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16.5 Eco-Friendly Virgin Recycled Decorative Gardening Throw Pillow - Linen $29.99 Organic Gardening Pillow Item #430843 This pillow features inspirational words and gardening tips in red and black on a linen background Recommended for indoor use Sewn seam closure Design is on one side only - reverse is solid Made in the U.S.A. Dimensions: 16.5 H x 16.5 W x 5 D Material(s): Shell: cotton blend Fiber: 100% virgin recycled polyester Care instructions: spot clean or hand wash with mild detergent Air dry only Note - special shipping time: Please allow an extra 5 business days onto our standard delivery time for this item Express orders will still be shipped express but will still take some extra time |
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Annuals with Style: Design Ideas from Classic to Cutting Edge $176.23 Two noted gardening experts have created an inspirational design book that features new ways to use annuals. Includes complete plant profiles and growing tips. 280 color photos. Illustrations. |
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Better Homes and Gardens Orchid Gardening $19.99 A complete guide for planning, planting, and caring for orchids Better Homes and Gardens(R) Orchid Gardening makes it simple to grow and maintain gorgeous orchids year-in and year-out. Even if you''ve never grown an orchid, this straightforward and comprehensive guide for people of all gardening skill levels will show you how to get it right the first and every time. With colorful diagrams, helpful checklists that make shopping and planning a breeze, and easy-to-follow directions for all kinds of projects, it''s the perfect guide to planning and maintaining your dream orchid collection.Chapters include a primer on understanding orchids, a glossary of orchid terminology, tips for selecting the best varieties for your region and situation, inspirational design ideas, and plant pairingsIncludes more than 525 gorgeous color photos throughout, including an orchid encyclopedia featuring more than 200 varieties of orchidsFeatures Better Homes and Gardens Test Garden tips and advice from the Better Homes and Gardens Garden Doctor throughoutPerfect for orchid lovers of any skill level, Orchid Gardening is the comprehensive, easy-to-use guide to selecting and caring for orchids. |
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Celtic Crafters Design Library: Crafters Design Library $122.47 This book is a treasure trove of hundreds of small, yet beautifully detailed original cross stitch designs that will prove irresistible to stitchers everywhere. Sue Cook has produced seven wonderful chapters brimming with delightful images to suit all moods and occasions. Birdhouses and topiaries provide Gardening Pleasures; miniature cribs, rattles and nursery toys fill the pages of Childhood Days; fairytale characters and friendly dragons abound in Land of Dreams; teddy bears and kittens are everyone's Favorite Things; and Special Days has celebratory wishes for Christmas, Easter, weddings and birthdays, to name just a few. Eye-catching color charts and an abundance of individual motifs combine to make this the perfect inspirational book to generate stitching ideas. |
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Garden Stone: Creative Landscaping with Plants and Stone $12.44 The Garden Writers Association of America awarded Garden Stone a 2003 Garden Globe Award of Achievement for Writing. The Washington Post wrote, Garden Stone is one of the best idea books on using stones in the landscape that I have seen. And Country Living Gardener said, While the book is visually stunning . . . diagrams and step-by-step instructions show how gardeners can make their dreams come true. Garden Stone capitalizes on a hot trend in landscaping: adding stone to bring texture, color, serenity, and strength to the garden. Author Barbara Pleasant offers gardeners more than 40 enchanting designs--from something as simple as a flagstone path to an elaborate Zen-inspired meditation garden. But this is not just a picture book. Each project is packed with practical, down-to-earth installation advice, including clear line-drawings and instructional diagrams. Furthermore, an up-to-date resource list helps do-it-yourselfers find the tools and materials they need. Pleasant helps gardeners decide which type of stone is best for which kind of design. Limestone, for example, is ideal for stacking to make rock walls. Sandstone is easy to cut for steps and adds warm shades of red, yellow, or chocolate brown to the landscape. Blocks of granite can be used as sturdy paving stones. And an upright piece of marble or basalt adds a decorative touch to any garden. Pleasant also shows how to create stone water features, such as fountains and natural-looking ponds and streams. And, making this valuable as a gardening book as well as a stone projects book, she provides hundreds of detailed suggestions for plants whose color, texture, and shape will enhance the stone--whether growingin rock gardens, bordering paths and steps, or meandering along water elements. Both practical and inspirational, Garden Stone shows any gardener how stone can add enduring beauty to any landscape. |
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Gardening the Mediterranean Way: How to Create a Waterwise, Drought-Tolerant Garden $35 Coastal gardeners throughout the United States will benefit from the advice in this practical, inspirational, and illustrated book on Mediterranean gardening, which is beautiful year-round. |
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Gardening with Bulbs: A Practical and Inspirational Guide $3.6 Gardening with Bulbs: A Practical and Inspirational Guide |
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Grow Your Own Vegetables $19.95 This DVD is two hours of the most inspirational gardening instruction you''ll ever see! |
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Heaven in a Wild Flower: Spiritual Reflections $10.31 Sharing reminiscences and reflections of how tending a garden has nourished and sustained her, Glenn shows the reader that the patterns and processes of nature can teach us about our own natures. She weaves into her material a wealth of inspirational wisdom from famous nature lovers, writers, and horticulturists. Bringing the wildflower garden she has nurtured for 20 years alive in words, she offers vivid descriptions, from her own loving observation and from guidebooks, of each flower's botanical history. She also relates how she acquired her wildflowers.Throughout the book, a thread of faith in the sacred power of gardening is interlaced. Glenn writes of the hard, hot work of summer weeding: I'm a kind of apprentice, working in my natural garden on what needs attention in my spiritual garden: pulling out that nasty thought about my neighbor, cutting back a bad habit, nuturing and feeding that tender affection, trimming away the tangled growth of woody self-intelligence, and all the time thanking God.. . Glenn devotes a chapter to the garden of Emanuel Swedenborg, the 18th-century Swedish scientist and visionary. Swedenborg was a horticulturist and had a corner of his garden for experimentation with the propagation of seeds and with growing exotic plants. He took pleasure in having others enjoy his garden, and found inspiration for his theological works in the vegetable kingdom, everything in this kingdom has a certain relation to something in man...For very often when I have been in gardens and have been looking at the trees, fruits, flowers, and vegetables, I have seen their correspondences in heaven.. .Both the book and the nature journal to which Glenn refers begin and endwith winter, when her garden is at the ready, waiting for the force that through the green fuse drives the flower , as Dylan Thomas wrote. Glenn captures the life of her flowers in each season, as well as a piece of the essence of her own growth and development. As she illuminates eac |
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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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Indoor Gardening: A New Approach to Displaying Plants in the Home $12.99 Growing plants in the home has always been popular, but interior and garden designer, Diana Yakeley, has developed a stylish new philosophy for displaying plants in the contemporary home. This is a unique approach to indoor gardening focuses on using plants with style and flair as part of the interior design of a home.Looking at each room of the house in turn, Diana gives advice on the best plants to create a striking focal point. There is a visual extravaganza of plant displays to choose from with tips on positioning plants to create maximum impact. With 8 step-by-step projects and displays for a wide range of indoor plants, including sculptural, seasonal, colorful and edible plants, you will find a host of inspirational ideas for growing in the home, office or conservatory. |
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Logee's Greenhouses Spectacular Container Plants $3.74 From the Publisher: Logee's Greenhouses is renowned worldwide as a leader in the horticultural industry, and since 1892 has been growing and selling over a thousand varieties of tropical and subtropical container and garden plants for both indoor and outdoor use. In this book, the third-generation owners of Logee's share the 109-year-old family secrets on how to grow exotic flowers. A no-nonsense approach to tropical plant care, coupled with exquisite photographs and inspirational messages, makes this book outstanding in its field. Designed to take the fear out of growing exoctics and tropicals, the text features 80 of the most popular genera and gives detailed information about how to grow, care for, prune and winter-over these beautiful plants. Specialties include dramatic flowering plants, fragrant plants, angel's trumpets, begonias, passion flowers, gesneriads, jasmines, hibiscus, and hoyas featured in brilliant, large-format color photographs. Also included are sections on soils! and fertilzers, insects and disease, containers and potting, pruning, and trouble shooting. A truly unique gardening choice for any plant lover. |
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Lunch Lessons $22.95 Remember how simple school lunches used to be? You'd have something from every major food group, run around the playground for a while, and you looked and felt fine. But today it's not so simple. Schools are actually feeding the American crisis of childhood obesity and malnutrition. Most cafeterias serve a veritable buffet of processed, fried, and sugary foods, and although many schools have attempted to improve, they are still not measuring up: 78 percent of the school lunch programs in America do not meet the USDA's nutritional guidelines. Chef Ann Cooper has emerged as one of the nation's most influential and most respected advocates for changing how our kids eat. In fact, she is something of a renegade lunch lady, minus the hairnet and scooper of mashed potatoes. Ann has worked to transform cafeterias into culinary classrooms. In Lunch Lessons, she and Lisa Holmes spell out how parents and school employees can help instill healthy habits in children. They explain the basics of good childhood nutrition and suggest dozens of tasty, home-tested recipes for breakfast, lunch, and snacks. The pages are also packed with recommendations on how to eliminate potential hazards from the home, bring gardening and composting into daily life, and how to support businesses that provide local, organic food. Yet learning about nutrition and changing the way you run your home will not cure the plague of obesity and poor health for this generation of children. Only parental activism can spark widespread change. With inspirational examples and analysis, Lunch Lessons is more than just a recipe book—it gives readers the tools to transform the way children everywhere interact withfood. |
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Perfect Patios and Terraces $6.99 If you are looking for a compact but comprehensive introduction to a particular gardening topic, then this series fits the bill. They are suitable for gardeners approaching the subject for the first time or those who want to improve their gardening skills for the best results.Packed with inspirational advice on creating the most attractive and well designed outdoor spaces for year round success in your garden. |
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The Joy of Gardening $6.1 Whether an active, hands-on gardener, or someone who simply enjoys looking at gardens, readers will savor this book at any time of year, on a glorious summer''s day with a cool drink, or sitting fireside in a cozy armchair. With its rich selection of inspirational quotations from gardeners past and present, as well as from poets, painters, novelists, diarists, and spiritual teachers, this is a book for reflection designed to capture the joy of being alive that gardening evokes. Gardens can make people happy, heal them when sad or depressed, and help them understand profound truths about the relationship between humans and nature. |
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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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The Master Book of the Water Garden: The Ultimate Guide to the Design and Maintenance of the Water Garden $11.99 Water has featured prominently in garden designs for thousands of years. Its appeal to the senses -- its visually compelling light and movement and soothing splashing and bubbling sounds -- still attracts the imagination of gardeners worldwide.With a wealth of practical ideas and tips on water gardening, this indispensable book helps minimize the problems faced in building and maintaining a water garden, and maximizes the pleasure a well-designed water garden can give. Including design options -- for every aesthetic, space, and budget -- this guide is not only practical but inspirational.-- The Master Book of the Water Garden is the most comprehensive book on the subject aimed at both the experienced as well as the amateur gardener. This is the perfect book for anyone planning to add or renovate a space in the garden.-- Heavily illustrated with over 450 full-color photographs and easy-to-follow sketches.-- Includes detailed step-by-step instructions for creating any water garden design -- whether grand-scale estate gardens or a modest back porch venture.-- Accessible to all levels of gardeners, these design ideas appeal to both the amateur and professional landscaper. |
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What Can a Woman Do? Her Position in the Business and Literary World $54.21 Noting that 50 years earlier, only seven industries were open to women, this book details the massive expansion in opportunities for women in both the business and the literary world. This explores through inspirational accounts the careers open to women in all professions from journalism to music to medicine to beekeeping, dressmaking, gardening, engraving, government clerks, home-makers, poets - everything from the law and medicine to stenography and the profession of elocution. Martha Louise Rayne (1836-1911) established the world's first school of journalism in Detroit in 1886. She was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia and began a career in newspapers in the early 1860's. By 1870 she had reached Chicago, freelancing for the Chicago Tribune. In 1870 she became editor of the Chicago Magazine of Fashion, Music and Home Reading. She interviewed Mary Todd Lincoln when she was confined to a mental institution at Batavia, Illinois. Mrs. Lincoln had refused to talk to male reporters and Rayne's published interview with her led to her release. By 1878, Rayne moved to Detroit to work for the Detroit Free Press. Rayne's book is divided into two primary sections. The first, Women in the Business World, provides detailed introductions to the career opportunities then open to women, as well as biographical sketches of those women in the respective fields and is still one of the most important contemporary sources for this biographical information. Of the authors in the second (the literary) section, some of these authors remain canonical (George Eliot; Letitia E. Landon; Elizabeth Barrett Browning), while others have long since disappeared from college syllabi. As such, the volume isimportant for its contemporary compendium of quite a few now-lost voices, as well as an indicator of the author's tastes and her contemporaries' aspirations. |