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Books > Health, Home & Family > Gardening > General
Planning and maintaining a successful garden is an enjoyable and
creative process. If you dream of borders of bright 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. There are plenty of tips to incorporate
aromatic shrubs and architectural plants into your garden, as well
as ideas for filling space with annuals. Schemes for attractive
hanging baskets and window boxes are also included. With over 1200
photographs illustrating both techniques and beautiful gardens, the
book contains everything you need to create a stunning outdoor
area.
Win the war against the world's most hated garden pests with a
battle plan of 50 effective slug-killing tactics-all amusingly
written and illustrated with cartoons. An at-a-glance profile
reveals effective weapons to use against the slug (including beer),
and there are smart new ways to confuse them and set them off
track. Choose from those 50 slug-beaters, and inflict death the
natural way, by chemical warfare, and by the "surprise" attack.
Never has such a practical handbook been such fun to read.
The perfect gift for flower lovers everywhere, Garden Flowers, 100
Postcards features two sets of 50 breathtaking images taken from
award-winning photographer Rob Cardillo, with brief descriptive
text on the back of each card. From the explosive heads of pink
peonies to delicate sweet peas, majestic hollyhocks, and fields of
black-eyed Susan, every picture celebrates the exuberant joy of the
garden. A flip-top box completes the giftable package.
This inspirational two-volume collection discusses how to plan and
plant the perfect garden. It includes 50 plans, step-by-step
practical advice and more than 1000 colour photographs. It contains
over 50 plans and more than 1000 colour photographs that show you
how to create the perfect garden, even in the smallest of spaces.
Detailed coverage of different styles of garden included such as:
wildlife gardens; water and rock gardens; Japanese gardens; small
gardens; family gardens; kitchen gardens; low-maintenance gardens;
container gardens; and, patios, balconies and terraces. This title
provides clear guidance on creating features such as lawns, fences,
walls and patios, as well as trellising, arches and pergolas, and
ponds and rock gardens. It also includes inspirational planting
schemes and helpful plant lists help you choose the right plants
for specific effects, conditions and locations.
The avid gardener will need no other resource than this book to
plan and maintain a natural garden on the country farm or in the
suburban backyard, a habitat congenial to the scarlet tanager, the
monarch butterfly, and the toad.
Unique to this book is author Beresford-Kroeger's concept of
bioplanning, in which the gardener views the site as a biological
system and the activity of gardening as an ecological task. To
assist in bioplanning a garden, the author provides both plans that
are adaptable to different garden sizes and shapes, as well as
planting instructions emphasizing organic care, ecofunction, and
environmentally friendly means of pest control.
"A Garden for Life" challenges everyone to create an
ecologically valuable garden for the joy of doing so, and for the
salvation of our natural world.
Diana Beresford-Kroeger is the author of "Arboretum America."
She is a botanist, medical and agricultural researcher, lecturer,
and self-defined "renegade scientist" in the fields of classical
botany, medical biochemistry, organic chemistry, and nuclear
chemistry. She lives in Ontario, Canada.
This is the fascinating story of a small group of
eighteenth-century naturalists who made Britain a nation of
gardeners and the epicenter of horticultural and botanical
expertise. It's the story of a garden revolution that began in
America.
In 1733, the American farmer John Bartram dispatched two boxes of
plants and seeds from the American colonies, addressed to the
London cloth merchant Peter Collinson. Most of these plants had
never before been grown in British soil, but in time the
magnificent and colorful American trees, evergreens, and shrubs
would transform the English landscape and garden forever. During
the next forty years, Collinson and a handful of botany enthusiasts
cultivated hundreds of American species. "The Brother Gardeners
"follows the lives of six of these men, whose shared passion for
plants gave rise to the English love affair with gardens. In
addition to Collinson and Bartram, who forged an extraordinary
friendship, here are Philip Miller, author of the best-selling
"Gardeners Dictionary"; the Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus, whose
standardized nomenclature helped bring botany to the middle
classes; and Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander, who explored the
strange flora of Brazil, Tahiti, New Zealand, and Australia on the
greatest voyage of discovery of their time, aboard Captain Cook's
"Endeavour."
From the exotic blooms in Botany Bay to the royal gardens at Kew,
from the streets of London to the vistas of the Appalachian
Mountains, "The Brother Gardeners" paints a vivid portrait of an
emerging world of knowledge and of gardening as we know it today.
It is a delightful and beautifully told narrative history.
"From the Hardcover edition."
Chasing Dragonflies: A Natural, Cultural, and Personal History is
an engaging, beautifully illustrated introduction to these
remarkable insects. Drawing on her experiences as a natural history
instructor, dragonfly monitor, cancer survivor, grandmother, and
steward, Crosby tells the stories of dragonflies: their roles in
poetry and art, their fascinating sex life - unique within the
animal kingdom - and their evolution from dark-water dwellers to
denizens of the air. We follow Crosby and other citizen scientists
into the prairies, wetlands, and woodlands of the Midwest, where
they observe the environment and chronicle dragonfly populations
and migration to decipher critical clues about our changing
waterways and climate. Woven throughout are personal stories:
reflections on the author's cancer diagnosis and recovery, change,
loss, aging, family, joy, and discovering what it means to be at
home in the natural world. Crosby draws an intimate portrait of a
landscape teeming with variety and mystery, one that deserves our
attention and conservation. As warm as it is informative, this book
will interest gardeners, readers of literary nonfiction, and anyone
intrigued by transformation, whether in nature or our personal
lives.
Death and Garden Narratives in Literature, Art and Film: Song of
Death in Paradise explores the combination of two motifs, death and
gardens, to show how the two subjects are intertwined and used in
various media and cultural contexts. Using cultural, literary,
film, and art history theories, the contributors analyze various
death and garden sceneries in literary works by Arthur Machen,
Agatha Christie, J.K. Rowling, as well as in superhero comics,
films, and cultural and art contexts such as Ian Hamilton Finley's
"Little Sparta," the poetic verses from the Karoo Desert National
Botanical Garden in South Africa, and the Australian wilderness.
This handbook offers some simple circuits that will monitor weather
and environmental conditions and provide warnings or take remedial
action as necessary. for example, such projects include rain
detection, frost warning, under/over temperature monitoring,
dusk/dawn switching and automatic plant watering.
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