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At home with plants
by Ian Drummond
747.98/DRU
Presents advice on the use of house plants in interior decoration, discussing plant care, containers, principles of design, health benefits, and the selection of the right plant for each room
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Beginner's Guide to Garden Planning and Design : 50 Simple Gardening Ideas for Adding Style & Personality to Your Outdoor Space
by Helen Yoest
712/YOE
Rather than force her own creative ideas on you, author, gardener, and horticulturalist, Helen Yoest teaches you how to recognize and act on your own creativity. Sections include Garden Basics, Garden Styles, Garden Elements and Your Garden Environment. Learn about the importance of carving out the perfect space for your needs, how to create rhythm, scale, and balance along with curb appeal to help personalize your space, creating a sustainable garden environment where plants and animals can live together.
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The complete guide to landscape projects : stonework, plantings, water features, carpentry, fences.
by Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc.
Provides a comprehensive manual for renovating, building, and greening a landscape, including instructions for landscape design, creating garden beds, building stone walls, designing water features, and maintaining safe fire pits
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Curb appeal
by Paula Marshall
728.37/CUR
A useful reference for homeowners explains how to add appeal and value to a property with a minimum investment of time and money, presenting dozens of innovative ideas and cost-saving projects to add character to a home's exterior.
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Deer-resistant design : fence-free gardens that thrive despite the deer
by Karen Chapman
635/CHA
An award-winning landscape designer and author showcases real home gardens across North America, from a country garden in New Jersey to a Texas hacienda, which use intentional design choices to manage the presence of pesky deer. Original. 10,000 first printing.
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Encyclopedia of garden design & structure : ideas and inspiration for your garden
by Derek Fell
712.6/FEL
A leading landscape designer presents a ready reference of creative gardening ideas and more than one thousand full-color captioned photographs of garden features from around the world, with alphabetical listings of more than 150 design categories, tips on plant cultivation, garden history, and hundreds of practical suggestions for garden planning, planting, and more.
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Envisioning landscapes : the transformative environments of OJB
by Peter Walker
712.5/ENV
For over three decades OJB has practiced at the forefront of landscape architecture and urban planning, garnering acclaim for its visionary approach to creating landscapes and public spaces that are highly sustainable, keenly attuned to their environments and communities, and feature an exceptional palette of plantings applied in bold compositions. In its first monograph, Envisioning Landscapes, OJB presents recent projects in a range of typologies, from restorative gardens and neighborhood parks to transformational urban developments that have brought new life to city centers.
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The essential garden design workbook
by Rosemary Alexander
The third edition of The Essential Garden Design Workbook is fully updated with new color photograph and illustrations, garden plans, and growing information for the top fifty plants no designer should be without. You'll also find updated information on designing with computer-aided design (CAD), details on sustainability ad biodiversity, and important advice on working with contractors.
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The gardener's garden : inspiration across continents and centuries
by Phaidon Editors
712/GAR
This internationally bestselling inspirational resource for garden-lovers and designers is now reissued with a gorgeous new cover - bringing the book's winning blend of authority and visual appeal to a new audience. The Gardener's Garden spans seven centuries to spotlight more than 250 of the globe's finest permanent gardens by leading garden designers, horticulturalists, and landscape architects, as chosen by an international team of experts.0Gardens of all types and style from across the globe, from the grandeur of Versailles to a private sanctuary in Marrakech, have been brought to life through more than 1,000 sumptuous photographs and detailed descriptive texts by leading garden writers. This is both a valuable resource for those seeking inspiration on garden design and planting and the ideal gift for garden-lovers everywhere
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Gardentopia : design basics for creating beautiful outdoor spaces
by Jan Johnsen
635.9/JOH
This info-packed, sumptuous book offers individual tips for enhancing any size landscape using 'real world' solutions. The suggestions are grouped into five categories that include Garden Design and Artful Accents, Walls, Patios, and Steps and Plants and Planting, among others. Whether you are an experienced gardener or a landscaping novice, Gardentopia will inspire you with tips such as 'Soften a Corner", "Paint it Black", and "Hide and Reveal".
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Low-water landscaping
by Teri Dunn Chace
Useful tips, achievable plans and easy-to-understand instructions help eco-conscious gardeners create beautiful landscapes, incorporating grasses, perennials, shrubs, trees, groundcovers and succulents without wasting hundreds of gallons of water each day.
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Nature play at home : creating outdoor spaces that connect children with the natural world
by Nancy Striniste
Nancy Striniste gives you the tools you need to make outdoor adventures possible in your own backyard. With hundreds of inspiring ideas and illustrated, step-by-step projects, this hardworking book details how to create playspaces that use natural materials -- like logs, boulders, sand, water, and plants of all kinds. Projects include hillside slides, seating circles, sand pits, and more.
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New landscaping ideas that work
by Julie Moir Messervy
712.6/MES
The most comprehensive source of inspired design ideas and practical solutions for all landscaping and outdoor living spaces. Practical design advice as well as over 350 innovative ideas combine to give homeowners the only sourcebook they'll need to make smart design, buying, and installation decisions
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Outside the not so big house : creating the landscape of home
by Julie Moir Messervy
712.6/MES
A companion volume to Inside the Not So Big House explains how to create a seamless transition between indoor space and outdoor living through a consideration of the building in relation to the surrounding land and the development of a landscape design that links the inside and outside.
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P. Allen Smith's garden home
by P. Allen Smith
712.6/SMI
A no-nonsense guide to garden style and design explains how to create a dramatic landscape that complements one's home, discussing twelve key principles of garden design and providing step-by-step projects that demonstrate how to apply the principles to their own homes. 75,000 first printing.
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Perennial garden design
by Michael King
712.6/KIN
A comprehensive guide to perennial gardening explains how to make perennial plants a key part of any garden design, looking at the best perennials for year-round planting and color effects, offering tips on how to use perennials in various styles of gardens, and including an A-Z directory of popular perennial plants with tips on cultivation and care.
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Taylor's master guide to landscaping
by Rita Buchanan
712.6/BUC
The companion volume to Taylor's Master Guide to Gardening reveals the vital components of landscape design, urging readers to approach landscaping with function as well as form in mind and offering advice on choosing a site, selecting plants, creating garden accessories, and maintaining a landscape.
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Trees, shrubs & hedges for your home / : For Your Home
by Creative Homeowner
635.976/TRE
A comprehensive guide for achieving a beautiful landscape while providing descriptions for over 1,000 of the best plants; updated edition focuses on native plants, updated plant names, and the latest gardening practices
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Walks, patios & walls.
by Mark Wolfe
690.184/ULT
"Designing the outside of the home adds to curb-side appeal, creates ambiance and increases the value of the home. A complete DIY guide to enhance your home with walkways, garden walls, and patios, Ultimate Guide: Walks, Patios & Walls, 2nd edition provides the homeowner with all the information needed to integrate popular hardscape designs into their overall home landscape. Included are dozens of design ideas with easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions for a variety of landscape projects, including brick, mortar, and concrete walks and patios, flagstone and tile patios, brick and mortared stone walls, and so much more. With hundreds of building tips and construction drawings for projects, also included in this updated edition is new content on hardscaping design and materials, choices to consider that combat climate change, pervious versus impervious surfaces, terracing, and other elements that influence stormwater runoff and site planning, and more"
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Understanding garden design : the complete handbook for aspiring designers
by Vanessa Gardner Nagel
712.2/NAG
This thorough handbook is profusely illustrated with helpful photographs and diagrams. A particularly interesting tool is the hypothetical garden plan that appears in each chapter to show how to apply the topics at hand. A practical, logical approach to the planning, design, and installation of a garden, this volume will be an invaluable resource for students, landscape professionals, and garden designers
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What gardeners grow : 600 plants chosen by the world's greatest plantspeople
by Frances Lincoln
635/WHA
"Draws on the experience and passion of the world's most interesting and respected plantspeople to create a glossary of plants to inspire the everyday gardener. A diverse range of some 250 gardeners have contributed their plant choices, each selecting one or more of their most treasured favourites"
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Wild about weeds : garden design with rebel plants
by Jack Wallington
632.5/WAL
Not all weeds are ugly uncontrollable brutes. Yes, they can be difficult and intimidating, but by learning how to grow weeds in unexpected ways you will become a better gardener with a more interesting garden. This book profiles over 50 weeds and shows you surprising ways to grow them, no matter what your garden type: from borders to boxes, sunny to shady, poor soil to rich, tropical to formal, Japanese-style to prairies. With interviews, tips and advice from celebrated gardeners, learn how to let weeds flourish without taking control. Wild about Weeds is the must-have guide for modern gardeners that explains how to tame and nurture the most challenging of plants.
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Chicagoland dream houses : how a mid-century architecture competition reimagined the American home
by Siobhan Moroney
728.37/MOR
Sponsored by the Chicago Tribune, the 1945 Chicagoland Prize Homes competition solicited designs by mostly unknown architects. The goal: to provide beautiful yet practical houses for returning WWII veterans and middle-class residents of the city and suburbs. In-depth and extensively illustrated, Chicagoland Dream Houses revisits this overlooked chapter in Chicago and architectural history. Organizers conceived the competition to help remedy the postwar housing crisis and it received front-page news coverage and an exhibit at the Art Institute of Chicago. It also had the rare distinction of taking designs from paper to reality, an accomplishment that brought out two hundred thousand people to tour finished homes. Yet the contest ultimately failed in its aim to inspire new home construction that would solve Chicago's housing shortage. Siobhan Moroney situates the competition in its time both socially and architecturally, analyzing floor plans and other materials to reveal how the designs reflected the expectations of middle-class families and the social norms that dictated their everyday lives and aspirations
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Digging in
by Loretta Nyhan
F/NYHAN
When widow Paige feels her life unraveling, she decides to dig up her whole lawn and replace it with a vegetable garden, bucking neighborhood bylaws, making new friends, and discovering something within herself in the process
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How to fix stuff
by Tom Scalisi
643.7/SCA
Whether you need to patch a hole in a floor, restore a well-worn piece of furniture, or build a planter in your backyard, this book shows you how to do it with step-by-step instructions, diagrams, and illustrations. With just a quick trip to the hardware store and the know-how from these pages, you'll soon discover the satisfaction of doing your own home repairs without hiring an expensive specialist
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Unearthing the secret garden : the plants and places that inspired Frances Hodgson Burnett
by Marta McDowell
635.09/MCD
McDowell delves into the professional and gardening life of Frances Hodgson Burnett, the writer who dominated the literary world of her time. A lover of flowers and gardens, Burnett's path to literary triumph was a long one. McDowell reminds us why Burnett's 1911 novel, The secret garden, continues to touch readers after more than a century
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25 fun things to do for your neighbors
by Paul Mason
177.1J/MAS
Engage with the people in your community through 25 activities and projects designed to get you out into your neighborhood. Clean a neighbor's car, walk a dog, organize a block party, clean up the trash, and more. Discover great ways to make new friends and give back.
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Home
by Isabelle Simler
811.54J/SIM
"Twenty-seven poems look inside the dwellings of animals like elf owls, cathedral termites, Sumatran orangutans, and foam-nest tree frogs"
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A home like this
by Laura Purdie Salas
This poetic board book surveys various types of homes in nature, spotlighting their differences but concluding with the elements common to all: love and family
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A piece of home
by Jeri Hanel Watts
Moving with his family from Korea to West Virginia, Hee Jun struggles to adjust to his new home, an unfamiliar language and the different appearances of his classmates before making friends and bringing a familiar flower home to his grandmother. Illustrated by the award-winning artist of Mom, It's My First Day of Kindergarten!
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Alma at home = : Alma en casa
by Juana Martinez-Neal
Little Alma invites readers into her home where they'll meet her loving family, in this charming board book that features words and simple phrases in English and Spanish on every spread. (Board Books– Preschool-Grade K)
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Flower girls : a story of sisters
by Jacqueline Preiss Weitzman
"Lily's garden is perfect and precise, while her sister Poppy's garden is eccentric and wild. Now that their youngest sister, Daisy, is old enough to have a garden of her own, the question is what will this flower girl choose to plant, and will her sisters stand back and let her bloom, or will they get in the way in the name of being helpful?"
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Growing home
by Beth Ferry
"A motley crew of talkative plants, a curious spider, and a grumpy goldfish use their newfound magical abilities to defend their family from a greedy human"
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Home
by Carson Ellis
A whimsical tribute to the myriad possibilities of home depicts homes in different real-world environments as well as fantastical settings
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Home
by Matt de la Peäna
Celebrate the beauty and love found in every home, no matter its size, and see how people can be a kind of home, in a meditation on the places we feel most comfortable, loved and protected.
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Home is...
by Hannah Rodgers Barnaby
"What makes a home home? Find out in this intriguing exploration of the places creatures call home. From mountain to sea, meadow to tree, small town to big city, people and animals make their homes all over the world. Some are forever while some change with the seasons, but all are just right for the creatures who live in them"
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Love makes a garden grow
by Taeeun Yoo
When her beloved grandfather, whom she helps tend plants, gives her a flower of her own, a young girl discovers that caring for it teaches her to feel her grandfather's love.
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The sprite and the gardener
by Rii Abrego
Join our neighborhood of sprites in this beautiful, gentle fantasy where both gardens and friendships begin to blossom
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The wheel on the school.
by Meindert De Jong
Dutch schoolgirl Lina's composition about storks began the children's campaign to bring storks back to their village
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Rolling Meadows Library
3110 Martin Lane, Rolling Meadows, Illinois 60008
(847) 259-6050rmlib.org |
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