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The Chinook Short Season Yard

Quick and Beautiful in the Calgary Region

by Lyndon Penner ...

Creating and maintaining the perfect yard in the chinook zone isn’t as hard as you might think, but the short growing season doesn’t give you much time to transform your winter-weary yard into a glorious garden. To help Calgary-area homeowners get the jump on the short season, popular gardening expert Lyndon Penner has created the essential guide to a quick and beautiful yard in the chinook zone ... Read more

$8.90 CAD

Creating and maintaining the perfect yard in the chinook zone isn’t as hard as you might think, but the short growing season doesn’t give you much time to transform your winter-weary yard into a glorious garden. To help Calgary-area homeowners get the jump on the short season, popular gardening expert Lyndon Penner has created the essential guide to a quick and beautiful yard in the chinook zone
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The Timber Press Guide to Vegetable Gardening in the Pacific Northwest

by Lorene Edwards Forkner ...

Learn how to grow your own food in the Pacific Northwest with this handy guide!There is nothing more regionally specific than vegetable gardening–what to plant, when to plant it, and when to harvest are unique decisions based on climate and weather. The Timber Press Guide to Vegetable Gardening: Pacific Northwest is a growing guide that truly understands the unique eccentricities of the Northwest ... Read more

$15.83 CAD

Learn how to grow your own food in the Pacific Northwest with this handy guide!There is nothing more regionally specific than vegetable gardening–what to plant, when to plant it, and when to harvest are unique decisions based on climate and weather. The Timber Press Guide to Vegetable Gardening: Pacific Northwest is a growing guide that truly understands the unique eccentricities of the Northwest
... Read more
Jardiner avec Marthe 2

Virons pas fous!

by Marthe Laverdière ...

Series series NON CLASSE
Savoir-faire horticole, anecdotes pas piquées des vers, authenticité sans faille, Marthe dévoile un peu plus de son attachante personnalité dans ce deuxième livre non censuré!Fidèle à elle-même, l'enthousiaste horticultrice mêle astuces de jardinage et souvenirs, coups de gueule et coups de cœur, dans des récits où il est question, encore une fois, de vie, de mort, de sérénité, d'enjeux ... Read more

$18.99 CAD

Savoir-faire horticole, anecdotes pas piquées des vers, authenticité sans faille, Marthe dévoile un peu plus de son attachante personnalité dans ce deuxième livre non censuré!Fidèle à elle-même, l'enthousiaste horticultrice mêle astuces de jardinage et souvenirs, coups de gueule et coups de cœur, dans des récits où il est question, encore une fois, de vie, de mort, de sérénité, d'enjeux
... Read more
Get Growing

An Everyday Guide to High-impact, Low-fuss Gardens

by Frankie Flowers ...

Have you ever looked enviously at a neighbour’s garden and wished you had a green thumb? Have you ever gone to the garden centre full of enthusiasm, only to find yourself confused and defeated? Have you ever wished that somehow gardening could just be, well, easy? If so, it’s time to Get Growing with Frankie Flowers. In 352 pages packed with inspiring yet instructional photos, Frankie coaches ... Read more

$13.99 CAD

Have you ever looked enviously at a neighbour’s garden and wished you had a green thumb? Have you ever gone to the garden centre full of enthusiasm, only to find yourself confused and defeated? Have you ever wished that somehow gardening could just be, well, easy? If so, it’s time to Get Growing with Frankie Flowers. In 352 pages packed with inspiring yet instructional photos, Frankie coaches
... Read more
Food to Grow

A simple, no-fail guide to growing your own vegetables, fruits and herbs

by Frankie Flowers ...

From Canada’s #1 garden team, a guide that makes growing your own fruits, vegetables and herbs simple, bountiful and funNothing beats the taste and smell of a tomato freshly picked from your own garden. And there’s a certain pride in knowing that the salad you just served—fresh strawberries and all—was harvested entirely from your backyard. But growing your own fruits, vegetables and herbs can be ... Read more

$15.99 CAD

From Canada’s #1 garden team, a guide that makes growing your own fruits, vegetables and herbs simple, bountiful and funNothing beats the taste and smell of a tomato freshly picked from your own garden. And there’s a certain pride in knowing that the salad you just served—fresh strawberries and all—was harvested entirely from your backyard. But growing your own fruits, vegetables and herbs can be
... Read more
Little Farm in the Foothills

A Boomer Couple's Search for the Slow Life

by Susan Colleen Browne ...

Series Book 1 - Little Farm in the Foothills
In this award-winning, true-life tale for gardeners, nature-lovers, and dreamers of all ages, Little Farm in the Foothills follows a midlife couple’s pursuit of the “new” Great American Dream—living closer to the land—as Susan and her husband John start growing their own organic food, living more simply, and transforming an old clearcut into a little homestead.For the fifty-somethings, figuring ... Read more

$3.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

In this award-winning, true-life tale for gardeners, nature-lovers, and dreamers of all ages, Little Farm in the Foothills follows a midlife couple’s pursuit of the “new” Great American Dream—living closer to the land—as Susan and her husband John start growing their own organic food, living more simply, and transforming an old clearcut into a little homestead.For the fifty-somethings, figuring
... Read more
The Prairie Short Season Yard

Quick and Beautiful on the Canadian Prairies

by Lyndon Penner ...

Creating and maintaining the perfect yard on the prairies isn’t as hard as you might think, but the short growing season doesn’t give you much time to transform your winter-weary yard into a glorious garden. To help homeowners in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba get the jump on the short season, popular gardening expert Lyndon Penner has created the essential guide to a quick and beautiful yard ... Read more

$8.90 CAD

Creating and maintaining the perfect yard on the prairies isn’t as hard as you might think, but the short growing season doesn’t give you much time to transform your winter-weary yard into a glorious garden. To help homeowners in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba get the jump on the short season, popular gardening expert Lyndon Penner has created the essential guide to a quick and beautiful yard
... Read more
Backyard Bounty

The Complete Guide to Year-Round Organic Gardening in the Pacific Northwest

by Linda Gilkeson ...

" Very likely the best book ever written on growing food in the Pacific Northwest, and it sets a whole new standard for garden writing ."— Mark MacDonald, West Coast SeedsGrow more food, with less work, in any yard—now completely revised and expanded!Are you itching to start your own garden or grow more in the one you have, but feel that gardening is too challenging or time-consuming for you... ... Read more

$15.83 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

" Very likely the best book ever written on growing food in the Pacific Northwest, and it sets a whole new standard for garden writing ."— Mark MacDonald, West Coast SeedsGrow more food, with less work, in any yard—now completely revised and expanded!Are you itching to start your own garden or grow more in the one you have, but feel that gardening is too challenging or time-consuming for you...
... Read more
The Salt Stones

Seasons of a Shepherd's Life

by Helen Whybrow ...

LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDWinner of the Vermont Book AwardA New Yorker Best Book of the YearFeatured on NPR’s Fresh Air and PBS NewsHourA Globe and Mail “Best Book of the Year”Set in Vermont’s Green Mountains, a profoundly moving meditation on the lessons and wisdom that come from raising a family, tending sheep, and living close... ... Read more

$12.23 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDWinner of the Vermont Book AwardA New Yorker Best Book of the YearFeatured on NPR’s Fresh Air and PBS NewsHourA Globe and Mail “Best Book of the Year”Set in Vermont’s Green Mountains, a profoundly moving meditation on the lessons and wisdom that come from raising a family, tending sheep, and living close...
... Read more
Plant Solutions

by Nigel Colborn ...

Plant Solutions is a brand new contemporary problem-solving guide to finding the right plant for the right place in your garden. Packed with plant suggestions, cultivation notes and companion ideas, Plant Solutions helps you create a suitable and successful planting scheme by finding plants to suit your garden’s needs.This thorough directory will enable you to look up plants based on your needs, ... Read more

$3.99 CAD

Plant Solutions is a brand new contemporary problem-solving guide to finding the right plant for the right place in your garden. Packed with plant suggestions, cultivation notes and companion ideas, Plant Solutions helps you create a suitable and successful planting scheme by finding plants to suit your garden’s needs.This thorough directory will enable you to look up plants based on your needs,
... Read more
A Little History Of British Gardening

by Jenny Uglow ...

Did the Romans have rakes? Did the monks get muddy? Did the potato seem really, really weird when it arrived on our shores?This lively 'potted' history of gardening in Britain takes us on a garden tour from the thorn hedges around prehistoric settlements to the rage for decking and ornamental grasses today. It tracks down the ordinary folk who worked the earth - the apprentice boys and weeding ... Read more

$17.99 CAD

Did the Romans have rakes? Did the monks get muddy? Did the potato seem really, really weird when it arrived on our shores?This lively 'potted' history of gardening in Britain takes us on a garden tour from the thorn hedges around prehistoric settlements to the rage for decking and ornamental grasses today. It tracks down the ordinary folk who worked the earth - the apprentice boys and weeding
... Read more
Gardening with Perennials

Lessons from Chicago's Lurie Garden

by Noel Kingsbury ...

A tour of a beloved botanic treasure that's "brimming with ideas for every home garden"—includes photos ( The New York Times).For gardeners, inspiration can come from the most unexpected places. Perennial enthusiasts around the world might be surprised to find their muse in the middle of a bustling city.Lurie Garden, a nearly three-acre botanic garden in the center of Chicago's lakefront in ... Read more

$15.83 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

A tour of a beloved botanic treasure that's "brimming with ideas for every home garden"—includes photos ( The New York Times).For gardeners, inspiration can come from the most unexpected places. Perennial enthusiasts around the world might be surprised to find their muse in the middle of a bustling city.Lurie Garden, a nearly three-acre botanic garden in the center of Chicago's lakefront in
... Read more
Kingdom of Plants

A Journey Through Their Evolution

by Will Benson ...

This book accompanies the landmark television series Kingdom of Plants 3D: With David Attenborough.In the last 500 million years, plants have undertaken an epic journey that has not only spanned the ages but has altered the very make-up of the planet. It was a journey that began in a dark and barren world, and has culminated in a planet that is draped in rich colours, and overflowing with a ... Read more

$17.99 CAD

This book accompanies the landmark television series Kingdom of Plants 3D: With David Attenborough.In the last 500 million years, plants have undertaken an epic journey that has not only spanned the ages but has altered the very make-up of the planet. It was a journey that began in a dark and barren world, and has culminated in a planet that is draped in rich colours, and overflowing with a
... Read more
Smell of Summer Grass

Pursuing Happiness at Perch Hill

by Adam Nicolson ...

The Smell of Summer Grass is based partly on the long out of print 'Perch Hill'. It is the story of the years spent in finding and building a personal Arcadia, sometimes a dream, sometimes a nightmare, by writer Adam Nicolson and his wife, cook and gardener, Sarah Raven.Adam Nicolson was determined to leave metropolitan life but the rundown farm in the Sussex Weald was not quite what he bargained ... Read more

$17.99 CAD

The Smell of Summer Grass is based partly on the long out of print 'Perch Hill'. It is the story of the years spent in finding and building a personal Arcadia, sometimes a dream, sometimes a nightmare, by writer Adam Nicolson and his wife, cook and gardener, Sarah Raven.Adam Nicolson was determined to leave metropolitan life but the rundown farm in the Sussex Weald was not quite what he bargained
... Read more
Growing Vegetables West of the Cascades, 35th Anniversary Edition

The Complete Guide to Organic Gardening

by Steve Solomon, Marina McShane ...

The ultimate bible for organic vegetable gardening in the Pacific Northwest, featuring extensive updates and new material on soil health, natural pest control, and moreNow in its seventh edition, this complete guide to organic vegetable, herb, and flower gardening addresses issues of soil, seeds, compost, and watering. Growing Vegetables West of the Cascades has evolved from a self-published ... Read more

$25.91 CAD

The ultimate bible for organic vegetable gardening in the Pacific Northwest, featuring extensive updates and new material on soil health, natural pest control, and moreNow in its seventh edition, this complete guide to organic vegetable, herb, and flower gardening addresses issues of soil, seeds, compost, and watering. Growing Vegetables West of the Cascades has evolved from a self-published
... Read more
Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude

by Ross Gay ...

Series series Pitt Poetry Series
Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude is a sustained meditation on that which goes away—loved ones, the seasons, the earth as we know it—that tries to find solace in the processes of the garden and the orchard. That is, this is a book that studies the wisdom of the garden and orchard, those places where all—death, sorrow, loss—is converted into what might, with patience, nourish us. ... Read more

$20.15 CAD

Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude is a sustained meditation on that which goes away—loved ones, the seasons, the earth as we know it—that tries to find solace in the processes of the garden and the orchard. That is, this is a book that studies the wisdom of the garden and orchard, those places where all—death, sorrow, loss—is converted into what might, with patience, nourish us.
... Read more
Jardiner avec Marthe

Pas plus compliqué que ça !

by Marthe Laverdière ...

Series series NON CLASSE
L'horticulture sans chichiCoiffée de sa calotte rose, Marthe vagabonde au gré de ses souvenirs et des rangées de son potager dans cet ouvrage à son image: authentique et inclassable. Entre deux conseils judicieux, elle raconte le couteau du partage de Jeanne, les poules sarcleuses de Rolland et son profond attachement à la nature. Que vous soyez féru de botanique ou nul en jardinage, vous serez ... Read more

$18.99 CAD

L'horticulture sans chichiCoiffée de sa calotte rose, Marthe vagabonde au gré de ses souvenirs et des rangées de son potager dans cet ouvrage à son image: authentique et inclassable. Entre deux conseils judicieux, elle raconte le couteau du partage de Jeanne, les poules sarcleuses de Rolland et son profond attachement à la nature. Que vous soyez féru de botanique ou nul en jardinage, vous serez
... Read more
Self-Sufficient Herbalism

A Guide to Growing, Gathering and Processing Herbs for Medicinal Use

by Lucy Jones ...

Self-Sufficient Herbalism is the first ever practical guide to the growing, gathering, and preserving of medicinal herbs for a working dispensary. Written by a practising herbalist with a high street clinic, it covers everything you need to know to become truly self sufficient in creating and dispensing your own herbal medicine. Relying on only a small allotment and access to the fields and ... Read more

$17.27 CAD

Self-Sufficient Herbalism is the first ever practical guide to the growing, gathering, and preserving of medicinal herbs for a working dispensary. Written by a practising herbalist with a high street clinic, it covers everything you need to know to become truly self sufficient in creating and dispensing your own herbal medicine. Relying on only a small allotment and access to the fields and
... Read more
Perennials for the Pacific Northwest

500 Best Plants for Flower Gardens

by Marty Wingate ...

This is the A-List of flowering plants recommended for Pacific Northwest gardens--updated to include the current crop of available perennials--in a lavishly photographed and definitive guide, which will aide in selecting the best perennials to build a successful garden. These are the plants that can winter over and return with showy brilliance the following year, and in the gentle climate of the ... Read more

$18.71 CAD

This is the A-List of flowering plants recommended for Pacific Northwest gardens--updated to include the current crop of available perennials--in a lavishly photographed and definitive guide, which will aide in selecting the best perennials to build a successful garden. These are the plants that can winter over and return with showy brilliance the following year, and in the gentle climate of the
... Read more
Flora of the Pacific Northwest

An Illustrated Manual

by C. Leo Hitchcock, Arthur Cronquist ...

Flora of the Pacific Northwest, first published in 1973, became an instant classic for its innovative style of providing species descriptions in the identification keys and for its comprehensive illustrations of nearly all treated taxa (species, subspecies, and varieties). Students rely on it as an essential primer, while veteran botanists and natural resource managers use it as the definitive ... Read more

$78.47 CAD

Flora of the Pacific Northwest, first published in 1973, became an instant classic for its innovative style of providing species descriptions in the identification keys and for its comprehensive illustrations of nearly all treated taxa (species, subspecies, and varieties). Students rely on it as an essential primer, while veteran botanists and natural resource managers use it as the definitive
... Read more
The Ann Lovejoy Handbook of Northwest Gardening

by Ann Lovejoy ...

The organic gardening movement has been long established among vegetable growers. With the mainstreaming of ideas about environmental and ecological preservation, the organic movement has come to ornamental gardening. And one of the primary spokespeople for that movement is Sasquatch’s longtime author Ann Lovejoy. This new book is a complete handbook for ornamental gardening follows the principles ... Read more

$20.15 CAD

The organic gardening movement has been long established among vegetable growers. With the mainstreaming of ideas about environmental and ecological preservation, the organic movement has come to ornamental gardening. And one of the primary spokespeople for that movement is Sasquatch’s longtime author Ann Lovejoy. This new book is a complete handbook for ornamental gardening follows the principles
... Read more
Beauty by Design

Inspired Gardening in the Pacific Northwest

by Bill Terry, Rosemary Bates ...

You may never look at a garden in the same way again. Though not a “how-to” book, Beauty By Design is a treasure trove of ideas and enchantment for seasoned gardeners and beginners alike. Eleven inspired artists of the garden share their stories, their secrets, and their passion for gardening. Landscape is the canvas. Foliage, flowers, rocks, water, and other bounties of nature are the materials. ... Read more

$9.62 CAD

You may never look at a garden in the same way again. Though not a “how-to” book, Beauty By Design is a treasure trove of ideas and enchantment for seasoned gardeners and beginners alike. Eleven inspired artists of the garden share their stories, their secrets, and their passion for gardening. Landscape is the canvas. Foliage, flowers, rocks, water, and other bounties of nature are the materials.
... Read more
How Not To Kill Your Houseplants

A Beginner’s Guide to Plant Parenting

by Trisha Bora ...

Anyone who has bought a houseplant has, at some point, also ended up killing it. As gloomy as the thought may be, the death of a houseplant is a good place to begin, because this is what can help us answer the important question: Why did it die? Equipped with the right knowledge, not only can you make a plant thrive in your house, you can propagate it to share with others too. You only need to ... Read more

$5.99 CAD

Anyone who has bought a houseplant has, at some point, also ended up killing it. As gloomy as the thought may be, the death of a houseplant is a good place to begin, because this is what can help us answer the important question: Why did it die? Equipped with the right knowledge, not only can you make a plant thrive in your house, you can propagate it to share with others too. You only need to
... Read more
Australian Rainforest Seeds

A Guide to Collecting, Processing and Propagation

by Michelle Chapman, Paul Nelson, Hugh Nicholson, Mark Dunphy, Steve McAlpin ...

Have you ever wondered how to grow your own rainforest trees? Is there a beautiful tree that you have always wanted to collect and propagate the seed from? Are you in the business of ecological restoration, rainforest propagation or environmental education? This long-awaited guide to rainforest seed propagation unlocks the secrets to growing 300 rainforest species. Providing specific information ... Read more

$35.45 CAD

Have you ever wondered how to grow your own rainforest trees? Is there a beautiful tree that you have always wanted to collect and propagate the seed from? Are you in the business of ecological restoration, rainforest propagation or environmental education? This long-awaited guide to rainforest seed propagation unlocks the secrets to growing 300 rainforest species. Providing specific information
... Read more

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