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"The native gardening classic--now with more than fifty new plant profiles. In today's South, where fine gardening is a tradition, many homeowners and professional gardeners are discovering a vast "new" palette of plant materials--native plants. They are realizing that these native wildflowers, trees, shrubs, groundcovers, vines, and grasses are far better suited, and therefore easier to grow and maintain, than most of the imported plants that populate...
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An Idaho farmer cultivates Russet Burbank potatoes so that a customer at a McDonald's half a world away can enjoy a long, golden French fry. A gardener plants tulip bulbs in the fall and, come spring, has a riotous patch of color to admire. Two straightforward examples of how humans act on nature to get what we want. Or are they? What if those potatoes and tulips have evolved to gratify certain human desires so that humans will help them multiply?...
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DK Publishing
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How Not to Kill Your Houseplant helps you create an oasis of happy, flourishing houseplants.--COVER.
Do you have a "black thumb? Does just looking at plants cause them to wither and die? Peerless offers advice on keeping houseplants alive, even if you're horticulturally challenged. She shows you how to create an oasis of happy flourishing houseplants, and even give suggestions for different areas of your house.
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Timber Press
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2002, ©1992
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The subtropical garden is a garden of luxuriant foliage, dramatic form and vibrant colour. Lush in undergrowth, it is spiked above with palm or tree fronds, punctuated by suspended epiphytes, with a backdrop of climbing vines and a foreground of blazing bromeliads. In its drier areas it flaunts sword-like plants in bold clumps, thick-fleshed aloes and swollen succulents. It is a dynamic and exciting, year-round garden.
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Oxmoor House
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Contains a guide for gardening in the southern states, and includes maps and descriptions of five climate zones, twenty-six lists for selecting plants based on climate zone and organized by theme, an alphabetically arranged guide to more than five thousand plants, a gardening and resource dictionary, and color illustrations.
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