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'Who is the patron saint of gardeners? Which leafy South American
herb, 200 times sweeter than sugar, has no calories? These are just
two of the knotty brainteasers in this fun book for gardening
know-it-alls, ideal for those wanting to test the limits of their
botanical knowledge. And if you were wondering, the answers are: St
Fiacre and stevia.' - Mail on Sunday Ever wanted to show just how
much you know about roses? Or see if you can remember the Latin
name for Japanese Maple? RHS Gardener's Quiz & Puzzle Book is
designed to test your horticultural and botanical knowledge with
puzzles to delight and challenge. Featuring over 400 lavishly
illustrated questions, from anagrams to garden history, from
obscure tools to identifying plants based on their leaves - there
are questions for every level of gardening knowledge. Including...
- Solve anagrams to improve your knowledge of Latin names - Test
your ability to identify plant anatomy with annotated diagrams -
Feature pages contain quizzes on specific themes such as botany,
vegetables, houseplants, pests and plant care ...and much more.
'The best informed, liveliest and most innovative gardening writer
of our times' GUARDIAN 'Christopher Lloyd ranks with Gertrude
Jekyll and Vita Sackville-West as one of the major figures in
twentieth-century British gardening' THE TIMES In this gardening
classic the forever adventurous Christopher Lloyd takes us on a
tour through the garden, to encourage, to reveal and to overturn
the old and accepted when experience prompts him. He advises on
cuttings, pruning, the art of compromise and takes another look at
Miss Jekyll. Gardening was a passion, and throughout his life he
developed Great Dixter to be one of Britain's greatest gardens. For
Christo gardening is nothing if not fun and - pointing out that 'to
be roused into an argumentative frame of mind is in itself no bad
thing' - he makes it equally stimulating and enjoyable for his
readers.
John Nolen (1869-1937) was a pioneer in the development of
professional town and city planning in the United States. Nolen's
comprehensive approach merged the social, economic, and physical
aspects of planning while emphasizing, in the author's words,
"versatility, special knowledge, and cooperation." Between 1905 and
1937, Nolen's firm, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, completed
more than 350 commissions throughout the United States. Among the
best known of these is Mariemont, Ohio, whose development Nolen
directed from the ground up.Rare and long out of print, New Towns
for Old (1927) is still of great interest to planners and urban
historians. The well-illustrated study contains an overview of the
development of American urbanism and a concise discussion of
Nolen's ideas for the improvement of towns and cities. Individual
chapters examine a variety of towns planned by Nolen including
Mariemont, Ohio; Kingsport, Tennessee; and Kistler, Pennsylvania,
as well as the new suburbs of Union Park Gardens in Wilmington,
Delaware, and Myers Park in Charlotte, North Carolina. The
re-planned towns of Cohasset and Walpole, Massachusetts, are also
featured. The forward-looking final chapter includes material on
Venice, Florida, one of Nolen's most ambitious projects.The new
edition of New Towns for Old contains additional plans and
illustrations, a new index, and a new introductory essay by Charles
D. Warren, which presents biographical and historical context that
illuminates the diverse, productive career of this nationally
significant practitioner. Perhaps most significantly, it features
Nolen's project list, which has never before been published. "Early
in the last century, John Nolen planned model towns, garden
suburbs, and industrial cities, whose refinement and design
excellence remain impressive to this day. In New Towns for Old,
Nolen explained how it was done. Thoughtful, wise, and still
inspirational."--Witold Rybczynski, author of A Clearing in the
Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the Nineteenth
Century "Warren, a New York City-based architect, provides
incredible insights into the evolution of Nolen's career. . . . We
would all benefit from reading this book, especially to brush up on
the planning techniques and to realize Nolen's achievements in
civic improvement."--New Urban Review
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Layered Garden
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David L. Culp, Adam Levine; Illustrated by Rob Cardillo
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Brandywine Cottage is David Culp's beloved two-acre Pennsylvania
garden where he mastered the design technique of layering --
interplanting many different species in the same area so that as
one plant passes its peak, another takes over. The result is a
nonstop parade of color that begins with a tapestry of heirloom
daffodils and hellebores in spring and ends with a jewel-like blend
of Asian wildflowers at the onset of winter.
"The Layered Garden" shows you how to recreate Culp's majestic
display. It starts with a basic lesson in layering -- how to choose
the correct plants by understanding how they grow and change
throughout the seasons, how to design a layered garden, and how to
maintain it. To illustrate how layering works, Culp takes you on a
personal tour through each part of his celebrated garden: the
woodland garden, the perennial border, the kitchen garden, the
shrubbery, and the walled garden. The book culminates with a
chapter dedicated to signature plants for all four seasons.
As practical as it is inspiring, "The Layered Garden" will
provide you with expert information gleaned from decades of hard
work and close observation. If you thought that a four-season
garden was beyond your reach, this book will show you how to
achieve that elusive, tantalizing goal.
Earwigs, silverfish and blood-sucking bedbugs are just a few of the
species this guide will help you to identify and control in your
home and garden. This beautifully illustrated guide highlights over
75 species of wood chewers, blood suckers, garden wreckers and food
pests ranging from cockroaches and slugs to your neighbor's pets.
Also includes information on good bugs that feed on household
pests. Laminated for durability, this handy guide is an ideal
source of portable information and ideal for use by novices and
experts alike. Made in the USA.
"Britain's Greatest Gardeners" distills the wisdom of Britain's top
gardeners, the men and women who look after the gardens of the
Royal Horticultural Society. The book ties in to a 6-part series on
BBC2, presented by Rachel de Thame, and details everything covered
in the programme and more besides - from how the experts produce a
perfect punnet of strawberries to how they restore their beautiful
lawns after thousands of visitors have reduced them to mud.;Divided
into eight chapters - Roses; Perennials and Grasses; Lawns;
Edibles; Water; Climbers; Trees and Shrubs; and Pests, Diseases and
Weeds - the book covers the principal aspects of gardening. The
text is peppered with RHS know-how tips and each chapter includes a
step-by-step masterclass by a top RHS expert covering a practical
aspect of gardening.
The Curious Gardener's Almanac contains over 1000 entries of
remarkable information about flowers, vegetables, fruits, trees,
herbs, insects, birds, water, soil, tools, composts, climate,
recipes, gardens and gardeners, myths, superstitions,
biodynamics..In short it is a collection as profuse and variegated
as gardening itself. Woven into this wealth of knowledge are famous
quotations, anecdotes, traditional sayings, lines of verse, and
words of rural wisdom. The spirit and focus of the Almanac is
British but the wider picture is international as so much of our
gardens originated from overseas. Dry or dull information has no
place in the almanac and its presentation is as appealing as the
content.
Every garden presents problems of one kind or another. It is
inevitably windy, lacking in privacy too shady, badly drained, too
large, too small or hopelessly overgrown. "Garden Rescue" is
written to help gardeners to develop, reclaim or maintain their
gardens more successfully, not only be surmounting problems, but
often by turning them to advantage. Originally published as "Your
Problem Garden" and revised and updated, this classic book seeks to
explain not just the 'how' of the gardening, but the 'why' as well.
Rather than trotting out cliched solutions, Richard Bisgrove helps
the reader to understand the unique challenges posed by their
gardens in order to come up with a tailor-made rescue package.
Climate, soil character, planning and maintenance are all
discussed, and there is a useful chapter devoted to recovering a
garden that is in a poor state of repair.
This study is based on original Russian sources, due atten tion
being paid to some authoritative views advanced by foreign lawyers.
Leaving aside the essentials of the work in the hope that they will
speak for themselves; I should like to make some prelim inary
remarks regarding the linguistic and other formal aspects. First of
all it should be noted that many of the Soviet laws have already
been translated into English either in the USSR itself or in
Western countries. This fact is fully reflected in the
bibliographical survey at the end of this study. Some laws have
been translated both in the Soviet Union and abroad, as for
instance the Fundamentals of Soviet Civil Legislation. In such a
case I have used the translation made in the USSR even though
linguistically it may be inferior to the translation made in the
West. The author has translated only those legal provi sions of
which no English translation was available. For transliteration, I
have used the system of the Library of Congress of the USA without
its diacritical marks. Further, a word should be said about the
references in the notes. They are very brief and consist of the
surnames of the authors concerned and if necessary an additional
element, e. g."
This series of documents is a companion volume to Search for New
Guinea's Boundaries: From Torres Strait to the Pacific (Australian
National University Press, 1966). It brings together not only
scattered, previously published documents, but also some of the
correspondence surrounding them and reports and memoranda dealing
with the bounda ries in general. The latter include material up to
1962. The documents have been arranged chronologically within
sections. Material in sections A, B, and C corresponds respectively
with matters dealt with in Chapters 2 (New Guinea Annexations), 3
(Papua Irredenta), and 4 (The Former Anglo-German Boundary), that
in sections D, E, and F with those in Chapter 5 (The Irian
Boundary), while that in section G is touched upon in the
concluding chapter. The selection of published documents was
simple: all were in eluded. Choice of unpublished material
available in the archives was an individual one. Documents in
Dutch, French, and German have been translated. Personal comments
and queries have been entered in foot notes to the English
translations which in all cases precede the original text. Cross
references to Search for New Guinea's Boundaries, using the
abbreviation S. N . G. B ., are made for the convenience of the
reader."
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