Best Books for Gardeners

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Dirr's Hardy Trees and Shrubs: An Illustrated Encyclopedia
Dirr's Hardy Trees and Shrubs: An Illustrated Encyclopedia 4.64 avg rating — 266 ratings
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Pest Control for Organic Gardening: Natural Methods for Pest and Disease Control for a Healthy Garden
Pest Control for Organic Gardening: Natural Methods for Pest and Disease Control for a Healthy Garden 3.72 avg rating — 90 ratings
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The Well-Tended Perennial Garden: Planting and Pruning Techniques
The Well-Tended Perennial Garden: Planting and Pruning Techniques 4.33 avg rating — 838 ratings
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The Gardens of Gertrude Jekyll
The Gardens of Gertrude Jekyll 4.25 avg rating — 53 ratings
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The Collector's Garden: Designing with Extraordinary Plants
The Collector's Garden: Designing with Extraordinary Plants
by: Ken Druse
4.17 avg rating — 53 ratings
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Natural Garden
Natural Garden
by: Ken Druse
4.09 avg rating — 54 ratings
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Western Garden Book: More than 8,000 Plants - The Right Plants for Your Climate - Tips from Western Garden Experts (Sunset Western Garden Book)
Western Garden Book: More than 8,000 Plants - The Right Plants for Your Climate - Tips from Western Garden Experts (Sunset Western Garden Book) 4.45 avg rating — 969 ratings
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The Garden in Autumn
The Garden in Autumn 4.31 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Making Gardens Works of Art: Creating Your Own Personal Paradise
Making Gardens Works of Art: Creating Your Own Personal Paradise 4.17 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Elizabeth and Her German Garden
Elizabeth and Her German Garden 3.72 avg rating — 5,535 ratings
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The Natural Habitat Garden
The Natural Habitat Garden
by: Ken Druse
4.07 avg rating — 83 ratings
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The American Horticultural Society A to Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants
The American Horticultural Society A to Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants 4.47 avg rating — 248 ratings
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Houses Made of Wood and Light: The Life and Architecture of Hank Schubart
Houses Made of Wood and Light: The Life and Architecture of Hank Schubart 4.20 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Second Nature: A Gardener's Education
Second Nature: A Gardener's Education 3.93 avg rating — 8,990 ratings
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Botany for Gardeners
Botany for Gardeners 4.21 avg rating — 1,372 ratings
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Designing With Perennials
Designing With Perennials 3.95 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Eden on Their Minds: American Gardeners with Bold Visions
Eden on Their Minds: American Gardeners with Bold Visions 4.29 avg rating — 17 ratings
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The Big Book of Flower Gardening: A Guide to Growing Beautiful Annuals, Perennials, Bulbs, and Roses
The Big Book of Flower Gardening: A Guide to Growing Beautiful Annuals, Perennials, Bulbs, and Roses 3.97 avg rating — 30 ratings
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The Edible Heirloom Garden
The Edible Heirloom Garden 3.74 avg rating — 39 ratings
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The Natural Shade Garden
The Natural Shade Garden
by: Ken Druse
4.09 avg rating — 77 ratings
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The Cottage Garden
The Cottage Garden 4.09 avg rating — 138 ratings
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The Edible Mexican Garden (The Edible Garden Series)
The Edible Mexican Garden (The Edible Garden Series) 3.74 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Digging Deep: Unearthing Your Creative Roots Through Gardening
Digging Deep: Unearthing Your Creative Roots Through Gardening 3.96 avg rating — 117 ratings
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Growing Good Food: A Citizen's Guide to Backyard Farming
Growing Good Food: A Citizen's Guide to Backyard Farming 4.32 avg rating — 113 ratings
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The Tropical Look: An Encyclopedia of Dramatic Landscape Plants
The Tropical Look: An Encyclopedia of Dramatic Landscape Plants 3.78 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Growing Perennial Foods: A Field Guide to Raising Resilient Herbs, Fruits, and Vegetables
Growing Perennial Foods: A Field Guide to Raising Resilient Herbs, Fruits, and Vegetables 4.39 avg rating — 131 ratings
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Seedfolks
Seedfolks 3.75 avg rating — 16,832 ratings
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Rodale's Illustrated Encyclopedia of Perennials
Rodale's Illustrated Encyclopedia of Perennials 4.18 avg rating — 87 ratings
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Taylor's Encyclopedia of Garden Plants
Taylor's Encyclopedia of Garden Plants 4.71 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Shamanic Gardening: Timeless Techniques for the Modern Sustainable Garden
Shamanic Gardening: Timeless Techniques for the Modern Sustainable Garden 3.63 avg rating — 52 ratings
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Seed to Seed: Seed Saving and Growing Techniques for Vegetable Gardeners
Seed to Seed: Seed Saving and Growing Techniques for Vegetable Gardeners 4.21 avg rating — 1,773 ratings
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The Jewel Box Garden
The Jewel Box Garden 4.35 avg rating — 54 ratings
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Beautiful Madness
Beautiful Madness 3.60 avg rating — 65 ratings
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Over the Hummingbird's Rainbow: An Acre of America Backyard Nature Series
Over the Hummingbird's Rainbow: An Acre of America Backyard Nature Series 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Reference Manual of Woody Plant Propagation: From Seed to Tissue Culture
The Reference Manual of Woody Plant Propagation: From Seed to Tissue Culture 4.43 avg rating — 76 ratings
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The $64 Tomato: How One Man Nearly Lost his Sanity, Spent a Fortune, and Endured an Existential Crisis in the Quest for the Perfect Garden
The $64 Tomato: How One Man Nearly Lost his Sanity, Spent a Fortune, and Endured an Existential Crisis in the Quest for the Perfect Garden 3.77 avg rating — 4,418 ratings
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Dirr's Trees and Shrubs for Warm Climates: An Illustrated Encyclopedia
Dirr's Trees and Shrubs for Warm Climates: An Illustrated Encyclopedia 4.09 avg rating — 32 ratings
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The Undaunted Garden: Planting for Weather-Resilient Beauty
The Undaunted Garden: Planting for Weather-Resilient Beauty 4.44 avg rating — 113 ratings
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Late Summer Flowers
Late Summer Flowers 3.85 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Sissinghurst Castle Garden (Kent) (National Trust Guidebooks)
Sissinghurst Castle Garden (Kent) (National Trust Guidebooks) 3.78 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Gertrude Jekyll's Colour Schemes for the Flower Garden
Gertrude Jekyll's Colour Schemes for the Flower Garden 3.99 avg rating — 67 ratings
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Low Maintenance Gardening
Low Maintenance Gardening 3.50 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Sissinghurst: An Unfinished History
Sissinghurst: An Unfinished History 3.72 avg rating — 344 ratings
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Manual of Woody Landscape Plants: Their Identification, Ornamental Characteristics, Culture, Propagation and Uses
Manual of Woody Landscape Plants: Their Identification, Ornamental Characteristics, Culture, Propagation and Uses 4.61 avg rating — 416 ratings
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Gardening at Sissinghurst
Gardening at Sissinghurst
by: Tony Lord
4.21 avg rating — 48 ratings
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Succulent Container Gardens: Design Eye-Catching Displays with 350 Easy-Care Plants
Succulent Container Gardens: Design Eye-Catching Displays with 350 Easy-Care Plants 4.18 avg rating — 340 ratings
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Planting Scenes from Sissinghurst;Garden Inspirations
Planting Scenes from Sissinghurst;Garden Inspirations
by: Tony Lord
3.30 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Fallscaping: Extending Your Garden Season into Autumn
Fallscaping: Extending Your Garden Season into Autumn 3.96 avg rating — 71 ratings
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Sissinghurst: Portrait of a Garden
Sissinghurst: Portrait of a Garden really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 27 ratings
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A Little History of British Gardening
A Little History of British Gardening 3.97 avg rating — 101 ratings
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Colour in the Flower Garden
Colour in the Flower Garden 3.76 avg rating — 25 ratings
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English Journeys the Beauties of a Cottage Garden
English Journeys the Beauties of a Cottage Garden 3.31 avg rating — 49 ratings
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The Edible Asian Garden (The Edible Garden Series)
The Edible Asian Garden (The Edible Garden Series) 3.55 avg rating — 22 ratings
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The Edible Rainbow Garden
The Edible Rainbow Garden 3.95 avg rating — 19 ratings
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The Edible Italian Garden (Edible Garden Series)
The Edible Italian Garden (Edible Garden Series) 3.81 avg rating — 26 ratings
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The Edible Pepper Garden (The Edible Garden Series)
The Edible Pepper Garden (The Edible Garden Series) 4.06 avg rating — 17 ratings
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The Encyclopedia of Planting Combinations
The Encyclopedia of Planting Combinations 4.07 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Gertrude Jekyll's Lost Garden
Gertrude Jekyll's Lost Garden 4.08 avg rating — 36 ratings
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The Edible Herb Garden (Edible Garden Series)
The Edible Herb Garden (Edible Garden Series) 3.88 avg rating — 94 ratings
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Small Space Gardens
Small Space Gardens 3.50 avg rating — 30 ratings
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The English Garden
The English Garden 4.33 avg rating — 33 ratings
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The English Formal Garden
The English Formal Garden 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Making More Plants: The Science, Art, and Joy of Propagation
Making More Plants: The Science, Art, and Joy of Propagation
by: Ken Druse
4.25 avg rating — 204 ratings
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Planthropology: The Myths, Mysteries, and Miracles of My Garden Favorites
Planthropology: The Myths, Mysteries, and Miracles of My Garden Favorites
by: Ken Druse
4.23 avg rating — 65 ratings
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The English Cottage Garden
The English Cottage Garden 4.24 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Garden Architecture in Europe (Big Series : Architecture and Design)
Garden Architecture in Europe (Big Series : Architecture and Design)
by: Enge
3.38 avg rating — 8 ratings
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The English Garden: A Social History
The English Garden: A Social History 4.12 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Sissinghurst Portrait eines Gartens
Sissinghurst Portrait eines Gartens 3.97 avg rating — 258 ratings
68.
Starting & Running Your Own Small Farm Business: Small-Farm Success Stories * Financial Assistance Sources * Marketing & Selling Ideas * Business Plan Forms & Documents
Starting & Running Your Own Small Farm Business: Small-Farm Success Stories * Financial Assistance Sources * Marketing & Selling Ideas * Business Plan Forms & Documents 3.88 avg rating — 94 ratings
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The Living Garden: The 400-year History of an English Garden
The Living Garden: The 400-year History of an English Garden 4.39 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Growing and Caring for Tomatoes: A Tomato Growing Book
Growing and Caring for Tomatoes: A Tomato Growing Book 3.82 avg rating — 11 ratings
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The Wizard of Awe: An Acre of America Backyard Nature Series
The Wizard of Awe: An Acre of America Backyard Nature Series 4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Designing with Conifers: The Best Choices for Year-Round Interest in Your Garden
Designing with Conifers: The Best Choices for Year-Round Interest in Your Garden 4.12 avg rating — 17 ratings
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A Gardening Guide For Organic Soil Building: Methods to Obtain Healthy Garden Soil
A Gardening Guide For Organic Soil Building: Methods to Obtain Healthy Garden Soil 3.89 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Baskets for Butterflies: Gnome's Heirloom Garden
Baskets for Butterflies: Gnome's Heirloom Garden 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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A Natural History of English Gardening: 1650-1800
A Natural History of English Gardening: 1650-1800 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Plant Whatever Brings You Joy: Blessed Wisdom from the Garden
Plant Whatever Brings You Joy: Blessed Wisdom from the Garden 4.10 avg rating — 31 ratings
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The Blackberry Patch
The Blackberry Patch 4.62 avg rating — 24 ratings
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A Handy-Book to the Collection and Preparation of Freshwater and Marine Algæ: Diatoms, Desmids, Fungi, Lichens, Mosses and Other of the Lower ... for the Formation of an Herbarium
A Handy-Book to the Collection and Preparation of Freshwater and Marine Algæ: Diatoms, Desmids, Fungi, Lichens, Mosses and Other of the Lower ... for the Formation of an Herbarium 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Bunny Mellon: The Life of an American Style Legend
Bunny Mellon: The Life of an American Style Legend 3.99 avg rating — 1,688 ratings
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Escape to Reality: How the World is Changing Gardening, and Gardening is Changing the World
Escape to Reality: How the World is Changing Gardening, and Gardening is Changing the World 3.50 avg rating — 38 ratings
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Forest Bathing: Discovering Health and Happiness Through the Japanese Practice of Shinrin Yoku (A Start Here Guide)
Forest Bathing: Discovering Health and Happiness Through the Japanese Practice of Shinrin Yoku (A Start Here Guide) 3.62 avg rating — 128 ratings
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Rocky Mountain Fruit & Vegetable Gardening: Plant, Grow, and Harvest the Best Edibles - Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Utah & Wyoming
Rocky Mountain Fruit & Vegetable Gardening: Plant, Grow, and Harvest the Best Edibles - Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Utah & Wyoming 4.55 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Kleurrijke tuinen
Kleurrijke tuinen really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Deck Rebellion: Revolutionary Concepts for Outdoor Living
Deck Rebellion: Revolutionary Concepts for Outdoor Living it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Succession Planting For Year-Round Pleasure
Succession Planting For Year-Round Pleasure 4.17 avg rating — 54 ratings
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The Profitable Hobby Farm: How to Build a Sustainable Local Foods Business
The Profitable Hobby Farm: How to Build a Sustainable Local Foods Business 3.72 avg rating — 156 ratings
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Japanese Maples: The Complete Guide to Selection and Cultivation
Japanese Maples: The Complete Guide to Selection and Cultivation 4.57 avg rating — 60 ratings
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V. Sackville-Wests Garden Book: a collection taken from In your garden, In your garden again, More for your garden, Even more for your garden
V. Sackville-Wests Garden Book: a collection taken from In your garden, In your garden again, More for your garden, Even more for your garden 4.19 avg rating — 57 ratings
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The Essential Earthman
The Essential Earthman 4.36 avg rating — 207 ratings
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Shocking Beauty: (Tuttle Gardening Books)
Shocking Beauty: (Tuttle Gardening Books) 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Growing Joy: The Plant Lover's Guide to Cultivating Happiness
Growing Joy: The Plant Lover's Guide to Cultivating Happiness 3.92 avg rating — 272 ratings
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350 tuinplanten en hun toepassing
350 tuinplanten en hun toepassing 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Gardener's Bed-Book: Short and Long Pieces to Be Read in Bed by Those Who Love Green Growing Things
The Gardener's Bed-Book: Short and Long Pieces to Be Read in Bed by Those Who Love Green Growing Things 3.99 avg rating — 142 ratings
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In Your Garden
In Your Garden 4.24 avg rating — 117 ratings
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Ornamental Grasses (For Your Garden Series)
Ornamental Grasses (For Your Garden Series) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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King of the Forest: An Acre of America Backyard Nature Series (Volume 3)
King of the Forest: An Acre of America Backyard Nature Series (Volume 3) 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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201 tuinplanten in kleur : met beschrijvingen en tips voor plaatsing
201 tuinplanten in kleur : met beschrijvingen en tips voor plaatsing 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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A Joy of Gardening
A Joy of Gardening 4.20 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Japanese Maples: Momiji and Kaede
Japanese Maples: Momiji and Kaede 4.41 avg rating — 34 ratings
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