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Now you can discover the joy and pleasure of growing your own herbs for spicing up meals, creating crafts, treating ailments, and more. In this comprehensive and beautifully illustrated herbal guide you'll find information on herb history, cultivation, propagation, and harvesting, along with a wealth of great ideas for using these wonder plants every day in a variety of ways. Extremely informative and fascinating, this book gives you instructions for creating bursting-with-flavor recipes, health care products, decorative craft ideas, insect repellents, cosmetics, cleaning agents, and much more.

Reader’s Digest Quintessential Guide to Gardening brings you the best advice, straight to the point. This comprehensive A-Z guide covers everything from acid soil to zucchini. The hints and tips inside have been culled from leading horticulturists and accomplished home gardeners from all over the country. So, you can trust that these proven methods will work in your garden, too.

Attracting birds and butterflies and bees has never been simpler with the tips, tricks and plant picks in this handy guide, Gardening for Birds, Butterflies & Bees. Plus, you'll help support the dwindling bee population, which is essential to the future of gardening. Whether you're just starting out or are a bona fide green thumb, you'll turn to this can't-miss, birding and gardening resource for years to come.

Whether you want to learn how to grow lemon trees in pots or to create your very own salsa window box with chilies, dwarf tomatoes, scallions, and coriander, Small Is Bountiful will show how! This growing guide teaches you how to use the latest practices of high-density patio gardening to grow a cornucopia of mouthwatering fruits, delectable vegetables, and fresh herbs in large and small plant containers, window boxes, and hanging baskets. With just a few simple steps, you’ll be able to enjoy picking fresh ingredients from your patio almost all year long.

With The Best of Birds & Blooms 2014 in hand, you'll have instant access to all the year's best problem solvers from Birds & Blooms magazine. You'll create the "backyard oasis" of your dreams with 200+ helpful gardening and bird-attracting solutions. Inside you’ll find, how-to garden plans, up-close bird and butterfly photos and common-sense advice for attracting more birds and growing bigger blooms.

With The Best of Birds & Blooms 2016 in hand, you'll have instant access to all the year's best problem solvers from Birds & Blooms magazine. You'll create the "backyard oasis" of your dreams with 200+ helpful gardening and bird-attracting solutions. Inside you’ll find, how-to garden plans, up-close bird and butterfly photos and common-sense advice for attracting more birds and growing bigger blooms.

With The Best of Birds & Blooms 2019 in hand, you'll have instant access to all the year's best problem solvers from Birds & Blooms magazine. You'll create the "backyard oasis" of your dreams with 200+ helpful gardening and bird-attracting solutions. Inside you’ll find, how-to garden plans, up-close bird and butterfly photos and common-sense advice for attracting more birds and growing bigger blooms.

This friendly and educational Backyard Bird Field Guide, brought to you by the editors of Birds & Blooms magazine, features both in-depth and at-a-glance mini profiles of your favorite winged wonders, like orioles, bluebirds, cardinals, woodpeckers, jays and hummingbirds. Our experts share helpful tips to ID any bird that may visit your backyard, plus interesting information about their behavior, ideal habitat and migration patterns. Plus, enjoy easy ideas for creating your own backyard bird haven.

Get ready to make your garden the best it’s ever been! Birds & Blooms Birding & Gardening Secrets offers you must-know advice on topics ranging from how to prep your garden in spring to what foods your local birds will eat during the cold winter months. There are plenty of do-it-yourself backyard ideas to bring your space to life.

Attracting birds to your backyard just got a little easier. The Ultimate Guide to Birding, brought to you by the editors of Birds & Blooms magazine, shows you how! Filled with expert ideas for creating your own bustling bird haven, it shows the top foods preferred by your favorite winged visitors, how to create a safe environment they’ll want to nest in and the very best plants you can grow to keep them coming back.

Experience the magic of hummingbirds with Ultimate Guide to Hummingbirds, brought to you by the editors of Birds & Blooms magazine. Filled with expert ideas for creating a hummer habitat, top nectar-rich plants, plenty of down-to-earth reader advice and page after page of gorgeous bird photography, it contains everything you need to attract and enjoy these winged wonders yourself. We promise—all it takes is one encounter and you’ll be hooked for life.