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Books > Health, Home & Family > Gardening > Gardening: plants > Shrubs & trees
Grow Your Own Botanicals brings together an inspiration collection
of plants that add beauty, structure and interest to a garden as
well as providing an exciting harvest that can be used in
innovative ways in the kitchen and home. If you're buying seed kits
and botanical plant gifts or like to experiment with making your
own drinks, remedies or skin care, this handbook is the must-have
companion gardening guide. Now you can make your hibiscus cordial
for cocktails, herb and spice mix for your roasts or calendula face
cream with your own garden produce. Cinead offers general advice on
getting started - soil, composting, borders, containers, seed
saving, cuttings, intercropping, wildlife and biodiversity -before
moving on to the botanical garden. From plants that might
traditionally be recognised as a botanical, to more unusual exotic
varieties, this collection of 80 botanicals don't need huge space
to grow, but must harvest meaningful amounts to use to flavour
food, drinks and oils. Experiment with herbs like juniper, lemon
balm or nigella, grow evening primrose or liquorice with their
pretty flowers, and try out fruits like Chillean guava or yuzu.
This is gardenening at its most fun and fanciful!
This full-color, user-friendly field guide covers the basics
involved in the collection, cleaning, and storage of tree, shrub,
and vine seeds. Learn from an expert how to overcome pests when
storing seeds, and handle environmental factors that may threaten
the integrity of your seeds. An introduction to identifying
different varieties of seeds will make collecting easy for beginner
and experienced collectors alike. Over 160 close-up color
photographs of seeds gathered from trees, shrubs, and vines are
included in this encyclopedia-style guide. Each entry identifies
the seed's family, common name, species, genera, and origin, and
includes collection methods, a description of the number and color
of seeds, useful hints for collection, and notes on growing the
source plant. Gardeners around the world will appreciate this
useful field guide when harvesting nature's bounty and preserving
its genetic material for years and gardens to come.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
THE MUST- HAVE NATIVE WOODY PLANT BOOK for Eastern United States
homeowners, designers, contractors, nurseries, and students *
Discover the wonders of gardening with native plants in Native
Woody Landscape and Restoration Plants of the Eastern United States
by expert, Michael L. Dorn. * Choose from 85 native trees, shrubs,
and vines to incorporate into YOUR landscape. * Create woodland
gardens, restore stream banks or wetlands, stabilize shorelines,
construct buffers, enhance habitat, and more. * Dorn's 246 color
photographs show beautifully, the physical characteristics of each
plant. * Reference charts help you locate specific plants for
particular purposes. * Native Woody Landscape and Restoration
Plants of the Eastern United States is the most valuable native
plant reference guide available today.
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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
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Finally, a hydrangea book for the Northern gardener which answers
the age-old question, "How do I get my hydrangeas to bloom?" Author
Tim Boebel has come up with a proven method for getting blooms on
macrophylla and serrata hydrangeas grown in the colder climates.
Loaded with full-color photographs, this book details over a
hundred cultivars and what they need to explode into bloom in the
North.
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The fruits and fruit trees of America are described in Andrew
Downing's 1847 comprehensive guide.
Lucius Davis's 1899 work is not a scientific text but rather a
layman's guide describing the characteristics of the types of
shrubbery suitable for planting in the United States.
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