Making Gardens Works of Art: Creating Your Own Personal Paradise

Posted November 1, 2011 – 1:43 pm in: Garden Ebook

Making Gardens Works of Art: Creating Your Own Personal Paradise
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Walking into Keeyla Meadows’ garden, you are struck by the sheer exuberance of plants and greeted by a riot of color that flows gracefully throughout the space. In this beautiful new book, an award-winning garden designer and artist shows how to turn a gardener into an artist and a garden into a work of art. Keeyla uses her own fanciful garden to illustrate key artistic concepts such as working with harmonies and contrasts in color selection, organization of shapes in space, and placement of garden features to transform the average garden into an artistic world. Budding garden artists everywhere will love the 120 full-color detailed photographs of the author’s garden, which has been featured in Sunset, Metr… More >>


Making Gardens Works of Art: Creating Your Own Personal Paradise


Better Homes and Gardens Complete Book of Baking

Posted November 1, 2011 – 7:44 am in: Garden Ebook

Better Homes and Gardens Complete Book of Baking
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A selection of 375 recipes helps bakers recreate childhood memories–including yeast breads, cakes, fruit-packed pies, creamy puddings, and cookies–and offers information on ingredient choice, garnishing, measuring, temperatures, substitutions, equipment, and bakeware. 50,000 first printing…. More >>


Better Homes and Gardens Complete Book of Baking


Big Ideas for Small Gardens: Featuring Dave Egbert’s Garden Notebook

Posted October 31, 2011 – 1:43 am in: Garden Ebook

Big Ideas for Small Gardens: Featuring Dave Egbert's Garden Notebook
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Even the smallest garden can be transformed into an earthly delight when you know how to make the most out of limited square footage. Balconies, rooftops, townhouse patios, and postage-stamp-size front yards alike can yield spectacular results with the right focal point, plants, and an expert trick or two. Whether you’re living in a new suburb or a dense metropolis, Big Ideas for Small Gardens offers inventive, attainable solutions, plus recommendations for plants and products that help maximize your space. Features:Hundreds of photos showcase innovative gardens in small spacesDiscover what works best: containers, vegetable patches, flowersConcise plant checklist uses the latest reporting from … More >>


Big Ideas for Small Gardens: Featuring Dave Egbert’s Garden Notebook


Cottage Gardens

Posted October 30, 2011 – 1:52 pm in: Garden Ebook

Cottage Gardens
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They may look abundantly wild and romantic, but it takes the right combination of colors, texture, placement, and accessories to create that ‘just happened’ look. Sunset’s new Cottage Gardens visits the English origins of this increasingly popular style, and offers practical advice for getting started, specifics on regional variations, design tips, basic plant profiles, plus recommendations on structural details. All of which add up to the wonderfully casual style that characterizes Cottage Gardens…. More >>


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Encyclopedia of Northwest Native Plants for Gardens and Landscapes

Posted October 30, 2011 – 1:49 am in: Garden Ebook

Encyclopedia of Northwest Native Plants for Gardens and Landscapes
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This comprehensive reference describes plants native to the Pacific Northwest—the ferns and conifers; annuals, perennials, and grasses; and flowering trees and shrubs that populate and define this distinctive region. Featured are some 530 subject species that occur naturally from southwestern Alaska to Oregon’s border with California, and from the coast east to Idaho, plants that are not only beautiful ornamentals but important components of habitat diversity. Illustrated throughout with nearly 600 eye-popping color photographs and original pen-and-ink drawings, the book is smartly separated by plant type into five encyclopedic sections. Detailed descriptions include reommendations for cultivation and siting… More >>


Encyclopedia of Northwest Native Plants for Gardens and Landscapes