supplies and books

The Herb Gardener

A delicate herb garden adds grace and style to your landscape and exciting flavor to your kitchen. Here are gardening tips on 75 herbs desirable for both cooking and crafts. Beautiful color photographs and easy-to-understand prose lead you through the seasons of an herbal garden.

Window Boxes

Window Boxes is a one-of-a-kind handbook that combines container gardening with flower arranging so that you can create glorious mini-gardens for outside and inside your home. Window Boxes offers dozens of inventive, innovative ideas for window box gardens.

Quick And Easy Container Water Gardens

Step-by-step photos and clear instructions explain how to choose, install, and maintain more than 20 elegant still and moving water gardens for small yards, decks, balconies -- even indoors! A plant directory describes more than 90 water garden selections.

The Gardener's Bug Book

This completely revised and updated garden guide shows how to identify and control more than 70 common garden insects using the best homemade and commercial control strategies. Author: Barbara Pleasant; 160 pages; 6"x 9"; Paperback.

Let It Rot!

The publication of Let It Rot! in 1975 helped start the composting movement and taught gardeners and environmentalists everywhere how to recycle waste materials to create useful, soil-nourishing compost.

Herbal Tea Gardens Book

Teas to soothe, teas to relieve, teas to rejuvenate -- this tea lover's gardening bible contains full instructions for growing herbs for tea, plus more than 100 recipes for blending and brewing the herbs in healthful combinations.

Deckscaping - Paperback

Use your deck more in every season. Barbara Ellis uses photos, drawings, and text as she sets out to improve the appearance and comfort of any needy deck. She suggests surfaces, lighting, plantings, and furniture - from simple to elaborate - and gives tips on maintenance.

The Feng Shui Garden

This fascinating exploration of gardening in accordance with Feng Shui principles teaches readers how to create balanced outdoor spaces that positively influence health, wealth, and happiness.

Simple Fountains

In this beautifully designed, inspiring book, Adkins reviews the types of materials you can use for your fountain - including wood, bamboo, ceramic, stone, and copper. She discusses accessories such as flowers, shells, bonsai trees, sculpture, and fish.

Just The Facts!

Now there is no need to go from one source to another to find the answers to your gardening questions and problems. Just the Facts! is the book for gardeners wanting essential information quickly -- from when to prune rhododendrons to how deep to plant bulbs.