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Author
Publisher
Frederick Fell Publishers, Inc. / Independent Publishers Group
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Trees, shrubs and vegetables are grown most effectively by absorbing the chemicals in the soil.
The proper selection of shrubs and trees that are hardy in the cool climate saves the grower money. Many shrubs are advertised and shipped into stores for spring and fall planting without discrimination as to climate with the sole purpose of making sales. To guard against this, the author has selected those plants that are hardy and most likely to grow...
Author
Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
This wonderful volume, assembled from National Geographic magazines dating 1915-24, spotlights some of the finest botanical imagery of its kind, including artwork by Mary E. Eaton, staff illustrator of the New York Botanical Garden. More than 120 color plates.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2009, c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Rachel and Kirsty are close to finding Louise the Lily Fairy's petal on a little island. But then the goblins steal the petal, and the girls' boat. Can Louise save the day?
Author
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Drawing on sources both ancient and modern, and featuring lush full-color illustrations and gorgeous line art throughout, Potter examines our changing relationship with these potent plants and the effects they had on civilizations through the ages. The opium poppy, for example, returned to haunt its progenitors in the West, becoming the source of an enormously profitable drug trade in Asia. In the seventeenth century, the irrational exuberance of...
Author
Series
Peterson field guide volume 17
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
Text and pictures help identify 1293 species in 84 familes of wildflowers in the eastern and north-central United States, arranged by flower color and plant characteristics.
9) So happy!
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The lives of a bored little boy, a lost rabbit, and a magic seed happily intersect once the rain begins.
11) Shock wave
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Virgil Flowers, a detective with the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, is called to investigate when protests against the building of a superstore PyeMart in a Minnesota river town turn deadly, with bombs being placed in PyeMart headquarters, as well as at the building site.
15) Rose's garden
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Rose finds a neglected patch of earth in the middle of a bustling city where she can plant the flower seeds collected from her travels in her magical teapot.
Author
Publisher
The Countryman Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A charmingly illustrated keepsake and guide to native, wild plants of North America. In this exquisitely detailed naturalist's handbook, Laura Martin provides profiles of 85 wild plants and flowers found across North America, each accompanied by lovingly illustrated and charming watercolor paintings. With dozens of notes, arrows, and details, each chapter encourages the reader to look at the plants as a naturalist would-opening up a whole new way...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two sisters move in next door to where Mercy the pig lives, and frustrated when Mercy continues to eat their flowers decide to call for the help of an Animal Control Officer, Francine Poulet, to handle the case.
Author
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A charming, gorgeously illustrated botanical encyclopedia for your favorite romantic, local witch, bride-to-be, or green-thumbed friend. Floriography is a full-color guide to the historical uses and secret meanings behind an impressive array of flowers and herbs. The book explores the coded significances associated with various blooms, from flowers for a lover to flowers for an enemy.
The language of flowers was historically used as a means of secret...
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