Gardens

Muse, Elizabeth St. Cloud BABYS GARDEN eBook

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With the help of this whimsically illustrated and lovingly written keepsake journal, you can create and record precious moments spent with your baby in the garden. The earliest perceptions of childhood make the most indelible impressions. Whether it is listening to birds singing, smelling the grass or the flowers, or throwing leaves in the air to watch them fall, here are ideas for everyday adventures. Through joint explorations of nature, you can stimulate your child's senses and together experience the sights, sounds, textures, and scents of your own backyard. With A Baby's Garden you can treasure these first seasons in the garden for years to come.

Ilchi, Lee Meridian Exercise of Self-Healing: Classified by Common Symptoms eBook

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 49:11:30 GMT

This full-color, user-friendly book features simple meridian exercises that combine breathing, movement, stretching, and focused attention to improve overall balance and flexibility. The book identifies specific meridian exercises to alleviate common ailments, including headaches, colds, and the flu, as well as more serious conditions, such as high blood pressure, diabetes, and thyroid disorders. Meridian exercise is a technique developed and perfected over the course of thousands of years in the Asian healing arts traditions.

Nardozzi, Charlie Vegetable Gardening For Dummies (Adobe EPUB) eBook

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 49:11:30 GMT

A hands-on guide to the ins and outs of raising and using vegetables

Want to grow your own vegetables? You can do it the fun and easy way with this practical guide. From selecting the right spot to preparing the soil to harvesting, Vegetable Gardening For Dummies, 2nd Edition shows you how to successfully raise vegetables regardless of the size of your plot or your dietary needs.

You'll discover how to plot your garden and get the soil in tip-top shape; select the types of vegetables you want to grow; plant the seeds properly; and care for them as they grow. You'll also know the right time to pick your vegetables and the best ways to enjoy them. Plus, you'll get tips on preserving foods grown at home.

Expert advice on planting, caring for, harvesting, and enjoying the fruits of your own vegetable garden
Features environmentally friendly ways to combat pests in your garden
Charlie Nardozzi is senior horticulturist and spokesperson for the National Gardening Association; he's also been the gardening expert on such programs as HGTV's Today at Home and Way to Grow and the Discovery Channel's Home Matters

Whether you have a green thumb or you've never grown a plant before, Vegetable Gardening For Dummies, 2nd Edition has all the information you need to create a healthy garden.

Adams, C R PRINCIPLES OF HORTICULTURE eBook

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 49:11:30 GMT

Principles of Horticulture is an introduction to a wide range of aspects of commercial and leisure horticulture, and has been one of the best selling book of its kind for many years. Written in a highly accessible and readable style, it has already proved invaluable to a broad selection of readers, particularly the increasing number of students on horticulture courses, and keen amateur gardeners. It also provides a handy basic reference for professionals. For this fourth edition, the content has been fully updated throughout, and a new chapter has been added. This edition also features a new colour photograph section for clearer and easier to understand illustrations.

Hermary, Heide ESSENCE OF ORGANIC GARDENING (Adobe Reader) eBook

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 49:11:30 GMT

This book gives a glimpse of the many relationships and natural processes within Nature and the interconnectedness of life. Gardening is much easier and much more enjoyable when we work to support the health of the whole garden and that is what organic gardening is all about.

Estill, Linda Flowers Made Simple - How to arrange flowers just for the fun of it. (Adobe Reader) eBook

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 49:11:30 GMT

At last! Florists' secrets revealed! Have you ever wanted to know how to arrange flowers like a pro without taking a single class? Then you need "Flowers Made Simple" by Linda Estill, the Do-It-Yourself Florist. If you can look at pictures, you can create fabulous floral arrangements! With easy to follow, step-by-step instructions and detailed, full color photos, you will learn how to use easy-to-find flowers and foliage and combine them with your recyclables, plus unexpected items like crayons, jelly beans, popcorn, pasta, dollar store finds, even dog biscuits to create over 50 uniquely innovative, yet inexpensive designs. It's the perfect choice for anyone who loves to have and give beautifully arranged flowers. It also makes an ideal gift - after all, who doesn't like flowers?

Roush, James K. Garden Musings: Essays on gardening and life from the Kansas Flint Hills (Adobe Reader) eBook

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 49:11:30 GMT

In the first essay in Garden Musings, this gardening writer states, "The evidence keeps racking up that I, the Hoosier-born offspring of several generations of farmers, chose through ignorance to garden in a delightful area combining the world's worst soil and an exasperating climate, all augmented by various man-made and natural catastrophes such as tornadoes, droughts, prairie fires, hail, drenching rains, ice-storms, late freezes, boiling summers, and seventy mile per hour winds. " Gardening, with all the pressures of struggle between the environment, wild animals, and the gardener, and particularly in the harsh Kansas weather, is not for the faint-hearted as demonstrated by the many essays in the book including Sweet (Corn) Pain, Weather-Weary, Midden Misery, and Soil Sorrows.

While the essays are full of useful personal observations about gardening style, plant information, and garden practices, the author also turns his wry eye on tumbling a number of gardening tenets and institutions as he turns his attentions on composting, lawn maintenance, and landscape designers who work primarily in junipers, Japanese barberry and Stella de Oro daylilies. The timing and content of programming of the Home and Garden Television Network and the lack of availability of G-rated gardening statues are other topics that don't escape this garden curmudgeon. Gardeners searching for practical advice or simply for winter-reading pleasure will all find fulfillment within these pages.

Dean, Carolyn Md Nd The Magnesium Miracle eBook

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 49:11:30 GMT

Magnesium is indeed the unsung hero and is a key nutriceutical that everybody needs to know about. . . . This book needs to be read by any individual wishing to improve their quality of life. . . . Dr Dean has the best credentials in bringing solutions to those suffering from the hidden magnesium disorders that affect most of us.DR. STEPHEN T. SINATRA, M.D., F.A.C.C., F.A.C.N.Author of Lower Your Blood Pressure in Eight WeeksMore than seventy-five years ago, medical scientists declared magnesium to be an essential nutrient, indispensable to life. When this mineral is part of your diet, you are guarding againstand helping to alleviatehealth threats such as heart disease, stroke, osteoporosis, diabetes, depression, arthritis, and asthma. But while research continues to reaffirm magnesiums irreplaceable contribution to good health, many Americans remain dangerously deficient.In The Miracle of Magnesium, Dr. Carolyn Dean, an authority on this mineral who has used it with dramatic success in her own practice, explains the vital role that magnesium plays in the control of many serious ailmentsfrom painful muscle spasms and bladder problems to traumatic brain injury and complications of pregnancy and childbirth. Inside you will discover How diets and lifestyles can create a dangerous magnesium deficiency Which magnesium-rich foods keep your vital organs healthy and which to avoid Why other nutrients, including calcium, need magnesium to become potent What vitamins and minerals work with magnesium to treat specific ailments Why prescription medicines, such as birth control pills, can deplete magnesium Which magnesium supplements are best for youWhether you need help with a serious health problem or merely want to protect the good health you already enjoy, The Miracle of Magnesium will answer all your questions. It may even save your life.

Desmaisons, Kathleen The Sugar Addict's Total Recovery Program eBook

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 49:11:30 GMT

Building on the science of nutrition that she outlined in her bestselling book, Potatoes Not Prozac, Dr. Kathleen DesMaisons now presents the first complete, in-depth dietary plan for living withand healingsugar sensitivity. She explains exactly how you can free your mind and body from the tyranny of sugar and shake off the exhaustion, mental fogginess, and mood swings that sugar dependence causes. Revealing the various ways sugar addiction affects both men and women, and the unique methods for healing it, Dr. DesMaisons encourages you to custom-tailor her simple program to fit your lifestyle and includes information on How to integrate a slow-carbs not low-carbs strategy into your diet Why regular protein is essential and how to get it with every meal What to eat when a sugar craving strikes How to get the nutrition you need on the runeven at fast-food restaurants How to find an exercise program youll enjoy Ten breakfasts you can prepare in a flash Menus and recipes for every lifestyle and tastePractical, hands-on, and reader friendly, The Sugar Addicts Total Recovery Program will transform your life by helping you eat rightstarting today!

Wulf, Andrea BROTHER GARDENERS eBook

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 49:11:30 GMT

This is the fascinating story of a small group of eighteenth-century naturalists who made Britain a nation of gardeners and the epicenter of horticultural and botanical expertise. It’s the story of a garden revolution that began in America.

In 1733, the American farmer John Bartram dispatched two boxes of plants and seeds from the American colonies, addressed to the London cloth merchant Peter Collinson. Most of these plants had never before been grown in British soil, but in time the magnificent and colorful American trees, evergreens, and shrubs would transform the English landscape and garden forever. During the next forty years, Collinson and a handful of botany enthusiasts cultivated hundreds of American species. The Brother Gardeners follows the lives of six of these men, whose shared passion for plants gave rise to the English love affair with gardens. In addition to Collinson and Bartram, who forged an extraordinary friendship, here are Philip Miller, author of the best-selling Gardeners Dictionary; the Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus, whose standardized nomenclature helped bring botany to the middle classes; and Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander, who explored the strange flora of Brazil, Tahiti, New Zealand, and Australia on the greatest voyage of discovery of their time, aboard Captain Cook’s Endeavour.

From the exotic blooms in Botany Bay to the royal gardens at Kew, from the streets of London to the vistas of the Appalachian Mountains, The Brother Gardeners paints a vivid portrait of an emerging world of knowledge and of gardening as we know it today. It is a delightful and beautifully told narrative history.

From the Hardcover edition.

For Dummies Organic Gardening For Dummies (Adobe EPUB) eBook

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 49:11:30 GMT

Organic Gardening For Dummies, 2nd Edition shows readers the way to ensure a healthy harvest from their environmentally friendly garden. It covers information on the newest and safest natural fertilizers and pest control methods, composting, cultivation without chemicals, and how to battle plant diseases. It also has information on updated equipment and resources. It helps readers plant organically year-round, using herbs, fruits, vegetables, lawn care, trees and shrubs, and flowers. The tips and techniques included in Organic Gardening For Dummies, 2nd Edition are intended to reduce a garden's impact on both the environment and the wallet.

Robbins, Lois B. Lawn Wars: The struggle for a New Lawn Ethic (Adobe Reader) eBook

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 49:11:30 GMT

Like it or not, we're embedded in the natural world. We might as well learn to live more harmoniusly with it. Part memoir, part how-to, part problem-solving, Lawn Wars gives a historical context and resources for a new movement that is showing up across the nation. Difficulties encountered by aspiring natural landscapers are explored with wit and factual information. The rich rewards of making such a shift are described in lyrical prose as the author tells her own story of heartache and delight.

Serure, Pamela Take It to Heart eBook

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 49:11:30 GMT

Nobody lived a healthier or more active life. She was the juicing guru to the stars. She exercised and ate right. But at forty-seven Pamela Serure, exhausted, in pain, and with diagnoses ranging from menopause to anxiety, discovered that she had heart disease. Lifestyle and diet couldnt correct what her genes had determined. With two days to get her affairs in order, Pamela prepared for triple bypass surgery to correct three almost completely clogged arteries.What the doctors missed and what most women dont seem to know is that heart disease is the number-one killer of American women. It kills more women than all the cancers combined. Traditional markers of heart disease, such as high cholesterol, may not apply to women. As a result, doctors consistently misdiagnose female patients with anxiety, digestive distress, or symptoms of menopause. Blindsided by her sudden bypass surgery, Pamela Serure turned her life-altering experience into a personal mission to help educate other women about this dangerous and far-reaching disease. In this book Pamela opens the door to her recovery process and tells readers what the doctors wont. She has found experts to offer advice so that readers will know exactly what to look for and what tests to demand. Women share stories of how they persisted in having the cardiac tests run that saved their lives and others share stories of women they lost because of a missed diagnosis. Comforting, funny, and soulful, this is the book that will empower women to take charge of their heart health. As Pamela says, These days heart disease has all my attention, as it should have yours.

Ashley-Farrand, Thom Healing Mantras eBook

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 49:11:30 GMT

"Sound is more than simply a medium of artistic expression. Sound has practical and powerful applications in the real world."Mantras, or simple chants, are short phrases packed with energy and intention--specifically designed to generate powerful sound waves that promote healing, insight, creativity, and spiritual growth. Healing Mantras is the practical, how-to guide that makes the strengths and benefits of mantras available to everyone. The transformative power of sound has been passed down to the present from the sages of India, the classical scientists of ancient Greece, and the medieval monks of Europe. Mantras, sounds, and chants have inspired, comforted, and mended the lives of individuals, religious orders, and even entire cultures. Even though the science and discipline of chanting and formal prayer are practiced in every religion around the world, this is the first time that ancient Sanskrit mantras have been explained and adapted to Western needs.One of the few Western experts in Hindu and Buddhist mantras, Thomas Ashley-Farrand has practiced mantra-based spiritual disciplines for twenty-five years. In this illuminating book, he explains how and why mantras work and shows how to use them for everything from controlling habits to overcoming fear, from curing specific ailments to finding inner peace. In each of the more than fifty mantras, all translated from the original Sanskrit, Ashley-Farrand unlocks the power of every word, explains its appropriate application, and tells you how to pronounce it in easy-to-follow phonetic symbols. Inside, you'll find mantras for- Health - Worldly Success - Habit Control - Protection - Grief - Anger - Controlling Fear - Personal Attraction - Wisdom - Concentration and Mental Clarity - Healing Life Issues - and more!These mantras can be repeated aloud or in silence and can be used by people of any religion or spiritual practice, "as you wash dishes, as you drive on the freeway, as you meditate, or as you cook." Sound can help and sound can heal, and Healing Mantras now makes this sound medicine available to everyone.

Bowman, Daria Price The Complete Idiot's Guide to Vegetable Gardening eBook

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 49:11:30 GMT

Reap a bountiful harvest from your own backyard!

Barrett, Ellen Zodiaction eBook

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Goldberg, Nieca Dr. Nieca Goldberg's Complete Guide to Women's Health eBook

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Han, Henry Omd Ancient Herbs, Modern Medicine eBook

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 49:11:30 GMT

The best of Eastern and Western medicine in an integrative healing system for the mind, body, and spirit.Now, for the first time, a Western physician and a doctor of Oriental medicine combine the unparalleled technological advances of the West with the unmatched wisdom and healing touch Chinese herbal medicine provides for many diseases and conditions that elude modern medicine. Ancient Herbs, Modern Medicine demonstrates the many important, highly effective ways Chinese medicine and Western medicine can complement each other in treating everything from allergies and insomnia to mental illness and cancer. This accessible, comprehensive guide offers many informative and enlightening case studies and up-to-the-minute information on: How integrative medicine combines the best of Western pharmacology and Eastern herbology How integrative medicine helps fight the diseases and illnesses of our time, including allergies, asthma, and chronic fatigue syndrome, and eases and even reverses symptoms of arthritis, diabetes, depression, osteoporosis, AIDS, heart disease, and cancer--often without side effects How Chinese medicine can help you recognize signs before an illnessbecomes a crisis The importance of Western techniques in diagnosing serious diseases Why Chinese medicine offers the most effective treatment for many chronic/recurrent illnesses Restoring essential balance to the Five Energetic Systems--the Heart, Lung, Spleen, Liver, and Kidney Energies The Eight Strategies of Herbal Therapy--how herbs work in your body Plus illuminating discussions of the basic principles of Chinese medicine, as well as food remedy recipes, diagrams, glossaries of medical terms and herbs, resource listings, and much more to help you tailor an integrative health regimen that is right for you.

Aron, Elisabeth Dr Pregnancy Do's and Don'ts eBook

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 49:11:30 GMT

For when you need the factsnot fearabout what food, drinks, activities, and procedures you should avoid during each month of your pregnancy. Over the years, Dr. Elisabeth Aron has soothed the worries of many soon-to-be moms who have come to her with questions such as: Can I exercise during my first trimester? Is canned tuna safe to eat throughout my pregnancy? Do self-tanners contain chemicals I should be worried about? I have to fly for work during my second trimester. Is this safe? Is cookie-dough ice cream safe to eat? Can I wear an underwire bra during my pregnancy? Im six months pregnant. Is it alright for me to have a glycolic peel facial? Are peanuts safe to eat or will my baby develop a peanut allergy if I eat too many? There is a lot of chlorine in my health clubs pool. Is that a good or bad thing? Pregnancy Do's and Don'ts includes hundreds of entries on possible concernsfrom apple cider to zinc and everything in between. In each entry, Dr. Aron identifies the item, the possible cause for concern, and explains the bottom linewhether it is something a woman should avoid completely, something to take a better-safe-than-sorry approach toward, or something that is perfectly fine.

Sandbeck, Ellen EAT MORE DIRT eBook

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 49:11:30 GMT

A witty, whimsical gardening primer for anyone who wants to tend their patch of earth with a truly green thumb.A garden can either bring you bliss or drive you insane, but organic landscape gardener Ellen Sandbeck has spent a lifetime discovering creative, effective techniques for growing and tending a garden with easewhile being kind to the earth itself. Eat More Dirt is her delightful compendium of homespun tips and tricks for designing, planting, nurturing, and beautifying your land without the use of harmful chemicals and pesticides. From peat moss to irksome pests and predators, Sandbeck explores the lively world of compost heaps (which can be used to naturally vaccinate your garden against disease), growing good soil, choosing plants well-adapted to your climate, weed warfare, planting protocols, and eco-friendly ways to quench your gardens thirst. Whether you tend an acre or just a window box, Eat More Dirt is an essential guide to keeping your garden thriving, the natural way. Build up topsoil without toxic fertilizers or noisy machinery Compost, the other black gold Eradicate weeds with sunflower seeds Protect berries from birds with a sugar-water spray Gentle pruning techniques Banish beetles with wheat bran Drive off furry pests with cayenne pepper When life hands you a seep, dig a pondtransforming garden irritants into garden pearls Pre- and post-gardening stretches Dancing with tools The Zen of puttering

Rumphius, Georgius Everhardus Rumphius' Orchids: Orchid Texts from "The Ambonese Herbal" (Adobe Reader) eBook

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 49:11:30 GMT

Rumphius (1627-1702), founder of Indonesian botanical exploration and one of the greatest naturalists of the seventeenth century, was the first to describe tropical orchids in a Western language. Within the pages of his monumental seven-volume Ambonese Herbal, written in Dutch, he included descriptions of thirty-six species of orchids found on the island of Ambon in eastern Indonesia, plus twelve uncertified ones. His detailed descriptions reflect both the accuracy of a scientist and the sensibility of a poet. This lovely book is the first to gather and translate into English all the sections of Rumphius' The Ambonese Herbal devoted to orchids. For each entry, Rumphius describes the plant, names it according to a pre-Linnaean system of nomenclature, gives its locality, and details its medicinal and non-medicinal uses. More than twenty beautiful line drawings accompany the entries. The volume includes ample notes to illuminate the text and an informative introduction that tells the life of Rumphius--a remarkable collector/naturalist who overcame fire, shipwreck, and blindness to produce his masterwork.

Benson, Kristina Herbalism: A Complete Reference Guide to Frequently used Magickal Herbs, and Spices eBook

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 49:11:30 GMT

Sorin, Fran Digging Deep eBook

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 49:11:30 GMT

By tuning in to the processes of the natural world, millions have discovered that gardening acts as a conduit for experiencing creativitynot just in the garden, but in life. Now, gardening expert Fran Sorin offers this prescriptive and motivational book to teach readers to use gardening as a tool for exploring creativity in all areas of life. With evocative illustrations and a series of eye-opening, inspirational exercises, DIGGING DEEP encourages gardeners of all levels to enjoy their gardens more deeply while setting their creative selves free.

Plunkett, Joshua The Complete Idiot's Guide to Trees and Shrubs eBook

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 49:11:30 GMT

Give this book a green thumb's up. Includes CD-ROM. This guide provides the home landscaper with all the information necessary to plan, plant, and nurture trees and shrubs. Arborist professional Josh Plunkett provides the kind of practical, hands-on guidance necessary to transform yards into beautiful havens. * Includes a dynamic, interactive CD-ROM featuring hundreds of full-color photos of trees and shrubs in every season and a checklist of the most important factors necessary in choosing the right tree or shrub * More than 200 different trees and shrubs featured * Insider advice on how to select the healthiest plants from local and online nurseries * Dozens of illustrated, step-by-step instructions for planting, feeding, and pruning

Dickerson, Brent C Old Roses: The Master List (Adobe Reader) eBook

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 49:11:30 GMT

Old Roses: The Master List is the most complete and accurate listing ever of Old Roses! It includes the correct names, synonyms, breeders, dates, classifications, parentages, and flower color of Old Roses both well-known and heretofore completely obscure, the result of more than two decades of comprehensive and painstaking research by the internationally-known rose historian and author Brent C. Dickerson, whose previous works have revolutionized the study of Old Roses. Rosarians will now have at their fingertips the full array of basic information on these gloried plants. This second edition updates and expands the first edition, adding no less than 1,603 new listings, as well as a unique chronological bibliography.