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9780143008057 | Penguin Global, October 22, 2008, cover price $35.00
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9781554073658 | Firefly Books Ltd, February 15, 2008, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: "This is a must-have book for everyone who loves gardening and cooking.
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9781840007718 | Miller/Mitchell Beazley, March 28, 2007, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Every chapter is packed full with private and public gardens, many of them designed by the world's most influential modern landscape and garden designers - including Roberto Burle Marx (Brazil), Thomas Church (USA), Fletcher Steele (USA), Pierre Clement (France) Topher Delaney (USA), Jacques Wirtz
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9780711226159 | Frances Lincoln Ltd, September 1, 2006, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: In Search of Paradise is a survey of the great gardens of the world, presented through photographic images and the descriptions of the garden designer and writer Penelope Hobhouse.
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9781596091474 | Chamberlain Brothers, March 29, 2005, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: The beauty of a flower, and the beauty of a family.
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9780711205451 | Frances Lincoln Ltd, February 1, 2004, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: This celebration of flowers and practical growing guide is a personal treatise, a distillation of Penelope Hobhouse's plant experience and her personal knowledge of a wide range of gardens all over the world.
9781577171966 | Todtri Book Pub, December 1, 2001, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Focusing on the different roles that flowering plants can play in garden pictures all through the seasons, Penelope Hobhouse discusses the qualities that distinguish climax plants, companion plants, flowers for massing in carpets and floral backdrops.
9780316367530 | Little Brown & Co, October 1, 1991, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: The author of Garden Style presents a comprehensive guide that encompasses the full spectrum of flower gardening, discussing garden design and structure, creating beds and borders, types of flowers, and care and cultivation of various species.
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9780711218024 | Frances Lincoln Ltd, March 24, 2005, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Flower Gardens is a personal treatise by one of England's foremost garden writers, a guide to choosing the best flowering plants for any garden and arranging them harmoniously in their setting.
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9781904920120 | Kyle Cathie Ltd, February 1, 2005, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: An invaluable A-Z guide that brings together all aspects of an individual herb--history, cultivation, propagation and harvesting, and cosmetic, medicinal and culinary uses.
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9781862056602 | Pavilion, May 1, 2004, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: How did exotic, oriental plants find their way into the borders of English gardens?
9781857932737 | Pavilion, December 1, 1999, cover price $29.99 | About this edition: In this sumptuous survey, Penelope Hobhouse-distinguished plantswoman, garden designer, and historian-presents a definitive history of gardens and gardening, exploring the evolution of the Western model and the historical factors that have created the modern idea of gardening as both popular pastime and art form.
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9780967007663 | Kales Pr, April 1, 2004, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: Looks at the evolution of Persian gardens from ancient times to the present day and their impact on modern garden design.
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9780812967388 | Reprint edition (Modern Library, April 1, 2003), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: This gardening novel follows the life and times of Bert Pinnegar, from his awkward childhood as an orphan and schoolboy, through his apprentice years, to his success in the world of horticulture.
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9780711220584 | Frances Lincoln Ltd, March 1, 2003, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: The sensitive use of color and foliage lies at the heart of gardening.
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9781579590765 | Soma Books, November 1, 2002, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Nori and Sandra Pope show how to harness the gorgeous power of color in the garden.
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9780789489449 | Dk Pub, November 1, 2002, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Full-color, captioned photographs of magnificent gardens throughout the world accompany a history of garden and landscape design that includes an examination of individual plants and design features.
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9780711208162 | Frances Lincoln Ltd, August 1, 1998, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: This guide to gardening reveals the secrets behind Penelope Hobhouse's distinctive style of gardening.
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9780711217904 | Frances Lincoln Ltd, June 1, 2001, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Well known gardener shares her lifetime's experience of designing and making gardens.
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9780805044904 | 1 amer ed edition (Henry Holt & Co, November 1, 1997), cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Describes how to participate in the new trend of ecologically sound planting and still have a beautiful garden
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9781862052680 | Pavilion, September 1, 1999, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: The 20th century has seen a significant move to a "natural" approach to gardening -- choosing plants appropriate to the environment, thus saving water and eliminating the need for fertilizers and pesticides.
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9781568981307 | Princeton Architectural Pr, May 1, 1998, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: This authoritative new series of guidebooks to the gardens of Europe is the perfect companion for any garden enthusiast, whether tourist or armchair traveler.
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9781572231085, titled "A Gardener's Journal: The Art & Practice of Gardening" | Willow Creek Pr, October 1, 1997, cover price $19.50 | About this edition: Gardening is a fine art.
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9780805048629 | Henry Holt & Co, May 1, 1997, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Introduces twenty successful gardens with professional scale drawings and planting plans, color-theme plans, maintenance and care advice, and information on plants for all climates
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9781572230873 | Reprint edition (Willow Creek Pr, March 1, 1997), cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Designing and planting fine gardens is an art best learned by example.
9780316367509 | Little Brown & Co, June 1, 1988, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: A guide to designing and planting gardens discusses the structuring of formal, patterned, natural, and flower gardens, and offers comments on some of the best designed gardens of the world
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Product Description: In the golden age of English gardens, Victorian and Edwardian patronage of the arts led to the commissioning of a group of artists, who recorded in watercolours, the landscaped splendour of the age. This is an album of over 100 such paintings...read more
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9780517062791 | Atheneum, May 1, 1991, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: Presents the works of an array of artists in the field who captured the beauty and charm of the English garden of the epoch
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9781851456383 | Trafalgar Square, April 1, 1995, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: In the golden age of English gardens, Victorian and Edwardian patronage of the arts led to the commissioning of a group of artists, who recorded in watercolours, the landscaped splendour of the age.
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9780805037777 | Rev sub edition (Henry Holt & Co, March 1, 1995), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: 1995 1st Ed.
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9780025519350 | Macmillan General Reference, December 1, 1994, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: The author shares her philosophy of gardening, shows examples of garden designs for courtyards, perennial borders, and kitchen and pool gardens, and includes garden care advice
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Product Description: The author surveys a range of herbaceous borders of many National Trust gardens and talks to the people in charge of them. The book gives practical tips from propagation and planting, through staking and dead-heading, to defences against pests and diseaes...read more
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9780060161224 | Riverside Book Co, August 1, 1989, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Considers the function of borders in garden design, and outlines methods for incorporating them into different types of plantings
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9781851458547 | Trafalgar Square, April 1, 1993, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The author surveys a range of herbaceous borders of many National Trust gardens and talks to the people in charge of them.
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An illustrated history of plants and garden styles traces the evolution of gardening styles by focusing on the plants themselves, exploring gardens throughout history--from ancient Greece to the gardens of Europe's royal palaces. 25,000 first printing. National ad/promo. Tour.
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9780671728878 | Simon & Schuster, March 1, 1993, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: An illustrated history of plants and gardens throughout history
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This authoritative overview contains color photographs and 30 full-garden plans covering a wide range of climates and styles for an almost unlimited palette of plants
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9780025831278 | Macmillan Pub Co, March 1, 1991, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: This authoritative overview contains color photographs and 30 full-garden plans covering a wide range of climates and styles for an almost unlimited palette of plants
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