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Gardens

Outside the Not So Big House

Julie Moir Messervy

Full-color illustrated photographs explain how to develop a landscape design that links indoor space with outdoor living.

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Flower Fairies Secret World

Cicely Mary Barker

Presents a fanciful look at the secret world of flower fairies, telling how they are born, what they do, what they wear, and how they live.

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Flower Fairies of the Garden

Cicely Mary Barker

Twenty illustrated poems depict the fairies who live in the garden among the crocuses, snapdragons, and other flowers.

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Garden Poems

Presents more than one hundred poems on the beauty and labor of gardens and gardening, by such writers as John Milton, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Christina Rossetti, and E. E.Cummings.

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The Well-tended Perennial Garden

Tracy DiSabato-Aust

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The Well-designed Mixed Garden

Tracy DiSabato-Aust

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The Palace of Versailles

James Barter

Describes the building of the extravagant palace at Versailles in its historical context, particularly as a reflection of the personality and influence of Louis XIV.

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Seedfolks

Paul Fleischman

One by one, a number of people of varying ages and backgrounds transform a trash-filled inner-city lot into a productive and beautiful garden, and in doing so, the gardeners are themselves transformed

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