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Discover how easy it is to harness the natural goodness of plants
with over 50 homemade beauty recipes that can help you feel better,
look better and have a healthy year! Most of us use lipbalms, body
scrubs and cosmetics every day, but these can be full of chemicals
and harmful to your skin and health. This book teaches you how to
confidently make your own homemade remedies and natural beauty
products using plants and herbs that are readily available, and
often free, such as nettles, dandelions, herbs and hawthorn
berries. Our gardens and hedgerows contain much of what we need to
keep mild ailments at bay and it's fun giving it a go - instead of
weeding the dandelions in your lawn, pick them and use them! Or
plant marigolds, not just for their cheerful colour, but to make
wonderful skin oils. With a helpful 'Season by Season' layout, you
will know at a glance what to gather and when to gather it. Inside,
you'll find homemade beauty recipes, including camomile bath soak,
chocolate lip gloss, lavender bath bombs, mint lip balm, and more!
Plus, plenty of healthy recipes for homemade remedies, from
treatments for colds and overindulgence, to witch hazel spot gel,
burn salves, skin-toning ointments, and even hay fever relief. This
book is a source book for mind, body and soul, as well as a
testament to the natural power and beauty of herbs. Get out there,
keep your eyes open and discover the many widely available plants
that you can use for your health - with the added bonus that
they're not costing you anything. With Treat Yourself Natural you
will feel empowered to explore the wonderful world of making
healthy remedies and homemade beauty products, either for yourself
or as gifts for your friends and family; after all, there is
nothing nicer than a lovingly made present. "This book is full of
brilliant ideas for things to make for yourself, or as wonderful
gifts. Year in year out this will be an invaluable resource for a
rainy day or a country walk, written by someone who really knows
what she is talking about as well as living the same busy life as
you and I." From the foreword, by Kirstie Allsopp
Nevin Smith has spent his life growing plants and exploring the
wild California landscape. A highly respected horticulturalist and
practitioner who is also a gifted writer, Smith shares his years of
experience growing native California plants in this lively,
informative book. Rather than being a systematic "how-to" manual,
"Native Treasures" combines Smith's personal thoughts, sometimes
maverick opinions, and matchless expertise with practical advice on
selected groups of native plants and their culture.The author
explains how California's diverse terrain, climate, and geology
support a wealth of plant species - more than 6000 - and offers
suggestions for designing with most of the major natives in
cultivation, as well as with some more obscure but garden-worthy
groups. With an engaging narrative and a wealth of illustrations,
this ode to beauty and diversity celebrates California's rich store
of native plants and encourages readers to visit them in their
native haunts and invite them into their gardens. It describes the
use of plants in varying landscapes and gardens. It includes state
of the art propagation techniques, and is beautifully illustrated
with color photos and line drawings.
Informative and entertaining, this book will stimulate
experimentation and encourage gardeners to review and improve their
current gardening practices. Once gardeners learn how plants are
constructed, it is easier to envision how they'll grow and
flourish. An understanding of the structure behind good, healthy
soil gives clues as to how to improve one's own garden tilth. This
practical guide helps readers identify what plants need to survive
and how these fundamental scientific facts are at the heart of good
plant care. A chapter on seeds and germination will encourage
gardeners at any level to try their hand at propagation, while
discussion of soil, pests, and diseases adds to the skills of all
gardeners. The final sections of the book take a closer look at
biodiversity, ecology, genetic engineering, and nomenclature. For
the enthusiastic beginner or the master gardener, "Practical
Science for Gardeners" unravels the mysterious inner life of
plants.
Palms that grow in Canada? Bananas that overwinter in Michigan? How
about southern crape myrtles that flower in Birmingham, England,
instead of Birmingham, Alabama? Although the voice of authority --
and nursery labels -- might say, "You can't grow those plants
here," author Dave Francko has a different message for gardeners:
"Plants can't read the information on their tags." Laced with
humorous anecdotes and based on years of first-hand observations
and research, this book provides real-world information to help
adventurous gardeners grow plants they never before dreamed
possible. Nobody who reads this book will ever look at a plant
label the same way again.
With more than 800 "Clematis" species and cultivated varieties from
which to choose, gardeners and growers have been inundated with
options. Even more frustrating for some has been the absence of a
single comprehensive reference with which to identify the numerous
cultivars. This new volume, written by distinguished clematis
experts and backed by the authority of the British Clematis
Society, is the first picture encyclopedia on the genus to
encompass the garden-worthy species and hybrids.
This long-awaited book is separated into two sections: the first is
devoted to the care and cultivation of clematis, while the second
provides an A Z directory of more than 550 plants, from the
acclaimed large-flowered forms to the less-familiar shrubby,
subshrubby, and herbaceous forms that are beginning to be
available. Using everyday language, the authors provide plant
descriptions that include information on synonyms, origin, plant
habit and height, flowers, pruning group, flowering period,
cultural requirements, recommended uses in the garden, and
hardiness zones. The text is accompanied by more than 650
magnificent color photos, making this encyclopedia an indispensable
reference and guide.
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For more than twenty years, ""Growing Media for Ornamental Plants
and Turf"" has been a core text for students of horticulture and an
essential reference for practicing horticulturists, their
suppliers, green keepers, landscape gardeners and designers. With
42 new illustrations, this fourth edition has been substantially
revised and updated to include the latest advances in horticultural
production systems, with significant revisions to chapters on
fertilizer practice in nurseries, foundations for good turf,
managing turf soil, fertilizing turf irrigation, and drainage. New
additions include discussion on roof gardens and vertical gardens,
and topics on recycled water for irrigation and issues of water
shortage have been expanded.
In this greatly expanded and revised edition of his classic
treatment, Donald Schnell examines in detail the 45 species and
numerous hybrids of carnivorous plants that grow in the U.S. and
Canada. Information on each species includes an identifying
description, the preferred habitat, the range in which it can be
found, and the season for flowering and trapping, making this book
a useful field guide as well as a fascinating source of leisure
reading. With a full array of maps, drawings, and 200 color photos,
this volume promises to enrich every enthusiast's library with a
wealth of information. Hobbyists will find much to their liking as
well. Schnell gives detailed instructions for growing these
plants.
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Trilliums
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Frederick W. Case, Roberta B. Case
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R1,250
R1,036
Discovery Miles 10 360
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Both field guide and gardener's handbook, this book covers all 45
species of trilliums worldwide. The authors trekked all over North
America to photograph the 38 American species in the wild.
Replicating the climate of an orchid's native habitat is a key to
the successful culture of a species and its hybrids. This ingenious
book provides monthly rainfall and temperature data for the varied
habitats of more than 1200 species of "Dendrobium," supplemented by
detailed cultural recommendations based on the observations of
experienced growers.
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