Low Maintenance Gardening
Creating a garden that looks good without demanding too much from the gardener. Last week my husband and I got to wondering why it is that with eight or nine different garden areas scattered around out property, I spend about 80% of my time in ... [... more]
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Princess Lessons
 From Amazon.com: Meg Cabot entertained thousands of readers with her Princess Diaries series about a somewhat awkward teenage girl from Manhattan who discovers that she's actually heir to the throne of a small European principality. In this princess-pink [... more]
CDN$19.99
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Home Landscaping Northwest Region
One Stop Shopping for NW Garden Landscaping: THE BACKGROUND: I know next to nothing about plants, and what little I do know is mainly for plants that grow well in the Deep South, where I grew up. I now have a cute house with a remarkably boring yard 2500 [... more]
CDN$21.95
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Gardening with Prairie Plants: How to Create Beautiful ...
gardening with prairie plants: \oGardening with Prairie Plants by Sally Wasowski\c, Native Plant Society of Texas News, 20 (March April 2002): 5. Convincing people that native flora are ideal for their home landscape should be easy. Colorful native [... more]
CDN$30.05
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How To Grow Fresh Air
An Essential Reference Book: I used this invaluable book as a resource and reference in my book, Harmonious Environment: Beautify, Detoxify & Energize Your Life, Your Home & Your Planet because it proves that plants remove toxic chemicals in the [... more]
CDN$18.75
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The 30-Day Low-Carb Diet Solution
Good for 1st timers: We had purchased and used Dr. Eades' previous book with great success. However, we lapsed into our old ways ang gained back our weight so we bought the 30-Day book. It's pretty good, but there are a lot of changes from the 1st book [... more]
CDN$28.99
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The Ultimate Pool Maintenance Manual: Spas, Pools, Hot ...
Almost perfect... alomost: This is a great book that explains the "whys" as well as the hows". Lets face it... what's the point playing around with water chemitry if you have no idea what is behind all the effects. Why almost perfect??? It [... more]
CDN$47.95
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One Small Starfish: A Mother's Everyday Advice, Survival ...
I'm having a hard time with this one: As the mother of a young boy with ASD, I am a devotee of 1st person narratives dealing with the autism experience. Anne Addison's book shares many practical, fairly easy to implement suggestions, but the book got [... more]
CDN$35.00
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Days of Knights and Damsels: An Activity Guide
Hands On ways for Kids to Re-Live the Middle Ages: We're a homeschooling family who've just finished up studying the Middle Ages. We're always looking for resources, just like this one, that let the kids make things and pretend. To get a real taste ( [... more]
CDN$22.95
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The Gardens of Gertrude Jekyll
The Gardens of Gertrude Jekyll: As a serious midwestern home gardener who owns many gardening books, I was extremely pleased with this book. There is much valuable information in the way of photographs and writings. Gertrude Jekyll was doing 100 yrs ago, [... more]
CDN$45.15
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Native Florida Plants, Revised Edition: Low Maintenance ...
Phenomenal Book: This was very helpful. It organizes plants by type, but gives enough information so you know where they best grow. It has lots of color pictures and also some landscape designs that make it easy for you to create something for your own [... more]
CDN$41.95
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When Hardy Perennials Aren't
Landscapes filled with perennials flowers are many a gardener's dream. But sometimes these low maintenance plants don't seem to live up to popular belief, and sometimes they die out unexpectedly. This article will discuss some of the problems ... [... more]
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