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Dan Torre
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In this book, Dan Torre explores the intriguing and multifaceted
natural, cultural and social history of the orchid. Orchids are one
of the largest families of plants - approximately 8 per cent of all
the Earth's flowering species. They are known for their beautiful
flowers with bright colours, delicate forms and delicate
fragrances. However, when we look deeper into their world, we find
that they are much more than an elegant flowering plant and behave
in unexpected ways that no other flowers do. Philosophers have
contemplated them; countless artists have celebrated them; millions
of people have cultivated them, displayed them and even consumed
them. Orchids occupy our thoughts, our stories, our societies, our
greenhouses, our florists, our supermarkets and our homes. And that
is merely the beginning.
Build healthy soil and grow better plants Robert Pavlis, a gardener
for over four decades, debunks common soil myths, explores the
rhizosphere, and provides a personalized soil fertility improvement
program in this three-part popular science guidebook. Healthy soil
means thriving plants. Yet untangling the soil food web and
optimizing your soil health is beyond most gardeners, many of whom
lack an in-depth knowledge of the soil ecosystem. Soil Science for
Gardeners is an accessible, science-based guide to understanding
soil fertility and, in particular, the rhizosphere - the thin layer
of liquid and soil surrounding plant roots, so vital to plant
health. Coverage includes: Soil biology and chemistry and how
plants and soil interact Common soil health problems, including
analyzing soil's fertility and plant nutrients The creation of a
personalized plan for improving your soil fertility, including
setting priorities and goals in a cost-effective, realistic time
frame. Creating the optimal conditions for nature to do the heavy
lifting of building soil fertility Written for the home gardener,
market gardener, and micro-farmer, Soil Science for Gardeners is
packed with information to help you grow thriving plants.
This beautiful guide to indoor plants is a comprehensive compendium
of succulents, cacti, flowering and foliage plants, with detailed
instructions on how to care for each, alongside stunning full-page
watercolour illustrations of each plant. Whether you are looking to
cultivate an entire indoor garden, or simply wish to know more
about your single cactus, you can be sure to find the right
information for you amongst the more than seventy plants in this
stylish guide. And the best bit? All the plants are easy to
maintain so even the most timid of gardeners can enjoy turning
their hand to this green-fingered pastime. Driven by the beautiful
artwork of the phenomenally talented Maaike Koster, alongside
insightful text from Emma Sibley, co-founder of London Terrariums,
each entry offers a concise but complete guide to these plants,
telling you their origins, how to care for them and where in your
home they will thrive. Each plant is rendered in considered detail,
taking up a full double page spread, with half of this space
allotted to the illustration, facing a paragraph on the plant
itself, care tips and any information about fellow species. The
accessible text and simple instructions make this book just as well
suited to those with no gardening experience as to those with years
of practice. These plants can be grown in any in-door space and are
easy to maintain, so you no longer need a large garden or hours of
free time to maintain a vibrant collection of greenery in your
home. These plants add interest, tranquility and colour to every
corner of our lives, so embark on a verdant adventure with this
beautiful and comprehensive guide!
Learn How to Grow Flowering Plants "Anyone wanting to get started
with a flower garden will find plenty of expert guidance here."
Publishers Weekly #1 Best Seller in Annual Flowers Gardening, Bulb
Flower Gardening, and Perennial Gardening. In the mountains of
Asheville, NC, Niki Irving's boutique flower farm grows specially
cut, mountain-fresh flowers with sustainable, natural practices.
Now, she brings her organic gardening techniques to your home,
helping you grow, harvest, and arrange lush, seasonally inspired
flowers. Revel in flowering plants. This beautifully photographed
book features simple, and engaging know-how enabling you to grow,
harvest, and arrange a cutting garden of flowers. An instructional
guide to gardening for beginners or if you're looking to hone your
botanical skills, Growing Flowers teaches everything from caring
for a cut flower garden to making simple-yet-gorgeous flower
arrangements and botanical bouquets. An indispensable gardening
guide for homebody horticulturists and floral foragers. A flower
book with a whimsical twist, Growing Flowers is a go-to reference
for those new to herb and flower gardening. Discover flower
arranging techniques using blooms, greenery, and even artichokes,
vines and berries. Learn about tools of the trade. Get down and
dirty with dirt, seasonal rotation, starting from seeds and/or
seedlings, and more. Inside find: Explanations of soil types and
soil preparations A list of seasonal flowers such as peonies or
garden roses for the spring and sunflowers and dahlias for the
summer and fall Basic knowledge to create flower bouquets that
include things like sprigs of greenery and even attractive weeds
Growing Flowers is a wonderful addition to any collection of garden
books. If you're looking for gardening gifts for gardeners or enjoy
flowering plant books and flower books like Floret Farms Cut Flower
Garden book, Floret Farm's A Year in Flowers, or The Flower
Gardener's Bible, you'll love Growing Flowers.
Griselda Kerr has drawn on over 20 years of gardening knowledge and
experience to create the book that she wishes she had had access to
when, as a complete beginner, she started to revive the "dismal
looking" plants in her garden - an indispensable, practical guide
to how and when to look after more than 700 garden plants. No
coffee table book this, it is designed for constant quick
reference, to be used, perhaps as a stand-in for a knowledgeable
friend, for advice on specific plants. Look up each plant in a
specially formatted index spread across the year and a page
reference will take you to a short, clearly written entry on what
to do in a particular month - whether to clip, deadhead or divide,
cut right down, feed, mulch or leave well alone. Each of these
gardening techniques is also explained in a comprehensive glossary
The Apprehensive Gardener is an attractive, durable, easy-to-use
guide to plant care which will be referred to over and over again
and will stand the test of time.
Charles Dowding draws on his years of experience, to show how easy
it is to start a new vegetable garden. Any plot - whether a
building site, overgrown with weeds or unwanted lawn - can be
turned into a beautiful and productive vegetable area. Charles's
no-nonsense and straightforward advice is the perfect starting
point for the beginner or experienced gardener. The book takes you
step-by-step through: * Planning and early stages * Clearing the
ground * Mulch - what, why, how? * Minimizing digging * Sowing and
planting across the seasons * Growing in polytunnels and
greenhouses It is filled with labour-saving ideas and the
techniques that Charles uses to garden so successfully and is
illustrated throughout with photos and tales from Charles's first
year in his new vegetable garden.
Fuel your houseplant obsession with this beautifully illustrated
room-by-room guide to bringing the outdoors inside-perfect for
plant parents everywhere! Millions of plant lovers and newbie
gardeners are discovering the joys of bringing plants into their
homes. Not only do they add a fresh, natural touch to any room,
they also have serious mood-boosting power, and help to reduce
stress, improve air quality, and even provide fresh herbs for that
next meal! It's a no-brainer that houseplants can improve our
quality of life-but how do you maximize their benefits without
sacrificing style. Full of home design and practical plant care
tips as well as more than 70 plant recommendations, Never Put a
Cactus in the Bathroom is an illustrated guide to help you choose
the right plants for your space, from succulents and spider plants
to pothos and ZZ plants. A Houseplant 101 section will set you off
on the right foot, covering essentials of plant care and
maintenance, as well as basic troubleshooting, and a primer on the
health benefits of indoor plants. Then, going room by room, you
will find space-specific recommendations, such as: -Purifying the
air in your bedroom with low light beauties -Decorating your
bathroom with air plants and ferns-your shower powers the climate
is they need to thrive! -Creating a living centerpiece for your
dining room or breakfast nook -Adding a low-maintenance bamboo or
jade plant to your home office for motivation and focus -Growing a
windowsill herb box or hydroponic tomato to level up your next meal
Perfect for fans of Wild at Home, Urban Jungle, and Wellness by
Design, this book will give plant lovers the tools and confidence
they need to bring houseplants into every corner of their homes,
improve their quality of life, and turn their home into a natural
sanctuary.
This new addition to New Holland's popular pocket "Photographic
Guide" series showcases the flowers that add so much to the
attractions of walking in New Zealand's alpine zone. The ideal size
for slipping into a backpack when tramping, it will appeal to
walkers, nature lovers, tour guides and educators, and flower
photographers wishing to identify their subjects.
Plan Your Landscape or Garden to Help Beloved Backyard Visitors The
presence of birds, bees, and butterflies suggests a healthy,
earth-friendly place. These most welcome guests also bring joy to
those who appreciate watching them. Now, you can turn your yard
into a perfect habitat that attracts them and, more importantly,
helps them thrive. Acclaimed author and expert entomologist Jaret
C. Daniels provides all the information you need in this must-have
guide for Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and east
Texas. Learn how to landscape and create pollinator gardens with
native plants. The book begins with an in-depth introduction to
native pollinators and to birds. It's followed by a "field guide"
section to more than 100 native plants that are widely available to
utilize, are easy to care for, and provide great benefit to birds,
bees, and butterflies. The species are organized by level of
sunlight needed and then by plant types. Each species includes
full-color photographs and information about hardiness zones, what
they are most likely to attract, soil requirements, light levels,
and Jaret's notes. As an added bonus, you'll make use of blooming
charts, tips on attracting specific species, and more! Plus, the
invaluable garden plans and projects show you just what to do and
can be customized to suit your own specific interests. Plan, plant,
and grow your beautiful garden, with native plants that benefit
your favorite creatures to watch and enjoy.
Orchids, the epitome of floral beauty, have long inspired poetry,
adventure, art and scientific discovery. In Orchid Muse, historian
and home orchid grower Erica Hannickel brings together fascinating
tales of the orchid-smitten throughout history, along with tips on
growing the exotic blooms at the centre of each account. Consider,
for instance, Empress Eugenie and Queen Victoria, the two most
powerful women in nineteenth-century Europe, who shared a passion
for Coelogyne cristata. John Roebling, builder of the Brooklyn
Bridge, and Raymond Burr, the actor famed for playing Perry Mason,
cultivated thousands of orchids, introducing captivating new and
unusual species. Transporting the reader from hazardous Amazonian
journeys to a seedy dime museum in Gilded Age New York's
Tenderloin, from the glories of the palace gardens of Chinese
Empress Cixi to the island of Bourbon, where the vanilla orchid
thrives, Orchid Muse spans the world, exploring our enduring
fascination with these exquisite flowers.
An infallible guide to vegetable growing for gardeners with little
space but big ambitions. It's time to get your hands dirty! This
gardening book will help you learn how to grow, nurture, and
harvest more than 50 types of fruits and vegetables. The bright
photos, step-by-step illustrations, and foolproof advice will get
you growing in no time. Perfect for beginners as well as keen
gardeners. This planting book will teach you how to plan your
space, be it a small raised bed, some pots, or a large vegetable
patch. Maximise your harvest and explore different planting themes
that suit your needs! You'll also discover useful tips for
selecting plants to match your theme. Want to know how to keep
pests away and your plants healthy? RHS Step-by-Step Veg
Patchcontains brilliant expert advice on how to grow more than 50
different crops. Simply look up the specific crop you want to grow,
and follow the photos and clear instructions on planting,
nurturing, and harvesting. You'll also discover the latest popular
new cultivars, crops, and heirloom varieties in this updated
edition. Dig Into Vegetable Gardening Enjoy a successful harvest
with this organised and stress-free approach to gardening. Whether
you're new to gardening or interested in saving costs, this book
offers easy-to-follow steps for starting and sustaining your very
own vegetable garden. It also makes for a perfect gift for the
gardening enthusiast in your life. Whatever the size of the garden,
this vegetable garden planner offers you: - Beautiful photos -
Step-by-step illustrations - Foolproof gardening advice RHS
Step-by-Step Veg Patch is part of the Royal Horticultural Society
(RHS) gardening series from DK Books. DK's series of gardening
books present handy advice and tips to expand your gardening
knowledge. With DK's gardening books you can discover all you need
to know about plants, shrubs, trees, fruit, and vegetables, for all
gardening novices or green-fingered experts.
An informative and inspirational guide aimed at anyone who fancies
giving chilli growing a go. From 'Hungarian Hot Wax' to 'Red
Savina', and 'Scotch Bonnet' to 'Elephant's Trunk', chillies come
in dozens of shapes, colours and degrees of spiciness - from sweet
and succulent to blow-your-head-off hot. RHS Red Hot Chilli Grower
provides everything you need to grow your own chillies from
scratch, with step-by-step instructions for sowing seeds, caring
for the plants, harvesting the fruit and troubleshooting common
problems. Chilli-lovers will also find plenty of background
information, such as a short history of the chilli and a guide to
Scoville heat units (the official measurement of spicy heat), as
well as tasty tips for enjoying the fruits of your work. Packed
with charts, checklists, photographs and illustrations, this is the
perfect guide to the world of grow-your-own chillies.
A guide to self-sustainablity in either the city or the countryside
for both the beginner gardener and the experienced farmhand. It
takes the reader through all the stages of crop growing, with
helpful drawings throughout. A recipe section suggests delightful
and nourishing ways to consume the grown produce.
A comprehensive and sumptuous survey that celebrates the beauty and
appeal of flowers throughout art, history, and culture The latest
installment in the bestselling Explorer Series takes readers on a
journey across continents and cultures to discover the endless ways
artists and image-makers have employed floral motifs throughout
history. Showcasing the diversity of blooms from all over the
world, Flower spans a wide range of styles and media - from art,
botanical illustrations, and sculptures to floral arrangements,
film stills, and textiles - and follows a visually stunning
sequence with works, regardless of period, thoughtfully paired to
allow interesting and revealing juxtapositions between them.
How to Store Your Garden Produce - the key to self-sufficiency is
the modern guide to storing and preserving your garden produce,
enabling you to eat home-grown goodness all year round. The easy to
use reference section provides applicable storage and preservation
techniques for the majority of plant produce grown commonly in
gardens and allotments. Why is storing your garden produce the key
to self-sufficiency? Because with less than an acre of garden you
can grow enough produce to feed a family of four for a year, but as
much of the produce will ripen simultaneously in the summer,
without proper storage most of it will go to waste and you'll be
off to the supermarket again. Learn simple and enjoyable techniques
for storing your produce and embrace the wonderful world of
self-sufficiency. In the A-Z list of produce, each entry includes
recommended varieties, suggested methods of storage and a number of
recipes. Everything from how to make your own cider and pickled
gerkhins to how to string onions and dry your own apple rings. You
will know where your food has come from, you will save money, there
will be no packaging and you'll be eating tasty local food whilst
feeling very good about it.
From back-of-an-envelope list to flower-filled paradise - Brilliant
and Wild: A Garden from Scratch in a Year gives even the most
inexperienced gardener the chance to create a beautiful and
wildlife-friendly outdoor space - from nothing - in just twelve
months. Award-winning photographer, Jason Ingram, followed the
author over the course of a year, as she created the garden shown
in the book for her sister. This highly practical book provides new
gardeners with step-by-step instructions on how to create a
low-maintenance, wildlife-friendly perennial garden that will bloom
within months and be fully established within a year.
Biochar, charcoal made from wood or another type of biomass, has
become the new darling of organic gardeners, embraced for its
outstanding abilities to enrich the soil and improve plant growth.
Gardening with Biochar is the first comprehensive guide to
understanding, making, and using it effectively in the home garden.
In this highly accessible handbook, long-time garden writer Jeff
Cox explains what biochar is and provides detailed instructions for
how it can be made at home, along with specific guidelines for
using it to enrich soil, prevent erosion, and enhance plant growth.
Now widely available at garden centers, biochar is also being
lauded for its ability to sequester carbon in the soil, making it
good for the health of the planet, as well as the plants.
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