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Dear Garden Owner.

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Just Some Of The Topics Included:

Sowing a New Lawn - Discover when and more importantly when not to sow seed and discover the professional gardener's biggest secret to establishing a healthy lawn the success of your lawn may even depend on the day you sow it..
Advice on how to instantly mask areas that have become bare, weedy, or damaged..
What month of the year you should commence feeding and weeding, which month is usually the best time for killing lawn weeds .
Mowing - tips on how to achieve a 'bowling-green' finish and discover why
It is perfectly acceptable to leave the clippings on the lawn..
How to prevent 'thatching' on your lawn with one quick and easy tip..
How to install a modest-sized sod lawn in one day.
One very simple way to aerate your lawn effortlessly..
Weeds - The most common kinds and how to get rid of them fast..
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Here's a just a few more great ideas you'll find covered in 'Your Perfect Lawn'

How to choose the right grass seed
The easy way to lay turf
How to prepare the soil like the Pro's
How To properly level a site
How To rest the land
Fertilizing - How to make your own Autumn & Spring fertilizer
Scarifying
Get your lawn in shape for summer
Watering advice
Lawn feeding tips
Sowing Information
Work schedule for the Year (Tips for each month)

And amazingly you can identify problems with your lawn and soil based on the type of weeds you find. Weeds can be helpful indicators that will show you how to manage your soil in a more productive and less haphazard manner.

Information on all the following types of weed are listed:

Bindweed
Burdock
Chickweed
Chicory
Cinquefoils
Clovers
Daisy
Dandelions
Horse Nettle
Lamb's Quarters
Mallows
Milkweed
Mustard
Nightshade/Bittersweet
Pigweed
Plantain
Water Hemlock
Wild Carrot
Wild Strawberry

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The American Woodland Garden: Capturing the Spirit of the Deciduous Forest

North America's eastern half, roughly from the Midwest to the Atlantic, was once a great deciduous forest. Although centuries of human intervention have cleared much of the land, the timeless forest remains in the spirit of the place. Today, even the shortest period of human neglect allows for the resurgence of the process of forest creation. The greatest gardens â?? and happiest gardeners â?? in this area will be those that take into account the nature of the land.
In his unique, and often thought-provoking new book, award-winning author Darke promotes and stunningly illustrates a garden aesthetic based on the strengths and opportunities of the woodland, including play of light, sound, and scent; seasonal drama; and the architectural interest of woody plants.

While written from a compelling and fresh perspective, The American Woodland Garden never strays from the realistic concerns of the everyday gardener. Information on planting, soils, and maintenance provides a firm foundation for horticultural accomplishment. An alphabetical list of woodland plants offers useful advice for every garden, emphasizing native trees, shrubs, vines, ferns, grasses, sedges, and flowering perennials that fit the forest aesthetic. More than 700 of the author's stunning photographs show both the natural palette of plants in the wild and the effects that can be achieved with them in garden settings. Many of the most striking photos in the book were taken at classic gardens that are paragons of an ecological style.

The American Woodland Garden is a clarion call to a new awareness of our relationship to the natural world. This book will take its rightful place among the classic works that have influenced our concept of the American landscape.

Price: $49.95

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The Forest Farms of Kandy: And Other Gardens of Complete Design (Ashgate Studies in Environmental Policy and Practice)

Providing a survey of tropical farming systems around the world and an in-depth analysis of Kandy, Sri Lanka, this book offers an economic and ecological description and evaluation of this ancient agroforestry system and its relationship to a wide range of global agro-development and environmental problems.

Price: $170.00

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Forest and Garden: Traces of Wildness in a Modernizing Land, 1897-1949

"In wildness is the preservation of the world," wrote Henry David Thoreau. But how the wild and the managed or artificially arranged environments co-exist has been a matter of intense debate among foresters and landscape professionals at least since the era of Frederick Law Olmsted Sr.

In Forest and Garden, Melanie L. Simo ranges through a period of landscape history that has been underexamined, between Olmsted and mid-twentieth-century modernism, when the contours of the debate were formed and the landscape professions came of age. Simo's book spans half a century, from the year that Charles Sprague Sargent's influential Garden and Forest magazine ceased publication in 1897 to the appearance in 1949 of two unusual books about land and landscape -- Aldo Leopold's Sand County Almanac and Jens Jensen's The Clearing -- that marked the beginning of a new ecological awareness.

Forest and Garden covers this middle ground by focusing on the apparent oppositions between culture and nature, city and country, science and art, and between professions peopled with figures such as John Muir, Gifford Pinchot, the Olmsteds, Mary Austin, Willa Cather, Bernard Maybeck, Frank Lloyd Wright, Henry Beston, and Benton MacKaye. In this earlier era when novelists, conservationists, foresters, and landscape designers still shared a common language, Simo finds areas of overlap in how their writings express their perceptions of the land, its uses, its beauty, and its fate. Organizing her study by region and landscape type, from desert and prairie to Metropolitan New York and Boston, and extending from ecological concerns in garden design to Leopold's call for a land ethic, Simo moves beyond the polarized views of current environmental debate.

Price: $39.50

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The Urban Forest: Comprehensive Management

Urban forestry includes not only the city -street, it includes city parks and recreation areas as well as suburban areas. It involves city planning, forestry for development, construction of an infrastructure to care and nurture trees, funding, and community action. This title deals with the aspects of managing all facets of these areas.

Price: $230.00

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