Australian Daffodils For The Garden
"On Australian breeding. We at Hancocks have wound our breeding program back of late but still have plenty of nice seedlings to introduce. Being more orientated to garden varieties than show varieties (we are full time professional growers and ... [... more]
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The Earth Moved: On the Remarkable Achievements of ...
 The Worm Turns Out to Be Fascinating Even if you aren't a gardener, you probably know that if soil has plenty of earthworms, it is healthy soil. People didn't always know this. It used to be thought that earthworms were parasites, eating at the roots of ... [... more]
CDN$14.95
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Sustainable Vegetable Garden
For organic vegetables - start here! What is 'biointensive vegetable gardening? In brief it features the following methods: - focus on the health of the soil as the starting point for a productive garden (this is the meaning of 'bio-'); - emphasis on ... [... more]
CDN$17.95
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The New Seed Starters Handbook
Vegetable Gardening in Northern Climates This book should have a subtitle: Vegetable Gardening in Northern Climates. The author assumes that every reader has snowy winters and hot summers, and that every reader is a vegetable gardener. If I just ... [... more]
CDN$22.95
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The American Intellectual Tradition: A Sourcebook Volume ...
An Excellent Compendium of American Thought This volume by Hollinger and Capper is the first of two in their ambitious goal to "round up" and compile a representative sampling of documents in American Intellectual History. They succeed ... [... more]
CDN$32.50
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Dendrobium and Its Relatives
Excellent Resource for Dendrobium Growers This book covers every aspect of Dendrobium culture, from the plant origins, biology, conservation, cultivation and hybridization. The chapter on cultivation goes into great detail about growing Dendrobiums from ... [... more]
CDN$39.95
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Earth Moved
The Worm Turns Out to Be Fascinating Even if you aren't a gardener, you probably know that if soil has plenty of earthworms, it is healthy soil. People didn't always know this. It used to be thought that earthworms were parasites, eating at the roots of ... [... more]
CDN$29.74
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Time Reflections
So I guess, no matter how old we are, the constant vigilance of a keen gardener can never lapse; else you spend an eternity, clearing up the ensuing result, bulb by corm, before the happy new rampant seedlings of ones past neglect flower and ... [... more]
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From Flotation To Growing Plants
Use tweezers, your fingers, the end of a plant label or whatever you like to lift the seedlings out of the water. Be very careful so as not to break the roots or the growing tips. You must handle them very gently. With the end of your pencil or ... [... more]
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Heavenly Daylilies: Too Great A Price.
In the first place, most daylily hybridizers will tell you that only about 10% of the seedlings that they raise are really worth much. Reputable hybridizers will watch this 10% for a few years before they determine that they are garden worthy and ... [... more]
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Pride In The Fall Of Autumn
It is time for me to send the bold and the ugly (not really ugly, but less beautiful) either to Horticultural Heaven or the unfinished gardens that I made, three years ago, to take the sick and the grown seedlings. I wanted to join up the three ... [... more]
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Spring
The Lobelia Cardinalis has germinated in the indoor greenhouse and the miniscule seedlings will eventually give promise of better times to come. The Brugmansia has not yet deigned to appear above ground in their flats but hopefully will. Their ... [... more]
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