Rodale's Gardening Books: A Year of Flowers
 Well organized interesting book Each chapter is all about a specific month - explains the best flowers that bloom each month - takes care to be universal most of the time, rather than regional [... more]
$5.99
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Pasqueflower
Pulsatilla vulgaris This early-flowering charmer is many things: ferny, silky, silvery, furry, feathery, even hairy. In a word: gorgeous. The pasqueflower lofts foot-high, bell-shaped blossoms over 6-inch mounds of delicately featured fluff. The ... [... more]
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Chameleon Euphorbia
Euphorbia dulcis This new plant seems like one big flower. Well, actually, the blooms of Euphorbia dulcis Chameleon are tiny yellow things at the tip of the stems that last for only a couple of weeks. But the leaves (bracts, really -- think of ... [... more]
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Yellow Foxglove
Digitalis grandiflora Foxglove fanciers who can't be bothered with biennials turn instead to Digitalis grandiflora, a perennial version of this cottage garden classic. And where most foxgloves spire higher -- up to 6 feet -- this restrained ... [... more]
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Fern-Leaf Peony
Paeonia tenuifolia Plena Here's a peony for front and center. Plena is a (take a deep breath, please) lusciously deep red, double-flowering, early-blooming, long-lasting, low-growing peony upheld by (still with me?) ferny, frothy, dill-like ... [... more]
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Hosta
Hosta plantaginea Aphrodite Finally, a hosta that does all the shady ground-cover things a hosta is supposed to do and has real flowers -- monster blossoms at that, with in-your-face fragrance. Yum. Each flower of the Aphrodite hosta is almost 4 ... [... more]
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Japanese Silver-Painted Fern
Athyrium nipponicum Pictum Growing something green in a shady spot does a little to part the shadows. We suggest doing as much as possible to get other -- brighter -- colors to unfurl in the semidark. Gold-colored hostas, pink or red ... [... more]
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The English Flower Garden
Called "the best single garden book in our language" by Henry Mitchell, this classic includes an encyclopedic listing of the best flowers, trees, and shrubs for the natural garden, illustrated with charming etchings. It presents Robinson's ... [... more]
$17.49
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Wonderful Pomegranate Five Gallon Tree
Useful as landscape plant as well as for fruit. Fountain shaped shrub or tree depending on the training. Needs sun for best flowers and fruit. Drought tolerant. Grows well in alkaline soil that would kill most plants. Cold hardy. Will freeze to roots at 0 ... [... more]
$79.98
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The Perfect Wedding
Congratulations on your engagement. And welcome to the world of a thousand questions. Can I wear a very formal gown at my daytime wedding? Do the bridesmaids' dresses have to be the same? When should I send out the wedding invitations? What services are ... [... more]
$42.50
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Fine Flowers by Phone: ...Finally, a Way to Send Flowers ...
Excellent Resource for sending gifts and flowers I used the first edition of this book for many years. I found her comments to be accurate and her recommendations to beat FTD by miles. I have used this book to send flowers all over the US. Each and every ... [... more]
$19.95
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The Wildlife Gardener's Guide to Hummingbirds and ...
Learn how to provide the habitat that attracts the birds of summer Susan Day, who has her own three-acre wildlife garden certified as a Backyard Wildlife Habitat by the National Wildlife Federation, surveyed dozens of other BWH participants to learn how ... [... more]
$14.95
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