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Books > Health, Home & Family > Gardening

The Handbook Of Nature Study in Color - Trees and Garden Flowers (Paperback): Anna B Comstock The Handbook Of Nature Study in Color - Trees and Garden Flowers (Paperback)
Anna B Comstock
R539 Discovery Miles 5 390 In Stock
Conceptual Landscapes - Fundamentals in the Beginning Design Process (Hardcover): Simon M. Bussiere Conceptual Landscapes - Fundamentals in the Beginning Design Process (Hardcover)
Simon M. Bussiere
R4,176 Discovery Miles 41 760 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Conceptual Landscapes explores the dilemma faced in the early moments of design thinking through a gradient of work in landscape and environmental design media by both emerging and well-established designers and educators of landscape architecture. It questions where and, more importantly, how the process of design starts. The book deconstructs the steps of conceptualizing design in order to reignite pedagogical discussions about timing and design fundamentals, and to reveal how the spark of an idea happens - from a range of unique perspectives. Through a careful arrangement of visual essays that integrate analogue, digital and mixed-media works and processes, the book highlights differences between diverse techniques and triggers debate between design, representation, technology and creative culture in the field. Taken together, the book's visual investigation of the conceptual design process serves as a learning tool for aspiring designers and seasoned professionals alike. By situating student work alongside that of experienced teachers and landscape architects, the book also demystifies outdated notions of individual genius and sheds new light on the nearly universally messy process of discovery, bridged across years and diverse creative vocabularies in the conceptual design process. Lavishly illustrated with over 210 full colour images, this book is a must-read for students and instructors in landscape architecture.

Coastal Garden Plants: Maine to Maryland (Paperback): Roy L. Heizer Coastal Garden Plants: Maine to Maryland (Paperback)
Roy L. Heizer
R727 R611 Discovery Miles 6 110 Save R116 (16%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Discover and enjoy the flowers, shrubs, and trees of America's northern coastal region. Stroll through Portland, Boston Common, New York City, Philadelphia, and the Baltimore Harbor, and delight in getting to know the natural beauty that makes your excursion a gardener's paradise. In this informative guide, over 400 vibrant color photographs taken in natural settings allow readers to see the flora as it was meant to be seen, in the garden. While this book contains historical, mythological, and original tales about the garden plants of the northern coastal region, with a handy cross reference names index, it may also be used as a quick reference guide. As captured here, whether a visitor to one of the East Coast's many botanical gardens, a home landscaper or a native plant enthusiast, there is an abundance of wonder along the coast for every nature lover! Gardeners from Augusta, Maine, to Dover, Delaware, will find this book enlightening and enjoyable.

Zen Landscapes - Perspectives on Japanese Gardens and Ceramics (Hardcover, New): Allen Weiss Zen Landscapes - Perspectives on Japanese Gardens and Ceramics (Hardcover, New)
Allen Weiss
R1,138 Discovery Miles 11 380 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The essential elements of a dry Japanese garden are few: rocks, gravel, moss. Simultaneously a sensual matrix, a symbolic form and a memory theatre, these gardens exhibit beautiful miniaturization and precise craftsmanship. However, their apparent minimalism belies a deeper complexity. In Zen Landscapes, Allen S. Weiss takes readers on a journey through these exquisite sites, explaining how Japanese gardens must be approached according to the play of scale, surroundings and seasons, as well as in relation to other arts, thus revealing them as living landscapes rather than abstract designs. These gardens are inspired by the Zen aesthetics of the tea ceremony, manifested in poetry, painting, calligraphy, architecture, cuisine and ceramics. Japanese art favours suggestion and allusion, valuing the threshold between the distinct and the inchoate, between figuration and abstraction, and Weiss argues that ceramics play a crucial role here, relating as much to the site-specificity of landscape as to the ritualized codes of the tea ceremony and the everyday gestures of the culinary table. With more than 100 stunning colour photographs, Zen Landscapes is the first in-depth study in the West to examine the correspondences between gardens and ceramics. A fascinating look at landscape art and its relation to the customs and craftsmanship of the Japanese arts, it will appeal to readers interested in landscape design and Japan's art and culture.

1964 (Hardcover, Reprint 2021): E Gutsche, K. Muller, P Goerlich 1964 (Hardcover, Reprint 2021)
E Gutsche, K. Muller, P Goerlich
R3,494 Discovery Miles 34 940 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Flower Gardening for Beginners - A Guide to Growing and Maintaining a Cut-Flower Garden (Paperback): Amy Barene Flower Gardening for Beginners - A Guide to Growing and Maintaining a Cut-Flower Garden (Paperback)
Amy Barene
R408 R372 Discovery Miles 3 720 Save R36 (9%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Garden Plants for Mediterranean Climates (Paperback): Graham Payne Garden Plants for Mediterranean Climates (Paperback)
Graham Payne
R715 Discovery Miles 7 150 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

No image of the Mediterranean is complete without flowering climbers covering the walls, brilliant oleanders lining the roads and colourful shrubs in gardens. However, such plants can now be enjoyed far beyond the Mediterranean. With sections on both general care and specific plants, Garden Plants for the Mediterranean Climates will help you choose and grow the most attractive and colourful plants associated with the region, and to create a beautiful garden suited to your needs. It gives an introduction to the Mediterranean climate and points to consider when planning a garden and also covers advice on watering and soil care. Hallmarks of a Mediterranean garden including palms, pots and containers, climbing plants and pergolas, as well as ideas on which plant to use where are discussed. There is an A-Z of over 1,000 plants supported by 500 colour photographs. New in paperback for 2006. Foreword by Hugh Johnson.

Grow Now: How We Can Save Our Health, Communities and Planet - One Garden at a Time (Paperback): Emily Murphy Grow Now: How We Can Save Our Health, Communities and Planet - One Garden at a Time (Paperback)
Emily Murphy
R674 R607 Discovery Miles 6 070 Save R67 (10%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

"Grow Now is an earth manual that applies to everyone, everywhere. Regenerating life begins with our hands, the soil, and our heart. Take this book and go outside, stay outside, and transform." --Paul Hawken, author of Drawdown and Regeneration Did you know you can have a garden that's equal parts food source and wildlife haven? In Grow Now, Emily Murphy shares easy-to-follow principles for regenerative gardening that foster biodiversity and improve soil health. She also shows how every single yard mirrors and connects to the greater ecosystem around us. No-dig growing, composting and mulching smartly, and planting a variety of edible perennials that attract bees and butterflies are all commonsense techniques everyone can use to grow positive change. You'll also find detailed advice on increasing your nature quotient, choosing plants that cycle more carbon back into the soil, selecting a broader variety of vegetables and fruits to improve overall soil fertility, rethinking space devoted to lawns, and adding companion plants for pollinators to rewild any plot of land. Exquisitely photographed and filled with helpful lists and sidebars, Grow Now is an actionable, hopeful, and joyful roadmap for growing our way to individual climate contributions. Gardening is climate activism!

Gardens and Human Agency in the Anthropocene (Hardcover): Maria Paula Diogo, Ana Simoes, Davide Scarso, Ana Duarte Rodrigues Gardens and Human Agency in the Anthropocene (Hardcover)
Maria Paula Diogo, Ana Simoes, Davide Scarso, Ana Duarte Rodrigues
R4,472 Discovery Miles 44 720 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This volume discusses gardens as designed landscapes of mediation between nature and culture, embodying different levels of human control over wilderness, defining specific rules for this confrontation and staging different forms of human dominance. The contributing authors focus on ways of rethinking the garden and its role in contemporary society, using it as a crossover platform between nature, science and technology. Drawing upon their diverse fields of research, including History of Science and Technology, Environmental Studies, Gardens and Landscape Studies, Urban Studies, and Visual and Artistic Studies, the authors unveil various entanglements woven in the past between nature and culture, and probe the potential of alternative epistemologies to escape the predicament of fatalistic dystopias that often revolve around the Anthropocene debate. This book will be of great interest to those studying environmental and landscape history, the history of science and technology, historical geography, and the environmental humanities.

The Amateur Landscape Gardener - Laying-Out, Furniture, Pond-Making, Etc. (Hardcover): Sidney Vant The Amateur Landscape Gardener - Laying-Out, Furniture, Pond-Making, Etc. (Hardcover)
Sidney Vant
R699 Discovery Miles 6 990 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This early work on landscape gardening is a fascinating read for the gardener and historian alike, but also contains much information and anecdote that is still useful and practical today. All the work described is well within the scope of the ordinary man or woman with no previous experience, and no tools will be required that are not in the ordinary household toolbox. Extensively illustrated with working diagrams. Contents Include: Laying Out the Plot - "Labour-saving" Gardens - Stone Edging - Wood Edging - Laying Out the Lawn - The Oval or Circular Lawn - The House Step; Crazy Paving: Imitation Crazy Paving; Bird Baths and Sundials; Non-Rustic Screens and Arches - A Rectangular Trellis Screen - A Semi-Circular Trellis Screen - "Rising Sun" Trellis - A Trellis Fringe - A Trellise Window - Arches - A Four-Way Arch - An Arch Pergola; Rustic Work - Rustic Summerhouses; Garden Furniture: Seats, Tables, Etc. - A Simple Garden Seat - Garden Chairs - A Garden Table; and Ornamental Ponds. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

100 Orchids for Florida (Paperback): Jack Kramer 100 Orchids for Florida (Paperback)
Jack Kramer
R418 Discovery Miles 4 180 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Here are 100 beautiful orchids that you can grow in Florida.

These orchids were chosen for their beauty, ease of cultivation, and suitability to Florida's climate. Whether you are an old hand at growing orchids or are a beginner anxious to try it, you will find help here choosing the plants that will work for you, as well as help on how best to make them prosper.

First you will learn about the structure of orchids; how they are named; and how to pot, water, feed, ventilate, and protect them from weather and insects. You will find you can grow them inside and outside in Florida, and some even in the ground as part of the landscape. Then you will be introduced to 100 fabulous orchids that are well-suited to Florida. You'll find answers to commonly asked questions, lists of suppliers, and a handy reference chart to plant size, flower color, bloom size, bloom time, and exposure.

Futureproof Your Garden - Environmentally Sustainable Ways To Grow More With Less (Paperback): Angus Stewart, Emma Stewart Futureproof Your Garden - Environmentally Sustainable Ways To Grow More With Less (Paperback)
Angus Stewart, Emma Stewart
R515 R459 Discovery Miles 4 590 Save R56 (11%) In Stock

Welcome to your essential guide for creating healthy, sustainable, water-wise gardens and landscapes.

Futureproof Your Garden is a go-to resource for anyone who wants expert advice on how to use, capture and store water efficiently in times of drought or deluge. Angus and Emma help you to choose plants that not only suit your personal style, but that can adapt to changing environments. A photographic plant directory is packed with information on what to plant where, and the pair share design know-how that's adaptable to outdoor spaces of all sizes. Soil care is considered in comprehensive detail, and photo essays offer step-by-step garden DIY how-tos - including wicking beds, capillary watering, deep irrigation and ollas.

Make the most of a guide to plant selection that equips you to create landscapes that are functional, beautiful and resilient, covering techniques for ornamental, habitat and edible gardens. Filled with knowledge and wisdom from two generations of widely respected horticulturalists, this is a must-have for any gardener looking to the future of what to plant and grow.

Orchids of South Africa - A Field Guide (Paperback, 2nd ed.): Benny Bytebier, Steve Johnson Orchids of South Africa - A Field Guide (Paperback, 2nd ed.)
Benny Bytebier, Steve Johnson; Photographs by Herbert Starker
R580 R526 Discovery Miles 5 260 Save R54 (9%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Orchids of South Africa is the first field guide to local orchids to be published in over 30 years, and presents the more than 450 orchid species found in the region, including Lesotho and Swaziland.

A comprehensive roundup of orchids in their natural habitat, the book features:

- multiple photos for each species

- distribution maps

- flowering time-bars

- succinct text, enabling sure identification of these fascinating plants.

An illustrated introduction discusses orchid structure, ecology and conservation status.

Informative, colourful and easy-to-use, Orchids of South Africa is the authoritative update enthusiasts have been waiting for.

Renaissance Porticoes and Painted Pergolas - Nature and Culture in Early Modern Italy (Paperback): Natsumi Nonaka Renaissance Porticoes and Painted Pergolas - Nature and Culture in Early Modern Italy (Paperback)
Natsumi Nonaka
R1,408 Discovery Miles 14 080 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book is the first study of the portico and its decorative program as a cultural phenomenon in Renaissance Italy. Focusing on a largely neglected group of porticoes decorated with painted pergolas that appeared in Rome and environs in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, it tells the story of how an element of the garden-the pergola-became a pictorial topos in portico decoration, and evolved, hand in hand with its real cousin in the garden, into an object for cultural emulation among the educated patrons of early modern Rome. The liminality of both the portico and the pergola at the interface of architecture and garden is key to the interpretation of these architectural and painted forms, which rests on the intersecting frameworks of the classical tradition, natural history, and the cultural identity of the aristocracy. In the mediating space of the Renaissance portico, the illusionism pergola created an art gallery, a natural history museum, and a virtual garden where one could engage in leisurely strolls, learned conversations, appreciation of art, and scientific investigation, as well as extensive travel across time and space. The book proposes the interpretation that the illusionistic pergola was an artistic formula for the early modern perception of nature.

The Pottery Gardener - Flowers and Hens at the Emma Bridgewater Factory (Paperback, 2nd edition): Arthur Parkinson The Pottery Gardener - Flowers and Hens at the Emma Bridgewater Factory (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Arthur Parkinson; Foreword by Emma Bridgewater 1
R573 R520 Discovery Miles 5 200 Save R53 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

The Emma Bridgewater factory in Stoke-on-Trent is a mecca for lovers of its iconic pottery; but tucked within is a walled garden bursting with nectar-rich, jazzy-toned flowers and rare-breed chickens. This is where Arthur Parkinson - gardener, florist and poultry keeper - used to work his magic. Inspired by his friend, gardener and florist Sarah Raven, and childhood hen-keeping pen pal the late Dowager Duchess of Devonshire, Parkinson's domain was one of resplendent flowers, platoon feather-legged hens, handwritten blackboards, flower arranging and wasteland foliage foraging - all carried out in one of the most unlikely places a garden could happen to exist: a working pottery.

Gardens (English & Foreign language, Hardcover): Andrew Grant Gardens (English & Foreign language, Hardcover)
Andrew Grant
R1,271 R491 Discovery Miles 4 910 Save R780 (61%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Gardens harness, enhance and revere the power of the earth; to enjoy one is to experience the most harmonious collaboration between man and nature. Each space is unique and a product of their individual climate and environment. A garden also reflects the history, culture, and architecture of the society that cultivated it. Gardens is a comprehensive visual exploration of these dynamic and engaging spaces. Along with the most celebrated gardens in the world, Gardens explores large-scale urban interjections and elaborate conservation projects giving fresh definition to Francis Bacon's idea that 'gardening is the purest of human pleasures'. The Reflections series by Roads is a visual exploration of the spaces and building that mirror the cultures in which they play such a crucial part. Text in English, Spanish, French and German.

Growing Christmas Trees (Paperback, New): Patrick White, Lewis Hill Growing Christmas Trees (Paperback, New)
Patrick White, Lewis Hill
R244 R228 Discovery Miles 2 280 Save R16 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Growing beautiful Christmas trees is a great way to generate off-season farm income and make better use of your land. From selecting a site and planting the right species to marketing and selling trees, this Storey BASICS(R) guide shows you how to build and maintain your own small tree nursery. Including handy tips for making handcrafted kissing balls and holiday wreaths, Growing Christmas Trees covers everything you need to know to successfully cultivate stunning evergreens that will provide income and bring holiday cheer.

La Clemenza Di Tito - Melodramma Serio in Due Atti (Classic Reprint) (Italian, Hardcover): Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart La Clemenza Di Tito - Melodramma Serio in Due Atti (Classic Reprint) (Italian, Hardcover)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
R631 R546 Discovery Miles 5 460 Save R85 (13%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Contemporary Literary Landscapes - The Poetics of Experience (Paperback): Daniel Weston Contemporary Literary Landscapes - The Poetics of Experience (Paperback)
Daniel Weston
R1,527 Discovery Miles 15 270 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Writing landscapes inevitably occurs in dialogue with a long textual and pictorial tradition, but first-hand experience also provides key stimuli to many writers' accounts. This monograph employs a comparative lens to offer an intervention in debates between literary scholars who focus on genre and those cultural geographers who are concerned that self-perpetuating literary tropes marginalize practical engagements. Suggesting that representation and experience are not competing paradigms for landscape, Daniel Weston argues that in the hands of contemporary writers they are complementary forces building composite articulations of place. In five case studies, Weston matches a writer to a mode of apprehending place - W.G. Sebald with picturing, Ciaran Carson with mapping, Iain Sinclair with walking, Robert Macfarlane with engaging, Kathleen Jamie with noticing. Drawing out a range of sites at which representation and experience interact, Weston's argument is twofold: first, interaction between traditions of landscape writing and direct experience of landscapes are mutually influential; and second, writers increasingly deploy style, form, and descriptive aesthetics to recover the experience of place in the poetics of the text itself. As Weston shows, emergent landscape writing shuttles across generic boundaries, reflecting the fact that the landscapes traversed are built out of a combination of real and imaginary sources.

The Home Book (Paperback): The Home Book (Paperback)
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R452 Discovery Miles 4 520 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

What are the best ways to defeat rising damp, combat yellowing cotton and fix noisy water pipes? How often should you pick your herbs to keep them bushy and healthy? Full of invaluable and easy-to-follow advice for indoors and out, "The Home Book" has all the answers for you. "The Home Book" provides simple techniques for cleaning, maintaining and repairing your home. Save money using "The Home Book's" own recipes for dishwasher, window and toilet cleaners, and follow the invaluable stain removal tips - did you know you can get rid of lipstick stains with kerosene and use milk when removing ink on cotton? Other handy hints are great for the environment as well as your budget, such as replacing regular light bulbs with energy-efficient compact fluorescent ones, and running your fridge between 3 C and 5 C to reduce electricity costs. Tips on growing herbs, container gardening, making your own straw compost and tending a worm garden will guarantee you get the best out of your outdoor space, whether it's a garden, backyard or apartment balcony. Every home, no matter how big or small, will benefit from this book that is packed with clever ideas, practical information and helpful hints, "The Home Book" is an indispensible DIY manual. Key points: includes hundreds of projects for around the home and garden to keep it clean and functioning; all clever tips that you wish you had learnt from your grandparents; covers a broad range of household tips, from cleaning, stain removal and do-it-yourself repairs to basic vehicle maintenance; and, includes all the need-to-know information on how to grow a healthy and sustainable garden, both for houses and apartments; includes environmentally-aware green options.

The Farmer's Wife Guide To Fabulous Fruits And Berries - Growing, Storing, Freezing, and Cooking Your Own Fruits and... The Farmer's Wife Guide To Fabulous Fruits And Berries - Growing, Storing, Freezing, and Cooking Your Own Fruits and Berries (Hardcover)
Barbara Doyen
R561 Discovery Miles 5 610 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Use this book to grown your own fruits and berries, and you will discover the joys of tree-ripened peaches and vine-ripened cantaloupe just bursting with farm-fresh flavour. Suitable for both beginners and experts, it is the perfect resource for anyone engaged in gardening. Not only do you learn how to grow your own fabulous fruits and berries, this book will tell you what to do with all the produce you harvest.

Houseplants for Beginners - A Practical Guide to Choosing, Growing, and Helping Your Plants Thrive (Hardcover): Rebecca de la... Houseplants for Beginners - A Practical Guide to Choosing, Growing, and Helping Your Plants Thrive (Hardcover)
Rebecca de la Paz
R540 R501 Discovery Miles 5 010 Save R39 (7%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Gardener's Guide to Plant Diseases (Paperback, New): Barbara Pleasant Gardener's Guide to Plant Diseases (Paperback, New)
Barbara Pleasant
R398 Discovery Miles 3 980 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Become a Skilled Doctor of Plant Care!

This easy-to-use reference fully explains more than 50 of the most common plant diseases -- where they occur, what they look like, what to do about them, and the long-term prognosis for the affected plants. Most important, gardening expert Barbara Pleasant recommends proven organic methods for controlling each disease.

The Gardener's Guide to Plant Diseases features:

-- Informal encyclopedia style, making information and answers very easy to find.

-- Illustrations that show the techniques for distinguishing between look-alike symptoms of different diseases.

-- Cross-referenced list of common vegetables and fruits and the diseases most apt to affect them.

-- Loads of facts on symptoms and tips for detecting diseases (including those diseases that are often too small to see).

-- Simple, inexpensive organic treatments to halt the spread of each disease and prevent its recurrence.

A GARDEN FROM A HUNDRED PACKETS OF SEED (Hardcover, Revised edition): James Fenton A GARDEN FROM A HUNDRED PACKETS OF SEED (Hardcover, Revised edition)
James Fenton
R387 Discovery Miles 3 870 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

In this light-hearted book, poet and gardener James Fenton describes a hundred plants he would choose to grow from seed. 'It seemed a simple and interesting idea: what plants would you choose if starting a garden from scratch?' Includes chapters on flowers for colour, size, or exotic interest; herbs and meadow flowers; climbing vines and tropical species; the micro-meadow; raising plants from seed; and a wealth of personal tips and advice. As Fenton writes, 'the emphasis is on childish simplicity of approach, and economy of outlay.' Here is a happy, stylish, thought-provoking exercise in good principles, which exudes that rare thing: common-or-garden sense about gardens.

Flower Arranging for Beginners - Learn How to Create Stunning Arrangements (Paperback): Amy Barene Flower Arranging for Beginners - Learn How to Create Stunning Arrangements (Paperback)
Amy Barene
R425 R399 Discovery Miles 3 990 Save R26 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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