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Tailored specifically to Atlantic Canadian gardeners, this is a
must-have guide for the hundreds of perennials suitable to the
often-challenging weather and soil conditions of Canadas east
coast. Hundreds of splendid full-colour photos will inspire your
perennial picks. The at-a-glance guides will ensure your success,
pointing you to the best plants for rock gardens, pollinator
gardens, heritage gardens, and coastal gardens, as well as those in
the shade, in wet, dry, or cold areas, among others.
Up the Garden Path brings together a glorious collection of
Thelwell's gardening cartoons. This humourous cartoon guide covers
all aspects of gardening, from how to make a hole in the frozen
fish pond to how to get your mower out of the shed, and includes a
calendar of essential work throughout the year.
Did you know that plants and plant products can be used to improve
people's cognitive, physical, psychological, and social
functioning? Well, they can, and Horticulture as Therapy is the
book to show you how If you are already familiar with the healing
potential of horticultural therapy, or even practice horticultural
therapy, this book will help you enrich your knowledge and skills
and revitalize your practice. You will learn how horticultural
therapy can be used with different populations in a variety of
settings, what resources are available, effective treatment
strategies, and the concepts behind horticultural treatment. The
first comprehensive text on the practice of horticulture as
therapy, this one-of-a-kind book will enable the profession to
educate future horticultural therapists with fundamental knowledge
and skills as they embark on careers as practitioners, researchers,
and educators. You come to understand the relationship between
people and plants more deeply as you learn about: vocational,
social, and therapeutic programs in horticulture special
populations including children, older adults, those who exhibit
criminal behavior, and those with developmental disabilities,
physical disabilities, mental health disorders, or traumatic brain
injury use of horticultural therapy in botanical gardening and
community settings adaptive gardening techniques applied research
documentation and assessment in horticultural practice Horticulture
as Therapy establishes, integrates, and communicates a foundation
of knowledge for horticultural therapists, other therapists,
horticulturists, students, research scientists, gardeners, and
others interested in this special and unique kind of therapy. By
reading Horticulture as Therapy, you will see how you can make a
difference in the health and well-being of so many people, today
and tomorrow. Translated into Greek
Can gardening change the world? It certainly can when it comes to
butterflies. Butterflies are in danger, but everyone who has a
garden can do their part to make a difference. Gardening for
Butterflies is an optimistic call to arms by the experts at the
Xerces Society that provides home gardeners with everything they
need to create a beautiful, beneficial, butterfly filled garden, no
matter the size of their space. Hundreds of plants for all of North
America are profiled, with colour photographs and growing
information, along with tips on plant selection, installation and
maintenance.
The royal Parisian botanical garden, the Jardin du Roi, was a jewel
in the crown of the French Old Regime, praised by both rulers and
scientific practitioners. Yet unlike many such institutions, the
Jardin not only survived the French Revolution but by 1800 had
become the world's leading public establishment of natural history:
the Mus 9um d'Histoire Naturelle.
E. C. Spary traces the scientific, administrative, and political
strategies that enabled the foundation of the Mus 9um, arguing that
agriculture and animal breeding rank alongside classification and
collections in explaining why natural history was important for
French rulers. But the Mus 9um's success was also a consequence of
its employees' Revolutionary rhetoric: by displaying the natural
order, they suggested, the institution could assist in fashioning a
self-educating, self-policing Republican people. Natural history
was presented as an indispensable source of national prosperity and
individual virtue.
Spary's fascinating account opens a new chapter in the history of
France, science, and the Enlightenment.
This book is the story of one garden and one family, over a 40-year
time period. In their own words, Michael and Anne Heseltine
describe the ups and downs of how they set about transforming and
expanding a wild, overgrown and often dilapidated woodland into the
magnificent garden they have today. Today, the garden at Thenford
has an arboretum which contains more than 3,500 different species
of trees and shrubs, including rare plants which were
wild-collected by well known plantsmen including Roy Lancaster OBE,
Allen Coombes, Keith Rushforth and Chris Chadwell. It is also
well-known for its sculpture garden, which has an eclectic
collection of work ranging from a white marble Tazza fountain to an
enormous statue of Lenin. Beautifully illustrated with both
professional photographs and private family images, this personal
story of the creation of an extraordinary garden will delight
horticultural experts and novices alike.
Susannah Seton reminds us in "Every Garden Is a Story" that reader
and gardener alike have much to learn from their gardens. The
poignant and touching stories - from her father's quest for a
seven-headed sweet pea to cancer survival and magical portraits of
moon gardens - take readers on a journey through garden beds, along
the way reinforcing how to care for themselves and their loved ones
by caring for the Earth. "Some of the most touching stories remind
us that we don't have to have a big yard or a lot of money to have
a garden." - from the foreword by Carolyn Rapp. "Every Garden Is a
Story" is a thoughtful and inspiring gift for any gardener.
Don't Just Plant Your Garden...Plan It Fifth-generation homesteader
Melissa K. Norris has found gardening to be one of the easiest and
most complex things there is. It really is as simple as plopping a
seed into the soil, giving it adequate light and water, and
watching it grow. But if you want to get the most out of your
garden and produce more food each year, you need a plan to help you
stay on track. This indispensable guide includes everything you
need to plan your garden, execute your plan, and record your
results, saving you time and hassle-and allowing you to have fun
with the process. You'll discover a series of charts and worksheets
to identify which gardening zone you are in, which crops make sense
for your family, and how much you'll need to plant. Then you'll
refer to a set of monthly instructions based on your gardening zone
and put together a customized plan using yearly, monthly, and
weekly charts to help you stay on track. The more you use this
planner, the more you will get out of your garden, and the more
you'll enjoy providing your family with healthy, organic fruits and
vegetables all year long.
When BBC Radio 4's Material World programme announced a search for
the UK's top amateur scientist, little did anyone expect that the
winning experiment would comprise one of our humblest garden pests.
Ruth Brooks posed this question: Do snails have a homing instinct?
The nation was gripped by the unexpected thesis and by Ruth's
online diaries, which catalogued her trials and tribulations as she
got to grips with these slimy little gastropods. A Slow Passion is
Ruth's story, with anecdotes and misadventures galore. What starts
out as a ruthless vendetta against the snails that are decimating
her hostas becomes a journey of discovery into the whys and
wherefores of snail life. When Ruth dumps a group of the worst
offending snails in a far-off wood, she decides to paint their
shells with nail varnish, just to see what happens. And guess what,
they come back home. This is the beginning of an obsession that
sees the grandmother-turned-scientist prowling about and pouncing
on the snails in her garden, sneaking off on night-time missions to
repatriate bucketloads of painted snails, reading up on the
sex-life of snails (which turns out to be unexpectedly romantic)
and, eventually, sending off the application to a national
competition for home science. With charming illustrations, A Slow
Passion is a sweet, funny and surprising investigation into the
hidden life of snails, which will change the way you look at the
smaller (and slower) things in life.
Written as he talks, this is Monty Don right beside you in the
garden, challenging norms and sharing advice. Discover Monty's
thoughts and garden ideas around nature, seasons, color, design,
pests, flowering shrubs, containers, and much more. Read about the
month-by month jobs he does in his own garden that he hopes are
relevant to you. Monty's intimate and lyrical writing is
accompanied by photos of his garden, showing areas rarely seen on
television. This is the perfect gift for the gardener in your life.
"I have written many gardening books but this is the distillation
of 50 years of gardening experience. It has all the tips and
essential pieces of knowledge that enable you to make your garden
grow well, and it also shares my view that gardening is the secret
to living well too." - Monty
A timeless gardening classic by Christopher Lloyd, one of Britain's
most highly respected plantsmen, updated for the 21st century. With
a new foreword by Anna Pavord. This is a classic work by a gardener
who combines a passionate love of his subject with a critical
intelligence and a good helping of wit. THE WELL-TEMPERED GARDEN is
packed with the sort of information keen gardeners crave - from
planting, weeding and the pleasures of propagation to annuals,
water lilies and vegetables. Hailed as a masterpiece when it was
first published, THE WELL-TEMPERED GARDEN is as fresh, enlightening
and necessary for gardeners in the 21st century as it was when it
first appeared more than 40 years ago.
This is a very accessible history of the vices and virtues of
British gardeners through the ages, particularly those who shaped
the National Trust gardens. For a lighthearted look at the history
of gardens through the characters who owned and created them, this
book offers stories of greed, gluttony, pride, lust, wrath, sloth
and envy, alongside the glaring opposite - tales of great kindness,
love and generosity. From the garden owner who blew more money on
ferns in one shopping trip than she paid her Head Gardener in a
year, to Winston Churchill, wading knee-deep in the mud of his
beloved garden at Chartwell, and from the intrepid plant hunters of
the 19th century to the landowner who replaced an entire village
with a more attractive bluebell wood, these stories of gardens,
their owners and their gardeners are filled with history and
intrigue.
A classic in the field, this comprehensive reference provides
current information for readers who need to estimate the
construction costs of landscape architecture projects. Written by a
professor of landscape architecture at Iowa State University, this
guide provides unit prices easily combined to fit specific job
requirements. Coverage includes per diems, crew and equipment,
installation, and materials.
It all began when Simon Griffiths decided that he and his whippet
couldn't live in his tiny but gorgeous one-up one-down shopfront in
Melbourne any more. He had a yearning for open spaces, country air
and, most importantly, a garden of his own. On finding his cottage
in Meadowbank, just outside Sydney, and trialling different plants,
he gradually became part of the secret gardening network - the one
where cuttings are exchanged between friends, and planting
successes and failures are recounted over neighbourhood fences.
Simon is a brilliant photographer, bringing warmth and joy to all
his subjects, but he is also a very knowledgeable plantsman. In
this book he has captured his favourite twenty country-style
gardens and shares the knowledge he has gleaned from fellow garden
lovers.
Practically all books written on interior landscape address the
needs of home gardeners or the more detailed needs of business
owners and researchers. Technicians, trainees, and advanced
personnel alike--those who must maintain large interior
installations on a commercial level--have not had ready access to
information often critical to performing their job successfully.
Finally, here is a dictionary specifically compiled for the
interior landscape professional. It fills the gap in the literature
by covering all terms that apply to interior landscaping.
Definitions of more than 1,000 interior landscape terms are listed
in alphabetical order for easy access. Each definition is brief but
thorough to provide the right depth needed by the working
professional. Although terms are described at a level that requires
no background in the science of horticulture, the Interior
Landscape Dictionary also provides technical terminology for those
who require it. Nearly 130 illustrations--including 70
photographs--make it easy to identify specific plants and treatment
for various plant diseases and pests. Detailed appendices cover
both Latin and common plant nomenclature, pronunciation of Latin
names, and lists of additional reading materials for reference.
Unlike other botanical dictionaries that have too few illustrations
and too many complex definitions, the Interior Landscape Dictionary
has the right blend of information and format for the daily needs
of interior landscapers. It is a valuable reference source for
professionals and trainees in the fields of landscape architecture
and management, interior design, horticulture, architecture, and
plant science.
Take note of your local wildlife sightings in this handy and
helpful journal. The RHS Wild in the Garden Three Year Journal is
an illustrated logbook to record the wildlife you spot in your
garden, structured week by week to enable a three-year comparison.
Illustrated with colour photographs of British garden wildlife, it
includes suggestions on how to encourage wildlife into your garden,
tips on what to look out for and plenty of space to record details
on your sightings and compare and note changes year on year.
Whether your interest is birds, small mammals or insects and
pollinators, noticing and recording what is seen when, as well as
how factors such as weather, food sources, pest control and habitat
change may affect numbers, is a rewarding pastime for the wildlife
enthusiast as well as a useful tool for the gardener.
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