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Books > Gardening > Specialized gardening methods > Natural & wild gardening
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Wild Garden
(Hardcover)
Jackie Bennett; Photographs by Andrea Jones
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R443
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Discovery Miles 2 660
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A joyous book - Alan Titchmarsh Bright, colourful and boundlessly
enthusiastic, this is also a practical guide to making your garden
a refuge for wildlife to fit all plots. - Chris Packham 'The
Wildlife Gardner' is a book which helps you to create wildlife
habitats in your very own garden, and is very handily split into
sections on shelter, food and water. Kate gives advice on the best
nectar and pollen plants to grow, dos and don'ts of bird feeding
and organic methods of pest control.There are also 10 step-by-step
projects that will help encourage wildlife into your garden, such
as: creating a bumblebee nester, making a green roof and building a
hedgehog box. With step-by-step pictures to help you follow the
instructions, these homely creations are all achievable in a
weekend and are suitable for even the smallest gardens. Also
included is a mini field guide, which will help you to identify the
birds and other creatures that you are likely to spot in your
garden. Kate gives tips on particular species, explaining what to
look out for and how to cater for specific birds, mammals, bees,
butterflies, moths and pond life. 'The Wildlife Gardener' is a
passionately written, practical book that is essential reading for
those who would like to make homes for wildlife in their garden.
Humans and the world around us have been governed by the waxing and
waning of the moon since the planet came into being. Over the
centuries different civilisations have embraced these natural
cycles, and so lunar gardening has been around for as long as man
has pulled food from the soil; once practised by the Incas and
Native Americans, this tried and trusted method has been largely
forgotten. John Harris, head gardener at Tresillian Estate in
Cornwall, has been using Moon Gardening for over forty years. The
methods he uses can be implemented anywhere, you do not need fancy
tools, expensive seeds or substantial acreage, but instead, given
time, patience and care, the results can be breath-taking. This is
gardening at its most natural and organic. The Natural Gardener
charts John's story from a rudderless young lad in a Cornish
village to being charged with the salvation of the long-neglected
gardens at Tresillian. As he shares how to follow these simple
principles, he imparts his abundance of horticultural knowledge
from years spent working in harmony with the soil, providing a
timely link back to nature and the reassuring regularity of the
seasons.
Grown your own food with expert gardener Joe Swift. Creating our
own edible garden connects us with the natural world, improves our
physical and mental health and contributes to eco-friendly and
sustainable food production. If you want to learn to grow your own
fruit and veg, Joe Swift shows you how with practical,
easy-to-follow advice. Joe's no-nonsense approach covers everything
you need to know from choosing and buying plants to planning a plot
and preparing for the different seasons. He then guides you through
caring for them including watering, feeding, and combatting common
plant problems. In this book Joe covers a vast range of wonderful
and varied edible plants. He demonstrates how to grow your own food
indoors or outdoors, whether in plots, containers, raised beds or
green houses. You'll also learn about sowing seeds, compost,
fertilisers and pests and diseases. If you've ever wanted to save
money and grown your own greens, this is the place to start! Joe
Swift is an author, TV presenter and garden designer. He makes
regular appearances on BBC's Gardener's World and the RHS Flower
Shows
This step-by-step guide will answer all of your questions about how
to create beautiful gardens designed to welcome beneficial
pollinators across the South. Combining up-to-date scientific
information with artful design strategies, Danesha Seth Carley and
Anne M. Spafford teach gardeners of all levels to plan, plant, and
maintain successful pollinator gardens at home and in shared
community sites. Everyday gardeners, along with farmers,
scientists, and policy makers, share serious concerns about ongoing
declines in pollinator populations, and here Spafford and Carley
deliver great news: every thoughtfully designed garden, no matter
how small, can play a huge role in providing the habitat,
nourishment, and nesting places so needed by pollinators. This book
explains all you need to be a pollinator champion. Covers USDA
hardiness zones 6, 7, 8, and 9, including twelve southern states;
Explains what makes pollinators happy-bees, for sure, and many
others, great and small; Brings science and art together in gardens
of all types, including urban, food, container, community, school,
and large-scale gardens; Provides step-by-step instructions, from
choosing locations, preparing soil and garden beds, selecting the
best plants, designing, landscaping, and sustaining your garden
through the seasons, and much more; Richly illustrated with
photographs, design plans, and handy charts and lists.
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100 Flowers
(Paperback)
Adult Coloring Books, Flower Coloring Books, Adult Colouring Books
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R155
Discovery Miles 1 550
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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'Lyrical, moving and never self-pitying... a lovely book' The Times
'An extraordinary and powerful book, full of vitality' Tristan
Gooley I came to the woods over a decade ago. I came to the woods
because there was a fire in my head. On the outside, Ben Short
looks like he has it all - a successful career in advertising, a
flat in a trendy area of London, an expensive motorbike ... But
inside, he's a wreck. Years of suffering with an anxiety disorder
and depression have broken him, and his 'creative' career has
become sterile and suffocating. A drastic change is needed. Like
his neighbour's rescue hawk, he acts on instinct and escapes the
city. For a time, he takes on odd jobs - gardening, hedge-laying
and labouring in the Cambridgeshire Fens and in the Devon
countryside, trying to find somewhere he belongs. That is until he
feels the call of the furnace: a glowing charcoal kiln in the West
Dorset woods, where he can re-forge his thoughts, put the years of
suffering behind him and start afresh by immersing himself in the
ancient ways of woods and fire. He lives in huts and old wagons in
the woods, hauling water from wells and foraging for his supper.
But this is no idyll - the road is hard, the work back-breaking,
the woods dark and brimming with powerful energies. Exquisitely
written and laced with folklore and the history of burning, the
right way to lay a hedge and the age-old wisdom of the woods, Burn
is a hopeful story of transformation, a celebration of manual work
and craft, and a love letter to the English landscape. 'Beautifully
written, Burn is melancholy and hopeful in equal measure. Like
taking a forest ramble in changeable weather, reading it leaves you
feeling ruffled but alive.' Mail on Sunday
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