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Product Description: As readers and critics around the country agree, any new book by the renowned garden writer Elizabeth Lawrence is like finding a buried treasure. A Rock Garden in the South will not disappoint. Released posthumously, this book is not only a welcome addition to the Lawrence canon, but fills an important gap in the garden literature on the middle South...read more
By Nancy Goodwin (editor), Allen Lacy (editor) and Elizabeth Lawrence

Hardcover:

9780822309864 | Duke Univ Pr, September 1, 1990, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: As readers and critics around the country agree, any new book by the renowned garden writer Elizabeth Lawrence is like finding a buried treasure.

Paperback:

9780822357759 | Duke Univ Pr, September 29, 2014, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: As readers and critics around the country agree, any new book by the renowned garden writer Elizabeth Lawrence is like finding a buried treasure.

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Two gardeners share a year in their gardens through a series of letters wherein they exchange stories and information about their latest plantings, and their lives. Garden Bk Club. (view table of contents)

Hardcover:

9780807826034 | Univ of North Carolina Pr, February 1, 2001, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Shares the letters of gardeners Nancy Goodwin and Allen Lacy over the course of a year, revealing their horticultural stories, trade secrets, and the connection between gardening and their personal lives.

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The former Wall Street Journal and New York Times garden columnist shares stories from three decades of transforming a suburban lot into a garden paradise (view table of contents)

Hardcover:

9780618003785 | Houghton Mifflin, April 1, 2000, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: The former Wall Street Journal and New York Times garden columnist shares stories from three decades of transforming a suburban lot into a garden paradise

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Product Description: A bouquet of roses can signify friendship, concern, sympathy - and, of course, love. This book offers garden lovers a full-colour exploration of the world of roses.'
By Christopher Baker (photographer) and Allen Lacy

Hardcover:

9781556701559 | Stewart Tabori & Chang, October 1, 1990, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Examines the origin and history of the rose, as well as its lore, uses, and appearance in art and literature

Paperback:

9781556704482 | Stewart Tabori & Chang, September 1, 1999, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: A bouquet of roses can signify friendship, concern, sympathy - and, of course, love.

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A philosophy professor and expert gardener shares his viewpoints on gardening as an intellectually stimulating and spiritual pursuit, inviting beginners to take their first steps on a lifelong commitment to the gardener's way of life.
By Allen Lacy and Cynthia Woodyard (photographer)

Hardcover:

9780805037425 | Henry Holt & Co, April 1, 1998, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Describes how gardening engages all five senses, discusses the intellectual pleasures of planning and growing a garden, and reveals the spiritual benefits of the practice

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Product Description: Book by Lacy, Allen

Hardcover:

9780871133472 | Atlantic Monthly Pr, October 1, 1990, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Tells how to take advantage of the often neglected possibilities of autumn gardening, detailing how to grow and where to buy a variety of unusual fall-flowering plants

Paperback:

9780805040678 | Henry Holt & Co, September 1, 1995, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Book by Lacy, Allen

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Product Description: In his third collection of essays, one of America's most thoughtful and engaging garden writers surveys the world with a gardener's eye. Like his highly acclaimed earlier collections, this work is full of sound advice, passionate opinions, and Lacy's open delight in every conceivable aspect of gardening...read more

Hardcover:

9780871134738 | Atlantic Monthly Pr, January 1, 1992, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Essays cover every aspect of gardening, from the great gardens of the world to the latest trends in garden design

Paperback:

9780805039528 | Reprint edition (Henry Holt & Co, April 1, 1995), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: In his third collection of essays, one of America's most thoughtful and engaging garden writers surveys the world with a gardener's eye.

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Discusses how ground covers can be used in landscape design, recommends specific varieties for sunny and shady spots, and tells how to use them with bulbs
By Allen Lacy and Cynthia Woodyard (photographer)

Hardcover:

9780060169138 | Harpercollins, September 1, 1993, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Discusses how ground covers can be used in landscape design, recommends specific varieties for sunny and shady spots, and tells how to use them with bulbs

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Essays deal with favorite plants, places where the author has lived and gardened, compost, cut flowers, and the seasons

Hardcover:

9780374172541 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 1, 1984, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The respected gardening columnist offers sixty short pieces on subjects of interest to backyard gardeners and horticulturists, subjects ranging through a variety of flowers, their attractions and flaws, and their places in the garden

Paperback:

9780395607305 | Reissue edition (Houghton Mifflin, January 1, 1992), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Essays deal with favorite plants, places where the author has lived and gardened, compost, cut flowers, and the seasons

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Product Description: Allen Lacy has gathered together a colorful sampler of American gardening writing from Thomas Jefferson to our own day. Among the fifty-two writers represented are such national treasures as Celia Thaxter, Neltje Blanchan, Elizabeth Lawrence, and Katherine S. White.
By Allen Lacy (editor)

Hardcover:

9780374104047 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, May 1, 1988, cover price $18.95

Paperback:

9780374522179 | Reprint edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 1, 1990), cover price $29.00 | About this edition: Allen Lacy has gathered together a colorful sampler of American gardening writing from Thomas Jefferson to our own day.

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Explores the world of horticulture from a flowerseed farm in Costa Rica, to the headquarters of a major international seed company, to the breathtaking parks of Barcelona, and to a vineyard in New Jersey.

Hardcover:

9780374153557 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, May 1, 1986, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Explores the world of horticulture from a flowerseed farm in Costa Rica, to the headquarters of a major international seed company, to the breathtaking parks of Barcelona, and to a vineyard in New Jersey.

Paperback:

9780374520632 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, February 1, 1988, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Explores the world of horticulture from a flowerseed farm in Costa Rica, to the headquarters of a major international seed company, to the breathtaking parks of Barcelona, and to a vineyard in New Jersey.

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The respected gardening columnist offers sixty short pieces on subjects of interest to backyard gardeners and horticulturists, subjects ranging through a variety of flowers, their attractions and flaws, and their places in the garden

Paperback:

9780345322197 | Reprint edition (Ballantine Books, March 1, 1985), cover price $7.95 | About this edition: The respected gardening columnist offers sixty short pieces on subjects of interest to backyard gardeners and horticulturists, subjects ranging through a variety of flowers, their attractions and flaws, and their places in the garden

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