a "green thumb" need and would be looking for.
A large number of gardeners are moving away from the traditional gardens in favor of exotic plants with more vibrant colors, dramatic shapes, and lush plantings. Included are several books with practical advice, exotic plant directories, tools, and instructions on proper subtropical plant care. Readers will discover how to grow an entire spectrum of exciting new plants in their home gardens.
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Gardening and Landscaping Books

• A Water Works: Creating a Splash in the Garden
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-Maureen Gilmer, Michael Glassman / Hardcover 208 pages / Published January 2002
This book covers designing and constructing water features in the garden. This unique book offers homeowners, landscapers, and builders the tools necessary for creating desired water features in the landscape with any existing garden environment. Includes specific planting recommendations for a variety of water sites, as well as important design, mechanical, safety, and supply-ordering information. Learn how-to create natural waterfalls, pools, and streambeds, which showcase water's working role in the wild and its realistic adaptations in gardens.
Includes 200 color photographs. Plus an in-depth coverage of spas and pools, the hottest landscaping trend.
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• Landscaping With Tropical Plants
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Monica Moran Brandies, Sunset Books (Editor) / Paperback 128 pages / Published January 2004
This book in the Sunset Series, is a great book for those gardeners new to landscaping with tropical plants. It provides a general overview and includes more than 200 photographs. This book reveals the types of tropical plants that are right for your site, no matter what your climate. This book explains how to design and create an exotic tropical garden in your backyard. All the requirement for growing and protecting tropical plants is clearly shown.
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• Plants for All Seasons: Beautiful and Versatile Plants That Change Through the Year
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-Ursula Buchan, Photographer; Howard Rice / Hardcover 144 pages / Published March 1999
This in depth guide shows you how to plan an build a great landscaped yard. Covers how to choose versatile plants for color, density, and texture. Covers trees, shrubs, climbers, flowers and border plants. Includes many full color photographs.
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• New Complete Guide to Landscaping: Design, Plant, Build
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-Better Homes and Gardens (Editors) / Paperback 408 pages, 2nd Edition / Published February 2002
This popular book is the perfect companion to the Better Homes and Gardens New Complete Guide to Gardening. Includes easy to follow step-by-step instructions to design, build, plant, and care for the landscape of your dreams. Well illustrated with easy-to-follow instructions for planning, designing, and building typical landscape projects. Includes complete detailed instruction on how to plan and build each landscape project.
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• Water Works: Creating a Splash in the Garden
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-Maureen Gilmer, Michael Glassman / Hardcover 208 pages / Published January 2002
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This book covers designing and constructing water features in the garden. This unique book offers homeowners, landscapers, and builders the tools necessary for creating desired water features in the landscape with any existing garden environment. Includes specific planting recommendations for a variety of water sites, as well as important design, mechanical, safety, and supply-ordering information. Learn how-to create natural waterfalls, pools, and streambeds, which showcase water's working role in the wild and its realistic adaptations in gardens.
Includes 200 color photographs. Plus an in-depth coverage of spas and pools, the hottest landscaping trend.
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• The Chef's Garden
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-Terence Conran / Hardcover 144 pages / Published January 2000
This in depth guide shows you how to turn your backyard into a generator of tasty and nutritious foods. From herbs to espalier fruit trees, techniques and tips for growing vegetables, fruits, and herbs in everthing from a green house to an assortment of containers, including window boxes.
You don't need an acre of farmland to cultivate these fruits and vegetables; most are shown growing in small urban gardens or in containers on decks and patios. The point of all this bounty is in the cooking and eating, and the author emphasizes taste and appearance by using herbs and edible flowers, with information on growing, propagating, and preserving a variety of the most useful kinds. The author recommends container culture, but also gives a detailed plan for a tiny, formal herb garden (10 by 3 feet) which will hold a generous array of herbs enclosed by rosemary hedges. There is even a plan for growing a kitchen garden on a rooftop. Detailed instructions are given for pruning dwarf fruit trees, and training espaliers, to encourage fruit production in the smallest possible spaces.
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• American Horticultural Society Encyclopedia of Gardening
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-Christopher Brickell (Editor), Christopher Crickell (Editor) / Hardcover 648 pages / Published October 2003
The comprehensive and authoritative horticulturist reference book will become your indispensable how-to manual for any plant related topic. The text is straightforward and accompanied at all points by close-up photos of techniques, ideas, and specimens. The handy glossary is ready with definitions for everything from bulblet to vermiculite, and two pages of seasonal reminders are a great quick-reference. Covers information on choosing and maintaining healthy plants of all varieties, how to build structures from greenhouses to trellises, ways to identify pests and diseases, and methods of garden design that enable you to turn your lawn into a unique and personal work of art. Plus a section about botany as well as basic gardening techniques and tips. Includes 6,000 full-color photographs.
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• Plant Propagation: The Fully Illustrated Plant-by-Plant Manual of Practical Techniques
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-American Horticultural Society, Photographer Peter Anderson / Hardcover 320 pages / Published April 1999
This excellent plant guide covers all the information you need to propagate almost any plant. Including trees, shrubs, perennials, annuals, cacti, vegetables and herbs. Covers staring plants by seed, cuttings, grafting, division, and other techniques. Contains a glossary, detailed index, and plant hardiness map.
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• Secrets of Plant Propagation: Starting Your Own Flowers, Vegetables, Fruits, Berries, Trees, and Houseplants
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-Lewis Hill / Paperback 168 pages / Published March 1985
This gardening guide explains with step-by-step instructions how to start new plants from seeds, cuttings, dividing, layering, and grafting.
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• Dirr's Hardy Trees and Shrubs: An Illustrated Encyclopedia
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-Michael A. Dirr / Hardcover 493 pages / Published 1997
This excellent encyclopedia is highly recommend for landscapers, nurserymen, and gardeners. This A first-class source on the very best garden trees and shrubs. Covers both habit and details, flowers, fruits, bark, and fall color. Defines more than 500 species and describes some 700 additional cultivars and varieties, many of which are illustrated. Although intended primarily for gardeners in USDA Hardiness Zones 3 to 6, this pictorial encyclopedia will be useful for those in warmer climates as well, since most of the species included will grow in Zones 7 and 8. It also includes useful lists for selecting plants for a variety of conditions or for characteristics such as flower color and fragrance, fruit, and fall color. With more than 1600 color photographs illustrate 500 species of northern trees and shrubs which are suitable for zones 3 to 8 in the U.S. A wonderful tool for garden designers, landscape architects, horticulturists, and plant enthusiasts.
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