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Engaging and quirky; full of ideas and inspiration for garden
projects that you'll be itching to try for yourself. Dave Goulson,
author of The Garden Jungle A thoughtful and practical guide
Country Life Design a garden for the future - because what we grow
matters. Transform your garden into a self-sustaining haven for
nature and wildlife. Ecological garden designer Matt Rees-Warren
shares inspirational design ideas and practical projects to help
you create a garden that is both beautiful today and sustainable
tomorrow. The Ecological Gardener will give you the tools to create
an abundant, healthy garden from the soil up - a garden that
welcomes birds and bees and allows native planting and wild flowers
to flourish, with minimal carbon impact or need for fresh water.
This book can guide both novice and experienced gardeners alike in
their journey to a more ecological approach, and is full of
practical projects and information, including: Finding the right
design for your space Creating a wildflower meadow Building
rainwater catchments and other tips for water conservation Making
compost from kitchen waste, leafmould, compost tea and more
Creating a space for wildlife such as hedgehogs, bees and other
pollinators Finding beauty in your garden during the winter Matt
will show you how to reimagine how you garden, working with nature
instead of controlling it, to create a space that promotes both
wildlife and beauty.
Ehrenfried Pfeiffer was a pioneer of biodynamics in North America.
This short but comprehensive book is a collection of three key
articles introducing the concepts, principles and practice of the
biodynamic method, as well as an overview of its early history. The
book also includes a short biography of Ehrenfried Pfeiffer by
Herbert H. Koepf.
Add a touch of green to your office, bookshelf, coffee table or
dorm room with these adorable mini ecosystems! A Beginner's Guide
to Terrariums shows you how to create your own glass container
gardens with easy-to-understand instructions and over 230 inspiring
lifestyle photos. With this guide you'll learn all the basics,
including how to: Decorate using a variety of plants Combine
plants, rocks and other objects to achieve just the right look
Choose the right container for your plants Care for a variety of
plants, including low-maintenance ones like succulents, air plants
and mosses This book includes 52 projects that teach you how to
create a wide variety of terrariums--from open-air containers, like
bowls, to jars and hanging decorations. No matter how you choose to
display them, terrariums are a whimsical, easy and inexpensive
addition to your home.
Douglas W. Tallamy's first book, Bringing Nature Home, sparked a
national conversation about the link between healthy local
ecosystems and human well-being. In his new book Nature's Best
Hope, Tallamy takes the next step and outlines his vision for a
grassroots approach to conservation. Tallamy advocates for
homeowners everywhere to turn their yards into conservation
corridors that provide wildlife habitats and mitigate the effects
of development and corporate agriculture. This home-based approach
doesn't rely on the federal government and protects the environment
from the whims of politics. It is also easy to do, and readers will
walk away with specific suggestions they can incorporate into their
own yards. Nature's Best Hope is nature writing at its best -
rooted in history, progressive in its advocacy, and above all,
actionable and hopeful. By proposing practical measures that
ordinary people easily can do, Tallamy gives us reason to believe
that the planet can be preserved for future generations.
A Bucket List Tour of Europe's Private Gardens. Acres of
white-blooming garden rooms on the island of Mallorca. A
seven-tiered wonder of stone, plants, and water above Germany's
Rhine River. The Garden of Cosmic Speculation in a quiet Scottish
valley. These sumptuous landscapes are just three of the fifty
destinations you'll visit on this exclusive tour of Europe's most
beautiful private gardens. From Belgium to Ireland, Scandinavia to
Wales, Carolyn Mullet is your guide through intimate retreats
normally off-limits to visitors. Short profiles introduce the
intriguing owners and rich histories of each garden and the land
they inhabit. Among the featured gardens are works of eminent
designers such as Tom Stuart-Smith, Andy Melengier, and Louis
Benech. Whether you love exploring faraway places or creating your
own landscape haven at home, Adventures in Eden is the ideal
armchair getaway - glimpses into personal garden artistry that are
sure to spark inspiration.
Each title in this new do-it-yourself series presents over 20
projects to complete with clear, step-by-step color photographs
throughout. Each book includes an easily-accessible materials list
for each project as well as all necessary stencils, patterns and
templates. Whether you decide to decorate an entire house or
garden, or simply want to make a thoughtful hand-made gift, the In
A Weekend Series has all the ideas you need.Look inside for a host
of creative ideas for making planters and window boxes from
scratch, as well as transforming and reviving articles from around
the home.
Brighten your garden all year round with a wide variety of bulbs.
Ideal for first-time gardeners, Grow Bulbs contains everything you
need to bring year-round colour into your garden with bulbs. Learn
how to plant, care for, and divide your bulbs, create stunning
displays including naturalistic drifts and eye-catching containers,
and choose from a huge range of bulbs, corms, and tubers with the
book's handy seasonal directory. Packed with practical, jargon-free
know-how, this easy-to-use guide has everything you need to know to
help your garden Grow.
In this book, Sharon Amos explains how to design and create a
beautiful garden for little or no money, offering tips on bartering
for clippings, getting a bargain at garage sales or neighbourhood
fairs, digging up suckers or adapting wild species and controlling
them in a garden environment. She provides a comprehensive
directory of 80 plants including detailed advice on where and how
to grow a wide variety of garden favourites, from snowdrops to
poppies. With beautiful illustrations, Plants for Free is the
perfect gift book for cultivating your garden on a budget of
next-to-nothing.
This inspirational book from Kew's orchid experts reveals the
easiest, most attractive and most popular plants to grow today.
Orchids come from the second largest plant family (with 28,000
members) and have a reputation for diversity and trickiness - but
expert Philip Seaton chooses 60 of the best species to become
permanent and happy members of your home. Through a combination of
12 projects and easy to follow practical advice he shows how to
welcome new plants, to revive their flagging spirits as well as
their basic care and cultivation. He shows how to produce and train
flowers, to collect and sow their seed, and how to plant and
display them in a terrarium, or on bark or in a basket. Find out
when to water them, how to repot them and the ideal room and
conditions that each orchid needs to thrive. The combination of
botanical beauty and practical advice will inspire beginners and
experienced growers to grow new species in many different ways.
This book is from the Kew Experts series, in which the top
gardeners and botanical scientists from Royal Botanic Kew Gardens
offer up advice and information as well as suggesting handy
projects on a range of gardening topics. Other titles include:
Companion to Medicinal Plants, Guide to Growing Bulbs, Guide to
Growing Fruit, Guide to Growing Herbs, Guide to Growing Roses,
Guide to Growing Succulents and Cacti, Guide to Growing Trees,
Guide to Growing Vegetables and Guide to Growing House Plants.
'Read this book, then look and wonder' Sunday Times We have to
learn to live as part of nature, not apart from it. And the first
step is to start looking after the insects, the little creatures
that make our shared world go round. Insects are essential for life
as we know it - without them, our world would look vastly
different. Drawing on the latest ground-breaking research and a
lifetime's study, Dave Goulson reveals the long decline of insect
populations that has taken place in recent decades and its
potential consequences. Eye-opening and inspiring, Silent Earth
asks for profound change at every level and a passionate argument
or us to love, respect and care for our six-legged friends.
'Compelling - Silent Earth is a wake-up call' Isabella Tree, author
of Wilding 'Enlightening, urgent and funny, Goulson's book is a
timely call for action' New Statesman
Making a garden that can withstand summer drought without being
watered is the dream of many who wish to garden in harmony with the
environment. In this classic work on gardening in dry climates,
first published in 2008, Olivier Filippi offers practical advice to
achieve this goal based on his, and his wife Clara's, experience of
working with mediterranean-region plants for over 30 years. The
first part of the book examines the behaviour of plants that face
drought in their natural habitat. What is drought and how do plants
manage to survive when little water is available? The second part
is concerned with gardening techniques in a dry climate. How do you
prepare the soil, when do you plant, how do you maintain a dry
garden? The third and longest part describes in detail no less than
500 rewarding plants that are marvellously well adapted to dry
gardens. This book is essential reading for gardeners who live in
one of the world's mediterranean climate zones and will also be of
interest to gardeners in areas where drought is becoming a
recurring problem. Armed with a new palette of plants and liberated
from the hose and the sprinkler this book invites you on a
pioneering adventure that paves the way to a new style of
gardening.
Martin Crawford is an internationally acknowledged expert on
growing perennial food systems. It features a selection of the 100
best trees to grow. It includes appendices with lists of suitable
trees for specific situations. Martin Crawford has researched and
experimented with tree crops for 25 years and has selected over 100
of the best trees producing fruits, nuts, edible leaves and other
useful products that can be grown in Europe and North America. The
appendices makes choosing trees for your situation easy, with lists
of suitable trees for specific situations plus flow charts to guide
you. If you want to know about and use the large diversity of tree
crops that are available in temperate and continental climates,
then this book is both fascinating and essential reading by an
internationally acknowledged expert.
A beautiful, stylish and comprehensive handbook from the Bloom
Gardener's Guides series, covering everything you need to know to
grow plants in pots all year round. No matter how small or large
your space, Pots includes top tips on how to plan and prepare your
containers, a directory of plants to dip into and pro advice on
achieving year-round interest and structure. The guide also
includes winning combinations of flowers, foliage and bulbs, and
plenty of information on caring for your display so it lasts from
season to season. Gardening in containers is versatile, exciting
and rewarding for both you and the wildlife, so whether your plot
is a courtyard, balcony, patio or simply a window box, Pots can
inspire you to transform it with vibrant planting. This title is
from the Bloom Gardener's Guide series, complete and comprehensive
gardening handbooks. Bloom is an award-winning independent print
magazine for gardeners, plant admirers, nature lovers and outdoor
adventurers, and winner of the Garden Publication of the Year at
the Garden Media Awards 2021. Other titles in this series include
Cut Flowers and Shade.
The interest in organic fruit and vegetables has never been
greater. As people grow ever more suspicious of the chemicals used
in food production, more and more gardeners are keen to grow their
own vegetables and fruit while steering away from synthetic
insecticides and pesticides. In this book John Fedor draws on both
his training as a biochemist and his extensive gardening experience
to explain exactly why and how to garden organically. He includes
ground plans for gardens of all sizes, all the information you need
on organic techniques such as soil care and composting, and an
extensive illustrated directory of fruit and vegetables, with
cultural information and recommended varieties. This is a book for
beginners and experienced gardeners alike and set to become the
standard reference manual on organic gardening.
Offering a broad perspective on how to make the best of the
precious resource of water in your garden, this book reveals how
conserving water in your garden does not necessarily restrict the
gardener to dry gravel beds, but can also involve lawns, leafy
crops, and flowery borders. Topics covered include the natural
science of water-efficient gardening, choosing a style and design,
water-efficient plants, and techniques to save on water.
Turn your garden into a wildlife haven by growing the right plants
to encourage beneficial insects, aquatic life, backyard birds and
animals. This title includes illustrated directories of over 200
plant species, from annuals, bulbs and pond plants, to shrubs,
trees and climbers, with practical advice on cultivation and uses.
It features 80 of the most common garden bird species, with
identification illustrations and natural history information on
distribution, size, distinguishing characteristics, nesting, eggs
and feeding habits. It shows how to create beautiful borders, ponds
and meadows, and how to make all kinds of birdhouses, birdbaths,
bird tables and wildlife stacks. It is illustrated with over 1700
stunning practical photographs. One of the most enjoyable aspects
of creating and maintaining a garden lies in the feeling of
closeness to nature. These two books, written by award-winning
gardening experts, give advice on how to create a range of wildlife
gardens, with suggestions for the best flowers, shrubs, hedges and
trees to grow. There are 25 projects for tables, nest boxes and
birdbaths, as well as directories of over 200 wildlife-friendly
garden plants, from woodland and countryside locations to town and
city environments. With its helpful practical advice and over 1700
beautiful photographs and illustrations, this is the ideal source
book for gardeners, bird lovers and wildlife enthusiasts.
Using seasonal checklists and Charles Dowding's expert no-dig
advice, this month-by-month journal helps you plan bumper harvests
the no-dig way. From tomatoes to basil, carrots to coriander,
Charles Dowding, the UK's leading no-dig guru shows you how to grow
a year's worth of healthy, organic crops while preserving the
soil's integrity in this complete and comprehensive guide. Follow
simple steps to find success, growing more than 35 vegetables and
herbs in a range of easy and accessible projects suited to all
kinds of spaces and environments. Start a no-dig vegetable plot on
virgin or dug ground, improve the soil and become an expert mulcher
and weeder, as well as learning the techniques for intercropping,
companion planting, seed viability and crop succession. This
easy-to-follow step-by-step guide by one of Britain's top gardeners
is illustrated with photos to help you learn how to plan a
vegetable garden, construct a raised bed, sow seed indoors and
outdoors in spring, grow on young crops, protect plants from the
weather and pests through the season and, finally, celebrate the
joy of harvesting. Organised monthly from January to December, this
journal is full of key dates for sowing, staking, harvesting and
storing, as well as time-saving monthly checklists to help ensure a
successful no-dig harvest.
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