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Featuring beautiful photographs and insightful commentary this Japanese gardening book is a must have for any gardening or zen enthusiast. At the heart of a Japanese garden is harmony with nature. More than simply a landscape of trees and flowering shrubs, a Japanese garden provides a place of serenity and rest, filled with peaceful spots that lend themselves to meditation and contemplation. Japanese Gardens celebrates and illustrates this ideal,...
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The healthier your plants, the happier you'll feel!
“A Beginner's Guide to House Plants” teaches you how to bring your indoor spaces alive with lovely and easy-to-maintain plants-and how to keep them healthy. It provides detailed instructions on how you can unleash the power of plants to energize and relax you, and how to promote well-being by greening your environment.
In this book you'll find hundreds of useful tips, including:
• How to...
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Water isn't just a resource; it is your family's life source.
Taking control of your water supply is a wise choice; now, it's also an easy choice.
Whether your goal is saving the planet, cutting down your expenses, or preparing for an emergency, harvesting rainwater is the perfect way to prepare for the future. Even a beginner can collect clean water that hasn't been chemically disinfected, pumped from an old well, or piped in from who-knows-where.
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Learn how to create and maintain your own underwater ecosystem.
Aquascaping is the art of arranging underwater plant life in aesthetically pleasing displays. From the brilliance of Takashi Amano and numerous other innovators, planted tanks have become one of the more popular methods of enjoying a personal aquarium. In Aquascaping: A Step-by-Step Guide to Planting, Styling, and Maintaining Beautiful Underwater Aquariums, internationally renowned aquascaper...
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100 Japanese Gardens is an ambitious attempt to profile the finest gardens in Japan, while also highlighting lesser known, but equally accomplished landscapes in less-visited parts of the country. A celebration of Japanese landscape design, this book features gardens from Kyoto and Tokyo, as well as from the sub-arctic island of Hokkaido and the semi-tropical islands of Okinawa. Author Stephen Mansfield traveled the length and breadth of Japan on...
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It's all about light, texture, color, shape and balance!
Filled with inspiring images of unconventional flower arrangements, this new book by Japanese Ikebana master Yuji Ueno shows you how to use light and position as well as color, shape and texture-of both flowers and vessel-to make inexpensive floral arrangements that convey a Zen sense of simplicity, calm and balance.
Ueno's arrangements are informal, but authentic and true to the original...
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A modern approach to traditional Japanese floral design.
Award-winning flower designer Shinichi Nagatsuka explains how anyone can create beautiful arrangements using his signature N Style method. Easy to follow, it is based on accent lines rather than the complex system of rules used for traditional Ikebana.
Accent lines are the natural shapes of the flowers themselves, which means vertical arrangements require a different eye than horizontal or...
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This Japan travel guide presents a journey into the true heart of the Kyoto experience-one which brings you deep into the world of Kyoto's ancient Zen Buddhist culture. This is the first comprehensive guide to Kyoto's most important Zen garden and temple sites. Kyoto's Zen heritage represents one of mankind's greatest achievements-recognized by the large number which have been declared UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Millions of visitors travel to Kyoto...
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Building Natural Ponds is the first book to walk through the steps required to design and build a natural pond without the need of pumps, filters, and nasty chemicals. Coverage includes pond ecosystems and natural algae control, planning, design, aesthetics, and siting, plus highly illustrated step-by-step construction guidance, plants and fish, maintenance and troubleshooting, and large ponds and pools.
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Interior decorating just got a green thumb!
Harness the beauty of plants, leaves and foliage-green decor-in this unique collection of 40 nature projects that are fun, easy and inexpensive to make. Six of Japan's leading floral and plant designers offer a range of ideas to turn found and foraged materials into stunning arrangements and displays.
With these visionary stylists as your guides, a few materials you already have at home and easy-to-obtain...
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