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 | This work illustrates important gardens of the world and major developments in garden history. As well as special sections on Chinese and Japanese gardening, the book also covers a range of gardens and styles, from Roman peristyle and French Formal style to native plant gardens in the New World. ...
Amazon / Trans-Atlantic Pubns / Book
 Price: 151.60 $ |  | The common sense primer for gardening the natural way and comes with sources for plants, organic products and beneficial insects. ...
Amazon / Lantana / Book
Price: 122.46 $ |  | With allergy problems reaching alarming, epidemic levels, horticulturist Tom Ogren sets out to investigate the role that urban landscaping plays in this urgent health crisis. What he discovered was startling: The vastly disproportionate cultivation of all-male plant varieties produces large amounts of intensely irritating airborne pollen. This extensively researched, comprehensive, plant-by-plant reference alerts gardeners and helps them make landscaping choices that can drastically reduce their ...
Amazon / Ten Speed Press / Book
Price: 101.55 $ |  | With allergy problems reaching alarming, epidemic levels, horticulturist Tom Ogren sets out to investigate the role that urban landscaping plays in this urgent health crisis. What he discovered was startling: The vastly disproportionate cultivation of all-male plant varieties produces large amounts of intensely irritating airborne pollen. This extensively researched, comprehensive, plant-by-plant reference alerts gardeners and helps them make landscaping choices that can drastically reduce their ...
Amazon / Ten Speed Press / Book
Price: 69.95 $ |  | The Shakers of the American northeast were careful and caring gardeners, and each of their village communitites was self-sufficient, growing fruit, herbs, flowers and vegetables in an organic, sustainable way. In the environmenatlly aware twenty-first century we still have much to learn from the Shaker approach to gardening. The Shaker Garden provides a practical guide to creating a beautiful and productive garden, or adapting part of an existing design. Sound horticultural information combines ...
Amazon / David & Charles Publishers / Book
Price: 58.99 $ |  | Originally published in 1983 and long unavailable, this book provides a fascinating perspective on Thomass life and development as a gardener, beginning with the garden at his fathers home in Cambridge.As a youth, renowned rose expert Graham Stuart Thomas was considered a little daft by peers and teachers. Obsessed with gardening, the boy never applied himself in school--all his dreams centered on the flowers hed planted in his fathers small yard. Hed rush home from school to gaze at the blooms. ...
Amazon / Sagapress, Incorporated / Book
Price: 58.41 $ |  | For those with an interest in aromatherapy, culinary herbs, or gardening, The Fragrant Garden will be an endless source of pleasure and information. Enchantingly illustrated with 140 color photos by leading garden photographer Clay Perry. How many people yearn for a garden that not only looks beautiful and meets their practical needs, but also provides a sanctuary in which to escape from the pressures of everyday life? In this exquisitely illustrated volume, Julia Lawless reveals the fragrant ga ...
Amazon / Kyle Cathie / Book
Price: 55.39 $ |  | Rodales Ultimate Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening has been the go-to resource for gardeners for more than 50 years—and the best tool novices can buy to start applying organic methods to their fruit and vegetable crops, herbs, trees and shrubs, perennials, annuals, and lawns. This thoroughly revised and updated version highlights new organic pest controls, new fertilizer products, improved gardening techniques, the latest organic soil practices, and new trends in garden design. In this indispens ...
Amazon / Rodale Press / Book
Price: 54.60 $ |  | For the past 35 years, thousands of Wisconsin gardeners have relied on the The Wisconsin Garden Guide. Now for the first time in full color, this revised and updated guide should be your one dependable reference to gardening the Badger State. Whether your garden is in a small backyard or on several acres, you will find just what you need to know to be a successful gardener in Wisconsin s challenging climate. Jerry Minnich is the Wisconsin garden expert. With more than forty years of gardening ex ...
Amazon / Prairie Oak Press / Book
Price: 52.47 $ |  | William Morris, designer, poet, socialist – nature lover. This volume focuses on Morriss vision of the garden, uncovering the principles which had such a profound effect on garden designers such as Gertrude Jekyll and William Robinson. Guided by Morris and the plants which appear in his work, this book endorses gardening with indigenous plants, giving information, both historical and practical, for gardening the William Morris way. ...
Amazon / Frances Lincoln / Book
Price: 49.99 $ |  | Pot gardening is easier, quicker, cleaner and requires less maintenance than open ground gardening. There is a wide choice of attractice containers from antique, to reproduction, to modern and in a wider variety of materials. The selection of plants can be based on species, colour combinations or contrasts. The containers can be limited to a terrace or patio or maybe combined as part of an overall garden design. The choices are endless and the opportunity to experiment without long term commitme ...
Amazon / Antique Collectors' Club / Book
Price: 48.20 $ |  | Now in full color with over 300 new photos and illustrations, Hydroponics for Everyone is the latest incarnation of the bestselling guide to gardening the simple and practical way. Included in this guide are sections on new technologies and products, expanded information on growing 10% more plants, and a revised global listing of equipment suppliers for every gardening need. ...
Amazon / Hyland House / Book
Price: 47.60 $ |  | Kitchen gardens have delighted gardeners with their beauty and fresh harvests for centuries. The Art of the Kitchen Garden, in glorious full color, makes it easy for anyone with an interest in gardening and fresh produce to enjoy a beautiful and productive kitchen garden. This elegant book celebrates the old world traditions of designing and planting a garden by emphasizing artistic design, dazzling color arrays, and the details that make each garden unique. Vivid photos and detailed color illus ...
Amazon / Taunton / Book
Price: 47.27 $ |
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