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Whats the name of this scary movie?
It came out about 5-10 years ago. It starts as a family who drives down a road and I guess the car dies and/or they see a black baby carriage on the road. Later they split out, and the son goes to “masturbate” with a poster of a naked woman taped on a tree. Then a woman appears and makes out with the kid until she starts biting his lips and kills him. The daughter goes into a shed and see all these garden tools and axes and then some bad guy starts chiding her. The mother dies later on, and in the end of the movies the dad ends up at a hospital with a female doctor/nurse
Dead End
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_End_(2003_film)
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Gardening
$9.48 Kids can now learn all the basics of gardening - how to get started, what tools to use, and lots of fun activities. This great book features short chapters to keep readers interested in moving on. The "How to do it" sections will be a kid favorite, as an area that demonstrates practical projects. |
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Gardening Tools (Welcome Books)
$9.98 Gardening Tools (Welcome Books) by Inez Snyder Published in 2002 by Children's Press (CT) |
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Gardening Tools
$19.2 A young girl helps her mother in the garden, using the proper tool for each task. |
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Gardening Tools
$3.78 No Synopsis Available |
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Gardening Tools
$4.71 Emergent-reader nonfiction takes on a whole new face! Consistent print placement, predictable text patterns and strong picture clues make this series ideal for emergent readers. |
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Gardening Tools
$3.86 No Synopsis Available |
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5pc. Gardening Tools with Folding Chair
$45.95 This is the perfect item for the gardener on your list. This 5pc. Gardening Tools with Folding Chair is just that -- folding chair made of polyester canvas with five steel gardening tools with wooden handles. Storage tote may also be detached. Includes Trowel, Spade, Weeder, Hand Held Rake, and Garden Fork. |
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5pc. Gardening Tools with Folding Chair
$44.95 This is the perfect item for the gardener on your list. This 5pc. Gardening Tools with Folding Chair is just that -- folding chair made of polyester canvas with five steel gardening tools with wooden handles. Storage tote may also be detached. Includes Trowel, Spade, Weeder, Hand Held Rake, and Garden Fork. |
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Complete Idiot's Guide to GARDENING 2E
$1.52 <PWhat plants are right for my garden? What exactly is a hardiness zone? Do I need to go back to school to figure out those scary-looking Latin names? For those intimated by pH scales, potting soil, and perennials, this revised bestseller comes to the rescue with answers to scores of gardening questions. The Complete Idiot's Guide to Gardening is a concise, user-friendly guide for beginners that covers all the basics-from choosing a site, testing the soil, and picking appropriate plants to simple gardening techniques, design concepts, and weed/pest control. Included as well are extensive lists of all types of easy-to-grow plants, tips on how to save money on tools, and much more. New features include full-color photographs, an expanded appendix, and dozens of new illustrations. </P |
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Gardening Tools (welcome Books: Tools)
$12.95 What does a pencil, a doctor's stethoscope, and a shovel have in common? They're all tools! This series shows young readers how they work, who uses them, and how to choose the right tool for the job. |
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Welcome Books: Gardening Tools
$5.95 What does a pencil, a doctor''''s stethoscope, and a shovel have in common? They''''re all tools! This series shows young readers how they work, who uses them, and how to choose the right tool for the ... |
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Picnic and Beyond The Tuscan Collection,Gardening Basket Garden Tools Basket
$56 1 set of three gardening tools 1 scissors 1 pair of gloves |
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Gardening
$91.68 Gardening |
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Free Shipping. Gardening Tools Organizer
$179 This shelving system comes complete with all the storage needed for organizing gardening tools on your patio or in your garage. This garden tool center includes: 4 Plastic Panels2 Large Shelves1 Upper Shelf1 Lower Shelf3 Large J-Hooks6 Small J-Hooks1 Large Parts Bin3 Small Parts Bins1 Basket with Clips This item ships directly from the manufacturer. Product usually arrives in 14-21 business days, depending on destination, including order processing and shipping. APO/FPO shipping unavailable |
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Gardening Equipment, Tools and Hardware in Slovakia
$195 How to Strategically Evaluate Slovakia. Perhaps the most efficient way of evaluating Slovakia is to consider key dimensions which themselves are composites of multiple factors. Composite portfolio approaches have long been used by strategic planners. The biggest challenge in this approach is to choose the appropriate factors that are the most relevant to international planning. The two measures of greatest relevance to gardening equipment, tools and hardware are “latent demand” and “market accessibility”. The figure below summarizes the key dimensions and recommendations of such an approach. Using these two composites, one can prioritize all countries of the world. Countries of high latent demand and high relative accessibility (e.g. easier entry for one firm compared to other firms) are given highest priority. The figure below shows two different scenarios. Accessibility is defined as a firm’s ease of entering or supplying from or to a market (the “supply side”), and latent demand is an indicator of the potential in serving from or to the market (the “demand side”). Framework for Prioritizing Countries. Demand/Market Potential Driven Firm. Relative Accessibility. Accessibility/Supply Averse Firm. In the top figure, the firm is driven by market potential, whereas the bottom figure represents a firm that is driven by costs or by an aversion to difficult markets. This report treats the reader as coming from a “generic firm” approaching the global market – neither a market-driven nor a cost-driven company. Planners must therefore augment this report with their own company-specific factors that might change the priorities (e.g. a Canadian firm may have higher accessibility in Canada than a German firm). Latent Demand and Accessibility in Slovakia. This report provides a detailed overview of factors driving latent demand and accessibility for gardening equipment, tools and hardware in Slovakia. Latent demand is |
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Gardening Equipment, Tools and Hardware in Slovakia
$195 How to Strategically Evaluate Slovakia. Perhaps the most efficient way of evaluating Slovakia is to consider key dimensions which themselves are composites of multiple factors. Composite portfolio approaches have long been used by strategic planners. The biggest challenge in this approach is to choose the appropriate factors that are the most relevant to international planning. The two measures of greatest relevance to gardening equipment, tools and hardware are “latent demand” and “market accessibility”. The figure below summarizes the key dimensions and recommendations of such an approach. Using these two composites, one can prioritize all countries of the world. Countries of high latent demand and high relative accessibility (e.g. easier entry for one firm compared to other firms) are given highest priority. The figure below shows two different scenarios. Accessibility is defined as a firm’s ease of entering or supplying from or to a market (the “supply side”), and latent demand is an indicator of the potential in serving from or to the market (the “demand side”). Framework for Prioritizing Countries. Demand/Market Potential Driven Firm. Relative Accessibility. Accessibility/Supply Averse Firm. In the top figure, the firm is driven by market potential, whereas the bottom figure represents a firm that is driven by costs or by an aversion to difficult markets. This report treats the reader as coming from a “generic firm” approaching the global market – neither a market-driven nor a cost-driven company. Planners must therefore augment this report with their own company-specific factors that might change the priorities (e.g. a Canadian firm may have higher accessibility in Canada than a German firm). Latent Demand and Accessibility in Slovakia. This report provides a detailed overview of factors driving latent demand and accessibility for gardening equipment, tools and hardware in Slovakia. Latent demand is |
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Gardening Basics
$13.23 Truly a comprehensive introduction to gardening, with basic information on designing and creating family gardens, patio gardens, large gardens. Care and maintenance focuses on using basic tools. 1,200 splendid color photographs complement the text. -- Booklist. |
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Kids Gardening Garden Tote with Plastic Tools
$24.99 Kids can garden right alongside parents and experience the joy of a growing flower fruit or vegetable with the Summer Inspirations Kids' Gardening tools and accessories!Tote includes plastic watering can trowel and cultivatorDimensions: 18''L x 3-9/10''W x 1.6''H |
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The New Gardening For Wildlife: A Guide For Nature Lovers
$2.51 Are you bonkers for butterflies? In a flutter over finches? Does the thought of deer in your backyard make you doe-si-doe? PWith the advice of The New Gardening for Wildlife, you can turn your yard into a naturalists delight. Filled with information on how to attract the birds, animals and insects that you want, Bill Merilees helps create a personal Garden of Eden...unless you dont want any snakes in your path. Fortunately, he also outlines how to rid your yard of unwanted pests and predators. PThere are many ways to customize a garden to encourage visits from particular animals, whether you live in damp rainforest or hot arid conditions. The New Gardening for Wildlife has the tools it takes to make your garden grow and give visitorshuman or notan excuse to linger. PIn addition to providing the names and planting instructions for flowering plants and shrubs that will attract the specific wildlife you want into your garden, The New Gardening for Wildlife offers instructions for building shelters and feeders for your new feathered and furry friends. |
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Gardening for Dummies
$3.98 No green thumb is necessary to readers of all ages to enjoy this fun, easy-to-follow reference to the world of gardening! This book is filled with hundreds of illustrations, expert tips, tricks, and suggestions that take the reader on an exploration of the gardening basics and beyond -- even includes an 8-page color insert of sample garden plans that any novice or experienced gardener can create! The expert author team, assembled by the National Gardening Association, provides the reader with a wealth of knowledge on gardening fundamentals, like what kinds of plants grow in certain climates and how to maintain them, what types of tools to buy and where to get them, how to prune, weed and water plants, and much more. |
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Tools Set
$99.99 Item: 4426 300 piece Tools Set ideal for Home Workshop! |
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Dryland Gardening
$19.48 An essential reference to gardening in hot and cold dry climates. Gardening where summers are hot and prone to periods of drought, or where winters are snowy one week and freezing rain the next, is best managed by xeriscaping -- dryland gardening techniques that favor not only water conservation but also the conservation of time, energy and other resources. Xeriscaping enthusiasts exist throughout North America wherever the climate calls for dryland gardening, from the Great Plains prairies to the California desert. Dryland Gardening explains time-tested strategies: Coping with limited access to water Dealing with invasive plants Dealing with trees under stress Nurturing groundcovers and grasses Starting bulbs, perennials and vines Growing vegetables, herbs and annuals. This book includes both practical advice for dry-climate gardeners as well as an extensive planting list for grasses and groundcovers, bulbs, perennials and vines, vegetables and annuals, herbs, roses and shrubs. Each plant entry provides: Common and botanical names Detailed descriptions Planting instructions, care and maintenance. Dryland Gardening celebrates a resilient garden with a beauty that requires fewer resources and less time. (20060901) |
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Gardening for Beginners
$10.48 Written primarily for people who love gardens and flowers but lack gardening experience and would like to start learning, this handsome book is filled with 350 brilliant photos and dozens of instructive illustrations, all in full color. Advice mixes text with closely related pictures to help beginners understand how to carry out each gardening step. Help starts with gardening tools and their specific uses, different types of soil, fertilizers and compost, and the details of planting and irrigation. The final section brings all details together with ideas for setting up a beautiful garden and optional plans for patios and flower boxes. |
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Picnic and Beyond The Tuscan Collection Gardening Basket Garden Tools Basket
$56 1 set of three gardening tools 1 scissors 1 pair of gloves Dimensions 15.75' H x 6.3' D x 15.36' L |
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An Anthropology Of Names And Naming
$39.99 This book provides the tools through which we examine the politics and power of names. |
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The New Book of Magical Names
$30.95 There is tremendous energy within names. Powerful symbols of identity, inspiration, and intention, names are magical tools of self-transformation... |
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Gardening Equipment, Tools And Hardware In Slovakia: A Strategic Refer
$249 The primary audience for this report is managers involved with the highest levels of the strategic planning process and consultants who help their clients with this task. The user will not only benefit from the hundreds of hours that went into the methodology and its application, but also from its alternative perspective on strategic planning relating to gardening equipment, tools and hardware in Slovakia. As the editor of this report, I am drawing on a methodology developed at INSEAD, an international business school (www.insead.edu). For any given industry or sector, including gardening equipment, tools and hardware, the methodology decomposes a countrys strategic potential along three key dimensions: (1) latent demand, (2) micro-accessibility, and (3) macro-accessibility. A country may have very high latent demand, yet have low accessibility, making it a less attractive market than many smaller potential countries having higher levels of accessibility. With this perspective, this report provides both a micro and a macro strategic profile of gardening equipment, tools and hardware in Slovakia. It does so by compiling published information that directly relates to latent demand and accessibility, either at the micro or macro level. The reader new to Slovakia can quickly understand where Slovakia fits into a firms strategic perspective. In Chapter 2, the report investigates latent demand and micro-accessibility for gardening equipment, tools and hardware in Slovakia. The report then considers macro-accessibility in Slovakia. Macro-accessibility is a general evaluation of investment and business conditions in Slovakia. |
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Tuff Tools Kids Shovel
$4.99 Item: 8311 Tuff Tools Kids Shovel |
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This Is Gardening (this Is Gardening)
$108.5 This Is Gardening (this Is Gardening) |
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Names
$17.13 Names |
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The Names
$12.71 The Names |
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Names
$9.97 Names |
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Names
$20.95 Names |
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Names
$18.99 Names |
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Names
$14.58 Names |
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PC Tools Internet Security
$59.95 PC Tools Internet Security combines the award-winning security technologies from PC Tools, including Spyware Doctor AntiSpyware, AntiVirus, Firewall Plu and Spam protection, to provide complete integrated protection for your PC. |
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PC Tools AntiVirus
$29.95 PC Tools AntiVirus provides world-leading protection against viruses, worms and Trojans with rapid updates and IntelliGuard? technology. |
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Winter Gardening
$5.33 The onset of winter usually means the end of the garden; tools go into the shed, and brooding gardeners retreat and wait for spring. But as autumn crunches into winter, there are lots of exciting ideas and projects that can keep you active as the first glisten of frost transforms your garden into a sparkling quilt. Winter Gardening is a collection of 24 original projects for gardeners who want to work in and enjoy their gardens year-round. |
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Mediterranean Gardening
$21.48 Gardening in harmony with a Mediterranean climate means taking advantage of winter rain and allowing the garden to rest over hot summers. In this beautifully illustrated, practical handbook, Heidi Gildemeister provides both novice and experienced gardeners with a comprehensive guide for waterwise gardening, with over one thousand drought-tolerant Mediterranean plants chosen both for their beauty and for their easygoing ways. Well indexed with common and botanical names, Mediterranean Gardening will be indispensable not only for gardeners in California, the Mediterranean basin, and Mediterranean climate areas in South America, Australia, and Africa, but for anyone living in a region that experiences drought.Gildemeister explains how drought-tolerant plants that are suitably matched with a site and carefully planted and mulched can live on winter rain and, once established, do not need additional summer water--as in nature. The Plant Selection lists over one thousand plants from nearly five hundred genera, including their preferred growing conditions, propagation, best use, and maintenance. Guidelines in eight steps describe the planning of waterwise gardens, such as for the establishment of dappled shade to conserve precious soil moisture. Successful alternatives to the water-intensive lawn offer attractive design ideas. Mediterranean Gardening offers a wealth of information: "easy" plants for the beginner, new choices for the garden architect, and for botanists the latest findings on minimum temperatures plants can endure. An extensive bibliography covering drought tolerance and a list of useful addresses make this book as helpful to people converting to water-, labor-, and ecology-conscious gardening as to those starting from scratch. |
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Mediterranean Gardening
$16.92 Gardening in harmony with a Mediterranean climate means taking advantage of winter rain and allowing the garden to rest over hot summers. In this beautifully illustrated, practical handbook, Heidi Gildemeister provides both novice and experienced gardeners with a comprehensive guide for waterwise gardening, with over one thousand drought-tolerant Mediterranean plants chosen both for their beauty and for their easygoing ways. Well indexed with common and botanical names, Mediterranean Gardening will be indispensable not only for gardeners in California, the Mediterranean basin, and Mediterranean climate areas in South America, Australia, and Africa, but for anyone living in a region that experiences drought.Gildemeister explains how drought-tolerant plants that are suitably matched with a site and carefully planted and mulched can live on winter rain and, once established, do not need additional summer water--as in nature. The Plant Selection lists over one thousand plants from nearly five hundred genera, including their preferred growing conditions, propagation, best use, and maintenance. Guidelines in eight steps describe the planning of waterwise gardens, such as for the establishment of dappled shade to conserve precious soil moisture. Successful alternatives to the water-intensive lawn offer attractive design ideas. Mediterranean Gardening offers a wealth of information: easy plants for the beginner, new choices for the garden architect, and for botanists the latest findings on minimum temperatures plants can endure. An extensive bibliography covering drought tolerance and a list of useful addresses make this book as helpful to people converting to water-, labor-, andecology-conscious gardening as to those starting from scratch. |
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Allotment Gardening
$21.85 With modern houses tending to have smaller gardens and many old houses with larger gardens being divided into flats, allotment gardening is becoming increasingly popular. Allotments also provide a haven in which to relax, meet friends and exchange produce and tips, as well as growing fruit, vegetables, and flowers. From the basics of planning and design, through dealing with pests and diseases, to suggesting the best crops to grow at different times of the year - this book guides the reader through all aspects of creating a thriving allotment garden. Topics covered include tools and equipment, hard and soft landscaping, improving the soil, encouraging wildlife, and gardening all year. Rediscover the joy of peas fresh from the pod and just-dug potatoes in this informative guide. |
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Allotment Gardening
$19.01 With modern houses tending to have smaller gardens and many old houses with larger gardens being divided into flats, allotment gardening is becoming increasingly popular. Allotments also provide a haven in which to relax, meet friends and exchange produce and tips, as well as growing fruit, vegetables, and flowers. From the basics of planning and design, through dealing with pests and diseases, to suggesting the best crops to grow at different times of the year - this book guides the reader through all aspects of creating a thriving allotment garden. Topics covered include tools and equipment, hard and soft landscaping, improving the soil, encouraging wildlife, and gardening all year. Rediscover the joy of peas fresh from the pod and just-dug potatoes in this informative guide. |
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The Zen Of Gardening In The High & Arid West: Tips, Tools, And Techniques
$15.96 The Zen of Gardening in the High and Arid West is a friendly and invaluable guide to such topics as strategic gardening (how to coax fruits and vegetables from a sun-parched garden), pest-proof ... |
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KD Tools Spark Plug Boot Puller
$2 KD Tools Spark Plug Boot Puller |
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Ram Tools Pipe Wrench Set
$19.99 Item: 9701 Ram Tools Pipe Wrench Set 4 piece pipe wrench set |
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Kid's Gardening Tool Set
$17.95 Let your kids help out with the gardening when you gear them up with our Kid's Gardening Tool Set. They love digging in the dirt, planting seeds, watering the soil and watching their creations come to life. The Kid's Gardening Tool Set includes all the essential kid-sized tools your child will need to work along with you in the backyard. The kit includes: 3 tools of metal and wood and a nylon case. Comes gift boxed. |
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Gardening at Ginger
$17.98 Seven years ago, James Raimes and his wife bought a country home onnine acres in upstate New York. In the tradition of their family, who once owned a cottage named Fred, this larger property became "Ginger." Inspired by the natural beauty of the land and a desire to learn how to be a gardener, Raimes found himself obsessed with such questions as why gardeners keep moving plants around, what the names of the lawn grasses are, and how one can impose order in a garden and at the same time make it look natural. What, in fact, defines a garden?Gardening at Ginger is full of successes and failures, aches and pains, frustrations and delights. But more than that, it's the story of a great discovery: as we try to shape a landscape to reflect who we are, we find that who we are has been reshaped in the process. |
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The Roman Book of Gardening
$132.16 The Roman Book of Gardening brings together an extraordinarily vivid selection of texts on Roman Horticulture, celebrating herb and vegetable gardening in verse and prose spanning five centuries. In an anthology of vivid new translations by John Henderson, Virgil's Georgics stand alongside neglected works by Columella, Pliny and Palladius, bringing to life the techniques and obstacles, delights and exasperations of the Roman gardener. For all the cultural differences, modern gardening enthusiasts will recognize much of the familiar heaving and chopping that the writers describe but may be surprised at other aspects of horticulture that have changed significantly over the centuries.brThis is a timely and valuable contribution to our understanding of gardening history, Roman culture and Latin literature. The Roman Book of Gardening is the first book on the practice of Roman gardening and includes a full Index of Plants listing names in both English and Latin, the language of botany. |
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The Roman Book of Gardening
$19 The Roman Book of Gardening brings together an extraordinarily vivid selection of texts on Roman Horticulture, celebrating herb and vegetable gardening in verse and prose spanning five centuries. In an anthology of vivid new translations by John Henderson, Virgil's Georgics stand alongside neglected works by Columella, Pliny and Palladius, bringing to life the techniques and obstacles, delights and exasperations of the Roman gardener. For all the cultural differences, modern gardening enthusiasts will recognize much of the familiar heaving and chopping that the writers describe but may be surprised at other aspects of horticulture that have changed significantly over the centuries.brThis is a timely and valuable contribution to our understanding of gardening history, Roman culture and Latin literature. The Roman Book of Gardening is the first book on the practice of Roman gardening and includes a full Index of Plants listing names in both English and Latin, the language of botany. |
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Allotment (Gardening)
$51 Allotment gardens are characterised by a concentration in one place of a few or up to several hundreds of land parcels that are assigned to individuals or families. In allotment gardens, the parcels are cultivated individually, contrary to other community garden types where the entire area is tended collectively by a group of people.The individual size of a parcel ranges between 200 and 400 square meters, and often the plots include a shed for tools and shelter. The individual gardeners are organised in an allotment association which leases the land from the owner who may be a public, private or ecclesiastical entity, provided that it is only used for gardening (i.e. growing vegetables, fruits and flowers), but not for residential purposes. The gardeners have to pay a small membership fee to the association, and have to abide by the corresponding constitution and by-laws. However, the membership entitles them to certain democratic rights. |
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Allotment (Gardening)
$54.78 Allotment gardens are characterised by a concentration in one place of a few or up to several hundreds of land parcels that are assigned to individuals or families. In allotment gardens, the parcels are cultivated individually, contrary to other community garden types where the entire area is tended collectively by a group of people.The individual size of a parcel ranges between 200 and 400 square meters, and often the plots include a shed for tools and shelter. The individual gardeners are organised in an allotment association which leases the land from the owner who may be a public, private or ecclesiastical entity, provided that it is only used for gardening (i.e. growing vegetables, fruits and flowers), but not for residential purposes. The gardeners have to pay a small membership fee to the association, and have to abide by the corresponding constitution and by-laws. However, the membership entitles them to certain democratic rights. |
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Guerrilla Gardening
$2.3 This book is not for sissies. It is not for people who want merely to smell the flowers. In Guerrilla Gardening Barbara Pallenberg has given us a field manual for the resuscitation and nurture of neglected, damaged, and orphaned flora, and a way to use those castaways to create a beautiful garden. Most books on gardening provide you with safe, conventional, boring directions on transplanting overnurtured hothouse plants from the plant stores and planting clean, lucky seeds from the catalog houses. Guerrilla Gardening takes the gloves off and tells you how to work with tough, scrappy plant survivors. And it will help you create a garden in which every leafy, blossoming, creeping thing has a history with you.PThis useful, practical field manual does not encourage theft. It is, however, written for the grower on the fringes of the garden-club circuit, the antihero/superhero of the flowerbed. Pallenberg shows you how to reconnoiter cast-aways, rescue cuttings, and ravage dumpsters, and then deploy those forces in arrangements exactly right for your climate and soil. She'll even give you lists of the tools you'll need to take action in the field.PIn short, Pallenberg explains how to grow plants effectively from cuttings, leaves, dead bouquets, compost heaps, and more. This book is small enough to fit in the glove compartment or backpack of any free spirit. But with its photos, line drawings, garden plans, climate maps, and range of possibilities and new ideas, it is as big as all outdoors.PThis book will appeal to young people trying to make their gardens grow on meager resources as well as seniors maintaining their gardens on fixed incomes. It will surely catch the attention of anygardener with a sense of adventure and a true love of nature. |
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Studies in Gardening
$18.09 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE NAMES OF FLOWERS PEOPLE who are not gardeners often complain that the names of unfamiliar flowers are apt to be ugly, inappropriate, and difficult to remember. A beautiful pink trumpet-shaped blossom catches their eye and they ask you the name of it. When you tell them Incarvillea Delavayi, they are not satisfied.1 They demand an English name, a name appropriate to its beauties, and one that will call them to mind by its mere look and sound; a name, in fact, like daffodil or honeysuckle. They forget, or they do not know, that all flowers, even those which have the prettiest fancy names, have also business names for purposes of identification, which are often no prettier and no more significant than Incarvillea Delavayi itself. Honeysuckle, for instance, when botanists talk about it, becomes Loni- cera. The buttercup is Ranunculus acris and the daisy Bellis perennis. Now honeysuckle was probably called honeysuckle in England long before it got the name of Lonicera; but newly discovered plants do not carry pretty names on collars round their necks. Names have to be invented for them for purposes of identification; names, too, that will servefor every language; and so the person who christens a new plant, whether the discoverer or another, does not usually tax his fancy much in doing so. Sometimes he does supply it with a compound descriptive word from the Greek, as in the case of the Chionodoxa, which may, perhaps, in time come to be known as Glory of the Snow or Snow-glory. But he is apt in naming it to pay a compliment to some botanical friend or to commemorate his own achievement; and thus we get names like Brugmansia and Bou- gainvillea, and Tschichatchewia, names which seem to hang like millstones round the necks of their unfortunate owners. But even these seem worse tha... |
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Japanese Gardening in Small Spaces
$28.34 A practical introduction to the art of Japanese gardening provides an easy-to-follow guide to creating a Japanese garden in one''s own home, discussing tools, materials, plants, and the history of ... |
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Buzzby Bee Gardening Set
$20.99 How do you teach your kids the joy of gardening? By giving them the tools they'll need and even want! We were very excited when we first saw this line of products by Insect Lore, these gardening sets includes everything for the beginning gardener in your life - kneeling pad, gloves, hand shovel and hand cultivator. Don't let the cute packaging fool you, these will be absolutely functional for the young ones to join you in your next gardening quest! Ideal for ages 4 and up. |
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Flutter Butterfly Gardening Set
$20.99 How do you teach your kids the joy of gardening? By giving them the tools they'll need and even want! We were very excited when we first saw this line of products by Insect Lore, these gardening sets includes everything for the beginning gardener in your life - kneeling pad, gloves, hand shovel and hand cultivator. Don't let the cute packaging fool you, these will be absolutely functional for the young ones to join you in your next gardening quest! Ideal for ages 4 and up. |
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Manny Mantis Gardening Set
$20.99 How do you teach your kids the joy of gardening? By giving them the tools they'll need and even want! We were very excited when we first saw this line of products by Insect Lore, these gardening sets includes everything for the beginning gardener in your life - kneeling pad, gloves, hand shovel and hand cultivator. Don't let the cute packaging fool you, these will be absolutely functional for the young ones to join you in your next gardening quest! Ideal for ages 4 and up. |
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Webster Spider Gardening Set
$20.99 How do you teach your kids the joy of gardening? By giving them the tools they'll need and even want! We were very excited when we first saw this line of products by Insect Lore, these gardening sets includes everything for the beginning gardener in your life - kneeling pad, gloves, hand shovel and hand cultivator. Don't let the cute packaging fool you, these will be absolutely functional for the young ones to join you in your next gardening quest! Ideal for ages 4 and up. |
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Essential Tools
$15.95 It''s fun to amass the equipment for any new undertaking--and gardening''s no different... |
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Gardening Basics For Dummies (Gardening Basics for Dummies)
$17.48 You’re now officially out of excuses for not planting the garden of your dreams. Even if you’ve never sowed a seed or pulled a weed, Gardening Basics For Dummies contains everything you need to know about flowers, beds, borders, trees, shrubs, and lawns to create your own private paradise. This friendly and informative guide also covers all of the tools and additives available to make gardening easier. You’ll discover: Clear definitions and descriptions of the different types of plants Tips on choosing the type of garden you want How to create a garden plan Easy-to-follow instructions for soil preparation Advice on planting, growing and caring for annuals and perennials Step-by-step plans for organic and edible gardens Plans for butterfly and children's gardens Packed with helpful tips on controlling pests safely, managing weeds, and correcting common gardening problems, Gardening for Dummies turns your brown thumb green in a hurry. |
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The Naming of Names
$5 DIVP style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0ptBAn exhilarating new book from the author of the worldwide bestsellerIThe Tulip/I/B./PP style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt /PP style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0ptIThe Naming of Names/Itraces the search for order in the natural world, a search that for hundreds of years occupied some of the most brilliant minds in Europe./PP style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt /PP style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0ptRedefining man’s relationship with nature was a major pursuit during the Renaissance. But in a world full of poisons, there was also an urgent practical need to name and recognize different plants, because most medicines were made from plant extracts./PP style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt /PP style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0ptAnna Pavord takes us on a thrilling adventure into botanical history, traveling from Athens in the third century BC, through Constantinople, Venice, the medical school at Salerno to the universities of Pisa and Padua. The journey, traced here for the first time, involves the culture of Islam, the first expeditions to the Indies and the first settlers in the New World./PP style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt /PP style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0ptIn Athens, Aristotle’s pupil Theophrastus was the first man ever to write a book about plants. How can we name, sort, and order them? He asked. The debate continues still, two thousand years later. Sumptuously illustrated in full colour,IThe Naming of Names/Igives a compelling insight into a world full of intrigue and intensely competitive egos./P/DIVDIVP style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0ptAnna Pavord is the gardening correspondent for theIIndependent/Iand the author of eight previous books, including the bestsellingIThe Tulip/I. She contributes to a number of magazines, both in the US and the UK and regularly fronts programmes for BBC Radio 3 and 4. She chairs the Gardens Panel of the National Trust and sits on the Parks and@ |
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Country Living Gardener Gardening Basics
$29.95 Truly a comprehensive introduction to gardening, with basic information on designing and creating family gardens, patio gardens, large gardens....Care and maintenance focuses on using basic tools... |
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Wheelchair Gardening Tool, Spade
$7.99 Now wheelchair-bound clients can also enjoy the pleasure and rewards of gardening. Quality tools with shorter wood handles make activity easier while keeping the hand and wrist in a neutral, stress-free position. Wood handles and steel ends in assorted colors (sorry, no color choice). |
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Basic Gardening: A Handbook for Beginning Gardeners
$2.09 With sections devoted to trees, shrubs, vines, vegetables, herbs, annuals, perennials and bulbs, Basic Gardening is a comprehensive guide to the ABCs of gardening, with lists of necessary tools, tips for harvesting and drying flowers, planting guides for vegetables and herbs and season-by-season listings of gardening chores and highlights. Basic Gardening offers novice gardeners a simple, straightforward approach to gardening in an easy-to-use format. Focusing on the most basic techniques of gardening, Basic Gardening gives pointers on diagnosing and improving soil conditions, starting seeds, planting, transplanting, fertilizing, pruning, controlling disease and insects with environmentally sound techniques and ordering or shopping for new plants.This essential primer is the beginning gardener's key to confidence and gardening success. Carter takes the gardener through the basics of choosing plants, soil, lawn care, growing vegetables and flowers, and controlling insects and disease. |
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Organic Gardening Techniques (Hardcover)
$13.86 A handbook of gardening techniques containing practical information on sowing and growing fruit, vegetables, herbs and other plants. It covers such essentials as selecting the right tools to propagation, crop rotation, growing on supports, training greenhouse crops, watering, and weed control. |
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The New Encyclopedia of Gardening Techniques
$29.69 A flagship practical book of step-by-step gardening techniques from the AHS that shows up-to-date skills to a new generation of gardeners. The AHS New Encyclopedia of Gardening Techniques is the new definitive guide to explaining all the essential techniques you are ever likely to need. It reflects modern best-practice gardening at the American Horticultural Society, a leading gardening authority. All techniques are shown clearly and simply with step-by-step instructions for every gardener to follow. Contains more than 2000 clear and concise color illustrations supported by over 1000 beautiful color photos. Includes steps for planning, pruning, propagating, feeding and watering. Covers all plants including trees, flowers, shrubs, climbers, lawns, vegetables, fruit and herbs. Shows how to create water features and patios, and add lighting. Includes organic techniques, recycling and how to treat pests and diseases. There are also chapters on container gardening, gardening under glass, garden tools and equipment, and everyday garden maintenance as well as on landscaping and construction work. The wealth of practical information makes this book an essential purchase for both professional and amateur gardeners. |
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Vegetable Gardening
$7.48 How to successfully grow vegetables whether in the city or country. How to begin, determine the size, location, tools, test for drainage, soil preparation, fertilizer, compost drainage and what to plant. Along with all the vegetables from A to Z including herbs and when to harvest your fresh produce. |
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An Anthropology of Names and Naming
$41.99 This book provides the tools through which we examine the politics and power of names.This book is about personal names, something of abiding interest to specialists and lay readers alike. Over a million people have checked the American Name Society website since 1996, for instance. Many philosophers and linguists suggest that names are 'just' labels, but parents internationally are determined to get their children's names 'right'. Personal names may be given, lost, traded, stolen and inherited. This collection of essays provides comparative ethnography through which we examine the politics of naming; the extent to which names may be property-like; and the power of names themselves, both to fix and to destabilize personal identity. Our purpose is not only to renew anthropological attention to names and naming, but to show how this intersects with current interests in political processes, the relation between bodies and personal identities, ritual and daily social life. |
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Gardening in California
$20 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: I. X. L. Hose is our highest grade guaranteed hose, and the best made from Para rubber and cotton duck. It is guaranteed for two years. Garden Tools Spray Pumps Wheel Barrows Steel Goods Pipe Fittings Harper |
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Gardening in California
$19.76 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: I. X. L. Hose is our highest grade guaranteed hose, and the best made from Para rubber and cotton duck. It is guaranteed for two years. Garden Tools Spray Pumps Wheel Barrows Steel Goods Pipe Fittings Harper |
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EK Jolee's Boutique Gardening
$2.79 Let these terrific stickers enhance your scrapbook pages and crafts. These unique handmade stickers are decorated with beads, foils, fabrics and wire, or simply made 3-D with die-cut shapes or acrylic covering. So whether you want characters, sports, destination, seasons, holidays or more, you will find them in this wonderful collection. Ages 3 and up. Gardening- Package contains 8 stickers; 1 trellis with tomatoes, 1 garden plot with flowers, 3 gardening tools, 2 gloves and a watering can. Sheet size is 3 3/4"x 4" and the largest sticker is approximately 3 1/2"x 2 1/4". |
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Gardening When It Counts
$19.95 Gardening When It Counts helps readers rediscover traditional low-input gardening methods to produce healthy food. Designed for readers with no experience and applicable to most areas in the English-speaking world except the tropics and hot deserts, this book shows that any family with access to 3-5,000 sq. ft. of garden land can halve their food costs using a growing system requiring just the odd bucketful of household waste water, perhaps two hundred dollars worth of hand tools, and about the same amount spent on supplies - working an average of two hours a day during the growing season. |
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Gardening When It Counts
$19.95 Gardening When It Counts helps readers rediscover traditional low-input gardening methods to produce healthy food. Designed for readers with no experience and applicable to most areas in the English-speaking world except the tropics and hot deserts, this book shows that any family with access to 3-5,000 sq. ft. of garden land can halve their food costs using a growing system requiring just the odd bucketful of household waste water, perhaps two hundred dollars worth of hand tools, and about the same amount spent on supplies - working an average of two hours a day during the growing season. |
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Organic Gardening Techniques
$10.92 The popularity of organic gardening just keeps growing, as more and more people worry about our earth''s delicate ecosystems and choose to forgo chemicals. Plus, these lucky gardeners get to enjoy delicious fresh produce from their own backyard! Going the natural route is easy with Organic Gardening Techniques, which provides eco-conscious gardeners with practical advice on cultivating fruit, vegetables, herbs, and other plants. It covers all the essentials: selecting the right tools, propagation, crop rotation, training greenhouse crops, watering, weed and pest control, even attracting wildlife. Packed with information, this is a thorough reference for every organic gardener. |
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Organic Gardening Techniques
$10.52 The popularity of organic gardening just keeps growing, as more and more people worry about our earth's delicate ecosystems and choose to forgo chemicals. Plus, these lucky gardeners get to enjoy delicious fresh produce from their own backyard! Going the natural route is easy with Organic Gardening Techniques, which provides eco-conscious gardeners with practical advice on cultivating fruit, vegetables, herbs, and other plants. It covers all the essentials: selecting the right tools, propagation, crop rotation, training greenhouse crops, watering, weed and pest control, even attracting wildlife. Packed with information, this is a thorough reference for every organic gardener. |
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Gardening All-in-One For Dummies
$15.62 God almighty first planted a garden: and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.<br>--<b>Sir Francis Bacon</b><p>National surveys show that gardening has become the most popular, least exclusive hobby nationwide. From the balconies of Manhattan to the patios of Malibu to the backyards of Chicago, anybody with a few square feet of earth is doing their best to make their little corner of the world more gracious and beautiful. And the best thing is, you really don't have to be born with a green thumb to give life to a glorious garden. Anybody can do it with a little coaching. Which is where <i>Gardening For Dummies</i> comes in.<p>Puzzled by pruning? Baffled by bulbs? Can't tell a hosta from a hyacinth? Don&#8217;t worry! This all-in-one reference delivers the know-how you need to transform your little patch of the outdoors into a blooming paradise. Drawing upon the expertise of the National Gardening Association, it gets you up to speed on:<ul><li>Basic gardening skills&#8212;from understanding your microclimate to using gardening tools to managing pests and common plant diseases<li>How to design, plan and build a garden landscape that reflects your unique sense of style<li>Selecting, planting and maintaining stunning roses<li>Building a raised bed for your perennials and making them bloom in any climate<li>Choose, grow and maintain annuals<li>From amaryllis to spider dahlias to wood tulips&#8212;coaxing beauty from homely bulbs<li>Enjoying nature&#8217;s bounty by growing you own vegetables and herbs</ul><p>A veritable encyclopedia of gardening, this <i>Gardening For Dummies</i> is an indispensable resource for novices and experienced gardeners alike. It brings together between the covers of a single volume seven great books covering:<ul><li>Gardening Basics<li>Garden Design<li>Roses<li>Perennials<l@/=p£×ÿ¾Úx |
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Tools and Their Uses
$12.98 Teaches names, general uses, and correct operation of all basic hand and power tools, fasteners, and measuring devices you are likely to need. Also, grinding, metal cutting, soldering, and more. 329 illustrations. |
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An Anthropology of Names and Naming
$77.62 This book provides the tools through which we examine the politics and power of names.Many philosophers and linguists suggest that names are }}}just}}} labels, but parents internationally are determined to get their children's names }}}right}}}. This book illustrates the intersection of names and naming with current interests in political processes, the relation between bodies and personal identities, and ritual and daily social life.Many philosophers and linguists suggest that names are }}}just}}} labels, but parents internationally are determined to get their children's names }}}right}}}. This book illustrates the intersection of names and naming with current interests in political processes, the relation between bodies and personal identities, and ritual and daily social life.This book is about personal names, something of abiding interest to specialists and lay readers alike. Over a million people have checked the American Name Society website since 1996, for instance. Many philosophers and linguists suggest that names are }}}just}}} labels, but parents internationally are determined to get their children's names }}}right}}}. Personal names may be given, lost, traded, stolen and inherited. This collection of essays provides comparative ethnography through which we examine the politics of naming; the extent to which names may be property-like; and the power of names themselves, both to fix and to destabilize personal identity. Our purpose is not only to renew anthropological attention to names and naming, but to show how this intersects with current interests in political processes, the relation between bodies and personal identities, ritual and daily social life.1. 'Entangled in histories': an introduction to the anthropology of names and naming Barbara Bodenhorn and Gabriele vom Bruck; 2. 'Your child deserves a name': possessive individualism and the politics of memory of pregnancy loss Linda Layne; 3. Names that do not need people Andr}} Iteanu; 4. The substan@Sg®záHÿ¾Úx |
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Tools and Their Uses
$2.77 Teaches correct operation of all the basic hand and power tools, fasteners, and measuring devices you are likely to need. 329 illustrations.brTeaches names, general uses, and correct operation of all basic hand and power tools, fasteners, and measuring devices you are likely to need. Also, grinding, metal cutting, soldering, and more. 329 illustrations.br |
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The New Book of Magical Names
$19.97 There is tremendous energy within names. Powerful symbols of identity, inspiration, and intention, names are magical tools of self-transformation. The original version of this classic guide, included in the prestigious New York Times Reader's Guide to the Best 10,000 Books in Print, helped thousands find the perfect name for everything from their child to their coven to their cat. Now, it has been revised and expanded, and is bigger and better than ever.brThe New Book of Magical Names presents a dictionary of more than 7,000 names (including pronunciations) taken from modern and ancient sources, including nature, mythology, history, fantasy literature, folklore, and faraway lands. Discover how religious and political movements, long-forgotten customs and social mores have influenced names throughout time. This fascinating guide features:br- The only dictionary of non-Christian names in printbr- Names indexed both alphabetically and by the qualities they invoke (beauty, wealth, power, and more)br- Quizzes to help you figure out your magical namebr- Rituals to unleash the power within your namebrWhether you are looking for a baby shower gift, initiating a new era in your own life, wanting to find a pen name, a magical name, or even a name for your house, The New Book of Magical Names is your indispensable resource.brWith more than 5,000 names to choose from, this book is the only lexicon of non-Christian names and their meanings in print. Discover the folklore behind a name, and learn specific rituals to unleash its power.pThere is tremendous energy within names. Powerful symbols of identity, inspiration, and intention, names are magical tools of self-transformation. The original version of this classic guide, included in the prestigious New York Times Reader's Guide to the Best 10,000 Books in Print, helped thousands find the perfect name for everything from their child to their coven to their cat. Now, it has been revised and expanded, and is big@3øQë…¸ÿ¾Úx |
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Water Gardening Gloves Medium
$19.49 Keep pond muck an arm's length away. In general, gloves are one of the most underrated pond tools. But let's examine what they do: first, they make it easier to grip tools, reducing fatigue and improving safety. Secondly, they protect your body's most important asset for water-gardening maintenance-your hands. Heat-sealed and cotton-lined for comfort, plus roughly-textured for a reliable grip in slimy conditions and icy cold water. Double-dipped nitrile coating is puncture resistant, protecting hands and arms from irritants and abrasions, while keeping muck and moisture at bay. |
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Water Gardening Gloves Large
$19.49 Keep pond muck an arm's length away. In general, gloves are one of the most underrated pond tools. But let's examine what they do: first, they make it easier to grip tools, reducing fatigue and improving safety. Secondly, they protect your body's most important asset for water-gardening maintenance-your hands. Heat-sealed and cotton-lined for comfort, plus roughly-textured for a reliable grip in slimy conditions and icy cold water. Double-dipped nitrile coating is puncture resistant, protecting hands and arms from irritants and abrasions, while keeping muck and moisture at bay. |
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The Beginner's Guide to Gardening
$3.98 Armed with this photo- and diagram-filled manual, any beginner can start right in on laying the lawn, planting trees and shrubs, and sowing seeds. Advice on assessing the garden; essential tools; soil type, management, and conditioning; and cultivation techniques. Information on maintenance, a garden month by month, and lists of recommended plants round out the most complete introduction to gardening anywhere! |
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Generations Gardening Together
$21.95 Generations Gardening Together presents a tested, hands-on, easy-to-use six-week activity plan that benefits the development of relationships between adults over 70 and school-age children. It shows how to limit frustration for both groups, how to plan activities that are functional and non-contrived, and how to assure that the interaction between elders and children is rewarding and pleasant for both. The activities rely on inexpensive, readily available tools and resources available throughout the growing season. |
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Wyman's Gardening Encyclopedia
$44.48 First published in 1971 and revised in 1977, Wyman's Gardening Encyclopedia has sold more than 100,000 copies and become a veritable bible for the gardeners of the United States and Canada. Now the dean of American horticulture has revised this classic once again. In addition to offering the best general advice on gardening practice, this updated and expanded edition includes:* Up-to-the-minute information on safe use of pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, and insecticides, along with a list of products that have been banned as unsafe since the publication of the last edition.* New lists of quarantined plants, with the countries from which their importation is prohibited.* Updated requirements for importing plants with minimum trouble.* The newest and most popular varieties and hybrids now available, for hundreds of plants, along with their characteristics and requirements.Whether you're an expert or an amateur, you'll find everything you need to know about planning, planting, and maintaining any kind of garden. Covering trees, shrubs, fruits, vegetables, herbs, flowers, and lawns, Wyman's Gardening Encyclopedia features:* 9,500 different plants listed alphabetically by scientific name, cross-referenced for common names.* The rating of all species for hardiness, keyed to the six-color Hardiness Zone map of the United States and Canada.* Boldface listing of scientific name, height, hardiness rating, and common name for easy reference.* Description of the ornamental value for each plant, so you'll know what it will contribute to your garden before you plant.* 53 lists of plants and display gardens for quick, expert help in choosing plants for specific purposes and locations.* 59 major articles on horticultural practices, from air-layering to greenhouse management, from mulches to tree surgery.With nearly 1,300 pages, 10,000 articles, 206 drawings, and more than 100 photographs, Wyman's Gardening Encyclopedia is the most complete, authoritative one-volume gardening sourcebook on the market today. |
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Gardening Basics for Dummies
$1.47 This all-in-one primer for creating a garden for the first time has been fully revised to focus on helping the beginner gardener get off to a solid start. This friendly, hands-on guide is packed with expert guidance on everything from flower beds and borders to trees, shrubs, and lawns.Packed with fun and useful tips to help you plan your garden!pCreate the garden of your dreams with the right plants and equipmentpWant a green thumb? This handy guide gives beginning gardeners tips, plans, and insider know-how for getting started with flower beds, borders, vegetables, trees, shrubs, lawns, and more. Packed with step-by-step advice, illustrations, resources, and suggested plantings, this friendly guide covers all the tools that make gardening today easier than ever before!pDiscover how to Pick the best plants for your climate Plan and prep your garden Keep your plants healthy Use compost, fertilizer, and safe pesticides Troubleshoot common problems Locate garden suppliesYou're now officially out of excuses for not planting the garden of your dreams. Even if you've never sowed a seed nor pulled a weed, Gardening Basics For Dummies contains everything you need to know about flowers, beds, borders, trees, shrubs, and lawns to create your own private paradise. This friendly and informative guide also covers all of the tools and additives available to make gardening easier. You'll discover: Clear definitions and descriptions of the different types of plants Tips on choosing the type of garden you want How to create a garden plan Easy-to-follow instructions for soil preparation Advice on planting, growing and caring for annuals and perennials Step-by-step plans for organic and edible gardens Plans for butterfly and children's gardenspPacked with helpful tips on controlling pests safely, managing weeds, and correcting common gardening problems, Gardening for Dummies turns your brown thumb green in a hurry. |
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Essential Tools
$6.6 With a no-nonsense and witty attitude, this gardener's guide to everything useful, from classic bamboo rakes to high-carbon steel shovels, will steer you in the right direction-and save you time, money and space. Find out which tools are absolute must-haves, depending on your climate, size and strength, and gardening goals. Recognize the signs of quality construction. All the necessities to dig, prune, feed, water, and more receive detailed coverage by a team of top gardeners. Plus: Experts pick six can't-live-without tools! |
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Wildlife Gardening for Everyone
$16.48 Who better to answer questions on cultivating wildlife in the garden than the Royal Horticultural Society and the Wildlife Trusts partnership? They’re dedicated to good gardening, and in this superb compendium, they respond to more than 200 need-to-know queries. The top 100 receive dedicated, two-page spreads that include background information from the experts, a suggestion box, hints and tips from the general public, and interesting statistics and facts. Another hundred questions-and-answers appear throughout the book, and get brief but still invaluable treatment. There are also inspiring and entertaining personal stories from real-life gardeners, punchy facts on why cultivating wildlife is so important, advice on designing a wildlife-friendly garden, and nearly 40 pages of general gardening advice, from tools to getting kids involved. |
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Beginner's Guide to Gardening
$1.68 Join the ranks of those who have discovered the sheer fun and exhilaration of gardening! Armed with this photo- and diagram-filled manual, any beginner can start right in on laying the lawn, planting trees and shrubs, and sowing seeds. Get advice on assessing the garden; essential tools; soil type, management, and conditioning; and cultivation techniques. Plan the framework, including shelter, establishing hedges (and learning how to trim them), siting and shaping beds, putting in paths and paving, and building raised gardens and edgings. Use your imagination to devise ingenious structural supports for trellises -- such as a lightweight archway festooned with roses. Planting schemes range from mixed borders to troughs to trees. Feast on the bounty from vegetable and fruit gardens. Information on maintenance, a garden month by month, and lists of recommended plants round out the most complete introduction to gardening anywhere! |
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Horticulture - Plant Names Explained
$11.98 Precise naming of plants is essential to be able to identify them accurately and most gardeners have at least some knowledge of botanical Latin. But a plant's full botanical name does much more than give it a unique label. The name can often tell you where the plant originated, who discovered it, what color it is, and much else besides. What's more, the name is recognizable, and can be used and understood anywhere in the world. So wherever you are you can identify specific plants. Plant Names Explained is an essential and fascinating guide to the subject. What may seem at first a dry but necessary convention is revealed to be a way of opening up the intriguing world of plants and plantsmen. Based on William T Stearn's Botanical Latin, the classic work on the subject, Plant Names Explained is much more than an indispensable practical guide and superb reference book--it is an engrossing read. Published in partnership with Horticulture, America's most respected gardening magazine |
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This is Gardening: Allan's Garden (This Is Gardening)
$32.95 This is Gardening: Allan's Garden (This Is Gardening) |
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This is Gardening : Perennials (This Is Gardening)
$32.95 This is Gardening : Perennials (This Is Gardening) |
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This is Gardening : Annuals (This Is Gardening)
$32.95 This is Gardening : Annuals (This Is Gardening) |
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Gardening Year (Gardening)
$1.98 Gardening Year (Gardening) |
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This is Gardening : Hostas (This Is Gardening)
$32.95 This is Gardening : Hostas (This Is Gardening) |
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Gardening for Fragrance (Concorde Gardening)
$1.64 Gardening for Fragrance (Concorde Gardening) |
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Gardening from Scratch
$3.98 Gardening from Scratch "This book attempts to demystify the garden design process by explaining the principles that inform every stage, from fact-gathering to the variety of practical applications which result in a satisfying garden… In writing Gardening from Scratch, I offer you the practical and philosophical tools with which to make your own garden of personal delight. I hope you have as much fun in the process as I do. Indeed, I find garden-making becomes more joyful every time, as each new garden more closely approximates that inner garden hidden in the garden-maker's heart." —Ann Lovejoy, from the Introduction Should you enhance your new backyard with a simple vegetable garden or a trellised arbor, or both? Ann Lovejoy invites you to ruminate over what your garden will be used for, what your aesthetic tastes are, and how to implement them. Whether you're designing a tiny urban garden, a suburban space, or a rural retreat, Gardening from Scratch can show you how. Illustrated with stunning photographs by renowned garden photographer Allan Mandell, and exquisite illustrations of gardens in development by Jean Emmons. |
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Mediterranean Gardening: A Waterwise Approach
$16.22 A large-format, beautifully illustrated, complete guide to gardening in a California and Mediterraean-like climates, defined as ones in which winters are wet and summers are bone dry.This is no ordinary book on drought-tolerant plants, but the accumulated wisdom of twenty years spent learning about the Mediterranean climate, and its plants and soils. The learning was not the casual process of one warned by municipal authorities that water is becoming scarce, but the urgent seeking for knowledge of an intelligent gardener entirely dependent on rainfall. . . . The pictures, too, are delightfully different from those we have come to expect in books on waterwise gardening.--Pacific HorticultureGardening in harmony with a Mediterranean climate means taking advantage of winter rain and allowing the garden to rest over hot summers. In this beautifully illustrated, practical handbook, Heidi Gildemeister provides both novice and experienced gardeners with a comprehensive guide for waterwise gardening, with over one thousand drought-tolerant Mediterranean plants chosen both for their beauty and for their easygoing ways. Well indexed with common and botanical names, Mediterranean Gardening will be indispensable not only for gardeners in California, the Mediterranean basin, and Mediterranean climate areas in South America, Australia, and Africa, but for anyone living in a region that experiences drought.brGildemeister explains how drought-tolerant plants that are suitably matched with a site and carefully planted and mulched can live on winter rain and, once established, do not need additional summer water--as in nature. The Plant Selection lists over one thousand plants from nearly five hundred genera, including their preferred growing conditions, propagation, best use, and maintenance. Guidelines in eight steps describe the planning of waterwise gardens, such as for the establishment of dappled shade to conserve precious soil moisture. Successful alternatives to the w@08Që…¸ÿ¾Úx |
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Mediterranean Gardening: A Waterwise Approach
$60.64 A large-format, beautifully illustrated, complete guide to gardening in a California and Mediterraean-like climates, defined as ones in which winters are wet and summers are bone dry.This is no ordinary book on drought-tolerant plants, but the accumulated wisdom of twenty years spent learning about the Mediterranean climate, and its plants and soils. The learning was not the casual process of one warned by municipal authorities that water is becoming scarce, but the urgent seeking for knowledge of an intelligent gardener entirely dependent on rainfall. . . . The pictures, too, are delightfully different from those we have come to expect in books on waterwise gardening.--Pacific HorticultureGardening in harmony with a Mediterranean climate means taking advantage of winter rain and allowing the garden to rest over hot summers. In this beautifully illustrated, practical handbook, Heidi Gildemeister provides both novice and experienced gardeners with a comprehensive guide for waterwise gardening, with over one thousand drought-tolerant Mediterranean plants chosen both for their beauty and for their easygoing ways. Well indexed with common and botanical names, Mediterranean Gardening will be indispensable not only for gardeners in California, the Mediterranean basin, and Mediterranean climate areas in South America, Australia, and Africa, but for anyone living in a region that experiences drought.brGildemeister explains how drought-tolerant plants that are suitably matched with a site and carefully planted and mulched can live on winter rain and, once established, do not need additional summer water--as in nature. The Plant Selection lists over one thousand plants from nearly five hundred genera, including their preferred growing conditions, propagation, best use, and maintenance. Guidelines in eight steps describe the planning of waterwise gardens, such as for the establishment of dappled shade to conserve precious soil moisture. Successful alternatives to the w@NQë…¸Rÿ¾Úx |
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New Encyclopedia of Gardening Techniques (Hardcover)
$29.4 This mighty tome, almost 500 pages long and weighing nearly five pounds, is considered by many to be the indispensable guide to gardening in America. Newly updated, the book contains organic gardening practices and eco-friendly tips as well as tried-and-true techniques for successfully growing everything from trees to groundcovers. It also provides information on topics like installing a pond, designing a perennial border, choosing tools, and getting those aphids off your roses. With more than 1000 color photographs. |







