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Home, Garden, and DIY May 2019
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| Seasonal Flower Arranging: Fill Your Home with Blooms, Branches, and Foraged... by Ariella Chezar with Julie Michaels; photos by Erin KunkelWhat it is: a beautifully written guide arranged by season that encourages the use of locally grown flowers and provides flexible, step-by-step instructions for 39 floral projects.
Don't miss: the eye-catching color photos and the section about creating a cutting garden.
Reviewers say: "a delightful companion for gardeners, florists, or armchair naturalists" (Publishers Weekly, starred review). |
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5 ingredients : quick & easy food
by Jamie Oliver
The best-selling author of Jamie Oliver's Christmas Cookbook presents a collection of 130 original recipes designed to enable satisfying, cost-effective results for everyday meals though combinations of just five ingredients
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| Container Gardener's Handbook: Pots, Techniques, and Projects to transform... by Frances TophillWhat it is: a creative book that encourages recycling and will inspire and educate readers about the ins and outs of container gardening.
Topics include: choosing the size, shape, and material of containers; refreshing soil; repotting; feeding; watering; deadheading; pruning.
Author buzz: Author Frances Tophill appears on BBC's Gardeners' World and ITV's Love Your Garden. |
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| The Less Is More Garden: Big Ideas for Designing Your Small Yard by Susan MorrisonWhy you should read it: It takes a lifestyle-based approach to garden design that'll help aspiring gardeners turn their modest-sized yards into personalized spaces.
What's inside: inspiring color photographs, thoughtful questions, and suggestions for livable, low-maintenance designs using appropriate plants, furniture, and hardscaping. |
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Handmade Houseplants: 30 Remarkably Realistic Plants You Can Make with Paper
by Corrie Beth Hogg
What it is: a well-illustrated, detailed step-by-step guide to crafting 30 houseplants (such as monstera, fiddle-leaf fig and philodendron) from paper that also contains a tools and materials section as well as templates.
Projects include: the plants themselves as well as a garland, place cards, a centerpiece, and a trellis.
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