Bestselling author and gardening columnist Marjorie Harris offers a timely and entertaining guide for gardeners at every stage of life. Whether you're moving into your first apartment or condo, upgrading to a house, or downsizing to...
Gardens
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Author:Harris, MarjorieSummary: - Author:Preston, DaveSummary:
How did Jenny Butchart turn an ugly, disused limestone quarry into the world’s most famous private garden? Over 100 years later, Butchart Gardens still attracts almost a million visitors from around the globe, to enjoy a world created...
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Author:Burnett, Frances HodgsonSummary:Ten-year-old Mary comes to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors and discovers an invalid cousin and the mysteries of a locked garden.
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Author:Burnett, Frances HodgsonSummary:After losing her parents, young Mary Lennox is sent from India to live in her uncle's gloomy mansion on the wild English moors. She is lonely and has no one to play with, but one day she learns of a secret garden somewhere in the...
- Author:Burnett, Frances HodgsonSummary:
When Mary is sent to live in a gloomy house in England, she feels very lonely. But then she finds the key to a lost garden, and makes a new friend, Dickon. Can the magical garden help her cousin Colin too?
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Author:Lisle, Janet TaylorSummary:Motherless Olivia and Nellie go to live with their elderly Great-Aunt Minty, who knows little about children, but a lot about her overgrown garden. Then one day, Olivia finds an old teacup in a flowerbed, and later, an old story about...
- Author:Tan, Twan EngSummary:
In 1951, Yun Ling, the only survivor of a Japanese war camp, seeks shelter with Aritomo, the owner of the only Japanese garden in Malaya. As the months pass, Aritomo and Yun Ling open to each other, revealing life-altering secrets.
- Author:Hoyt, ElizabethSummary:
When prim and thrifty Eve Dinwoody agrees to control the purse strings of Harte's Folly, London's premier pleasure garden, she butts heads with the infuriating Asa Makepeace. But the harder Eve tries to manage him, the harder...
- Author:Burnett, Frances HodgsonSummary:
Ten-year-old Mary comes to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors and discovers an invalid cousin and the mysteries of a locked garden.
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Author:Smith, LaneSummary:A child explores the ordinary life of his extraordinary great-grandfather, as expressed in his topiary garden.
- Author:Baraton, AlainSummary:
For gardening aficionados and Francophiles, a love letter to the Versailles Palace and grounds, from the man who knows them best. In Alain Baraton's Versailles, every grove tells a story. As the gardener-in-chief, Baraton lives on its...
- Author:De Vries, MaggieSummary:
When Sophie and Matthew plant pumpkins, their grandfather explains to them why they need bees to make their pumpkins grow, but how will the bees find their garden?
- Author:Terry, Bill, Bates, RosemarySummary:
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...
- Author:Vigneault, Gilles, Jorisch, StéphaneSummary:
Enhanced ebook featuring a narrated story and 2 recorded songs performed by Connie Kaldor and Paul Campagne. An irresistible story-song, full of wit and whimsy, that will take you far away into an imaginative world of poetry inhabited...
- Author:Osler, MirabelSummary:
"Osler's plea is not so gentle; rather, its opinionated (though never dismissive), bell-clear, wickedly humorous, brilliant--a call for cultivated anarchy in the garden that turns an oxymoron into a sensuous, sensible act. ``...
