This exciting guide layers practical gardening fundamentals with creative solutions that encourage thinking outside the pot. From design basics to essential plant picks, "Small-Space Container Gardens" proves one doesn't need a yard to have a garden.

"Five years ago, Mira Bunting founded a guerrilla gardening group: Birnam Wood. An undeclared, unregulated, sometimes-criminal, sometimes-philanthropic gathering of friends, this activist collective plants crops wherever no one will notice: on the sides of roads, in forgotten parks, and neglected backyards. For years, the group has struggled to break even. Then Mira stumbles on an answer, a way to finally set the group up for the long term: a landslide...

Even beginner gardeners can select plants to create a stunning garden as unique as the mid-Atlantic region - with expert help to ensure success! Mid-Atlantic Getting Started Garden Guide is a plant selection guide, perfect for when you're choosing plants and starting a garden in a climate that can be as challenging as it is beautiful. Choose the right plants and care for them properly with help from two of the area's most highly respected and experienced...

In the spring when trees unfreeze and grass grows green and pansies say, "Please plant me!" Nell and her dog, Rusty, can't wait to dig in dirt just right for digging. But Norman, their neighbor, says "Ewww!" to digging and dirt.

"Gwendolyn begs her parents for a pet, and soon discovers how much she loves taking care of her very own garden"--

The Little Red Hen gives Old MacDonald some pointers on composting-- and a legendary farm is born-- in this rhyming, rollicking read-aloud.

Un primer libro de jardinería para niños, con divertidos proyectos y actividades, para que los más pequeños aprendan a cuidar el medioambiente jugando y disfruten de su pasión por las flores y las plantas. Los niños descubrirán cómo preparar la tierra antes de sembrar, qué y cuándo plantar, dónde conseguir semillas, cómo trasplantar, podar y hacer compost, qué verduras y hierbas cultivar. ¡Todo lo necesario para crear increíbles espacios...

After watching the first graders grow plants from seeds, Hercules, the class guinea pig, is inspired. He wants to grow things, too! During a summer vacation spent in the country, he gets his chance. With the help of a rabbit named Daisy (who knows a lot about gardens), Hercules plants his seeds and waits...and waits and waits and waits...Hercules leans that growing things takes more than seeds and soil, sun and rain. It takes patience. But sometimes...