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The Gardener's Year - Illustrated by Josef Capek (Hardcover): Karel ?apek The Gardener's Year - Illustrated by Josef Capek (Hardcover)
Karel Čapek
R712 Discovery Miles 7 120 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Charles Dowding's Vegetable Garden Diary - No Dig, Healthy Soil, Fewer Weeds, 3rd Edition (Paperback, 3rd Revised... Charles Dowding's Vegetable Garden Diary - No Dig, Healthy Soil, Fewer Weeds, 3rd Edition (Paperback, 3rd Revised edition)
Charles Dowding; Introduction by Darina Allen 1
R443 Discovery Miles 4 430 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A journal with a perpetual diary, a manual of gardening to inform and inspire, packed with illustrations and an introduction by Darina Allen of Ballymaloe Cookery School Three quarters Charles's advice on how to grow great crops, one quarter writing space for each day. Use it year after year to make the best decisions, with your notes alongside Charles's suggestions, for future reference. Advice in the diary section is linked to each week of the season and takes you through the whole process, from clearing weeds, feeding soil and sowing to harvests and storing vegetables. * Advice on sowing and planting methods, plus raising plants at home * Best sowing dates - seeds neither fail in cold nor start too late * Advantages of no dig, saving time, giving fewer weeds and bigger crops * How to maintain control of weeds through timely mulching and hoeing * How to feed soil just once a year, for strong and healthy growth * When and how to make all the harvests, with advice on storing produce too.

Permaculture for Beginners - The Ultimate Guide to Natural Farming and Sustainable Living (Paperback): Nicole Faires Permaculture for Beginners - The Ultimate Guide to Natural Farming and Sustainable Living (Paperback)
Nicole Faires
R470 Discovery Miles 4 700 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Take your garden to the next level—organic, native, and natural!

Permaculture is an important but often misunderstood method of growing food and building homes in a manner that works with nature, rather than against it, to create beautiful, healthy, and useful gardens. Blending ecology, organic agriculture, green home design, appropriate technology, and biology can be confusing and overwhelming, but Permaculture for Beginners simplifies this vast field for practical application. This is a hands-on guide, taking the beginner through each step of the design process, so that anyone can apply permaculture principles to their own life. While the principles are simple, the in-depth topics cover every aspect of permaculture, including:

  • Building green homes and passive solar design
  • Growing edible plant communities and forest gardens
  • Using no-till and natural farming methods
  • Creating microclimates for extended growing seasons
  • Raising livestock with ecological foraging techniques
  • Transforming urban backyards into food-abundant oases

This is a commonsense approach to sustainable living that creates a self-sufficient and low-effort home for the people that live there, whether in the city or the country. Permaculture for Beginners isn’t a philosophy book, or a dissertation on theory. It is a step-by-step, complete guide to every aspect of permaculture.
Planting Design for Dry Gardens - Beautiful, Resilient Groundcovers for Terraces, Paved Areas, Gravel and Other Alternatives to... Planting Design for Dry Gardens - Beautiful, Resilient Groundcovers for Terraces, Paved Areas, Gravel and Other Alternatives to the Lawn (Hardcover)
Olivier Filippi; Translated by Caroline Habouri
R1,087 R975 Discovery Miles 9 750 Save R112 (10%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In this book, pioneering nurseryman Olivier Filippi offers low-level planting designs that are eco-friendly and so beautiful they redefine the conventional distinction between lawn and plant borders. Inspired by the wild plant communities of Europe, the Middle East, and the USA, these rigorously trialled plant combinations can be used on terraces, paths, gravel beds and flower borders, as well as on areas that are traditionally laid to lawn. With a plant directory that lists over 200 tough but beautiful dry garden plants and Filippi's innovative maintenance techniques, this is the perfect companion to his first book The Dry Gardening Handbook and will delight all dry garden owners.

Bawa - The Sri Lanka Gardens (Paperback): Bawa - The Sri Lanka Gardens (Paperback)
R560 R496 Discovery Miles 4 960 Save R64 (11%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

This is a story of two brothers, Geoffrey and Bevis, and their exquisite gardens, Brief and Lunuganga, set in the lush tropical landscape of Sri Lanka. It begins with a largely photographic overview of the country's natural features, showing the varied palette of landscapes that inspired Bawa's sensitive treatment of architecture. At the very heart of the book is an intimate portrait of two gloriously detailed gardens and the personalities that brought them into being. But it is also a story about the nature and landscape of an island of exceptional beauty. As such, the book has something to offer followers of Geoffrey Bawa, tropical-garden enthusiasts and to all those seeking a photographic portrait of Sri Lanka.

Concise Foraging Guide (Paperback): Tiffany Francis-Baker Concise Foraging Guide (Paperback)
Tiffany Francis-Baker
R254 R219 Discovery Miles 2 190 Save R35 (14%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This practical pocket guide includes 194 edible fruits, nuts and seeds, flowers, greens and vegetables, herbs, roots, whole plants, fungi, seaweeds and shellfish that you can forage in the UK and Europe.

Each species account includes accurate artworks and concise descriptions outlining essential details to help you identify species in the field, as well as information on where you can find species and helpful tips on how to cook and bake with the food you forage.

The author's introduction offers practical advice on foraging safely and legally and outlines how to prepare and preserve your foraged foods, including making mead and jam, drying herbs, storing mushrooms for later use and how to safely prepare foraged shellfish. The helpful fold-out poster shows common edible species grouped by season and by habitat.

Create Ponds (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition): Richard Jones Create Ponds (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
Richard Jones
R71 Discovery Miles 710 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A pond serves as a visual focus for any garden whilst providing a cool oasis where you can get away from it all. This volume gives you clear, concise advice on how to plan, build and maintain a pond even in the most modest garden - and without spending a fortune.

The Smallholder's Encyclopaedia for Self-Sufficiency (Hardcover): Walter Brett The Smallholder's Encyclopaedia for Self-Sufficiency (Hardcover)
Walter Brett
R1,146 Discovery Miles 11 460 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Originally published in the 1930s. This comprehensive book will provide under one head and at a glance all that vast amount of essential information required by the ever increasing numbers of enthusiasts who wish to derive pleasure or profit by living off the land. The illustrated contents include advice on: Poultry - Vegetable Culture - Fruit Growing - Flower Culture - Holding and Farm - Pigs - Cattle - Sheep - Land - Rabbit Keeping - Bee Keeping - Organic Methods etc. Many of the earliest farming books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Home Farm Books are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Creating a Forest Garden - Working with Nature to Grow Edible Crops (Hardcover, 1st): Martin Crawford Creating a Forest Garden - Working with Nature to Grow Edible Crops (Hardcover, 1st)
Martin Crawford; Photographs by Joanna Brown
R1,052 Discovery Miles 10 520 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Forest Gardening (or agroforestry) is a way of growing edible crops with nature doing most of the work. A forest garden imitates young natural woodland, with a wide range of crops grown in vertical layers. Species are chosen for their beneficial effects on each other, creating a healthy system that maintains its own fertility, with little need for digging, weeding or pest control. The result of this largely perennial planting is a tranquil, beautiful and productive space. This book is a bible for permaculture and forest gardening, with practical advice on how to create a forest garden, from planning and design to planting and maintenance. It explains how a forest garden is designed from the top down: the canopy layer first, then the shrub layer, the perennial ground-cover layer, the annuals & biennials next, the climbers and nitrogen fixers and finally the clearings, living spaces and paths. Whether in a small back garden or in a larger plot, the environmental benefits of growing this way are great. Forest Gardens are a viable solution to the challenge of a changing climate: we can grow food sustainably in them without compromising soil health, food quality or biodiversity. Forest gardens: store carbon dioxide in the soil and in the woody biomass of the trees and shrubs. enable the soil to store more water after heavy rains, minimizing flooding and erosion. boost the health of the ecosystem, ensuring a balance of predators and beneficial insects because mixed planting is crucial to the scheme. allows the soil to thrive because it is covered with plants all year round. Creating a Forest Garden includes a detailed directory of over 500 trees, shrubs, herbaceous perennials, annuals, root crops and climbers. As well as more familiar plants such as fig and apple trees, blackcurrants and rosemary shrubs, you can grow your own chokeberries, goji berries, yams, heartnuts, bamboo shoots and buffalo currants. Forest gardens produce fruits, nuts, vegetables, seeds, salads, herbs, spices, firewood, mushrooms, medicinal herbs, dye plants, soap plants, and honey from bees. This book tells you everything you need to create your own forest garden with beautiful illustrations and helpful tips throughout.

Raised Bed Gardening - The Backyard Gardening Guide to an Organic Vegetable Garden and the Best Way to Grow Herbs, Fruit Trees,... Raised Bed Gardening - The Backyard Gardening Guide to an Organic Vegetable Garden and the Best Way to Grow Herbs, Fruit Trees, and Flowers in Raised Beds (Hardcover)
Dion Rosser
R719 R635 Discovery Miles 6 350 Save R84 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Rewild Your Garden - Create a Haven for Birds, Bees and Butterflies (Hardcover): Frances Tophill Rewild Your Garden - Create a Haven for Birds, Bees and Butterflies (Hardcover)
Frances Tophill 1
R507 R464 Discovery Miles 4 640 Save R43 (8%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The perfect book for any gardener looking to get back in touch with their wild side.

The rewilding of public spaces and farmland is vitally important to conservation, but how can we support native species and provide rich habitats on our own doorsteps?

In this practical, beautifully illustrated guide horticulturalist and Gardener's World presenter Frances Tophill shows you how to plan and maintain a beautiful garden that will attract bees and birds as well as a throng of unsung garden heroes. Whether you have a small balcony or a large open space, discover the joys of welcoming natural ecosystems back into your garden - along with a host of new visitors.

Vertical Vegetables - Simple Projects that Deliver More Yield in Less Space (Paperback): Amy Andrychowicz Vertical Vegetables - Simple Projects that Deliver More Yield in Less Space (Paperback)
Amy Andrychowicz 1
R718 R651 Discovery Miles 6 510 Save R67 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Farmers of Forty Centuries - Permanent Organic Farming in China, Korea, and Japan (Hardcover): F. H. King Farmers of Forty Centuries - Permanent Organic Farming in China, Korea, and Japan (Hardcover)
F. H. King
R814 Discovery Miles 8 140 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Professor Franklin Hiram King made important contributions in soil science -- soil physics and soil fertility in particular. This book, perhaps the first on sustainable organic agriculture, is of great interest today, when we are able to assess the truth of what King stated a hundred years ago. This edition is complete and unabridged.

Hydroponics 101 - The Easy Beginner's Guide to Hydroponic Gardening. Learn How To Build a Backyard Hydroponics System for... Hydroponics 101 - The Easy Beginner's Guide to Hydroponic Gardening. Learn How To Build a Backyard Hydroponics System for Homegrown Organic Fruit, Herbs and Vegetables (Hardcover)
Tommy Rosenthal
R608 R552 Discovery Miles 5 520 Save R56 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Plants for Free - Seeds and Cuttings to Fill Your Garden (Hardcover): Sharon Amos Plants for Free - Seeds and Cuttings to Fill Your Garden (Hardcover)
Sharon Amos
R260 R232 Discovery Miles 2 320 Save R28 (11%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

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.

A Beginner's Guide to House Plants - Creating Beautiful and Healthy Green Spaces in Your Home (Hardcover): Sakaino A Beginner's Guide to House Plants - Creating Beautiful and Healthy Green Spaces in Your Home (Hardcover)
Sakaino
R420 Discovery Miles 4 200 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The healthier your plants, the happier you'll feel! A Beginner's Guide to House Plants teaches you how to bring your indoor spaces alive with lovely and easy-to-maintain plants -- and how to keep them healthy. It provides detailed instructions on how you can unleash the power of plants to energize and relax you, and how to promote well-being by greening your environment. In this book you'll find hundreds of useful tips, including: How to select the right plants for your spaces and lifestyle Practical advice on purchasing, potting and styling your plants How to care for many different types of plants--from succulents and ferns to exotics A mini field guide to over 60 popular plants you should know about And so much more! Cultivating house plants can be both creative and fun! Plant expert Ryusuke Sakaino provides tips on how to use colors, textures, patterns and shapes to create a lush living space, with one plant or many. His gorgeous photos will inspire you to add greenery to every room in your home and office. No longer just a pandemic hobby, plants deserve to be a permanent part of your lifestyle!

Survival 101 Raised Bed Gardening - The Essential Guide To Growing Your Own Food In 2021 (Hardcover): Rory Anderson Survival 101 Raised Bed Gardening - The Essential Guide To Growing Your Own Food In 2021 (Hardcover)
Rory Anderson
R657 R602 Discovery Miles 6 020 Save R55 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
RSPB Gardening for Wildlife - New edition (Hardcover): Adrian Thomas RSPB Gardening for Wildlife - New edition (Hardcover)
Adrian Thomas
R710 Discovery Miles 7 100 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

There is something uplifting about having butterflies in your flowerbeds, frogs in your water feature and birds in your bushes, and knowing they're there because of you. Rich in detail and accessible in style, Gardening for Wildlife is the crucial companion to novices and expert gardeners alike. Adrian Thomas dispels myths and offers new insights and ideas, helping everyone understand what to do so gardens, large or small, can become ideal homes for wildlife. Building on the success of the award-winning first edition, this expanded and updated edition reflects the latest research and developments in nature-friendly gardening. The book serves as an expert guide to the practical aspects of this rewarding pastime and educates readers about the ecological principles involved, while exploding commonly held misconceptions that often deter people from pursuing a kinder approach to gardening. Adrian Thomas provides a detailed guide to the many and varied species that can contribute to a natural and healthy garden. Practical sections help you create entire habitats, such as woodland and meadow gardens, in your garden. And the massively expanded catalogue of the top 500 best garden flowers, shrubs and trees for wildlife, now includes colour photos of every species. If you love wildlife and want to encourage more to visit your garden, this inspirational book will help you sow the seeds and reap the rewards.

The Intimate Beauty of a Japanese Courtyard (Paperback): Hitoshi Saruta The Intimate Beauty of a Japanese Courtyard (Paperback)
Hitoshi Saruta
R682 Discovery Miles 6 820 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Residences occupy a pivotal position in Japanese architecture. As an extension of the residential space, the Japanese courtyard garden is unique, featuring symbolic garden elements and designs that date back to centuries. This book is a collection of more than 30 residential courtyard design works interpreted for the modern-day home, sometimes extending beyond the traditional defines of a Japanese courtyard. It not only selects a wealth of pictures, which shows their visual beauty, but also provides technical drawings to reflect the design in better detail. The Japanese courtyard pursues the ultimate in being an area of calm, held in nature's embrace, where one may reflect and rest in quietude to contemplate the deeper meaning of life. And every rock arrangement, tree placement, element/nature symbolised, and even scenery framed is meticulously thought out to achieve this. This book seeks to inspire residential and landscape designers to behold nature within a home with fresh eyes and to let rest old methods as new connections and perceptions are sought, in order to build a different kind of residential space that draws on the essence of a Japanese courtyard.

Nature's Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation that Starts in Your Yard (Hardcover): Douglas W. Tallamy Nature's Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation that Starts in Your Yard (Hardcover)
Douglas W. Tallamy
R746 R666 Discovery Miles 6 660 Save R80 (11%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

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.

Trees for Gardens, Orchards and Permaculture (Paperback): Martin Crawford Trees for Gardens, Orchards and Permaculture (Paperback)
Martin Crawford
R854 R735 Discovery Miles 7 350 Save R119 (14%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

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.

The Kew Gardener's Guide to Growing Orchids, Volume 6 - The Art and Science to Grow Your Own Orchids (Hardcover): Philip... The Kew Gardener's Guide to Growing Orchids, Volume 6 - The Art and Science to Grow Your Own Orchids (Hardcover)
Philip Seaton, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew 1
R375 R338 Discovery Miles 3 380 Save R37 (10%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

Aquaponics 101 - The Easy Beginner's Guide to Aquaponic Gardening: How To Build Your Own Backyard Aquaponics System and... Aquaponics 101 - The Easy Beginner's Guide to Aquaponic Gardening: How To Build Your Own Backyard Aquaponics System and Grow Organic Vegetables With Hydroponics And Fish (Hardcover)
Tommy Rosenthal
R605 R548 Discovery Miles 5 480 Save R57 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Creative gardening with indigenous plants - A South African guide (Paperback, 2nd ed): Pitta Joffe, Tinus Oberholzer Creative gardening with indigenous plants - A South African guide (Paperback, 2nd ed)
Pitta Joffe, Tinus Oberholzer 1
R485 R433 Discovery Miles 4 330 Save R52 (11%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Creative gardening with indigenous plants, now in its second edition, is an invaluable handbook for South African gardeners. In this comprehensive guide the authors set out to popularise the use of indigenous South African plants in gardens, parks, on roadsides and anywhere where previously exotic plants were preferred. This book covers more than 300 plants, all illustrated by stunning photographs in full colour showing the whole plant as well as selected features such as flowers, fruit, leaves and bark. The text comprises a description of each plant, its usages - including medicinal uses and snippets of folklore - and advice on cultivation. Introductory chapters cover topics such as propagating plants from seeds and cuttings, gardening in the different climate regions, and using indigenous plants to attract birds and insects to the garden. Taking a very practical approach, using symbols, distribution maps, plant size and flower colour, the authors lead the reader to the correct plant to choose for the application, whether this be tree, shrub, annual, perennial, climber or water-loving plant. This all-inclusive book is a must for gardeners, horticulturists, landscape designers and anyone involved in the South African nursery industry.

A Garden Bird Year (Hardcover): Mike Toms A Garden Bird Year (Hardcover)
Mike Toms
R409 Discovery Miles 4 090 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Britain's gardens are a vast, living landscape and the home to hundreds of species of birds. Learn to pay attention to these visitors to your own garden or local park and you'll have a front-row seat to the unfolding drama that is the garden bird's year. As dawn breaks across your back garden, if you were paying attention, you would notice that the robin and the blackbird are always the first birds to arrive. These ground hunters have large eyes, so don't mind the dim light of the early morning. And that's just the beginning of what you can learn watching your own back garden. Ornithologist Mike Toms has spent a year avidly observing his own garden, and the result is a comprehensive picture of the lives of garden birds. From the crowded yet quiet January garden populated by migratory fieldfares and bramblings, to the riotous gardens of spring, filled with songbirds competing for mates, the garden ecosystem changes throughout the year. Learn to spot these changes, to greet the arrival of the swifts in May and the new crop of fledgling goldfinches and blackbirds in June, and you'll find a new world opening up to you. A Garden Bird's Year is the perfect introduction to this world. Supremely readable, it explains biology and behaviour to paint a picture of the lives of common bird species, while also offering practical information for watching and feeding the birds in your own backyard. Toms details birds' preferences for particular plants, seeds and feeders, so you can learn to attract different species to your own garden. He also charts fascinating recent adaptations - urban birds sleep later than their rural counterparts, probably because cities are on average a few degrees warmer, and they sing either earlier or later, to avoid competing with local traffic; and the balance of migratory birds to Britain is being affected by the world's changing climate. Many species of garden birds are threatened, but there is much that each one of us can do to support them, to attract them, and to help them thrive through the year.

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