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A Rage for Rock Gardening: The Story of Reginald Farrer, Gardener, Writer & Plant Collector $8.15 A hundred years ago there was a pronounced change in the direction of British gardening. The garden was transformed from a plaything for the rich to a democratic exercise, a hobby for the millions. Few figures were more central to and prominent in this transition than eccentric Reginald Farrer, whose passion for alpines would put a rockery in the backyards of countless enthusiasts and whose adventures in Tibet and China collecting elusive and exotic specimens, including the wild tree peony, a new buddleaia, and even an entire new genus called Farreria, were the stuff of legends. But Farrer was a strange man, a tortured soul. Tormented by physical disabilities (he had a hare lip, a pygmy body, and a cleft palate) he developed a personality to match: defensive, restless, yet productive and endlessly energetic. Although born to endless night, within his realm of horticultural exploration and exploitation, he was a giant, parlaying his disadvantages into advantages, becoming one of the great plant hunters of his age, repeatedly travelling to Japan and Tibet to collect new species and, through the influence of his extraordinary series of books, changing forever the art and practice of Western gardening. |
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Gardening in the Lower Midwest $14.95 .. . a common-sense handbook for gardeners... It will help slackenthe stress level that gardening was never meant to bring. --HortScience [Diane Heilenman] gets to the heart, the soul and the humor shared by all in the gardening world... both a practicalreference and an inspiration... -- The Herald-Times (Bloomington, IN)Diane Heilenman tells novice and experiencedgardeners how to cope in this difficult and trying climate, create gardensappropriate for the region, and select flowers, plants, trees, and shrubs that willbe happy -- and in turn make us happy. The gardening columnist for the LouisvilleCourier-Journal, Heilenman is also a gifted thinker who grapples with what it meansto garden in our time. |
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Gardening the Soul: A Dialogue with Michael Toms and Alice Walker $33.85 Alice Walker, bestselling author of many books including the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Color Purple and Anything We Love Can Be Saved offers a fresh look at how to live in a complex culture. She reminds us that something precious is gained or enhanced when we honor our intrinsic sense of awe and worship toward nature, and our deep desire for connection with both nature and our human community.Her unique perception is a gift that shows us new angles on everything from cocaine to Aunt Jemima to painting murals on the White House. This audio program is brimming with inspiration for celebrating human life in all its colors and moments.Let Alice Walker teach you how to live a rich and happy life! |
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Grace: Quotes & Passages for Heart, Mind, and Soul $14.95 If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. --Maya Angelou Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace. --May Sarton This treasury of quotes and passages on leading a centered, purposeful, and spiritual life offers the advice and observations of leaders from all walks of life. Included are Ghandi, Lao-Tzu, Maya Angelou, Martin Luther King, Jr., Mother Teresa, and hundreds of other unique and inspiring voices on subjects like compassion, kindness, forgiveness, and purpose. - Beautiful hardcover gift book, affordably priced at $14.95- For readers of all ages |
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Growing the Soul: Meditations from My Garden $1.24 Gardening is one of the most popular pastimes around today, and for many, it serves as one of the primary ways to focus meditation. In |
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How To Achieve Total Enlightenment $0.94 How to Achieve Total Enlightenment is both a humorous and inspirational guide for the soul searcher in all of us. From organized religion to surfing, from alms-seeking to Zen rock gardening, it demystifies various spiritual paths and practices and proves that the quest for meaning can be entertaining as well as enlightening. Author Sam Martin offers a no-nonsense, lighthearted approach to finding Truth in some of life''s most common pursuits. You might . . . Learn how to build a shrine to Buddha Sign up for a pilgrimage in the Pyrenees Make your own communion wafers Get the perfect abs through yoga Learn the basic techniques of the Whirling DervishWith unique, step-by-step instructions, illustrations, informative lists, and practical advice, How to Achieve Total Enlightenment is the divine guide to the meaning of life that no one should be without. |
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Soul Gardening $15.31 Recounting experiences from his own life, the author uses the imagery of gardening to speak to the longing for personal growth, a healthy lifestyle, a more centered and fulfilling life. He includes stories about ordinary gifts of grace, the values of solitude, the art of listening, the ability to see the world with new eyes, finding the balance between loving, and losing, creating a sane lifestyle, and the goal of being fully awake and alive. |
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The Arrows Cookbook: Cooking and Gardening from Maine's Most Beautiful Farmhouse Restaurant By Clark Frasier and Mark Gaier, Foreword by Jeremiah Tower, Photographer John Kernick, with Max Alexander $40 Part how-to-garden primer, <I>The Arrows Cookbook</I> combines more than 150 delicious recipes with time-tested techniques for growing herbs, vegetables, and edible flowers in a book that reconnects us to the land and the seasons.<P>Cooking food from the backyard garden or farmers' market -- or even using herbs grown in pots in a sunny window -- goes beyond a passion for freshness. On an elemental level, the process reawakens the cook to a cycle of nature that our ancestors understood intuitively but that, for most of us, has been lost in the modern world.<P>When chefs Clark Frasier and Mark Gaier left northern California to open their dream restaurant in southern Maine, they had no intention of becoming culinary pioneers. But in 1988 in Ogunquit, Maine, finding enough fresh vegetables and herbs to power a sophisticated restaurant was indeed a challenge.<P>So, like all can-do Americans, they did something. A ragged field of witchgrass behind the restaurant was turned into a garden where they learned to coax a nine-month growing season out of the chilly earth. They built raised beds, saved seeds, researched heirlooms, consulted experts, and started seedlings.<P>Today, that acre of Maine yields 270 varieties of vegetables, herbs, fruits, and edible flowers that provide 90 percent of the produce served at Arrows. Born of great necessity, the garden is the soul of this destination restaurant.<P>In <I>The Arrows Cookbook,</I> Frasier and Gaier tell us how they do it, charting the timeless journey from seed to supper. Recipes celebrate each season -- Asparagus with Mizuna and Blood Orange Vinaigrette and English Pea Soup in spring; Grilled Antipasto Platter and Rib-Eye Steak with Herbs and Caramelized Onions on a summer evening; Napa Cabbage and Apple Cole Slaw and Roast Pork Loin with Rosemary and Garlic for fall; and Escarole and White Bean Soup and Winter Greens with Pink Grapefruit and Red Onion for the chilly, short days of winter. They also offer new takes on such N |
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The Arrows Cookbook: Cooking and Gardening from Maine's Most Beautiful Farmhouse Restaurant By Clark Frasier and Mark Gaier, Foreword by Jeremiah Tower, Photographer John Kernick, with Max Alexander $29.99 Part how-to-garden primer, <I>The Arrows Cookbook</I> combines more than 150 delicious recipes with time-tested techniques for growing herbs, vegetables, and edible flowers in a book that reconnects us to the land and the seasons.<P>Cooking food from the backyard garden or farmers' market -- or even using herbs grown in pots in a sunny window -- goes beyond a passion for freshness. On an elemental level, the process reawakens the cook to a cycle of nature that our ancestors understood intuitively but that, for most of us, has been lost in the modern world.<P>When chefs Clark Frasier and Mark Gaier left northern California to open their dream restaurant in southern Maine, they had no intention of becoming culinary pioneers. But in 1988 in Ogunquit, Maine, finding enough fresh vegetables and herbs to power a sophisticated restaurant was indeed a challenge.<P>So, like all can-do Americans, they did something. A ragged field of witchgrass behind the restaurant was turned into a garden where they learned to coax a nine-month growing season out of the chilly earth. They built raised beds, saved seeds, researched heirlooms, consulted experts, and started seedlings.<P>Today, that acre of Maine yields 270 varieties of vegetables, herbs, fruits, and edible flowers that provide 90 percent of the produce served at Arrows. Born of great necessity, the garden is the soul of this destination restaurant.<P>In <I>The Arrows Cookbook,</I> Frasier and Gaier tell us how they do it, charting the timeless journey from seed to supper. Recipes celebrate each season -- Asparagus with Mizuna and Blood Orange Vinaigrette and English Pea Soup in spring; Grilled Antipasto Platter and Rib-Eye Steak with Herbs and Caramelized Onions on a summer evening; Napa Cabbage and Apple Cole Slaw and Roast Pork Loin with Rosemary and Garlic for fall; and Escarole and White Bean Soup and Winter Greens with Pink Grapefruit and Red Onion for the chilly, short days of winter. They also offer new takes on such N |
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The Landscaping Ideas of Jays $25.95 Willful, eloquent, and humorous, Judith Lowry broadens and deepens the themes found in her popular first book, Gardening with a Wild Heart. Grizzly bear and scrub jay join native people and a company of colorful personalities in a celebration of our home ground, a place called California. --David Fross, coauthor of Ceanothus and California Native Plants for the Garden In humorous, accessible, and inspirational prose, Judith Larner Lowry reminds us that California truly does have real seasons. All we have to do is listen to the native animals and plants around us. --Jerry Emory, author of The Monterey Bay Shoreline Guide With much beauty and elegance, Judith Lowry underscores the importance of restoration gardening as a way to honor Native American traditions, protect biodiversity, and restore our relationship with the earth. A must read for those interested in how we might become truly native to the places where we live. --M. Kat Anderson, author of Tending the Wild Within the pulse of California's five seasons, this finely calibrated treatise is a beguiling and eminently accessible model of a restoration gardener's physical and mental engagement with the vegetable world. From the horticultural accomplishments of formidable women in her field to the age-old interactions between animals and plants, Lowry gives us an attentive, lyrical guide to full inhabitation of our landscape. --Lillian Vallee, poet, translator and columnist for Stanislaus Connections Judith Larner Lowry combines a spiritual love of nature with practical suggestions and stories for renewal of the beauty and restorative power of gardens. She leads you through the 'five' seasons ofCalifornia gardening and lays a plan to recreate, renew and revive California's natural native beauty and in the process your soul. --Carl Pope, Executive Director, Sierra Club |
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Thomas Jefferson $53.56 Virtually no subject--politics, slavery, religion, gardening, music, architecture, natural history, or science to name a few--escaped the interest and attention of Thomas Jefferson. Through nearly 800 excerpts of Jefferson''s writing, ranging in length from one sentence to nearly a page, Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts, allows readers to share in Jefferson''s greatest triumphs and achievements and reflects on the moments that truly tested the very fiber of his soul, publicly and privately. From the glory of crafting the Declaration of Independence and assuming the mantle of leadership as the Republic''s third president, through his moral struggle with slavery and the agony of losing his young wife and daughter, Jerry Holmes chronicles Jefferson''s life through his own words. Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts will fascinate both the serious Jefferson scholar as well as curious newcomers. |