 | Containing an extensively illustrated reference section, this book traces the history of the rose, which has exerted a hold over mans imagination since ancient Egyptian times. To Cleopatra and the Roman emperors it was associated with luxury and to the early Christians it was a symbol of the Virgin, while in the Middle Ages it signified both romance and war. And the origins of the plant are no less mysterious. Was it China, Arabia, Greece or Mesopotamia from which the first rose burst forth? Wit ...
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 | The inspiration behind Bloom Book was the much-admired Bloom magazine founded in 1998 in Paris by Li Edelkoort to explore the fusion of plants and fashion. The concept behind both the magazine and the book puts the culture into horticulture. Flowers, vegetables and trees are an endless source of inspiration for design, fashion, cosmetics and cuisine, which in turn open new perspectives for our vision of the world of plants, more creative today than ever before. From the symbolism of flowers to t ...
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 | This book examines the fierce debate on the styles and forms of garden design that took place in England c. 1870-1914. Focusing on the wild garden, the cottage garden, the formal garden and the synthesis of the formal and natural styles, Anne Helmreich argues that design principles were indelibly shaped by the quest for a powerful English national identity. She demonstrates how Englishness was purportedly expressed through the leading styles of garden design and why the garden was promoted as a ...
Amazon / Cambridge University Press / Book
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 | In her best-selling book, The Gin and Tonic Gardener, Janice Wells encouraged gardeners and non-gardeners alike with her frank and funny journal about gardening successes and failures. Another Splash of Gin and Tonic chronicles this knowledgeable but irreverent gardeners next two years as she endeavors to create a low budget gin-and-tonic garden. Readers tag along with her as she scours yard sales for perennials; they learn about her strange aversion to grass, her ongoing battles with rocky soil ...
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 | An important horticultural memoir articulating a new landscape art thats both environmentally sensitive and rich in creativity. Janet Marinelli left her comfortable city garden to join a botanist colleague in search of the rare Seabeach Amaranth--one of our many native species that is in danger of extinction. The result of the ensuing seven-year odyssey, Stalking the Wild Amaranth is a work of science and a work of art. Marinelli tells the story of her discovery that contemporary gardening is ou ...
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 | In 1969, House and Garden magazine commissioned one of the first minimalist artists, Patricia Johanson, to propose new directions for American garden art. Having never been exhibited or published before as a whole, the resulting garden proposals reveal an unknown dimension of the New York art world of the late 1960s. Three years of research have brought 146 surviving drawings to light. They demonstrate the intimate progress of the artist’s engagement with nature in her quest for an art concerned ...
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 | Based on the authors 20 years of passionate selection and experience, Dank: The Very Best Marijuana is the story of one breeders quest for pot perfection. Author Subcool, both a talented photographer and a well-known breeding whiz, describes each step of his journey toward ganja heaven: raising each strain, mixing and matching traits, and ultimately choosing the offspring that will advance to become the newest pinnacle in pot — the newest dank. Revealing his thought processes as he assesses the ...
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 | In an ongoing search to carve their unique visions from the natural world, the artists and architects of the twentieth century have transformed both our physical landscapes and the way we perceive outdoor space. This quest for harmony between the natural and the manmade has yielded some of the most spectacular gardens ever created. The Modern Garden is the first fully illustrated overview of the great gardens of the 20th century. It portrays hundreds of gardens, from the works of Geoffrey Jellic ...
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 | -- Explains how to prepare, harvest and preserve vegetables. -- Uses a highly visual, easy-to-read, user-friendly format. -- Includes information on pest control, focusing on less toxic alternatives.A well-planned combination of straightforward text and colorful photos make Vegetable Gardening: Your Ultimate Guide a most useful addition in your quest for the perfect melon or Brussels sprout. The chapters on preparation cover everything from garden design (complete with worksheets) to the creatio ...
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 | Susannah Seton reminds us in Every Garden Is a Story that reader and gardener alike have much to learn from their gardens. The poignant and touching stories -- from her fathers quest for a seven-headed sweet pea to cancer survival and magical portraits of moon gardens --take readers on a journey through garden beds, along the way reinforcing how to care for themselves and their loved ones by caring for the Earth. From the book: Some of the most touching stories remind us that we dont have to hav ...
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 | It is precisely the unquantifiable behavior of wildflowers that will possess a man to drive across state lines, mountain ranges, and international borders with little more than a ragged guide book, an old map, and a wild look in his eyes. And from Mexicos Pinacate desert to the pink sand dunes of southern Utah, readers can join Scott Calhoun on his quest for moments of nearly indescribable joy and beauty. ...
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 | Every year, the race to grow the biggest pumpkin in the world draws a rowdy crowd of obsessive gardeners to county fairs and weigh-offs across the country. The competition is furious; theres sabotage and treachery and the heartbreak of root rot, and many a weigh-off ends in tears. This year, more than just the grand prize is at stake. The Holy Grail is within reach: the worlds first fifteenhundred-pound pumpkin. And Ron and Dick Wallace think they have what it takes to get it. Backyard Giants fo ...
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 | DANK is simply the very best marijuana, grown to perfection. DANK the book is a visual story of marijuana buds at their ripest, stickiest best. Ed Rosenthal refers to Subcools photographs as Pot Porn. Author and photographer Subcool breeds for distinctive color, flavors, and highs. His varieties come in unusual tones of red, pink and purple and the ripe buds glisten with trichome glands filled to capacity with intoxicating THC. Come share his passion and enjoyment of this amazing plant. ...
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 | Bill Alexander had no idea that his simple dream of having a vegetable garden and small orchard in his backyard would lead him into life-and-death battles with groundhogs, webworms, weeds, and weather; midnight expeditions in the dead of winter to dig up fresh thyme; and skirmishes with neighbors who feed the vermin (i.e., deer). Not to mention the vacations that had to be planned around the harvest, the near electrocution of the tree man, the limitations of his own middle-aged body, and the pit ...
Amazon / Algonquin Books / eBooks
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