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This fully revised edition of Kevin Handreck s classic best-seller
contains a wealth of information for practical gardeners. It will
enable you to improve the worst of soils, choose the best
fertilizer for particular plants and minimize water use. It also
contains a comprehensive guide to managing potted plants. Here also
are the basics of soil, composting, fertilisers and potting mixes,
as well as simple tests and colour guides to nutrient deficiencies.
Gardening Down-Under covers much practical information left out by
other gardening books. Features* Practical information on soils,
potting mixes and fertilisers * How to deal with dead plants, mulch
and compost * Information on water usage * Key issues for gardening
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This beautiful collection of poetry and prose through the seasons
rhapsodises on the spectacle of colour and everything green and
flourishing in the garden. The perfect book for a moment's
reflection, whether you are cooped up on a rainy day in your
potting shed or admiring the fruits of your labour on a sunny
evening from the pergola.
How many times when we are visiting gardens, or thumbing through a
glossy magazine, do we look at our own garden with mixed feelings
of disappointment and despair, and exclaim 'Why can`t my garden
look like that?'. The simple answer is `it can`. This book
demonstrates just how easy it is to make adjustments to what is
already there to make your garden stunning, whatever its size.
Whether it's an issue with design, plant selection or pruning - or
even lack of time - simple solutions are described in clear,
jargon-free language that will appeal both to the complete novice
and those with more experience. Written in an informal,
easy-to-read style this book will enable everyone to have a garden
they can be proud of.
This title features: over 50 glorious gifts and ideas to create
from the natural produce grown in your own garden; how to create a
wonderful variety of practical and ornamental garden items, both
for your garden and as gifts for fellow enthusiasts; over 50 ideas,
gifts and projects, illustrated step by step with beautiful
photographs; create lovely decorative items like customized garden
furniture and containers, painted pots, a decoupage seed box, and a
lavender and herb garland. Try making useful tools and accessories
such as a gardener's first aid kit, citronella candles,
hand-painted plant labels and fruit-picking bags. It includes a
seasonal checklist of activities, and planting practicalities such
as growing from seed and potting on, to keep you busy in the
potting shed through the year. This book takes its inspiration from
the potting shed, the practical refuge that provides the perfect
space in which to enjoy the potential of your garden. Here are
dozens of projects to make, from decorated gift boxes and themed
plant baskets to all manner of ornamental garden accessories. Ideas
include items that you'll be tempted to keep for yourself, as well
as for gifts any gardener would be delighted to receive, such as
candle holders, a plant theatre, and a potted Mediterranean herb
garden. All the projects are shown with easy-to-follow
instructions. With over 350 glorious photographs by well-known,
award-winning photographer, Michelle Garrett, this book captures
and celebrates the creative spirit of gardening.
This book is aimed at garden lovers and anyone keen to turn their
gardening talent into a business. It's for those who, while stuck
in an office, have always dreamed of making a living outdoors, for
second career-ers who have a flair for gardening and want a job
that makes them happy and for anyone who would like to combine a
love of plants of gardens with the freedom of being their own boss.
Uniquely, the book looks at the diverse opportunities that exist in
gardening, from running a nursery to building a garden maintenance
business, and from training to be a landscape designer to writing
about gardening for a living. Taking the reader through how to
pursue each type of business successfully, it looks at everything
from researching the competition, training and internships, to how
to get your first job, develop a network and grow the business.As
well as all the practical information required to start a gardening
business, this essential guide profiles 20 individuals and tells
their inspiring stories - from the doctor who became a garden
designer and whose work ended up on national television, to the
high-flying fashion director who gave up the rat race to make a
living from growing traditional roses. Packed with advice, tips and
resources, this book offers everything you need to start your own
successful gardening business.
Discover the joys of gardening using traditional plants and
planting methods that have withstood the test of time. Create and
maintain a garden filled with hues and scents of old-fashioned
plants. This book includes everything from natural horticultural
methods of propagation, soil fertilization, care and cultivation,
to period garden design and layout. This is an absorbing reference
for all those wishing to garden the traditional way.
Includes: habitat, heigt and spread plant features and flower
colors information on soil, light and water tips on how to best use
the plant in your garden recommended species for Minnesota and
Wisconsin gardens
Tending our gardens is a lifelong pleasure. As we age, our energy
and physical abilities become more limited. But gardens are
magical, evolving places, with the potential to keep us young at
heart, physically fit, out in the fresh air and full to the brim
with joy and expectation. This ground-breaking book shows how easy
it is for older people to carry on gardening. The different kinds
of garden set-up are considered first, along with planning
decisions and how best to keep safe and comfortable. An informative
chapter looks at the main gardening activities and appropriate
equipment, especially those that answer physical limitations.
Different styles of garden are then presented: flower, vegetable,
fruit, raised, herb, patio, vertical and indoor gardens, each one
including projects and techniques, from building a raised bed to
growing potatoes in containers. The final chapter is a directory
that profiles the many planting choices available. Packed with
projects, garden plans and step-by-step sequences designed for
older gardeners who may not be able to exert themselves in the same
way as they once could, this will appeal to active gardeners in
their early retirement through to seniors with more limited
abilities, and show how gardening can be a lifelong pleasure.
This concise book follows the journey of this quintessentially
great British invention, often thought never worthy of a picture,
and celebrates the mundane with its fascinating history, aided by
unique pictures rarely seen before. From lawnmowers that manicured
the gardens of great palaces to those that groomed the hallowed
turf of Wembley, Wimbledon and golf courses and cricket grounds
around the world, this book features a variety of machines and
their stories. Also included are significant examples such as the
first lawnmower and the fastest, as well as some 'Lawnmowers of the
Rich and Famous.' This unique book follows the story from before
the invention of animal-powered grass cutting machinery and the
internal combustion engine up to the present-day robot mowers and
into the future.
One of our finest writers on one of her greatest loves.Jamaica Kincaid's first garden in Vermont was a plot in the middle of her front lawn. There, to the consternation of more experienced friends, she planted only seeds of the flowers she liked best. In My Garden (Book): she gathers all she loves about gardening and plants, and examines it generously, passionately, and with sharp, idiosyncratic discrimination. Kincaid's affections are matched in intensity only by her dislikes. She loves spring and summer but cannot bring herself to love winter, for it hides the garden. She adores the rhododron Jane Grant, and appreciates ordinary Blue Lake string beans, but abhors the Asiatic lily. The sources of her inspiration -- seed catalogues, the gardener Gertrude Jekyll, gardens like Monet's at Giverny -- are subjected to intense scrutiny. She also examines the idea of the garden on Antigua, where she grew up. My Garden (Book): is an intimate, playful, and penetrating book on gardens, the plants that fill them, and the persons who tend them.
This is a practical gardener's guide for animal lovers, including
planting advice, designs and 90 step-by-step projects, with 1700
photographs. Turn your garden into a wildlife haven by growing the
right plants to encourage beneficial insects, aquatic life, birds
and animals. It includes illustrated directories of over 200 plant
species, from annuals to climbers, with practical advice on
cultivation and uses, plus 80 of the most common garden bird
species, with identification illustrations and natural history
information on distribution, size, distinguishing characteristics,
behaviour, nesting, eggs and feeding habits. It includes practical
step-by-step projects that show you how to make all kinds of
birdhouses, bird tables, birdbaths, wildlife stacks and more. It
features all the basic gardening techniques such as plant
propagation, soil preparation, composting and general maintenance.
Itis illustrated throughout with over 1700 practical colour
artworks and photographs. One of the most enjoyable aspects of
creating and maintaining a garden lies in the feeling of closeness
to nature. Now, with this new book box set, you can encourage
hidden birds, animal and insects to proliferate in your very own
back garden. These two books, written by award-winning gardening
experts, give clear advice on how to create a range of wildlife
gardens, showing how adopting a few simple methods will produce a
dazzling display of colour while helping native animal species.
There are suggestions for the best flowers, shrubs, hedges and
trees to attract birds, including a design for a garden border that
will provide food throughout the seasons. Comprehensive directories
explore over 200 beautiful garden plants, plus over 80 of the most
common birds, insects and animals, from woodland and countryside
locations to town and city environments. With its helpful practical
advice and over 1700 photographs and illustrations, this is the
ideal source book for gardeners, bird lovers and wildlife
enthusiasts.
Winner of the National Trust Outdoor Book of the Year 2011 The
story of one man's unlikely quest to create out of a mountainous
Welsh landscape a garden fit for inclusion in the prestigious
Yellow Book - the 'Gardens of England and Wales Open for Charity'
guide - in just one year. The son of two passionate gardeners,
Antony Woodward was born with chlorophyll running through his
veins. Unfortunately, growing up with Latin plant names took its
toll, and he was ingrained early on with a profound loathing of
both gardens and gardening. Buying Tair-ffynnon, a derelict
smallholding 1,300 feet up in the Black Mountains of Wales, changed
everything. Hooked by its beauty - when not buried in cloud -
Woodward battles to meet the strict requirements of the famous
'Yellow Book' in this unlikely terrain. He finds himself driven by
apparently inexplicable compulsions: wood chopping, hauling a
20-tonne railway carriage up a mountain, even beekeeping. Soon, his
voyage along the rocky path to his own patch of paradise takes on a
more personal tenor as he unearths the deep roots linking gardening
and his childhood in this warm, funny and unlikely memoir.
Beautifully written and effortlessly engaging, 'The Garden in the
Clouds' is a compelling read for anyone who has ever gardened - or
ever dreamt of doing so.
Handy guide is packed with the best plant varieties you'll want for
your garden: annula, perennials, trees and shrubs, vines, roses,
bulbs, ornamental grasses and herbs.
Between 1850 and 1880, Americans of all ranks and circumstances
planted shade trees, cultivated flower gardens, and established
lawns with a newfound enthusiasm that both astonished and delighted
horticultural advocates. For Shade and For Comfort explores this
unprecedented burst of horticultural interest, and documents its
influence on Midwestern domestic landscapes. Drawing upon a wide
range of largely unexplored resources including lithographic images
of farm, village, and city homes; agricultural society records;
nursery and seed catalogues; and the diaries and letters of local
residents, this innovative study examines how advocates encouraged
ornamental plant interest, and then considers the significance of
trees and flowers for their mid-nineteenth-century promoters and
for the people who planted and nurtured them. From these diverse
perspectives, ornamental plants emerge as densely layered cultural
symbols offering not only a very real touch of shade or beauty, but
for many, a sense of security and comfort amidst a rapidly changing
American society. With its careful portrayal of actual ornamental
plant use, its examination of nineteenth-century horticultural
advice literatur
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