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Home, Garden, and DIY May 2019
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Plantopia: Cultivate / Create / Soothe / Nourish
by Camille Soulayrol
Bring plants into the home to reconnect with nature--it's the perfect antidote to life's frenetic pace. With step-by-step tips, you'll learn how to choose and care for stylish, low-maintenance houseplants, including ferns, air plants, cacti, and succulents. Then create your own garden of paradise with more than seventy fun and rewarding ideas for nesting at home with greenery.
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| Where Cooking Begins: Uncomplicated Recipes to Make You a Great Cook by Carla Lalli MusicWhat it is: a modern cookbook (ordering staples online is encouraged) showcasing the author's six most-used cooking methods, 70 flexible recipes, her shopping philosophy, and tips for a pared-down kitchen.
Author buzz: Though Carla Lalli Music is Bon Appétit's Food Director, this book focuses on her life as a home cook.
Try this next: new cooks should check out Mark Bittman's or America's Test Kitchen's clearly written books featuring well-tested recipes. |
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| The Inspired Houseplant: Transform Your Home with Indoor Plants from Kokedama... by Jen StearnsWhat it is: a "stellar" (Library Journal), beginner-friendly book that demystifies house plants, especially for those with brown thumbs.
What it does: walks readers through plant selection (with profiles of common houseplants), plant care (potting, watering, pruning, and more), and several special plant projects (bowl gardens, kitchen gardens, etc).
Don't miss: the color photos and the section on incorporating plants into your home's style, be it minimalist, rustic, or eclectic. |
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Gardentopia: design basics for creating beautiful outdoor spaces
by Jan Johnsen
This info-packed, sumptuous book offers individual tips for enhancing any size landscape using 'real world' solutions. The suggestions are grouped into five categories that include Garden Design and Artful Accents, Walls, Patios, and Steps and Plants and Planting, among others.
Whether you are an experienced gardener or a landscaping novice, Gardentopia will inspire you.
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The Beginner's Guide to Starting a Garden: 326 Fast, Easy, Affordable Ways to Transform...
by Sally Roth
Many people want a nice yard but don't have the time or the money or any idea where to start; this book can solve those problems. Simplifying garden design by showing how to tackle one small area at a time, this book for beginners provides ideas and plans for a variety of unique areas that can then be linked together over time to create a unified yard. With budget always in mind, veteran gardening writer Sally Roth uses common sense ideas and recommends plants that are dependable and easy to find as well as sharing tips on how to avoid common planting mistakes.
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Garden Revolution: How Our Landscapes Can Be a Source of Environmental Change
by Larry Weaner and Thomas Christopher
Anyone with a green thumb and an interest in sustainability can join the revolution led by these authors -- a landscape designer and a horticulturalist -- who argue that traditional landscaping is time-consuming and ineffective. They claim that more environment-specific plant selection and less disruptive upkeep (such as weeding and tilling) yields attractive, easily maintained landscapes.
These claims are supported by the solid advice and artful, color-drenched photographs featured throughout the book.
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Art: a visual history
by Robert Cumming
This book features information on the history of more than 650 artists, as well as details on the major schools and movements of the art world, from Ancient Greece to Pop Art, as well as an extended, detailed focus on 22 masterpieces.
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| Goodbye, Things: The New Japanese Minimalism by Fumio SasakiWhat it is: a contemplative memoir and guide to minimalism with color photos by a Japanese book editor who got rid of all of his books.
Topics include: what minimalism is and why it's grown in popularity; tips on decluttering; why we own so much stuff; the positive changes in the author's life since going minimalist.
Other decluttering options: books by Marie Kondo, Peter Walsh, Joshua Becker, Francine Jay, or Dana K. White. |
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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Prince George's County Memorial Library System 9601 Capital Lane Largo, Maryland 20774 301-699-3500www.pgcmls.info/ |
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