Forsythia
Of the flowering shrubs available to prairie gardeners, forsythia (Forsythia ovata) holds a special place in our hearts because it provides the very first springtime flowers. If you should see a shrub covered in bright yellow bell-like flowers in ... [... more]
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Backyard Bird Feeders Bible: The A to Z Guide to ...
 Worth every penny.: Back in the glory days of The Tonight Show, Johnny would read from a list or a book and then Ed would say, "Everything you could ever want to know about....... is in that book." Of course Ed would always get shot down for [... more]
CDN$44.95
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1983-1985 Out Of The Dark/New
Great music: This is heartwarming music, provided in original style for anyone appreciating imaginative, folk or accoustic music. "Hard Love" is worth the entire CD price: The entire CD is excellent, for those who love folk music. But I bought [... more]
CDN$16.99
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American Thighs
LARGE AMOUNTS OF UNFULFILLED POTENTIAL: Way back when--as the saying goes--I got to see Veruca Salt play live (and meet the ladies) a couple of months before the video (and consequently the album) broke onto the "American Musical Consciousness). I [... more]
CDN$11.99
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The Backyard Bird Feeder's Bible: The A-to-Z Guide to ...
Worth every penny.: Back in the glory days of The Tonight Show, Johnny would read from a list or a book and then Ed would say, "Everything you could ever want to know about....... is in that book." Of course Ed would always get shot down for [... more]
CDN$24.95
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Vaccinations
Make this your first book on vaccinations: Objectivity in the controversy of vaccinations is almost non-existent. Aviva Jill Romm has accomplished a singular feat in providing parents with an intelligent discussion of the issues without telling the [... more]
CDN$24.95
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Forcing, Etc.: The Indoor Gardener's Guide to Bringing ...
From Amazon.com: What's a dyed-in-the-wool gardener to do when faced with stubborn Old Man Winter's downright refusal to let much of anything grow? Force it, that's what. Forcing is the art of convincing a bulb, branch, houseplant, or cutting to flower [... more]
CDN$27.95
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The Shaping of a Life: A Spiritual Landscape
From Amazon.com: Phyllis Tickle's exquisite memoir Shaping a Life ranges across a sweeping Southern landscape where we see the events--highly dramatic and tenderly simple--that shaped her esteemed spiritual life. (Tickle, author of The Divine Hours, is a [... more]
CDN$22.95
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Cultivating Delight: A Natural History of My Garden
From Amazon.com: Diane Ackerman relishes the world of her garden. As a poet, she finds within it an endless field of metaphors. As a naturalist, she notices each small, miraculous detail: the hummingbirds and their routines, the showy tulips, the crazy [... more]
CDN$16.50
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Signs of Spring
A wonderful little book after a long cold winter!: We found this book ...just as the daffodils and forsythia were starting to flower. My 3 yr old sons and I went on a treasure hunt for more signs of spring, without much luck. A couple weeks later, as the [... more]
CDN$15.00
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My Garden in Daffodil Season, Week 2
Well, this week the forsythia opened, and the Bradford pear tree. And the bluebells, Mertensia virginica, are beginning to open, too. We've had warm weather, but we've also had a lot of wind, and that combination is definitely not good for ... [... more]
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Forcing branches for indoor bloom
March is a great time of the year to force branches for indoor bloom. Trudge through the snow in your backyard and snip off a few forsythia or apple branches to dispel the mid-winter blues. Why isn't it spring yet? Has Wiarton Willy let us down? ... [... more]
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