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Following the success of Susan Irvine's books, 'Rose Gardens of
Australia' and 'The Garden at Forest Hall', her readers will be
happy to know that 'Garden of a Thousand Roses' was the book that
started it all, and it is now back in print in a new, improved
edition.
Reprint Now Available Concentrate on growing crops well, and you
will find you have very few pest or disease problems to worry
about. Those pests that persist can be controlled with the
multitude of organic pesticides and fungicides Jackie has developed
and tested in sixteen years of observation, experimentation and
hard work. This book contains workable natural gardening and
farming methods, along with techniques for natural pest control in
flower and vegetable gardens, orchards and small farms.
"Edible Forest Gardens" is a groundbreaking two-volume work that
spells out and explores the key concepts of forest ecology and
applies them to the needs of natural gardeners in temperate
climates. Volume I lays out the vision of the forest garden and
explains the basic ecological principles that make it work. In
Volume II, Dave Jacke and Eric Toensmeier move on to practical
considerations: concrete ways to design, establish, and maintain
your own forest garden. Along the way they present case studies and
examples, as well as tables, illustrations, and a uniquely valuable
"plant matrix" that lists hundreds of the best edible and useful
species.Taken together, the two volumes of "Edible Forest Gardens"
offer an advanced course in ecological gardening--one that will
forever change the way you look at plants and your environment.
Turn the Louvre pyramid into a greenhouse! Design your own folly or
maze! Green up a car park or experiment with topiary! Whether you
have a garden or not, you can let your horticultural imagination
run wild. Sam Piyasena's charming illustrations and Kendra Wilson's
witty activity suggestions provide the inspiration. This fun book
will delight lovers of gardens and green spaces of all ages.
Invaluable reference and guide, carefully researched and charmingly written, illustrates and describes over 50 herbs and plants that were extremely useful to colonial settlers, among them: bee balm, bloodroot, candytuft, daffodil, hyssop, lovage, rosemary, tansy, wormwood, and yarrow. Includes anecdotes, popular and scientific names and use for each plant.
This title offers essential gardening skills and tasks, and a guide
to 3000 plants, with more than 1900 photographs and illustrations.
It includes step-by-step techniques on everything from planning and
design to planting, propagation, care and cultivation through each
season. It contains advice on choosing the best plants for all
types of garden, with entries arranged alphabetically within plant
categories for quick and easy reference. It includes information on
caring for trees, shrubs, climbers, bulbs, annuals and perennials,
growing vegetables, herbs and fruit, greenhouse gardening, and
improving your lawn. It contains descriptions and essential
cultivation information for over 3000 common garden plants. It is
an essential box set for new gardeners and those who want to extend
their gardening expertise. Whether you are an experienced gardener
or a complete beginner, these two authoritative reference books
contain everything you need to know about planning, planting and
maintaining your garden, and choosing the best plants to suit your
location. "The Visual Encyclopedia of Garden Techniques" includes
all the essential gardening skills, such as improving your soil and
planting flowers, shrubs and trees. "The Visual Encyclopedia of
Garden Plants" is the perfect companion for selecting the best
plants to create a beautiful and uniquely personal garden. With
practical advice and over 1900 photographs, these informative books
are indispensable for any gardener.
Soil is the basis not only for all gardening, but for all
terrestrial life. No aspect of agriculture is more fundamental and
important, yet we have been losing vast quantities of our finite
soil resources to erosion, pollution, and development. Now back in
print, this eminently sensible and wonderfully well-focused book
provides essential information about one of the most significant
challenges for those attempting to grow delicious organic
vegetables: the creation and maintenance of healthy soil.
Almost eighty years after her death, Gertrude Jekyll (1843-1932) is
still one of the most influential of all English garden designers.
Best known for the superb use of colour schemes in her hallmark
flower borders, she combined an early training in art with
self-taught horticultural skills. Early influences included William
Morris, John Ruskin and William Robinson, but it is her partnership
with the architect Edwin Lutyens that produced some of the most
distinctive of Edwardian houses and gardens. From her house (and
nursery) at Munstead Wood, Surrey, Jekyll designed over 400 gardens
across Britain and Europe, and some in America where her archive of
designs and drawings is now held. This book explores her life,
influences on her early work in art and crafts, the transfer to
Munstead Wood and working relationship with Edwin Lutyens, as well
as her own writings and achievements.
Advice for growing cannabis at home! Cannabis can be a tricky plant
to cultivate, but The Beginner's Guide to Growing Marijuana makes
it easy by guiding you through each stage of development to ensure
that you always build a thriving garden. Inside, you'll find
everything you need to know about growing and harvesting marijuana,
from choosing the right herb strain to establishing the perfect
soil conditions, light, and temperature for your plants. Featuring
illustrations that depict the cannabis's anatomy, you'll also
discover the differences among various types of plants, how to tell
a male marijuana plant from a female, and what it looks like when
it's ready to be harvested. Complete with quick "Money Smart" tips
and "Keep It Simple" sections, this one-stop resource shows you how
to get the most out of your money and time when you're nurturing
your first crop. Filled with plenty of techniques for small-space
and container gardening, The Beginner's Guide to Growing Marijuana
will help you master the art of growing cannabis--no matter how
small your space or budget!
Written with passion and packed with practical information, Monty
Don's The Complete Gardener is a must-read for anyone who wants to
learn how to garden. Here, Monty reveals the secrets of growing
vegetables, fruits, flowers, and herbs while respecting the needs
of the environment by gardening organically. Grounded in his own
experience, Monty's straightforward gardening advice is paired with
extraordinarily beautiful photographs taken over the course of a
year in his own Herefordshire garden, taking you on a tour of his
flower garden, herb garden, kitchen garden, and more.
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.
Georgian landscape gardens are among the most visited and enjoyed
of the UK's historical treasures. The Georgian garden has also been
hailed as the greatest British contribution to European Art, seen
as a beautiful composition created from grass, trees and water - a
landscape for contemplation. But scratch below the surface and
history reveals these gardens were a lot less serene and, in
places, a great deal more scandalous.Beautifully illustrated in
colour and black & white, this book is about the daily life of
the Georgian garden. It reveals its previously untold secrets from
early morning rides through to evening amorous liaisons. It
explains how by the eighteenth century there was a desire to escape
the busy country house where privacy was at a premium, and how
these gardens evolved aesthetically, with modestly-sized, far-flung
temples and other eye-catchers, to cater for escape and solitude as
well as food, drink, music and fireworks. Its publication coincides
with the 2016 tercentenary of the birth of Lancelot 'Capability'
Brown, arguably Britain's greatest ever landscape gardener, and the
book is uniquely positioned to put Brown's work into its social
context.
Showcased are a variety of Relais and Chateaux enchanting
horticultural havens from simple cutting and kitchen gardens to
more elaborate formal plantings, including parterres and topiaries
at fifteen celebrated establishments in North America. The delights
of the garden are then brought indoors through botanical prints,
textiles, wallpapers, and objects d art, such as metal and
porcelain flowers. How-to sidebars show ideas for setting a festive
table using rose petals, garlands, bud vases, and more, and for
dressing up dishes and cocktails with edible flower garnishes and
creating culinary delights harvested by the local terroir. A
must-read for passionate gardeners and flower lovers, and all those
who appreciate the masterful creativity of Relais and Chateaux, The
Art of the Garden shows how to bring the sparkle and freshness of
the outdoors into your home.
Food gardening is becoming increasingly popular, as people look for
new ways to live more sustainably and minimize harm to the
environment. This book addresses the most pressing challenges
facing food gardening in the 21st century - worldwide changes in
climate, the environment, natural resources, and communities - and
the basic biological, ecological and social concepts which
influence our understanding. Examples throughout the text
demonstrate how gardeners can use these theories to their
advantage.
This title provides everything you need to know to create and
maintain a stunning garden throughout the year, with 10
inspirational and practical books. Planning and maintaining a
successful garden - one that meets the needs and aspirations of the
owner - is an enjoyable and creative process. The skills required
can be mastered by everyone and are clearly explained in this
beautiful set of books. The tasks involved in creating and
improving a garden are divided into manageable units, to help you
maximize the potential of your site. So if you dream of borders of
colourful and scented blooms, a healthy green lawn, a patio in
which to relax, or even low-maintenance ideas to lessen the
workload, here are the skills to guarantee success. These handy
books also make it easy to devise planting schemes that incorporate
year-round colour, architectural shapes and different plant
textures into the garden. There are plenty of schemes for
colourful, fragrant, and even edible, hanging baskets and window
boxes, as well as ideas for filling space with annuals, and
incorporating perennials and shrubs into your garden design.With
over 1200 colour photographs and accessible and informative text by
respected horticultural experts, this comprehensive set of
gardening guides will give inspiration and practical suggestions to
improve any garden situation.
Step-by-step instructions lead readers through the process of
creating their own rockwool hydroponic garden. Included are tips
from professional growers for making plants grow faster and more
lushly in rockwool.
"Principles of Tropical Horticulture" leads the reader through a
background of environmental influences and plant physiology to an
understanding of production and post-harvest systems, environmental
adaptation techniques and marketing strategies. Focusing on the
principles behind production practices and their scientific basis,
rather than detailed biological traits of each crop, this text
outlines successes and failures in practices to date and sets out
how the quantity and quality of horticultural produce can improve
in the future. Case studies are frequently used and chapters cover
the production of vegetables, fruit and ornamental crops, including
temperate zone crops adapted to grow in the tropics.
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