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Firefly Books
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2011
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304 p. : col. ill. ; 22 cm.
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With thousands of species to select from, how do you find the best plants for your garden? This guide provides a comprehensive selection table with characteristics, growth habits, and needs of each plant, as well as information on subspecies, hybrids, and cultivars. You're certain to find the right plant every time!
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The beautiful resort town of Heaven's Peak is home to gorgeous landscapes and terrifying secrets.
After the tragic death of his mother, teenage photographer Kevin Miller moves to a new town with his alcoholic father and eight-year-old sister in the hope of bringing the family together and starting over. However, everything changes when Kevin witnesses his sister being kidnapped by a bizarre creature. The police are skeptical of his story, so he decides...
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This is a plant identification book, pure and simple. Weather you're installing Annuals or purchasing them for your own use, you're often presented with row upon row of plants in containers. If you're unfamiliar with the plants' other characteristics, how do you know which to choose? It's easy. Just follow the simple clues offered here. Designed to be used on the job site, at the garden center or as a reference for your home garden, this easy-to-read...
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Planting annuals is a great way to quickly add color and texture to any garden, border, or landscape. Because annuals only last for one growing season, homeowners can change the overall look of their gardens every year. Home Gardener's Annuals shows readers how to prepare the soil, select the right plants, when and how to plant the plants, fertilize the plants, and maintain their gardens. Hundreds of step-by-step color photographs illustrate the gardening...
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I discovered hollyhocks grow profusely in northern Florida. Plant the seeds in the fall and you can expect blooms in March. Hollyhocks cross-pollinate, so I suggest you gather and plant the harvested seeds. You will be pleasantly surprised the following year when the plants produce new blooms consisting of a variation of colors and shapes.
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Not everyone interested in flower gardening has extensive beds and borders to plant many types of flowers. What if your enthusiasm for this activity and lack of growing space conflict? What can you do to remedy this sad situation?This entertaining and informative ebook describes colorful annual plants for container gardening, transforming your dull patio, porch, courtyard, terrace, or deck into an area of superb elegance.Why settle with only outdoor...
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Australian voters ousting a nine-year-old Coalition government. A step towards instituting a First Nations Voice to Parliament. Rising tension between China and the US. Entrenched structures of authority have been challenged at home and around the world this year.
2022: Reckoning With Power and Privilege is a collection of The Conversation's most insightful essays from leading thinkers, explaining the potent forces that continue to shape our world...
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From its early days as an unknown start-up, The Conversation published landmark essays such as Patrick Stokes's 'No, you're not entitled to your opinion', which saw the organization grow into an important and valued part of the news media. It has since, expanded to eight regions around the world, and is, published in four languages.
Contained within this ten-year anniversary collection are the essays that put The Conversation on the map: contemporary...
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This entertaining and informative ebook describes several colorful annual and hardy perennial flowering plants suitable for wonderful ground cover landscaping.The emphasis here is on those that provide outstanding floral displays along with their horizontal leafy growth.Ground-covering plants (especially those with profound blooming) are ideal solutions for difficult landscaping problem areas. The interlocking growing plants will smother weeds, cool...
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Feeling tired of growing the same annual flowers in your garden each year? Then, it's time to elevate your expectations by planting several uncommon, some even rare, annuals that will remake your beds and borders from boringly bland to interesting and lively.Are you a bored flower gardener tired of the same annual plants sold in seed catalogs and garden centers? Maybe you dread another summer viewing those usual yawn-inducing impatiens, red geraniums,...
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This informative and entertaining ebook combines my three earlier published ebooks about growing beautiful high-nectar garden flowers to attract bees, hummingbirds, and butterflies. Those ebooks are Bee-loved Garden Flowers, Hummingbird Garden Flowers, and Great Garden Flowers for Butterflies.An interest in attracting and protecting bees, hummingbirds, and butterflies has increased recently. The reason for this concerns the steady decrease in population...
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A comprehensive and highly practical study of the art of growing flowers, Mastering the Art of Flower Gardening presents expert tips on growing both annuals and biennials (including native and heirloom species) alongside hundreds of lush photographs.
This gorgeously illustrated book by Matt Mattus is based on decades of first-hand experience in his own garden and greenhouse made popular on his blog Growing with Plants. Every variety or species presented...
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From the renowned authors of "Divinely Guided," "Poetic Colors," "The Sugar Orchard," and "The Essence of a Pearl," The Lay Family has now released a new work named "Lay Family Photography." "Lay Family Photography" is a lovely book of photos of nature. This book has enriched photos of beautiful flowers as well as nature and all the beauty it entails. This book will touch your heart and soul and remind you of what nature's true essence really means.The...
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Everyone wants to create dazzlingly beautiful flowers for their home. Unfortunately, who has the time to sow, plant, and care for all those many flowers available to a home gardener? The solution is growing carefree, low-maintenance, and easy-to-grow flowers. This ebook will instruct you which ones to plant in your garden to establish gorgeous blooms from spring until fall.
Many people do not have the luxury of spending hours during the week to care...
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"250 Beautiful Flowers" is a comprehensive handbook on gardening that offers the reader information and step-by-step instructions on how to successfully cultivate a vast range of flowers suitable for the garden, as well as some helpful tips on gardening in general. Each flower has a simple description as well as instructions and information on propagation, culture, best varieties, and more. This timeless volume is highly recommended for keen garners...
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From the renowned author of "Divinely Guided," "Poetic Colors," "The Sugar Orchard," "The Essence of a Pearl," and "The Poetry of Linda Diane Lay." Linda Diane Lay has now released a new work named "Linda Diane Lay Photography." "Linda Diane Lay Photography" is a lovely book of photos of nature. This book has enriched photos of beautiful flowers as well as nature and all the beauty it entails. This book will touch your heart and soul and remind you...
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It's another new year celebrating everything under the Sun, including the Moon, with The Old Farmer's Almanac, America's oldest continuously published periodical! Always timely, topical, and distinctively "useful, with a pleasant degree of humor," the Almanac has been beloved for centuries by people from all walks of life.
As the nation's iconic calendar, the 2020 edition will forecast cultural, culinary, and other life-changing trends; preview notable...
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This vintage book contains a comprehensive handbook on gardening, with instructions on every aspect from starting out to maintaining a picturesque flower garden. Written in simple language and profusely illustrated, this volume is perfect for budding gardeners and would make for a fantastic addition to collections of related literature.
20) Goes Soft
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From soft politics, soft power and soft spaces to fluid territories, software and soft programming, Bracket 2 unpacks the use and role of responsive, indeterminate, flexible, and immaterial systems in design. In an era of declared crises-economic, ecological and climatic, among others-the notion of soft systems has gained increasing traction as a counterpoint to permanent, static and hard systems. Acknowledging fluid and indeterminate situations with...
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