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A Cottage Flower
Embracing the Simple Pleasures of Home & Garden
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In a cottage flower, we are reminded of the transformative power of nature and the art of finding joy in life’s simplest pleasures. A philosophy that weaves the garden’s beauty into the fabric of daily life, offering inspiration to create a home...
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Artistic Expression Through Landscape
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We are all artists, whether we use paint, ink, sound, or soil. Art on canvas shares more in common with art in landscaping than many of us realize. Complementary colours, experimenting with different textures and shapes, and layering foreground...
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Practical Regeneration
Realistic Strategies for Climate Smart Agriculture
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“To begin evaluating an agricultural system, you’ll need to get to the core ideas and features that actually drive the system to ensure that you have a grounding for best methods and practices.” In his consulting career as an agronomist, and as a...
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Greenhouse Hygge
The House of My Growing Dreams
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We’re all given gifts in life, it’s what we do with them that shows us what we’ve learned. Through hard work, creativity and an emerging vision, Lise-Lotte has incorporated the gift of her Mom’s greenhouse into her garden life where it is put...
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Elemental Feng Shui
The Art of Orientation
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Although Feng Shui is a relatively new concept in the West, when we break it down into Feng / Wind, our breath and Shui/ Water, our sustenance, it becomes very basic. In reality, Feng Shui is about balance and harmony on all levels. This book...
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Drawn In
An Illustrated Garden Tour
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The garden is an ever-evolving story unfolding through the seasons from spring heralded by the bloom of delicate flowers and pale leaves unfurling to winter’s eventual wind down. Author and illustrator Alison Syer captures these moments in Drawn...
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At the Garden's Gate
A Personal Guide to Self-Discovery in Growing a Sustainable Backyard Meadow, Working with Nature and the Land, Living the Wheel of Truths
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At the Garden’s Gate is the story of one woman’s personal journey in creating a meadow, when going “green” wasn’t an everyday word. As the author follows her passion to learn about medicinal and edible plants, a meadow evolves that supports...
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The Pig Behind The Door
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A few years ago, I received a gift of a three-foot ceramic pig and wondered, what do I do with it? After some discussion, my husband and I went and purchased and old antique door and window and hung them under one of the huge cedar trees in our...
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Connie's Dahlias
A Beginner's Guide
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If you’re interested in growing dahlias, you will find everything you need in these pages. Connie Thompson has 30 years of experience in everything dahlias, from growing to showing to selling her tubers. After years of educating others through...
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Minding The Garden
Lilactree Farm
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What can a gardener learn from Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony? Are perennial plants symbols of friendship? Is gardening in the Whig tradition? Are ‘non-native’ plants ‘aliens’? Can the art of writing a novel be compared to gardening? Is Monty Don...
