Water Gardens In The City
Dwarf papyrus (figure C) adds vertical interest to a pond. Floating plants such as water lettuce and water hyacinths add oxygen to the water with their dangling roots. Floating plants multiply quickly and could rapidly cover the surface of the ... [... more]
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Gardens in the City: New York in Bloom
 New York, a city of skyscrapers and gardens, has much to teach the rest of the world about making gardens--despite, or perhaps because of, limited space and difficult conditions. In Gardens in the City: New York in Bloom, the juxtaposition of concrete ... [... more]
$49.50
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Gardens of New Orleans: Exquisite Excess
Fragrant. Lush. Seductive. Can these words describe any city other than New Orleans? With new plant life bursting from every cranny and ancient cypress trees, the gardens here present many unusual combinations of freshness and decay. Gardens of New ... [... more]
$40.00
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England as You Like It
"Tucked into the deep hills of western Dorset, just off the major tourist routes across England, Chedington is so small that its handful of cottages doesn't even appear on some large-scale maps. Here, far from crowds that haunt Blenheim Palace, ... [... more]
$12.95
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Gardens of New Orleans: Exquisite Excess
Fragrant. Lush. Seductive. Can these words describe any city other than New Orleans? With new plant life bursting from every cranny and ancient cypress trees, the gardens here present many unusual combinations of freshness and decay. Gardens of New ... [... more]
$40.00
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Murder of a Medici Princess
In Murder of a Medici Princess, Caroline Murphy illuminates the brilliant life and tragic death of Isabella de Medici, one of the brightest stars in the dazzling world of Renaissance Italy, the daughter of Duke Cosimo I, ruler of Florence and Tuscany. ... [... more]
$24.95
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England As You Like It: An Independent Traveler's Companion
"Tucked into the deep hills of western Dorset, just off the major tourist routes across England, Chedington is so small that its handful of cottages doesn't even appear on some large-scale maps. Here, far from crowds that haunt Blenheim Palace, ... [... more]
$20.00
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Loss Of A Significant Building Site
The proposed rehabilitation of the house for rental apartments had been considered exemplary; however, because the demolished walled garden was one of only a few formally designed gardens in the city that had ... [... more]
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