Trees, wildflowers and plants: general interest

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A comprehensive guide to cultivating new plants, from vegetables and flowers to shrubs and succulents, containing techniques for a wide variety of species.

Droplet and the rest of the Earth's water arrived on giant asteroids a very long time ago.

The book is a basic rundown step by step on how to grow cannabis or hemp from start to finish successfully.

Purchasing vegetables and leafy greens can become rather pricy.

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An intimate look at one majestic hundred-year-old oak tree through four seasons--and the reality of global climate change it reveals.

The only mushrooming book that will introduce you safely and with confidence to the not-so "e;underground"e; hobby of mushroom hunting and gathering.

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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

The first thing to do about starting an orchard is to plan for it, Jacob Biggle, the author of this handy little book, advises.

The only just and true way for an honorable and manly man is to grow them, and let everybody about the place have all he can eat.

Anyone who has spent serious time outdoors knows that in survival situations, wild plants are often the only sustenance available.

Downpour is the enchanting story of a rainy day turned magical.

When youre in the wild and you spot a nice-looking mushroom, how do you know if it is safe to eat?

California's unique plants range in size from the stately Coast Redwoods to the minute belly plants of the southern deserts and in age from the four-thousand year-old Bristlecone Pines to ephemeral annuals whose life span can be counted in weeks.

This photographic guide to grasses gives all who have been frustrated trying to identify these difficult plants an easy-to-use, visually precise, and information-packed field guide to seventy-seven native and introduced species that grow in the Texas Hill Country and beyond.

We hear roses are hard to grow.

Dig up a whole new culinary world with this New York Times best-selling field guide to foragingMost of us "e;forage"e; for food in the aisles of well-lit grocery stores.

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An array of abundant wild foods is available to hikers, campers, foragers, or anyone interested in living closer to the earth.

Featuring more than two hundred gorgeous color photographs of Indiana's champion trees and old-growth forest remnants, Magnificent Trees of Indiana is a celebration of the state's natural beauty.

"e;[Leland] brings the botanical into direct relationship with the spiritual, using a prose style that is as profound as it is pyrotechnic.

Wildflowers of Maine presents a selection of the color paintings, of pioneering botanist Kate Furbish.

With delightful illustrations and fascinating facts aimed at young readers, this children’s book explores the natural world of riverbanks.

';If you cut down the goldenrod, the wild black cherry, the milkweed and other natives, you eliminate the larvae, and starve the birds.

For everyone who studies or simply enjoys the impressive variety of wild plants that grow in the counties of Texas' coastal bend, here is an authoritative, user-friendly book that will make an excellent reference.

Nicholas Harberd, a father, scientist, and nature lover, spends his days at the lab directing a team discovering the secrets of how plants grow, using a common weed as their example.

Is there any scientific merit to the creationist point of view?

Intimate in size yet quietly breathtaking in scope, this graceful gift book will forever change how you think, and how you feel, about trees.

Cargoes and Harvests, famed naturalist Donald Culross Peatties first book, eloquently explores agriculture and trade within Americas past using thoughtful language that is well ahead of its time.

A volume for a lifetime is how The New Yorker described the first of Donald Culross Peatie's two books about American trees published in the 1950s.

Learn to identify backyard weeds!

The book provides a comprehensive overview of current knowledge about "e;wattles"e;, a large clade of over 1000 species of trees and shrubs in the genus Acacia, most of which are native to Australia.

From National Book Awardnominee Iliana Regan, a new memoir of her life and heritage as a forager, spanning her ancestry in Eastern Europe, her childhood in rural Indiana, and her new life set in the remote forests of Michigans Upper Peninsula.

Seashore Plants of South Florida and the Caribbean is a complete source for information about which plants grow best in nearshore environments.

If you can't get enough of majestic trees, brightly colored flowers, and anything that grows from the ground up, you'll love this guide to 74 outstanding tropical flowering trees that will grow in Florida's subtropical climate.

A History of Zinnias brings forward the fascinating adventure of zinnias and the spirit of civilization.

Thorough, detailed, and scientifically up-to-date, Prairies: A Natural History provides a comprehensive nontechnical guide to the biology and ecology of the prairies, or the Great Plains grasslands of North America, offering a view of the past, a vision for the future, and a clear focus on the present.

Beginning in the late 1980s, a series of improbable bark beetle outbreaks unsettled iconic forests and communities across western North America.

*; Winner of the BC National Award for Non-Fiction*; Nominated for the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction and the 2011 Hilary Weston Writer's Trust Award.