Does your garden lack zing? Are your borders a bore? Spice them up with a touch of the tropics! Tropical plants bring sizzle to every garden. Bananas in Maine, cannas in Canada
- these plants can be grown everywhere. Whether used in containers or planted directly in the ground, their bold leaves & over-the-top flowers create instant drama. Pam Baggett chooses 100 of the best tropical plants & shows readers how to grow them, how to combine them with other plants, & how to make eye-popping compositions of color & pattern. Love flaming orange? Try cannas, lantanas, & ' Fire Dragon' coleus. Screaming magenta more your taste? Go for hot-pink four o'clocks, bloodleaf, & ' Cranberry Punch' pentas. If you're passionate about violet, grab princess flower, Brazilian skyflower, & 'violet Majesty' sage, Tropicalismo! offers hundreds of ideas for turning gardens, decks, & patios into a visual fiesta. A taste of the tropics is all it takes to turn your garden into a paradise.
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OS Explorer is the Ordnance Survey's most detailed map & is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities like walking, horse riding & off-road cycling. Providing complete GB coverage the series details essential information such as youth hostels, pubs & visitor information as well as rights of way, permissive paths & bridleways. ...

OS Explorer is the Ordnance Survey's most detailed map & is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities such as walking, horse riding & off-road cycling. The series provides complete GB coverage & can now be used in all weathers thanks to OS Explorer
- Active, a tough, versatile version of OS Explorer.
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A story of persecution & poetry, love & war set in 13th-century Southern France. A troubadour, Bertran, witnesses the brutal murder of the Pope's legate, & risks his life to warn others of the war that he knows is certain to follow this act. The lands of the peaceable Cathars
- deemed heretics
- are now forfeit & under threat from crusaders who have been given authority by the Pope to take the Cathar domains by force. But the Pope is trying to track Bertran down & so is somebody else: Elinor, a young noblewoman, in love with Bertran but facing a loveless arranged marriage, flees her family & becomes a minstrel herself. Soon both Bertan & Elinor find themselves enveloped in a rising tide of bloodshed that threatens the very fabric of their society.

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Hannah's smart & funny... she's also fifteen & pregnant. Aaron is new at school & doesn't want to attract attention. So why does he offer to be the pretend dad to Hannah's unborn baby? Growing up can be trouble but that's how you find out what really matters. ...

All is quiet in the Dinosaur Cafe until big bully Tyrannosaurus bursts in, demanding more than vegetarian fare. After he threatens to put all the herbivores into a dinosaur stew, they decide to retaliate & call in their secret weapon. & with big bully T-Rex cowering in the corner, the rest of the dinosaurs join in & tickle him. ...

Details: Emmeline Lucas reaches the pinnacle of village life by becoming Mayor of Tilling, but with arch rival Miss Elizabeth
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The ultimate enemies-to-lovers, fake dating summer romance from MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER Portia Mac Intosh. Lara & Sonny are sworn enemies. As rival showbiz journalists, they are always out to get one-up on each other – whether being the first to scoop the latest celebrity gossip, or sabotaging a potential lead. So when their bosses ask them to join forces & go undercover at an exclusive celebrity retreat, they can’t think of anything worse – except that they are going to need to pretend to be in couples therapy to blend in… Being on a tropical island for work would be most people’s idea of heaven, but for Lara & Sonny it’s hell. Can a week of sun, sea & uncovering showbiz secrets together chip away at Lara & Sonny’s rivalry? & once they get home & the fake relationship is over, could a real one be left in its place? Product Information: • ISBN: 9781836784869 • Author: Portia Mac Intosh • Publisher: Boldwood Books Limited • Pages: 272 • Format: Paperback • Dimensions: 1... ...

Details: When the people of Turnham Malpas realise that all is not as it should be between Peter, the rector, & his
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On the outskirts of a small English town, young Arnie discovers the body of a middle-aged man in the woods. Three people are convinced they are responsible for the death: the captain thinks he accidentally shot the man while hunting rabbits; the local spinster thinks she may have done more damage than she intended when she hit him with her shoe
- & Arnies mother, most damningly of all, reveals that it might have been her too.

The police are called in to investigate but meanwhile artist Sam Marlowe becomes a good-natured sleuth, helping the townspeople to bury, dig up, & rebury the corpse in an effort to evade the authorities & discover the truth about Harry.


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