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61) Old Herbaceous
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Delightful descriptions and characterizations enliven this tale of an old-time gardener in an English countryside garden and his love of plants. With tender mentoring and the luck of winning a prize at the flower show, young Herbert becomes what he had dreamed of. This is the amusing story of an awkward orphan child with one leg a bit longer than the other who rises from unremarkable school-boy days spent picking wild-flowers and dodging angry farmers...
62) A deadly bouquet
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Janis Harrison's gardening mysteries combine a popular "cozy" pastime with a delightfully populated small Missouri town and juicy mysteries. In her fourth outing, Bretta Solomon has been hired along with a few other River City business owners to put together the town's wedding of the year. But when the landscaper responsible for the nuptial's setting and the bride's hairdresser both die suspiciously on the same day, Bretta can't help but think there's...
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Jane Jeffry mysteries volume 12
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Jane investigates a murder connected to her new gardening class with the help of her police detective boyfriend.
64) Cecil's garden
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After seeing how arguing affects the other animals, Cecil figures out how to plant a garden that he and his friends can all enjoy.
65) Isabel in Bloom
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Making friends in a new city, and new country, is hard for twelve-year-old Filipina-American Isabel, but joining the gardening and cooking club at school helps her find her way.
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When Flower Shop owner Bretta Solomon leaves her hometown of River City, Missouri, and heads for a florist convention in Branson, she's surprised to find a letter from Vincent and Mabel McDuffy slipped under her hotel room door, begging for help. The McDuffys seem to know of Bretta's success as an amateur sleuth around River City, and that, coupled with their admiration for Bretta's late husband, a police officer, has inspired them to ask Bretta to...
67) Green angel
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Haunted by grief and by her past after losing her family in a fire, fifteen-year-old Green retreats into her ruined garden as she struggles to survive emotionally and physically on her own.
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James Nealy is haunted by irrational fears and inescapable compulsions. A successful software developer, he's thrown himself into a new goal -- to finally conquer the noise in his mind. And he has a plan. He'll confront his darkest fears and build something beautiful: a garden. When he meets Tilly Silverberg, he knows she holds the key, even if she doesn't think so. After her husband's death gardening became Tilly's livelihood and her salvation....
69) The lost gardens
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An American woman who has inherited an English estate from an unknown stranger, decides to restore the formerly glorious extensive gardens. However, once Lawrence Kingston, the retired botany professor hired to undertake the challenge, uncovers human remains in a hidden chapel, he wants to learn more about Wickersham Priory's mysterious past. When workers on the project keep turning up dead, both owner and gardener "risk being buried amidst the garden's...
71) Bindweed
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River City, Missouri, florist Bretta Solomon is happy to spend an occasional day off with her helper, Toby, a slow-witted young man whose mother died from a terminal illness, leaving him on his own. Everyone in town, including Bretta, takes extra care to make sure Toby is doing okay.
However, today, before Bretta can relax, she must fulfill another promise: her father's new, and younger, girlfriend wants to redecorate Bretta's home. Bretta is less...
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When Hope Miller is offered the plot of land behind the Me, Myself, and Pie shop to start a garden, she jumps at the chance. Finally -- some space away from her four sisters! But everyone in town seems to have an opinion about what she should grow and how she should grow it. When the widower schoolteacher, Jonas Sutter, asks if his students at the Amish school can help turn the plot into a community garden, Hope only halfheartedly agrees, wondering...
80) Flora's surprise
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Flora, a young rabbit, tries to grow a house by planting a brick.