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| 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 and More | |
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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 | |
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| Appendixes | |
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| 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 | |
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| How Do I Make My Plants Grow Rather Than Die? | |
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| Your climate and microclimates | |
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| Sun or shade | |
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| Soil and water | |
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| Plants that are most at home in your garden | |
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| What Can I Use My Garden For? Do I Have to Learn a Foreign Language? The fancy name | |
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| Common names | |
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| Zoning Out: What You Can and Can't Grow | |
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| Plant Hardiness | |
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| Cold hardiness | |
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| Winter injury | |
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| Plant Hardiness Zones of Canada | |
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| U.S. and Canadian zones: How they compare | |
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| Working with Microclimates | |
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| Length Counts: How Long Is Your Season? Stretching Your Garden Season | |
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| Planting earlier in the year | |
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| Gardening into autumn | |
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| Maximizing Winter Hardiness | |
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| Planning Your Landscape | |
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| Taking Stock of What You Have | |
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| Dreaming Up the Perfect Landscape | |
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| Who will use your yard? When will you use your yard? What's your neighbourhood like? How much maintenance are you ready for? What Goes Where: Designing the Plan | |
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| Using your space effectively | |
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| Defining areas and ways to move through them | |
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| The hardscape | |
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| The plants | |
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| Creating a Final Plan | |
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| Using your computer | |
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| Field testing | |
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| Colour Your World | |
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| Annuals | |
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| What's an Annual? Getting Cozy with Annuals | |
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| Some annuals are cool and some like it hot | |
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| Sun and shade | |
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| How to Buy Annuals | |
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| What You Can Do with Annuals | |
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| Playing with colour | |
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| Using shape, height, and structure | |
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| Designing for fragrance | |
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| Getting annuals together | |
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| Containing annuals | |
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| Taking Care of Your Annuals | |
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| Our Favourite Annuals | |
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| Cool-season annuals | |
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| Warm-season annuals | |
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| Fragrance after Dark | |
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| Perennials | |
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| What's a Perennial? Beds and Borders | |
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| Designing a Perennial Border | |
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| Beyond Borders | |
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| Planting Perennials...and Afterwards | |
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| Watering and feeding | |
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| Pinching and pruning perennials | |
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| Our Favourite Perennials | |
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| Perennials with a Plus | |
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| Bulbs | |
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| What Are Bulbs? | |
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| What You Can Do with Bulbs | |
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| When and How to Buy Bulbs | |
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| Spring-blooming bulbs | |
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| Summer-blooming bulbs | |
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| Shopping tips | |
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| Ode to the Lily | |
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| Planting Bulbs | |
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| What's your style? Beware the creatures | |
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| Caring for Bulbs | |
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| Dividing and Propagating Bulbs | |
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| Bulbs in Containers | |
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| Favourite Bulbs | |
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| Roses | |
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| Kinds of Roses | |
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| Trying out hybrid teas | |
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| Fun with floribundas | |
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| The experts' choice | |
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| Hail to the queen | |
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| Climbing high with roses | |
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| "Honey, I shrunk the roses!" When a rose is a tree | |
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| Shrub roses | |
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| Landscaping with Roses | |
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| Buying Roses | |
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| Planting Roses | |
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| Fertilizing and Watering | |
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| The Mystery of Pruning | |
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| Other Rose Quirks | |
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| Helping Roses Survive Winter | |
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| Redolent Roses | |
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| Sculpting with Plants...and More | |
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| Trees and Shrubs | |
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| What Trees Can Do for You | |
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| Lower heating and cooling expenses | |
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| Make you look marvellous | |
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| Choosing the Right Tree | |
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| Don't Try This at Home | |
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| Our Favouri | |