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Month-by-Month Gardening in Louisiana: Revised Edition: What to Do Each Month to Have a Beautiful Garden All ... 2 reviews
Dan Gill
Cool Springs Press, 2007
Great Resource
+ Excellent Gardening book
Creating a garden and keeping color in Louisiana is difficult. The heat and clay soil don't make it easy for plants or gardners. This book offers really great advice on making the most of your garden inspite of the problems the state's climate poses.
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All New Square Foot Gardening 118 reviews
Mel Bartholomew
Cool Springs Press, 2006
No dig gardening
+ All New Square Foot Gardening
+ Awesome! Fun!
+ Awesome Book
+ Excited Again About Gardening
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The Vegetable Gardener's Bible: Discover Ed's High-Yield W-O-R-D System for All North American Gardening ...60 reviews
Edward C. Smith
Storey Publishing, LLC, 2000
The Vegetable Gardener's Bible
+ MUST HAVE gardners reference
+ Just Plain Wow!
+ I feel like an expert gardener!
+ Great book, but I hope to see corrections and clarifications in a future edition!
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Start Your Own Lawn Care or Landscaping Business (Entrepreneur Magazine's Start-Up) 3 reviews
Eileen Figure Sandlin, Entrepreneur Press
Entrepreneur Press, 2007
Good coverage of the business end
+ Lawn Care or Landscaping
The landscaping business aspects are definitely here, the accounting, the equipment, the scheduling, even the make and model of truck to buy to pull your trailer full of equipment. I was expecting to learn something about the finer points of lawn care, mixing plants, use of mulch, how to protect ...
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The Biltmore Nursery: A Botan Legacy
Bill Alexander
The History Press, 2007
This landmark book tells the story of the Biltmore Nursery in two fascinating ways: a revealing overview history and a complete reproduction of the 1912 Biltmore Nursery Catalog. The history tells the story of the nursery from its establishment in 1889 to its destruction in a catastrophic flood in 1916, and the profusely illustrated catalog offers a guide to the cultivated trees, shrubs and ...
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Rain Gardens: Managing Water Sustainably in the Garden and Designed Landscape6 reviews
Nigel Dunnett, Andy Clayden
Timber Press, Incorporated, 2007
A great book on sustainable design!
+ Great Informational Book
+ rain gardens review
+ Perhaps not what you are expecting ...
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Gardening with Heirloom Seeds: Tried-and-True Flowers, Fruits, and Vegetables for a New Generation6 reviews
Lynn Coulter
The University of North Carolina Press, 2006
A must have for every home gardener.
+ GARDENING WITH HEIRLOOM SEEDS:TRIED AND TRUE FLOWERS, FRUITS AND VEGETABLES FOR A NEW GENERATION
+ Great info on Heirloom Gardening
+ Must have book for gardeners
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Rodale's Illustrated Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening9 reviews
DK ADULT, 2005
Brilliant! Buy this book.
+ Organic Gardening Book
+ perfect!
+ Gardening made easy.
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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life313 reviews
Barbara Kingsolver, Camille Kingsolver, ...
HarperCollins, 2007
A guide to change your eating
+ Great theme, Interesting Topics are sometimes lost in the Preaching
+ Local is better
+ I love this book!
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Jerry Baker's Green Grass Magic: Tips, Tricks, and Tonics for Growing the Toe-Ticklinest Turf in Town! (Jerry ...17 reviews
Jerry Baker
American Master Products, Inc., 2007
Works wonders!
+ Very helpful
+ Big Help
+ My Husband and Lawn love this book!
+ Jerry Baker's green grass magic
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Natural Florida Landscaping2 reviews
Dan Walton and Laurel Schiller
Pineapple Press (FL), 2007
A perfect primer for newcomers to Florida or to natural landscaping.
+ TRY IT, YOU'LL LIKE IT
This little book is deceptively slim. Actually, it provides a compact but comprehensive overview of the significant differences between creating a natural landscape with native plants vs. a conventional contemporary Florida landscape of decorative exotics. It will give you a context within which ...
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The Southern Living Garden Book24 reviews
Oxmoor House, 2004
Great Gardening Book for Newbies
+ Southern Living Gardening
+ Best of the best!!!
+ Indispensable!
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The Complete Guide to Water Gardens, Ponds & Fountains (Complete Guide)2 reviews
Kathleen Fisher
Creative Homeowner, 2005
A definite 'Must Have' for beginning water gardeners
+ Water Gardens
The cover pulled me in. I was in the process of designing that very same 'round' pool, in a similar patio.
But the interior of the book is what convinced me that the price was more than worth it.
The photo images are crisp and beautiful, the text easy to understand and the entire book is a grand ...
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Orchids for Dummies18 reviews
Steven Frowine, National Gardening Association
For Dummies, 2005
Orchids for Dummies
+ A VERY INFORMATIVE AND READABLE WORK.
+ Orchids for dummies
+ start at the beginning
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Complete Guide to Vegetables Fruits & Herbs4 reviews
Ortho
Ortho, 2004
Very complete and detailed
+ Advice for veggie growers
+ All the basics in one place
+ A good basic, no-nonsense kitchen gardening book
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Llewellyn's 2008 Herbal Almanac (Llewellyn's Herbal Almanac)2 reviews
Llewellyn
Llewellyn Publications, 2007
Great Info!
+ Llewellyn's 2008 Herbal Almanac
I love all my LLewellyn's Almanacs. There's always some info in them that I don't agree with but most of it is well worth savoring.
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Llewellyn's 2008 Moon Sign Book: A Gardening Almanac & Guide to Conscious Living (Llewellyn's Moon Sign Book ...5 reviews
Llewellyn
Llewellyn Publications, 2007
Llewellyn Moon Book
+ eh,
+ Review: Lewellyn's 2008 Moon Sign Gardening
+ Great Book !
+ If You Like Almanacs, You'll Love This Book!
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Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs (Llewellyn's Sourcebook Series)138 reviews
Scott Cunningham
Llewellyn Publications, 2000
Encyclopaedia of Magical Herbs
+ Excellent resource!
+ Not perfect... but pretty damn close.
+ Can't say enough good things!
+ This is a great book
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New Complete Home Landscaping 4 reviews
Catriona Tudor Erler
Creative Homeowner, 2004
A step-by-step guide for amateur & professional landscapers
+ New Complete Home Landscaping
+ Definitely complete
Over 950 photographs and watercolor paintings illustrate New Complete Home Landscaping, a step-by-step guide for amateur and professional landscapers alike. Internationally recognized garden writer Catriona Tudor Erler discusses how to choose the right plants for one's climate and soil conditions, ...
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Southeast Home Landscaping4 reviews
Roger Holmes, Greg Grant
Creative Homeowner, 2005
Excellent book for landscape ideas
+ Great help book for planning your garden
+ Southeast Home Landscape
+ LOVE THIS BOOK....
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