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| Introduction How to Use This Book | |
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| Getting Going with Gardening | |
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| Colour Your World | |
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| Sculpting with Plants | |
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| At Ground Level | |
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| Caring for Your Plants | |
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| Special Gardens | |
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| The Part of Tens Appendixes Icons Used In This Book | |
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| Getting Going with Gardening | |
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| Just a Few Ground-Level Questions and Answers How Do I Make My Plants Grow Rather Than Die? | |
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| Your climate and microclimates Sun or shade Soil and water Plants that are most at home in your garden What Can I Use My Garden For? | |
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| Do I Have to Learn a Foreign Language? | |
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| The fancy name Common names | |
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| Zoning Out: What You Can and Can2t | |
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| Grow Plant Hardiness Cold hardiness Winter injury | |
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| Plant Hardiness Zones of Canada U.S. and Canadian zones: How they comprae Working with microclimates Length Counts: How Long Is Your Season? | |
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| Stretching Your Garden Season Planting earlier in the year Gardening into autumn Maximizing Winter Hardiness | |
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| Planning Your Landscape Taking Stock of What You Have Dreaming | |
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| Up the Perfect Landscape Who will use your yard? | |
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| When will you use your yard? | |
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| What2s your neighbourhood like? | |
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| How much maintenance are you ready for? | |
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| What Goes Where: Designing the Plan Using your space effectively | |
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| Defining areas and ways to move through them The hardscape | |
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| The plants Creating a Final Plan Using your computer Field testing | |
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| Colour Your World | |
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| Annuals What2s an Annual? | |
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| Getting Cozy with Animals Some annuals are cool and some like it hot Sun and shade | |
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| How to Buy Annuals What You Can Do with Annuals | |
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| Playing with colour Using shape, height, and structure | |
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| Designing for fragrance Getting annuals together Containing annuals | |
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| Taking Care of Your Annuals Our Favourite Annuals Cool-season annuals Warm-season annuals | |
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| Perennials What2s a Perennial? | |
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| Beds and Borders Designing a Perennial Border Beyond Borders Planting Perennials...and Afterwards Watering and feeding Pinching and pruing perennials | |
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| Our Favourite Perennials | |
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| Bulbs What Are Bulbs? | |
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| What You Can Do with Bulbs When and How to Buy Bulbs Spring-blooming bulbs Summer-blooming bulbs | |
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| Shopping tips Ode to the Lily Planting Bulbs What2s your style? | |
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| Beware the creatures Caring for Bulbs Dividing and Propagating Bulbs | |
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| Bulbs in Containers Favourite Bulbs | |
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| Roses Kinds of Roses Trying out hybrid teas Fun with floribundas | |
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| The experts2s choice Hail to the queen Climbing high with roses "Honey, I shrunk the roses!" | |
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| When a rose is a tree Shrub roses Landscaping with Roses Buying Roses Planting Roses Fertilizing and Watering | |
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| The Mystery of Pruning Other Rose Quirks Helping Roses Survive Winter | |
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| Sculpting with Plants | |
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| Trees and Shrubs What Trees Can Do for Your Lower heating and cooling expenses | |
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| Make you look marvelous Choosing the Right Tree Don2t Try This at Home Our Favourite Trees Rub-a-Dub-Dub, What2s a Shrub? | |
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| What Shrubs Can Do for You Design considerations Organizaing shrubs by height Our Favourite Shrubs | |
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| Lawns and Ground Covers Lawn Decisions How big? | |
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| Which grass is for you? | |
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| Turfgrass short list Putting in a New Lawn Planting Lawn from Seed Shopping for seed How much seed to buy | |
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| Planting day Planting Lawn from Sod Buying sod Laying sod Care and F | |