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Books > Gardening > Gardening: plants
Turn your indoors into a green oasis! Learn about 175 house plants
and follow step-by-step projects to create an indoor garden. A
plant book perfect for people who live in apartments and
enthusiastic gardeners who want to move their gardening expertise
inside! Learn how to create an indoor garden that will improve your
wellbeing, is good for the environment, and will bring tranquillity
to your home. The RHS Practical House Plant Book shows you how to
create a green home - literally. Inside this plant guide you'll
find: - A "Designing with Houseplants" section that reveals key
principles for choosing, arranging, and curating your houseplant
collection - More than 175 plant profiles that provide detailed
information and care instructions on a wide variety of plants,
including ferns, orchids, and succulents - Unrivalled practical,
illustrated information on plant care, propagation, pests and
diseases, pruning, and problem-solving - 12 photographic
step-by-step projects offer exciting ideas for using plants to
stunning effect in your home and conservatory Now you can display,
nurture, and care for plants even if you do not have garden space!
This RHS plant guide profiles the best indoor plants like ferns,
bamboo, orchards, cacti, and succulents. It includes information on
air-purifying plants to ensure easy breathing in your home. Author
and horticulturist Zia Allaway has combined her practical know-how
with Fran Brailey - London houseplant shop owner's - design
inspiration so that your indoor garden will enhance your home's
aesthetic. You will learn how to care for plants and cultivate
various species. Understand repotting, water, compost, draining,
pests, diseases, diagnosing sickly plants, and how to create good
light and temperature conditions. With over a dozen step-by-step
guides and profiles on 175 plants, you will assemble an
eye-catching bottle terrarium, craft your macrame hanging planter,
or propagate succulents for your friends in no time.
With this manual for choosing the right trees in the central valley
region of California, prospective planters can weigh their options
and pick the trees that best suit their sites. Healthy, mature
trees can add substantial value to property; sickly trees, however,
can cost an equally substantial amount. The expertise of a
professional arborist is collected and made accessible here for any
reader who wishes to invest in trees for landscaping. Plenty of
troubleshooting tips cover problems from blight to bugs, and each
of the 40 featured species has a complete entry describing its
benefits for both land and landowner.
50 DIY crafts, cooking, decorating, and gardening projects from the
experts at the Smithsonian Institution The Smithsonian Institution
presents a uniquely curated collection of lively how-to projects
and historical narratives of four realms of American domestic arts:
cooking, crafts, decorating, and gardening. Perfect for hobbyists
interested in the historical context of what they create for their
homes, this beautifully illustrated book contains fifty DIY
projects-from a uniquely American quilt pattern to on-trend crafts
like terrarium making and pickling-that all offer satisfying ways
to bring history and culture to life. For those craving more,
features provide rare insights from Smithsonian experts on
prominent figures, events, and trends. Readers can learn about
influential Americans who've had an impact on each realm; look at
visual timelines of significant events that pushed development
forward; or stay in the present and see how American arts in
contemporary life is being redefined, all while enjoying satisfying
and unique projects.
Floral Evolution shows you how to use accessible flowers to make
beautiful floral designs. Author Catherine Foxwell believes that
the flowers and beautiful arrangements should be accessible to all,
and this book takes you through some simple projects using
sustainable techniques to achieve this. She uses readily available,
inexpensive flowers in straightforward projects that teach you how
to repurpose the bloom into four different displays. Chapters are
broken down into Flowers for the Home, Flowers to Give, Flowers to
Wear, Flowers for Celebration, Large Arrangements, DIY Wedding
Flowers and Special Project. With this step-by-step, extremely
accessible approach, anyone can arrange blooms like a pro.
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Grasses
(Paperback)
Nancy J Ondra, Saxon Holt
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R492
Discovery Miles 4 920
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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From spring green to winter gold, the drama of grasses is nonstop.
There are the striking yellow-and-green ostrich plumes of Zebra
Grass. The fine-textured leaves of Blue Oat Grass. Flame Grass's
dazzling red-orange leaves, Fountain Grass's coppery brushes, the
rich brown nuggets of Northern Sea Oats, the feathery purple haze
of Switch Grass.
Whether on their own or as backdrops for colorful garden
flowers, ornamental grasses are admired for their color, form,
movement, and texture. They also aid in erosion control, soil
stabilization, and water retention, making them great conservation
tools for gardeners in all hardiness zones. Although grasses are
widely available at garden centers all over North America, few
books advise the gardener on how to use them in the garden - and
especially how to combine them with perennials and other plants.
GRASSES features plans and practical advice for more than 24 unique
gardens. It's complete with an identification and growing guide to
the plants, and it features more than 150 full-color photographs,
illustrations, and landscape plans.
Books on container gardening have been wildly popular with urban
and suburban readers, but until now, there has been no
comprehensive "how-to" guide for growing fresh food in the absence
of open land. Fresh Food from Small Spaces fills the gap as a
practical, comprehensive, and downright fun guide to growing food
in small spaces. It provides readers with the knowledge and skills
necessary to produce their own fresh vegetables, mushrooms,
sprouts, and fermented foods as well as to raise bees and
chickens--all without reliance on energy-intensive systems like
indoor lighting and hydroponics.
Readers will learn how to transform their balconies and
windowsills into productive vegetable gardens, their countertops
and storage lockers into commercial-quality sprout and mushroom
farms, and their outside nooks and crannies into whatever they can
imagine, including sustainable nurseries for honeybees and
chickens. Free space for the city gardener might be no more than a
cramped patio, balcony, rooftop, windowsill, hanging rafter, dark
cabinet, garage, or storage area, but no space is too small or too
dark to raise food.
With this book as a guide, people living in apartments,
condominiums, townhouses, and single-family homes will be able to
grow up to 20 percent of their own fresh food using a combination
of traditional gardening methods and space-saving techniques such
as reflected lighting and container "terracing." Those with access
to yards can produce even more.
Author R. J. Ruppenthal worked on an organic vegetable farm in
his youth, but his expertise in urban and indoor gardening has been
hard-won through years of trial-and-error experience. In the small
city homes where he has lived, often with no more than a balcony,
windowsill, and countertop for gardening, Ruppenthal and his family
have been able to eat at least some homegrown food 365 days per
year. In an era of declining resources and environmental
disruption, Ruppenthal shows that even urban dwellers can
contribute to a rebirth of local, fresh foods.
Allotment gardening is becoming increasingly popular as people
discover that growing their own organic vegetables, fruits and
herbs is an attractive and achievable option. Allotment gardening
also has additional benefits: it's an excellent way to take
exercise and be sociable, and it can be therapeutic. "The Allotment
Specialist" is crammed with practical information on every aspect
of growing produce on an allotment. Beginning with the basics, it
includes tips on choosing a plot, preparing the soil, crop
rotation, planting the beds, and weed and pest control. Year-round
calendars provide at-a-glance information on key tasks and give
pointers on keeping allotments productive all year round.
Comprehensive, A-Z directories of vegetables and fruits guide
readers through the most popular varieties, their soil and site
needs, and the best times and methods for sowing, planting and
harvesting. With reliable, practical information and an easy-to-use
format, this is the perfect companion for every current or
prospective allotment owner.
For those without the time or stamina to spend hours maintaining a
garden, well-known experts Alan and Gill Bridgewater offer an
easy-care method with minimal digging and weeding. They show how to
make raised beds, build up soil with mushroom compost, cover weeds
with mulch, and protect plants with nets and plastic--all using
organic methods whenever possible. A must for every gardener.
Buying individual plants can be expensive-but raising your own
saves money and gives lots of gardening satisfaction. Every aspect
of the art of propagation is covered, from the philosophy behind
creating plants to the easiest species to grow to the best
materials and equipment.All the major methods receive
well-illustrated, in-depth, and easy to follow explanations,
including seeds and cuttings, division and layering, and budding
and grafting, and there's a handy, at-a-glance A-Z listing of ideal
propagation plants for the home and garden. Both novice and more
experienced gardeners will turn to this invaluable reference again
and again.
This stunning series of pocketbooks from Kew offers a snapshot into
the diverse and beautiful world of plants. Each book lavishly
showcases choice examples from individual plant groups or
collections, and in this pocketbook a selection of plants are
showcased from Honzu Zufu, a Japanese 17th century multi-volume
manual of medicinal plants with a unique botanical style. Published
to coincide with the new Japan festival at Kew Gardens in October
2020. The Library, Art and Archives at Kew is one of the most
extensive botanical libraries in the world, with the oldest item
dating back to the 1370s. In this pocketbook series from Kew, each
book presents 40 botanical paintings from the collection,
illustrating the variety within each plant group, as well as the
diversity of the collection and artistic styles. An introductory
chapter by a Kew expert provides an overview of the plant group or
theme, and extended captions accompany each painting. The luxury
finish on these books make them a must-have gift item, printed on
uncoated paper and with a cloth and foil finish.
NEW EDITION COMING AUGUST 2021 What do avocados, apples, mangos and
tomatoes have in common? The answer is that they can all be grown
at home, for free, from pips that you would otherwise throw into
the recycling bin. RHS Plants from Pips shows you how to grow a
range of fruit and vegetables, indoors and out, with minimum
equipment and experience. This complete guide covers everything
from the science of how plants grow to how to deal with pests and
other problems. Find out what to grow, what to grow it in and when
and where to grow it for the best results. Packed with colourful
photographs and step-by-step illustrations, this is the perfect way
to introduce beginners of all ages, from 6 to 60, to the joys of
watching things grow.
Microgreens - the young seedlings of herbs, vegetables, beans,
seeds, and grains contain four to six times the vitamins and
phytochemicals found in mature leaves of the same plants. These
great tasting nutritional powerhouses are cropping up in gourmet
restaurants and trendy farmers markets everywhere. This
comprehensive resource explains everything readers need to know to
grow microgreens at home, inexpensively and easily. It provides
extensive instructions for selecting seeds and soil, along with
guidance on proper temperature, light, and ventilation.
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