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 Price: 57.30 $ |  | The Mediterranean climate, with its mild, rainy winters and hot, dry summers, gave rise to a gardening style that is very much in vogue today. Not only do Mediterranean-style gardens offer gorgeous, fragrant, soothing sanctuaries that are wonderfully easy to maintain, but water-saving planting is environmentally sound and enormously appealing whatever ones region or climatic zone. This lush, seductive volume showcases the distinctive beauty of some 25 gardens in France, Italy, Spain, and Califor ...
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Price: 30.27 $ |  | Filled with sumptuous color photographs and exquisite botanical illustrations, Pleasures of the Cottage Garden is a rich visual celebration of a well-loved gardening style. But it is also a practical guide for those who wish to create a cottage garden tailored to their specific climates and horticultural passions. ...
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Price: 29.99 $ |  | Transform a messy, tangled garden into a lush, productive retreat with this simple yet thorough handbook. The basics of companion gardening can be easily integrated into one’s gardening style using the nurturing power of Mother Nature and taking fundamental principles into account. Not merely a seasonal occupation or hobby, companion planting is a natural way to restore balance to outdoor spaces. By planting certain plants in close proximity, each helps the others. Easily implemented techniques ...
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Price: 29.95 $ |  | In the first essay in Garden Musings, this gardening writer states, ?The evidence keeps racking up that I, the Hoosier-born offspring of several generations of farmers, chose through ignorance to garden in a delightful area combining the world?s worst soil and an exasperating climate, all augmented by various man-made and natural catastrophes such as tornadoes, droughts, prairie fires, hail, drenching rains, ice-storms, late freezes, boiling summers, and seventy mile per hour winds. ? Gardening, ...
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Price: 23.95 $ |  | Offering a rare glimpse into some of the most beautiful tropical gardens in the world, Tropical Gardens of the Philippines presents spectacular contemporary gardens—large and small—situated in and around the Metropolitan Manila area and the nearby provinces of Laguna, Batangas and Tagaytay. This gorgeous volume introduces a contemporary gardening style that has been evolving in the Philippines over the past decade as talented designers have come into their own—not to mention all the talented hom ...
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Price: 23.82 $ | | | The Mediterranean climate, with its mild, rainy winters and hot, dry summers, gave rise to a fashionable gardening style. Not only do Mediterranean-style gardens offer gorgeous, fragrant, soothing sanctuaries that are wonderfully easy to maintain, but water-saving planting is environmentally sound and enormously appealing whatever ones region or climatic zone. This volume showcases some 25 gardens in France, Italy, Spain and California that employ drought-tolerant plants such as agaves and other ...
Amazon / Harry N. Abrams / Book
Price: 23.80 $ |  | Welcome to the joys of nineteenth century gardening and design! The Victorians were masters of combining geometric formality and bright, formal, seasonal bedding to create lush, exuberant outdoor living spaces. This delightful book presents Victorian gardening style and design using beautiful landscapes lavish with carpet beds, topiary, statuary, sundials, marble and stone walkways, as well as classical architectural ruins, fountains, and pools. Many restorations and recreations of Victorian gar ...
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Price: 22.55 $ |  | The Sakuteiki, or Records of Garden Making, was written nearly 1000 years ago, making it the oldest work on Japanese gardening; in fact, the oldest book on gardening in the world! In this edition of the Sakuteiki, the authors provide both an English-language translation of this classic work; and an introduction to the cultural and historical context that led to the development of Japanese gardening. A Japanese court noble wrote the Sakuteiki during the Heian period (794-1184). During this critic ...
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Price: 18.71 $ |  | In the first essay in Garden Musings, this gardening writer states, ?The evidence keeps racking up that I, the Hoosier-born offspring of several generations of farmers, chose through ignorance to garden in a delightful area combining the world?s worst soil and an exasperating climate, all augmented by various man-made and natural catastrophes such as tornadoes, droughts, prairie fires, hail, drenching rains, ice-storms, late freezes, boiling summers, and seventy mile per hour winds. ? Gardening, ...
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Price: 16.65 $ |  | Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Chinese Classical Garden is a place for solitary or social contemplation of nature. They were created as a combination of landscape and paintings together with poems. The design of Chinese gardens was meant to provide a spiritual utopia for one to connect with nature. Another skillful Chinese gardening style, Bonsai, is an art form of growing miniature trees in cont ...
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Price: 16.18 $ |  | 1001 Gardens is an extraordinary showcase of the best examples of mans artistic taming of nature from the worlds most outstanding landscape gardeners. From the famous gardens of the Moorish Alhambra to hidden gems, such as the Leichtag familys Healing Garden, created for patients at the San Diego Childrens Hospital, this lavishly illustrated guide will delight both lovers of natural beauty and gardeners alike. Covering the entire globe, the guide presents the very best example of every gardening ...
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Price: 13.99 $ |  | Bonsai is a 2000-year old art form of creating miniature-sized trees. Many believe that this gardening style originated in Japan when actually it began in China during the Han dynasty. It was the Chinese who taught the Japanese the techniques of how to garden in a shallow tray but it was the Japanese who gave the name “bonsai” to the style. There are many kinds of bonsai trees and many types of bonsai styles. Each tree and style will have different care instructions to maintain the look. There i ...
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Price: 12.95 $ |  | Join Alan Emmet on a tour of gardens that graced New England from just after the American Revolution into the 20th century. A Martha Stewart Decorative Arts Gift Book Choice for 1996.If May Brawley Hills Grandmother Garden and Mac Griswolds Golden Age of American Gardens weigh heavily on your shelf of classic foliage histories, Alan Emmets study of New England private gardens from the 18th and 19th centuries should take its place alongside them. Emmet shows how the more extreme climate, the loom ...
Amazon / UPNE / Book
Price: 12.50 $ |  | In the first essay in Garden Musings, this gardening writer states, The evidence keeps racking up that I, the Hoosier-born offspring of several generations of farmers, chose through ignorance to garden in a delightful area combining the worlds worst soil and an exasperating climate, all augmented by various man-made and natural catastrophes such as tornadoes, droughts, prairie fires, hail, drenching rains, ice-storms, late freezes, boiling summers, and seventy mile per hour winds. Gardening, wit ...
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