Home & Garden

A simple, lavishly illustrated guide to container gardens of all shapes and sizes

You don't need a big back yard to grow a beautiful garden. Container Gardens is a user-friendly, illustrated guide to everything you need to know about growing beautiful plants, including advice on choosing soils, selecting plants that work together, planting in containers, and caring for your garden.

Each garden idea includes a "recipe" and an "ingredients" list that makes shopping and preparing a breeze. The easy-to-follow reference format explains every project in detail and in depth, including helpful hints and essential information on plants, growth, and potting options.

• Features more than 125 container "recipes," each complete with color photos, planting plans, tips on growing, and shopping lists
• Over 500 beautiful photos and illustrations, including inspirational garden photos, plant ID photos, how-to instructions, and step-by-step projects
• Step-by-step instruction helps you achieve exactly the look you want for any project and bonus tips and hints offer basic gardening advice on plant substitutions and garden design insights
• Covers everything from the very basics to more complicated projects, like window box butterfly gardens and containers with seasonal plant change-outs

This easy-to-follow reference is the perfect guide for readers who want to create their own gorgeous container gardens at home.

Great ideas and down-to-earth wisdom on rose gardening from Better Homes and Gardens and the American Rose Society

Better Homes and Gardens presents Rose Gardening, a comprehensive guide to growing great roses recommended by the American Rose Society. Roses are hardy, beautiful plants that grow easily and survive cold weather, so they continually remain popular for home gardeners. This practical guide combines the artistry of rose gardening with the green-thumb wisdom it takes to succeed.

For gardeners of every skill level-whether they've grown roses before or hardly know what one should look like-this book offers inspiration, beautiful photography, artistic and creative garden plans, and historical information that rose enthusiasts will love.

• Includes colorful diagrams, helpful checklists that make planning a breeze, easy-to-understand planting and caring directions, and much more
• Features more than 600 stunning full-color photographs, including a gallery of roses that showcases hundreds of varieties
• Offers advice on selecting the right roses for your geographical region, combining roses with other plants in your design, up-to-date information on pest control, and general garden maintenance

For anyone who loves roses and rose gardens, Rose Gardening is the ultimate resource for the home gardener.

With The Ultimate Appetizer Book, you'll find the perfect morsels and drinks in one incredible compendium!

 

No matter what your party style is-casual, dressy, or just plain fun-nothing says "party" like tasty appetizers! The third book in the Ultimate series, following The Ultimate Cookie Book and The Ultimate Slow Cooker Book, this unique recipe collection features more than 450 recipes for everything from super quick dips and snack mixes to elegant pastries and bite-size sweets-all guaranteed to entice any crowd. More than just a collection of recipes, this book is packed with hundreds of inspiring full-color photos and provides all the tools you need to throw a fabulous bash, including helpful hints in on creative presentation ideas, themed party menus using the recipes in the book, lists of versatile ingredients to keep in the pantry, and make-ahead directions to make planning a breeze.

• More than 450 party foods and drinks range from classics and basics, to fun, creative delights
• Recipes include prep times and make-ahead directions to help with planning, inventive ideas on flavor variations, and nutritional analysis
• With over 300 full-color photographs throughout and a bold, colorful design, this is the ultimate appetizer recipe collection, as beautiful as it is practical, and in an affordable, value package

Lots of people want gardens but find the prospect of getting started a bit daunting. P. Allen Smith's Garden Home is P. Allen Smith's inviting solution.

Smith begins with his own story: his family's love of gardens and experience in the nursery business, his own education at the great gardens of England, and his discovery that we all have, as he says, "a longing for our agrarian past." After walking us through his own "garden home" and explaining why he made the choices he did, Allen introduces his 12 principles of garden design, discussing such topics as a sense of enclosure, framing the view, texture, pattern, rhythm, and, of course, color. Then, with step-by-step projects, he shows readers how to apply the principles in their own garden homes.

For the millions of people who know Smith through his syndicated television show, Weather Channel segments, and appearances on The Early Show, this book is the irresistible invitation to follow him into the garden.

A perfect cookbook for anyone who just doesn't have time to cook

No time to cook? No worries! You can finally skip the drive-through and put home-cooked meals on the table any night of the week! The key is saving time not just in the kitchen, but during that time-consuming trip to the supermarket. Supermarket Shortcuts will get you in and out of the supermarket quickly, efficiently, and cheaply with strategies for streamlining your shopping, then preparing hundreds of delicious, quick meals, almost from scratch.

Filled with 370 recipes made easy and speedy with convenient prepackaged foods and pre-set shopping lists, Supermarket Shortcuts includes

• A variety of home-style favorites and new flavors, like Cheesy Meatball Stew, Stir-fry Chicken and Peppers, and Spiked Pot Roast and Potato Simmer
• Ways to make meal preparation faster and easier-saving you not only time in the kitchen, but also time (and money!) at the supermarket
• A "Shortcuts to Supper" chapter presents 50 great-tasting convenience products followed by five recipes for each (250 recipes in all!), all ready with a minimum of time and effort "1 Grocery Bag, 5 ways" chapter presents a shopping list with 10 ingredients and lets you decide which of five recipes you want to fix
• A make-ahead chapter perfect for removing stress from dinnertime
• A "Workaday Dinners" chapter with family-style recipes ready in 30 minutes or less, with short ingredients lists (10 or fewer ingredients) featuring easy-to-find convenience products and/or fresh ingredients that require minimal preparation

With 24 pages of beautiful color photos, Supermarket Shortcuts has the easy, quick recipes you need to make dinnertime-and shopping for dinner-a snap.

A comprehensive reference for planning, planting, and caring for the most popular perennials

Perennial Gardening from Better Homes and Gardens makes it easy to plan and maintain your ideal home garden with a wealth of smart guidance on selecting and caring for your perennials. All of the essentials are covered here, from planning the initial design to choosing the right perennials for your geographical region to maintaining your garden over time.

Perfect for gardeners of any and all skill levels, the book is packed with useful checklists, troubleshooting advice for common problems, handy at-a-glance charts, up-to-date coverage on new varieties and trends, and in-depth guidance on basic gardening techniques.

• Includes a primer on perennials and plenty of inspirational designs, including color combinations and plant pairings
• Features more than 700 gorgeous full-color photographs and colorful diagrams
• Covers hundreds of varieties of perennials

Whether you're planning your first garden or looking to add perennials to the garden you love, Perennial Gardening covers everything you need to know.

Established in the Middle Ages for the protection of the royal deer, the parks that surround Windsor Castle have served a practical and ornamental purpose for more than a thousand years. This book is the first to tell the story of the Windsor parks and gardens, where generations of gardeners, architects, and farmers have worked and developed the 4,800-acre Great Park and 650-acre Home Park. With the assistance of documents in the Public Record Office and the Royal Archives, and works of art in the Royal Collection, Jane Roberts has created an extensive and beautifully illustrated historical account.

The first part of the book charts chronologically the contributions of different monarchs to the development of the parks and gardens and associated buildings, while the second part offers a topographical survey of the chief features of the two parks. Uses of the parkland have been varied -- to protect deer and their food; to provide areas for hunting, fishing, shooting, and riding; to farm; and to create pleasure grounds with temples and flower gardens. Roberts discusses the leading architects and garden designers who created both ornamental and practical buildings at Windsor, including Frogmore House, Royal Lodge, Cumberland Lodge, Cranbourne, and the park features in the vicinity of Virginia Water, including George IV's Fishing Temple and Fort Belvedere. She also investigates such varied subjects as the flora and fauna within the parks, the forest trees that were of such importance to the navy, exotic plants and animals introduced during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, George III's and Prince Albert's promotion of enlightened agricultural improvements, the association of thepark with horse racing at nearby Ascot Heath, and the evolution of the Savill and Valley Gardens during this century.

Tag "you're it", with this thoughtful collection of tips and techniques to enhance your scrapbooking projects. Explore all manner of unique approaches to creating tags and titles for a variety of themed pages, enough to take you through the year and beyond. Supply lists and simple how-tos make it easy to re-create charming, inventive projects.

• Use as tags for gifts or packages or as a separate greeting cards
• Includes decorative envelopes.
• Magnet on back of each, so it can be stuck to the refrigerator or other metal surface
• Enclosed ribbon or string for each which allows you to attach to gift or package
• 9 Beautiful gift tag booklets selected from an assortment of 11 different types. This is a package of 9 Gift Card Booklets with the following titles (see pictures for cover page of each card booklet). There are 11 different varieties, and you will get a random selection of 9 (only 1 of each) The 11 different varieties include: 1) You Mean So Much to Me, 2) Lifelong Friends, 3) We've Been Apart for Too Long, 4) Times Flies When I Am With You, 5) Missing You, 6) Because I Care, 7) Seize the Day, 8) I Had A Great Time, 9) Our Friendship is Never Out of Style, 10) Dropping You A Line, and 11) I Am Cheering For You.

This is a package of 9 Gift Card Booklets with the following titles (see pictures for cover page of each card booklet). There are 11 different varieties, and you will get a random selection of 9 (only 1 of each) The 11 different varieties include: 1) You Mean So Much to Me, 2) Lifelong Friends, 3) We've Been Apart for Too Long, 4) Times Flies When I Am With You, 5) Missing You, 6) Because I Care, 7) Seize the Day, 8) I Had A Great Time, 9) Our Friendship is Never Out of Style, 10) Dropping You A Line, and 11) I Am Cheering For You. Unique Gift Card Booklet. Beautifully designed multi-page booklet to attach to a gift, or to send as a separate gift card. See pictures for details. The gift card booklet also has a magnet on the back side so that it can be put on a refrigerator or other metal surface. Measures 3" wide and 5" tall, plus Envelope that measures 3 1/8" by 5 1/8". 12 pages in each booklet, not including the front and rear cover. A great gift item!

A well-designed garden provides pleasure to owner and visitor alike but often eludes even the most experienced gardener. The Essential Garden Design Workbook guides you through every stage of designing a garden, from site assessment to drawing up plans and selecting suitable materials. Here you will learn how to assess your site and experiment with design ideas that fit well with the garden's surroundings. You will find easy ways to measure large spaces, estimate the height of a tree, and determine the right proportions for a deck, pathway, or steps. The book includes clear instructions for drawing up plans — from initial concept diagram to final design. This book is tailor made for hands-on gardeners who want to rework their gardens to achieve that sought-after 'designer finish'. Hundreds of explanatory drawings and quick-reference diagrams make this workbook a vital addition to the bookshelves of every gardener, design student, and professional. By working through this book from start to finish, a designer garden is within everyone's reach.