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The Art of Gardening

Design Inspiration and Innovative Planting Techniques from Chanticleer

By: R. William Thomas

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The Art of Gardening

Design Inspiration and Innovative Planting Techniques from Chanticleer

By: R. William Thomas

“Delightful!” —The New York Times Book Review Discover a world of beauty and creativity! Chanticleer has been called the most romantic, imaginative, and exciting public garden in America. It is a place of pleasure and learning, relaxing yet filled with ideas to take home. And now those lessons are available for everyone in this stunning book! You’ll learn techniques specific to different conditions and plant palettes; how to use hardscape materials in a fresh way; and how to achieve the perfect union between plant and site. And Rob Cardillo’s exquisite photographs of exciting combinations will be sure to stimulate your own creativity. Whether you’re already under Chanticleer’s spell or have yet to visit, The Art of Gardening will enable you to bring the special magic that pervades this most artful of gardens into your own home landscape.

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Timber Press

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1604697210

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9781604697216

The Poetics of Gardens

By: Charles W. Moore,William John Mitchell,William Turnbull

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The Poetics of Gardens

By: Charles W. Moore,William John Mitchell,William Turnbull

This is an entirely different garden book: a pattern book in which a score of landscapes and gardens are drawn, described, and analyzed not just as a bouquet of pleasures but as sources, lodes to be mined for materials, shapes and relationships, and ideas for transforming our own backyards. There is a universality about the creation of gardens across time and in diverse cultures that has inspired this entirely different garden book: a playful and affectionate typology of gardens; a pattern book in which a score of landscapes and gardens are drawn, described, and analyzed not just as a bouquet of pleasures but as sources, lodes to be mined for materials, shapes and relationships, and ideas for transforming our own backyards. The Poetics of Gardens is a celebration of places and the gardens they can become. Most of the 500 sketches, axonometric drawings, and photographs were created especially for this book. They explore the special qualities of places and the acts that can transform them into gardens. The authors discuss the qualities that create the promise of a garden the shapes of land and water, the established plants, the light and wind, the climate and show how these can be organized to give a place a special meaning. And they pay particular attention to the "rituals of habitation" by which we imaginatively take possession of places on the surface of the earth. The Poetics of Gardens examines great gardens made in other places, with other climates, at other times from ancient Rome to modem England, from Ball to Botany Bay, from the court of Ch'ien Lung to the magic kingdom of Walt Disney to explore their devices and record their images, scents, and sounds. The authors discuss the adaptation of the great garden traditions of the past to North American soil and call together the creators of these gardens to speculate about how their patterns and ideas can be appropriated, transformed, and composed into places that come alive for us.

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286

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MIT Press

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0262631539

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9780262631532

Kew Gardens

Or, A Popular Guide to the Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew

By: William Jackson Hooker

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Kew Gardens

Or, A Popular Guide to the Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew

By: William Jackson Hooker

A single-volume reissue of two 1858 guides to the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, by their first full-time director.

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161

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Cambridge University Press

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1108065457

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9781108065450

Gardens of Philadelphia & the Delaware Valley

By: William M. Klein

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Gardens of Philadelphia & the Delaware Valley

By: William M. Klein

Once mostly rolling hills and valleys covered with hardwood forest in the seventeenth century, contemporary Philadelphia and the Delaware Valley now claim the largest concentration of many of the finest public and private gardens in the world. William M. Klein explores the broader attitudes and behaviors toward nature that have influenced this developmentt - of colonial farms and gardens created for survival to the art of suburban gardens to nature conservatories and public parks. Discover how in 300 years we have moved from fencing nature out to fencing nature in. Out of the past, examine the worm fence at Colonial Pennsylvania Plantations, overgrown by weeds as it would have been during Colonial times, zigzagging across the fields tenuously holding back the great forest that presses down. Into the present, consider the chain link fence at the John Heinz Wildlife Refuge at Tinicum that bounds a threatened wetland habitat from the intrusion of highways and reverberates to the sounds of traffic from I-95 and the Philadelphia International Airport. Klein's eloquent and knowledgeable narrative include detailed portraits of forty-four individual gardens, all lustrously illustrated by noted garden photographer Derek Fell. While considering a particular garden's historical and social influences, Klein discusses the philosophy behind each garden, its planner's goals and even personality, and the garden's interaction with surrounding architecture. This complete guide also includes each location's address, phone number, hours of operation, events, and featured plants, flowers, and trees. Yet this book goes far beyond the usual guides in this search for answers to the perennial questions of how and why each generation struggles to define its place in nature. As we approach the twenty-first century, the garden has become the metaphor for how we must begin to view all nature today - tended space where we collect, name, nurture, and share our love of plants. Author note: Formerly Director of the Morris Arboretum of the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. William M. Klein, Jr. is Executive Director of the National Tropical Botanical Garden in Lawai, Hawaii. In 1993 he was presented with the American Horticultural Society's Professional Award, and has been a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science since 1989. He has published many important writings on nature, botany, and landscape, including his previous book, The Vascular Flora of Pennsylvania: Annotated Checklist and Atlas. Derek Fell is a widely published garden photographer and the author of more than 50 garden books and garden calendars.

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Temple University Press

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1566393132

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9781566393133

Heirloom Vegetable Gardening

A Master Gardener's Guide to Planting, Seed Saving, and Cultural History

By: William Woys Weaver

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Heirloom Vegetable Gardening

A Master Gardener's Guide to Planting, Seed Saving, and Cultural History

By: William Woys Weaver

For cooks and gardeners, an updated guide to over 300 plants by the four-time IACP Cookbook Award winner: “Sure to be a modern classic.” —Jere Gettle, founder, Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds Heirloom Vegetable Gardening has always been a book for gardeners and cooks interested in unique flavors, colors, and history in their produce. This updated edition has been improved throughout with growing zones, advice, and new plant entries. Line art has been replaced with lush, full-color photography. Yet at the core, this book delivers on the same promise it made two decades ago: It’s a comprehensive guide based on meticulous first-person research to these 300+ plants, making it a book to come back to season after season. “A leading culinary historian.” —The New York Times “This encyclopedia is bound to become the seed-saver’s bible, a holy book for gardeners intent on doing their part to combat the genetic winnowing brought about by industrial agriculture.” —Publishers Weekly

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483

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Quarto Publishing Group USA

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0760363315

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9780760363317

Super Nutrition Gardening

How to Grow Your Own Powercharged Foods

By: William S. Peavy

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Super Nutrition Gardening

How to Grow Your Own Powercharged Foods

By: William S. Peavy

Argues that commercial produce is nutrient-poor, and explains how to grown more healthful food in enriched soil.

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252

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Penguin

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0895295326

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9780895295323

The Lone Star Gardener's Book of Lists

By: William D. Adams,Lois Trigg Chaplin

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The Lone Star Gardener's Book of Lists

By: William D. Adams,Lois Trigg Chaplin

An indispensable resource to all manner of flowers, fruits, vegetables, trees, and grasses, this collection of lists provide expert-tested recommendations for the plants best suited to Texas's unusual extremes. The gardening guidance provided applies to the entire state, including plants adapted to the wide diversity of climates and soil types.

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Taylor Trade Publications

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0878331743

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9780878331741

Heirloom Gardening in the South

Yesterday's Plants for Today's Gardens

By: William C. Welch,Greg Grant

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Heirloom Gardening in the South

Yesterday's Plants for Today's Gardens

By: William C. Welch,Greg Grant

New edition of a classic work on Southern heirloom gardening . . .Heirloom plants belong in Southern gardens. Tough and adapted, tried and true, pretty and useful, these living antiques--passed through countless generations--represent the foundation of traditional gardens as we know them today. Heirloom Gardening in the South is a comprehensive resource that also offers a captivating, personal encounter with two dedicated and passionate gardeners whose love of heritage gardening infuses the work from beginning to end. Anyone who wants to know how to find and grow time-honored and pass-along plants or wants to create and nurture a traditional garden is sure to find this a must-have addition to their home gardening library. Inside the book: New essays on naturalizing daffodils, slips and starts, and growing fruit; A completely updated and expanded heirloom plant encyclopedia;Revised plant lists (bulbs, cemetery plants, etc.) New material on the creation of two of the authors' personal gardens Building on the popularity of the original edition, this lively, entertaining, and informative new book from two proven experts will be enthusiastically welcomed by gardeners and horticulturists throughout Texas and the South.

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Texas A&M University Press

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1603442138

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9781603442138

Big Book of Real Estate Ads

1001 Ads That Sell

By: William h. Pivar,Bradley A. Pivar

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1001 Ads That Sell

By: William h. Pivar,Bradley A. Pivar

This exclusive travel guide guides the visitor through the most incredible activities to be found in Shanghai: savour the food of world-class chefs in Asia's most romantic two-seater salon; eat at the best holes-in-the-walls and discover local street food haunts; find the best tailors and quality cashmere, satins and brocades by the yard; expert ......

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Dearborn Real Estate

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0793176654

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9780793176656

Richard Haag

Bloedel Reserve and Gas Works Park

By: William S. Saunders,Patrick M. Condon,Gary R. Hilderbrand,Elizabeth K. Meyer

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Bloedel Reserve and Gas Works Park

By: William S. Saunders,Patrick M. Condon,Gary R. Hilderbrand,Elizabeth K. Meyer

The Landscape Views series was established to highlight important issues of landscape architecture. Like our ever-popular Pamphlet Architecture series, Landscape Views packs a large amount of critical research into a small volume. Examines two projects in the Pacific Northwest.

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Princeton Architectural Press

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1568981171

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9781568981178

Science in the Enlightenment

An Encyclopedia

By: William E. Burns

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Science in the Enlightenment

An Encyclopedia

By: William E. Burns

The first introductory A–Z resource on the dynamic achievements in science from the late 1600s to 1820, including the great minds behind the developments and science's new cultural role. Though the Enlightenment was a time of amazing scientific change, science is an often-neglected facet of that time. Now, Science in the Enlightenment redresses the balance by covering all the major scientific developments in the period between Newton's discoveries in the late 1600s to the early 1800s of Michael Faraday and Georges Cuvier. Over 200 A-Z entries explore a range of disciplines, including astronomy and medicine, scientists such as Sir Humphry Davy and Benjamin Franklin, and instruments such as the telescope and calorimeter. Emphasis is placed on the role of women, and proper attention is given to the shifts in the worldview brought about by Newtonian physics, Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier's "chemical revolution," and universal systems of botanical and zoological classification. Moreover, the social impact of science is explored, as well as the ways in which the work of scientists influenced the thinking of philosophers such as Voltaire and Denis Diderot and the writers and artists of the romantic movement.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1576078876

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9781576078877

Daniel Urban Kiley

The Early Gardens

By: William S. Saunders,Anita Berrizbeitia,Dan Kiley

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Daniel Urban Kiley

The Early Gardens

By: William S. Saunders,Anita Berrizbeitia,Dan Kiley

Generally considered to be America's foremost postwar landscape architect, Daniel Urban Kiley's earlier work is not well known. This book focuses on several of his more creative projects from the 1940s and 1950s, including more elaborate alternate plans.

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Princeton Architectural Press

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1568981481

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Book's by William Garden

The Art of Gardening

The Art of Gardening

The Poetics of Gardens

The Poetics of Gardens

Kew Gardens

Kew Gardens

Gardens of Philadelphia & the Delaware Valley

Gardens of Philadelphia & the Delaware Valley

Heirloom Vegetable Gardening

Heirloom Vegetable Gardening

Super Nutrition Gardening

Super Nutrition Gardening

The Lone Star Gardener's Book of Lists

The Lone Star Gardener's Book of Lists

Heirloom Gardening in the South

Heirloom Gardening in the South

Big Book of Real Estate Ads

Big Book of Real Estate Ads

Richard Haag

Richard Haag

Science in the Enlightenment

Science in the Enlightenment

Daniel Urban Kiley

Daniel Urban Kiley

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