Why do gardeners start plants from seed instead of just buying a flat of seedlings from their local nursery? Necessity. Seedlings of unusual or exotic plants simply aren't available at garden stores, but they are available in seed. Then there's the cost factor. A few packets of seeds are much cheaper than dozens upon dozens of seedlings. And finally there's the plants' health to consider. Plants grown from seed get a healthy start that can almost guarantee you a magnificent display in your garden. The Gardener's A-Z Guide to Growing Flowers from Seed to Bloom will teach you everything you need to know to germinate and grow more than 500 types of flowering plants. For every plant listed you'll find precise information on whether it will do well in your part of the country; how to sow seeds indoors and outdoors; when to transplant indoor seedlings out in the garden; what light, soil, and spacing requirements are necessary; general plant care; when you can expect the plants to flower; how to encourage more blooms; and how to propagate your plants by cutting, division, layering, or detaching runners.
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Judy Powell shares the practical, humorous, surprising and inspiring story of her severe brain injury and full recovery. The book describes how her family and friends successfully rehabilitated her and offers numerous references for information and assistance.

When Eileen Powell gathered her Poems & sent them to Newfoundland Press - it was a delight to discover just how many poems, on so many topics, were in one manuscript envelope. Eileen Powell still lives in Corner Brook - her home and turf. In her late eighties, she gathered together her poems and sent them to Pilot Hill Press. That inspired our Development of ""Newfoundland Press""; our Lost & Found Division. Here we publish books that are truly treasures, and until now - buried treasures. On Dec 21, 2013 we released her poems to the world. A deliberate choice to reflect the move from shadow to light. You won't have seen these poems before in any collection. This is truly 'Found Poetry' already formed. For more information about Eileen Powell, please visit our website at: http: //www.pilothillpress.org/newfoundland-press.php

When Eileen Powell gathered her Poems & sent them to Newfoundland Press - it was a delight to discover just how many poems, on so many topics, were in one manuscript envelope. Eileen Powell still lives in Corner Brook - her home and turf. In her late eighties, she gathered together her poems and sent them to Pilot Hill Press. That inspired our Development of ""Newfoundland Press""; our Lost & Found Division. Here we publish books that are truly treasures, and until now - buried treasures. On Dec 21, 2013 we released her poems to the world. A deliberate choice to reflect the move from shadow to light. You won't have seen these poems before in any collection. This is truly 'Found Poetry' already formed. LARGE PRINT EDITION

La Regenta, by Leopoldo Alas (Clarin), is considered a (if not the) great masterpiece of Spanish Realist and Naturalist fiction, comparable only to Benito Perez Galdos' Fortunata y Jacinta. Staged in Oviedo (Vetusta, in the novel), La Regenta's main character is the beautiful and sensitive Ana Ozores, newlywed to the mature Victor Quintanar, former regent of the Audiencia. Harassed by the local seducer, Alvaro Mesia, and by the local cathedral's Dean, don Fermin de Pas, Ana finally rejects the priest and falls for Alvaro. Don Victor discovers the treason and, pushed by don Fermin, challenges Alvaro to a duel, where he is deadly wounded and finally dies. The novel is exquisite in its careful and detailed depiction of the provincial background, and the complex interweaving of the different social classes, an approach covered in depth by the traditional literary critique in the numerous forewords to the various editions. The present edition, however, proposes a different approach. With the help of gender studies and feminist theory, it concentrates on the main character, Ana Ozores, to unearth the complexity of her personality, from her supposed hysteria and her mystical bouts to her thirst for freedom and agency. The introduction to this critical edition carefully looks at the semantics underlying Ana Ozores's circumstances and actions, and decodes them as solid proofs of an early feminism. La Regenta belongs to the illustrious European cycle of novels centered on feminine adultery, as Leon Tolstoi's Ana Karenina, Theodor Fontane's Effi Briest, Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary, Emile Zola's La conquete de Plassans, (to which it resembles most) and Eca de Queiroz's O Primo Basilio. However, the second and innovative objective of this edition is to highlight the clear connections of La Regenta, not so much with the foreign novels abovementioned, but with the Spanish novel El Cura. Caso de Incesto by Eduardo Lopez Bago, a contemporary writer with whom Clarin also shared the taste for radical naturalism. Both novels share common ground, and elaborate on the cultural stereotype of (male) ecclesiastical sin coupled with (female) hysteria. La Regenta, however, adds complexity and nuance to El cura. Caso de incesto's more straightforward approach to sexual repression, mental illness and celibate. Ana Ozores, certainly, is much more than a "nerviosilla" ("a nervous little thing"), as Perez Galdos chooses to call her in his famous foreword to La Regenta"s second edition.