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The curious kitchen gardener : uncommon plants & how to eat them
by Linda Ziedrich
Features nearly 35 overlooked edible plants with recipes, seasonal planting and harvesting tips, cultural context, and personal insights from Master Gardener Linda Ziedrich, encouraging readers to create a unique, integrated, year-round garden-based cuisine for their families.
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DIY : repair, renovate, and decorate with over 450 step-by-step projects
by Julian Cassell
An updated edition of the best-selling DIY manual you can't afford to be without, with expert know-how for success every time. Whether you need to do a quick fix or a large DIY project, find out how to tackle any DIY task with confidence following this revised and updated step-by-step guide. From fitting a shower cubicle to applying different painting techniques, the simple, clear, unintimidating instructions ensure even hard jobs are made easy, whatever your level of ability. With step-by-step photographs of every technique and process, DIY breaks down every stage of every task, from choosing tools and essential safety guidance to advice for tackling big jobs and fixing common problems
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Staying Alive : The Go-To Guide for Houseplants
by Janet Melrose
Whether you have one tiny succulent on your desk at work or a massive collection of tropical plants in your home, caring for houseplants can be a real source of joy--and cause the occasional moment of wild frustration. This handy Q&A guide provides expert advice to ensure your houseplants thrive, wherever you call home.
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Pruning & training : What, When, and How to Prune
by Christopher Brickell
With step-by-step tutorials for every technique, unique annotated illustrations showing exactly where to make the cut, and detailed instructions for over 800 garden plants, this is the definitive practical guide.
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Garden to the Max : Joyful, Visionary, Maximalist Design
by Teresa Woodard
A writer and gardener and an editorial photographer present 20 vibrant, personality-filled gardens that embrace“maximalism” with lush plant layers, nonstop blooms and ecological benefits, inspiring gardeners to combine joy, style and biodiversity in their own outdoor spaces. Illustrations.
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The money-saving garden year : a month-by-month guide to a great garden that costs less
by Anya Lautenbach
With month-by-month advice on what to do when--from self-sown seedlings to spot, the best time to propagate different plants, and seasonal pruning jobs--Anya shows you how to keep your garden looking good without breaking the bank. Handy monthly plant lists, money-saving tips, propagation chart, and planting calendar guide you on your way. Embrace each season with timely projects to absorb you, garden highlights to enjoy, and notes on how to find happiness in your garden even in the depths of winter. Anya's clear, practical yet mindful approach will help anyone grow a glorious garden while cutting costs.
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Fences for home and garden : a complete guide to selecting and installing wood, masonry, metal, and living fences
by Jeff Beneke
Home-improvement expert Jeff Beneke shows homeowners how to select and build the right fence to meet their needs. Includes step-by-step illustrated instructions for building wood, masonry, metal, and living fences that last. This complete guide shows homeowners how to select and build fences that provide privacy and security, mark boundaries, hide unpleasant views, keep animals in or out, beautify a yard, and provide protection from the elements.
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Survival gardening : grow your own emergency food supply from seed to root cellar
by Sam Coffman
A survival skills expert provides practical strategies for growing your own food supply to enhance resilience against global crises and supply chain disruptions, covering topics such as selecting valuable crops, emergency food cultivation, perennial planting, mushroom growth, backyard foraging, and long-term food storage techniques.
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The Good Slug Guide
by Jo Kirby
Are you losing the battle against slugs and snails? Real help is here at last. Full of practical advice on how to work with the slugs and snails in your garden and prevent them destroying your plants – without the use of harmful, and often ineffective pesticides.
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A Year in Bloom : Flowering Bulbs for Every Season
by Lucy Bellamy
Award-winning garden writer Lucy Bellamy showcases a wide-ranging selection of more than 150 bulbs, each presented with informative text, expert planting advice, and vibrant photography. Organized into four seasonal chapters, this modern growers guide embraces familiar flowers such as tulips and daffodils alongside less common blooms, including dogs tooth violets, gladioli, and autumn snowflakes. Gardeners will discover bulbs suited for borders, containers, and grass plantings; bulbs to attract pollinators, for scent, for naturalized plantings; and reliably perennial bulbs that will flower year after year, supporting a sustainable approach.
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Book Nooks
by Vanessa Dina
Home is where the books are. This inspiring home decor book is brimming with photos of cozy places to read and creative ways to display books at home.
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Encyclopedia of Garden Plants for Every Location
by Jenny Hendy
Featuring more than 2,000 recommendations from expert gardeners, a guide for home gardeners helps them make the most out of their plots by cataloging 30 different types of sites and the plants that work best there, as well as tips on assessing soil.
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For the Love of Renovating : tips, tricks & inspiration for creating your dream home
by Barry Bordelon
For the Love of Renovating is the book every fixer-upper needs. Jordan and Barry-aka the Brownstone Boys-are the go-to renovation team for historic brownstones and other older homes that need a little TLC. In their debut book, they walk readers through the entire process of renovating a house, starting with things to consider before you've made an offer, followed by guidance on developing a design, a schedule, and budgeting; they end by giving a room-by-room tour that includes helpful tips and inspiration. Throughout the book, beautiful photos and Renovation Recipes give the ingredients and step-by-step instructions for turning the house you have into the house you love.
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Container & Small-Space Gardening for the South : how to grow flowers & food no matter where you live
by Barbara W. Ellis
Vast flower beds and large summer vegetable gardens are many southern gardeners' pride and joy. But gardening on a large scale isn't - and doesn't need to be - for everyone. Through friendly, engaging text and beautiful, inspiring photographs, Barbara Ellis demonstrates how to create container and small-space gardens that can withstand southern heat and humidity while still looking gorgeous all season long. Written for gardeners of all ages and experience levels, this book will inspire southerners to add containers brimming with flowers, herbs, vegetables, or a mix of all things green to every yard, garden, and terrace.
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Home Maintenance
by Tom Kraeutler
Take the intimidation out of common home repair jobs Home Maintenance For Dummies gives you the know-how you need to inspect, tune up, and make repairs to every room of your house. Learn how to stop drafty windows and doors, fix roof leaks, unclog pipes, silence squeaky floors, test your water pressure, fix a dripping faucet, and beyond. Plus, learn tricks of the trade to stop wasting energy, lower energy bills, and improve the comfort of your home.
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101 Tips for a Zero-Waste Kitchen
by Kathryn Kellogg
Kathryn Kellogg is taking her accessible tips for a zero-waste lifestyle and focusing on the heart of the house. Our kitchens can produce a shocking amount of waste and, even though food scraps may seem harmless, they can't properly decompose in a landfill. What's more: wasting food can strain your wallet. 101 Tips for a Zero Waste Kitchen is your guide to reducing waste in your kitchen. Kathryn will teach you how to buy in bulk, avoid unnecessary packaging, upcycle jars, and more. With a little work and Kathryn in your corner, you'll have the tools you need to reach the ultimate goal: no produce left behind!"
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Bird-Friendly Gardening : Guidance and Projects for Supporting Birds in Your Landscape
by Jen McGuinness
With hundreds of North American bird species facing population decline or at risk of extinction, right now is the perfect time to create a home-based habitat garden that offers birds the resources they need to safely feed, migrate, breed, and thrive. Thankfully, making your outdoor space a secure and comfortable haven for many different bird species isn't a Herculean task. It's a matter of understanding the needs of our avian friends and how native plants, combined with purposeful garden design, can help meet those needs. And that's exactly the know-how you'll find here, outlined in a simple-to-follow, actionable format by author Jennifer McGuinness. Step beyond the seed-filled bird feeder and suet block, and learn how to further provide for birds.
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Family Handyman: Whole House Repair Guide
by Family Handyman
Whether you're a first-time homeowner or an experienced DIYer, you'll reach for this must-have reference time and again. From fast fixes and easy repairs to weekend projects and money-saving maintenance suggestions, Family Handyman Whole House Repair Guide, Vol 2, has you covered. Featuring 300+ repairs and tips as well as step-by-step directions and hundreds of photos, this home-improvement guide makes an essential repair guide.
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Edible Garden : Bloom Gardener's Guide
by Vicky Chown
A beautiful, stylish and comprehensive handbook from the Bloom Gardener's Guides series, covering everything you need to know to grow your own food.
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Organize Your Life
by Kelsey Mulvey
Provides a step-by-step action plan for decluttering every room of your home and helping decide what to keep and what to let go while tidying closets, organizing the junk drawer and making room in the refrigerator and pantry.
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The Super Bloom Handbook
by Jac Semmler
The essential guide to growing flowers for people who "can't grow flowers." Whatever your struggle, whether lack of space, unpredictable climate, or lack of sun, leading plant specialist (and flower whisperer) Jac Semmler will introduce you to forty of the most beautiful and easiest flowers to grow in any garden, pot, or box. You'll learn the basics for how to care for each new flower friend, with key information on planting, watering, fertilizing, deadheading, and cutting back. Start small, gain confidence, and grow your way to a floral wonderland.
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The hostess handbook : a modern guide to entertaining
by Maria Zizka
Offering 100 easy entertaining recipes, party planning advice and curated menus, this go-to guide shows how to create warm, joyful and special celebrations that we never want to end, from an epic holiday bash to a casual get-together, or an inspired dinner party.
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Creating effective spaces : how to declutter, organize, and maintain your space
by Natasha Swingler
Natasha Swingler's decluttering and organization solutions save time, space, and look amazing! Natasha takes you around the home and shares her hacks from the kitchen to the bedroom via the office and hallway. With beautiful photography throughout, and step-by-step diagrams of folds for everything from towels and T-shirts to gift-wrap, Natasha's system for creating a serene home can be applied to any space, large or small"
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The raised bed book : the definitive step-by-step guide to elevated growing
by David Hurrion
Raised beds are possible in any-size garden, even on balconies, but it needs expert advice to create the optimum growing conditions, achieve the most practical use of space tailored to your individual needs, and ensure longevity of the raised bed structure. Featuring clear diagrams, inspired planting plans, and step-by-step photography of beds built from scratch, this book will be the ultimate guide on your raised bed journey.
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Country house living : celebrating the beauty of life at home
by Nora Murphy
For Nora Murphy, a country house isn't so much a place as it is a state of mind. A country house is warm, welcoming-at once down to earth, yet elegant. A country house has genuine character, tells a story, and is truly, wonderfully lived in. Filled with practical ways to celebrate American country style, beautifully designed with a ribbon bookmark, and written in the author's warm and effusive voice, this book will inspire readers to create a country house lifestyle wherever they live.
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Super Simple Outdoor Woodworking
by Randall A. Maxey
Super Simple Outdoor Woodworking is an imaginative collection of fifteen projects for the garden, patio or deck that are easy to make. There are projects designed for both those just starting out and those that would be fun for even the most experiencedwoodworker to create. All of the projects include clear guidance on how best to approach the construction of each piece and they can be made with standard-sized wood from the DIY store. There are also a number of projects include helpful hints and tips to achieving perfect results. The projects include helpful step-by-step instructions with clear photography and detailed diagrams.
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How to Attract Garden Birds
by David Alderton
Learn what to feed garden birds, from seeds, grains and peanuts to fruits, suet cakes and fat balls, as well as how to attract birds by planting the right flower borders, trees and shrubs, and by making wildlife hedges and ponds. The book features practical step-by-step projects for making your own feeders, tables, birdbaths and nest boxes, from simple designs to highly ornamental creations. There are illustrated directories of the most common garden bird species, in both the UK and the USA, with natural history information on distribution, size, nesting, eggs and feeding habits.
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Northeast Home Landscaping: 54 Landscape Designs With 200+ Plants & Flowers for Your Region
by Ruth Rogers Clausen
This complete guide is an updated, expanded edition of Creative Homeowner's award-winning book in the regional home landscaping series that shows you how to enhance your Northeast landscape.
Inside, homeowners will find an inspiring collection of designs to beautify 27 common landscape situations—each with a variation for a total of 54 designs—including front and back entries, walkways, borders, slopes, and patios.
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Love Your Home Again
by Ann Lightfoot
When people first move into their homes, they have clear ideas about what they want from every room. The bedrooms will be peaceful and cozy. The dining room will work well for entertaining friends and family. The kitchen will be a hub of activity of course, but it will be high functioning and easy to manage. Time passes and clutter happens. Drawers, closets and cabinets get full of stuff making it difficult to put things away. Everyday tasks become dreadful. A few years later, when people look around, the home they dreamt of is far from the reality. In Love Your Home Again, mother-daughter organizing duo Ann Lightfoot and Kate Pawlowski will teach our readers how to manage their homes in a way that is modern, kind, effective, and fair. No one wants to spend all their free time doing chores. Through their signature systems of decluttering, organizing, and maintaining, Ann and Kate guide readers through the steps needed to resolve the issues behind the excess stuff and how to clear it out of their home to create the space to consider what they really want from their home. Through stories (and photos?) of clients' successes, readers will learn how to achieve their dream home through the power of organizing.
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Love your Gut
by Megan Rossi
Linking common digestive disorders and intolerances to gut health, a comprehensive lifestyle guide offers strategic recommendations and dozens of recipes for cultivating healthy digestive microbes, from Zucchini Breakfast Loaf to Pistachio Pesto Pasta.
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The Blue Zones Challenge
by Dan Buettner
In this companion to the number one New York Times bestseller The Blue Zones Kitchen, Dan Buettner offers a four-week guide and year-long sustainability program to jump-start your journey to better health, happiness, less stress, and a longer life.
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Home Skills
by Jane Francisco
This illustrated handbook covers over 850 life skills to help readers with organizing and cleaning, decorating, home maintenance, outdoor living and entertaining, with online links to additional lessons and video instruction.
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Amish Baking: Traditional Recipes for Bread, Cookies, Cakes, and Pies
by Phyllis Pellman Good
Gathered from interviews with real Amish grandmothers, tattered recipe boxes, and old books and diaries, here is an assortment of delicious baked goods that have been and continue to be popular in eastern Pennsylvania, particularly in the Lancaster area. Now you too can experience the warm, comforting recipes of old order Amish cooks.
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Feels Like Home
by Lauren Liess
The popular social media and TV star presents a collection of practical design ideas and case studies on a variety of different homes, including a beach cottage, a farmhouse and a home in the woods.
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The Month-by-Month Gardening Guide
by Franz Böhmig
Sharing thousands of tasks and chores broken down for every week of the year, this must-have primer on what to do and when covers vegetables, herbs, flowers and houseplants, and is for both new and experienced gardeners alike.
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Make Life Beautiful
by Syd McGee
The powerhouse couple behind the Studio McGee design firm traces the rise of their rapidly growing brand while counseling readers on how to apply classic interior design principles to build an authentically fulfilling life.
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The healthy vegetable garden : a natural, chemical-free approach to soil, biodiversity and managing pests and diseases
by Sally Morgan
"Whether you're an experienced gardener, homesteader, or market farmer, this A-Z, soil-to-table guide shows you how to reduce chemical inputs; naturally enrich your growing ecology; and create a hardy, nutrient-dense, and delicious crop. In The Healthy Vegetable Garden, expert organic gardener Sally Morgan explains how to use natural approaches to cope with the challenges of a changing climate through principles from regenerative gardening, agroecology, and permaculture-all to help your green space thrive. The Healthy Vegetable Garden shows you how to: Combat disease and keep pests at bay with natural predators, companion planting, and trap and barrier crops Choose the right plants to attract pollinators and pest predators Build a healthy soil full of organic matter, earthworms, and mycorrhizal fungi Regenerate soil through no-dig practices, composting, cover crops, and mulching Boost biodiversity through the use of crop rotations and polyculture Rewild your garden by creating a range of habitats, makinguse of walls and fences, log piles, water features, and wild corners Understand plant defenses and use biocontrols Make natural barriers, traps, and lures A healthy, productive garden should work in harmony with nature to produce and protect delicious fruits and vegetables and build a rich soil that is full of life. With The Healthy Vegetable Garden, growers of all levels will start reducing incidents of pests and diseases while creating a verdant habitat-all without the need for fertilizers, pesticides,or weedkillers"
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The Art of Preserving
by Emma Macdonald
Chef Emma Macdonald discusses and provides recipes for canning and preserving food.
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Garden Allies
by Frédérique Lavoipierre
An illustrated guide to the animals and insects that live in our yards and gardens and act as helpful friends by pollinating and keeping pests in check and includes information on welcoming and nurturing these creatures.
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Just the Good Stuff
by Rachel Mansfield
Counsels home cooks on how to incorporate healthier ingredients into everyday diets, in a collection of favorite comfort-food adaptations that includes a variety of gluten-free, paleo and plant-based options, from Almond Butter Pad Thai to Epic Quinoa Burrito Bowls.
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Afternoon Tea at Home
by Will Torrent
Arranged by season, presents eighty recipes for afternoon teas, including such options as rhubarb jam, chocolate hazelnut spread, smoked salmon sandwiches with whipped cream cheese, vanilla shortbreads, and fruited scones.
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The Lazy Genius Way
by Kendra Adachi
Be productive without sacrificing peace of mind with the Lazy Genius strategy of focusing on what really matters and ignoring what doesn't. If you need a comprehensive self-help strategy but are tired of reading stacks of self-help books, here is an easy way that actually works. No more cobbling together life hacks and productivity strategies from dozens of authors and still feeling tired. The struggle is real, but it doesn't have to be in charge.
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Meals, Music, and Muses
by Alexander Smalls
The acclaimed James Beard award-winning restaurateur, while sharing anecdotes from his childhood in the Low Country, and examinations of Southern musical tradition, presents classic African American dishes that originated in the South.
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Clean Mama's Guide to a Peaceful Home
by Becky Rapinchuk
The creator of the popular Clean Mama website presents a companion to Clean Mama’s Guide to a Healthy Home that explains how to simplify anxiety-inducing cleaning routines into an organized, 10-minute daily system.
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Always Home: A Daughter's Recipes & Stories
by Fanny Singer
A cookbook and memoir by the daughter of food activist Alice Waters shares recipe-complemented vignettes about the traditions that shaped her upbringing, her insights into her mother’s philosophies and her own culinary coming of age.
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About your Father and Other Celebrities I Have Known
by Peggy Rowe
The mother of Returning the Favor host Mike Rowe describes her marriage to a minimalist husband whose strict philosophies shaped their marriage and parenting, inspiring her son's comical presence and eventual rise to fame
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Martha Stewart's Very Good Things
by Martha Stewart
The premier American lifestyle expert and television personality shares practical tips and clever solutions for making life easier and more delicious such as infusing vinegar with herb blossoms and using lip balm to free a stuck zipper. 100,000 first printing. Illustrations.
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The Making It Guide to Crafting
by Liz Welker
The creators of the Making It competition series share in-depth instructions for some of the top-selected DIY crafts featured on the show, outlining projects in the genres of woodworking, paper craft and more.
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Chefs' Fridges
by Carrie Solomon
Provides a tour of the refrigerators and kitchens of thirty five of today’s most esteemed chefs, including Hugh Acheson, José Andres, Dan Barber, Pascal Barbot, Kristian Baumann, Daniel Boulud through gorgeous color photos, interviews and recipes.
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Sanctuary of Your Own
by Caroline Dow
This book shares ideas and techniques for transforming any space into a haven designed to bring balance, serenity, and joy into your life.
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The Home Edit Life
by Clea Shearer
The stars of Home Edit outline holistic, tech-friendly approaches to rendering everyday work more productive and fulfilling through organization, offering customizable, guilt-free recommendations for everything from office spaces and holiday storage to luggage and pet supplies.
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Suffer Strong : How to Survive Anything by Redefining Everything
by Katherine Wolf
Profoundly inspiring, compellingly vulnerable, and surprisingly funny, Suffer Strong offers readers the hard-won insights of beloved authors Katherine and Jay Wolf and incorporates practical strategies for weathering suffering and embracing resilience with winsomeness and joy.
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Container Succulents
by Kentaro Kuroda
Container Succulents is the perfect book for container gardening beginners who don't have a lot of space to work with. The beautiful photographs of succulent decor are sure to inspire your inner gardener, interior designer and all-around house plant lover. Learn how to care for and display individual succulent varieties, or get creative with groupings that combine multiple plants with complementary colors, shapes and sizes. Whether you prefer a garden that is simple or intricate, this book covers all the basics of container selection and succulent care to ensure healthy plants.
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The Book on Flipping Houses
by J. Scott
This no-fluff book contains detailed, step-by-step training perfect for both the complete newbie or seasoned pro looking to build a killer house-flipping business.
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The Crafty Gardener: Inspired Ideas and DIY Crafts from Your Own Backyard
by Becca Anderson
Along with gardening tips and secrets for growing flowers, herbs and veggies, Anderson shares dozens of how-to's in this delightful guide on making candles, potpourri, bath salts, essential oils, floral waters, tinctures, liquors, pickles jams and even fountains, birdhouses and fairy doors.
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Homebody: A Guide to Creating Spaces you Never Want to Leave
by Joanna Gaines
The co-host of HGTV's Fixer Upper demonstrates how to create a home that reflects the individuals who live there, sharing in-depth, comprehensive guidelines for developing an authentic personal design style. 2 million first printing. TV tie-in
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The Essential Aromatherapy Garden
by Julia Lawless
Outlines how to grow over fifty aromatic plants that can be cultivated and used for aromatherapy purposes, including such flowers and herbs as parsley, hyacinth, clematis, coriander, and jasmine.
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The Martha Manual
by Martha Stewart
An authoritative handbook by the domestic-lifestyle expert shares hundreds of ideas and instructions for homemaker skills, from transporting a decorated cake and folding an American flag to playing a classic lawn game and bathing a cat.
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Growing Your Own Tea Garden
by Jodi Helmer
Discover how to grow the full range of plants that make wonderful teas and herbal infusions, from flowering chamomile and lavender to chicory roots, rose hips, lemon verbena, peppermint, aromatic bergamot, and more! Jodi shows you how to harvest, dry, and store your tea to enjoy all year long, along with brewing tips and creative recipes specially formulated to provide natural remedies for headaches, upset stomach, and stress.
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Home Hacks
by Reader's Digest Association
Presents hundreds of clever do-it-yourself tips and tricks to streamline the home improvement and housekeeping processes, covering such topics as storage, gardening, and entertaining.
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The Lifelong Gardener
by Toni Gattone
A Master Gardener offers a vast array of tips and tricks for gardening smarter, not harder, through her tried-and-true methods that help eliminate the physical strain of gardening.
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A Way to Garden
by Margaret Roach
One of America’s best-known gardening writers, in this visually stunning book, explores how she and her way of gardening have changed over the years and shows how we can incorporate lessons from her garden into our own home landscapes.
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