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 | The spectacularly successful Ultimate Rose Book is back in a thoroughly updated and revised edition. Rosarian Stirling Macoboy’s book is a classic, not just for its beautiful pictures and comprehensive coverage, but also for its author’s good-humored, opinionated observations and his selection of 1,500 rose varieties to feature out of tens of thousands. The expanded edition features 300 new varieties, selected for their beauty, fragrance, hardiness, and popularity, as well as new features on the ...
Amazon / Harry N. Abrams / Book
 Price: 40.94 $ |  | The guide to creating a NEW generation of American roses . . . This work brings together experts from around the world to inform gardeners about developments in the new irresistible yet long overdue trend toward creating environmentally friendly yet enduring rose gardens, with sustainability as the key. Pick up any popular gardening magazine and browse through it. Chances are you will soon encounter one word sustainability. Sustainability has, indeed, become the catchword of 21st century gardeni ...
Amazon / Casemate Pub / Book
Price: 22.59 $ |  | The guide to creating a NEW generation of American roses . . . This work brings together experts from around the world to inform gardeners about developments in the new—irresistible yet long overdue—trend toward creating environmentally friendly yet enduring rose gardens, with “sustainability” as the key. Pick up any popular gardening magazine and browse through it. Chances are you will soon encounter one word—sustainability. Sustainability has, indeed, become the catchword of 21st century garde ...
Amazon / Casemate Publishing / eBooks
Price: 21.99 $ |  | “American Beauty,” “Dublin Bay,” “Rocketeer,” “Betty Boop,” “High Noon,” “Pearly Gates”…with a distinctive name for each of hundreds of varieties, the array of roses that could adorn your garden is both dazzling and daunting. So which ones survive hardily on their own for weeks on end, and which ones wither and die without constant attention? How do you tell a climber from a shrub, and how does each thrive? And don’t even start with pruning! Despite all the (ahem) thorny particulars, gardeners s ...
Amazon / For Dummies / eBooks
Price: 21.99 $ |  | A rose is a rose is a rose, but every rose garden -- and every rose gardener -- is unique. In Beautiful American Rose Gardens, Mary Tonetti Dorra, author of Beautiful American Vegetable Gardens, captures the special beauty of twenty-four rose gardens devoted exclusively, or nearly exclusively, to Americas most beloved flower. Traveling from Maine to the Pacific Northwest, from Florida to California, Dorra not only discovered a variety of rose garden designs, but also a myriad of approaches to cu ...
Amazon / Clarkson Potter / Book
Price: 21.44 $ |  | Whether you are a do-it-yourself homeowner or an experienced contractor, this guide is your ultimate resource for finding the most informative home and gardening sites available on the Web. Let SurfLess, help you find: do-it-yourself ideas; landscaping secrets; tips on painting and wall papering; organic gardening and pest control; the latest product lines; home improvement calculators and conversion tools; home, deck and pool plans; rose gardens; ponds; and much, much more....... ...
Amazon / Surfless Llc / Book
Price: 20.00 $ |  | Gardens have often been used as metaphors for spiritual nurturing and growth. Zen rock gardens, monastery rose gardens, even your grandmothers vegetable garden all have been described as places of refuge and reflection. Drawing on her experience working at Seattles premier gardening center, Zen teacher Geri Larkin shows how the act of gardening can help you uncover your inner creativity, enthusiasm, vigilance, and joy. As your garden grows, so will your spirit. Larkin takes you through the steps ...
Amazon / HarperCollins e-books / eBooks
Price: 19.99 $ |  | A full-color encyclopedic guide to 1,500 varieties of roses around the world. Includes sections on history and lore, cultivation, and designing rose gardens. ...
Amazon / Harry N. Abrams / Book
Price: 17.49 $ |  | The great estates and country houses owned and preserved by the National Trust boast some of the most beautiful gardens in Britain. This breathtaking photographic tour invites readers to savor the seasonal pleasures of a wide variety of the Trust’s gardens in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland— from small town gardens to vast expanses of landscape, from mazes and rose gardens to those with arbors and topiary. Whether capturing the shades of autumn at Sheffield Park in Sussex or snowdrops at An ...
Amazon / Harry N. Abrams / Book
Price: 16.04 $ |  | For fans of Anna Pavords The Tulip and Andrea Wulfs The Brothers Gardener , a vividly written and lavishly illustrated history of the Queen of Flowers Ever since Sappho planted roses at the shrine of Aphrodite, no flower has captured the imagination in quite the same way. Here, the acclaimed horticultural historian Jennifer Potter sets out on a quest to uncover the life of a flower that has been viewed so hetrogenously by different cultures in different countries across the centuries. Beginning ...
Amazon / Atlantic Books / Book
Price: 15.99 $ |  | From vegetable and succulent gardens to sculpture and rose gardens to mountain and waterfront gardens, New Garden Design covers a range of interpretations incorporating walls, fountains, pavilions, canals, pools, terraces and groves in unexpected ways. The resulting new garden is a pleasure garden vested with spiritual, symbolic and ecological intent. A modernist interpretation of Roman stone furniture and freestanding walls punctuate the space behind a 1970s ranch house. A home designed by Bern ...
Amazon / Gibbs Smith / Book
Price: 14.49 $ | | | From vegetable and succulent gardens to sculpture and rose gardens to mountain and waterfront gardens, New Garden Design covers a range of interpretations incorporating walls, fountains, pavilions, canals, pools, terraces and groves in unexpected ways. The resulting new garden is a pleasure garden vested with spiritual, symbolic and ecological intent. A modernist interpretation of Roman stone furniture and freestanding walls punctuate the space behind a 1970s ranch house. A home designed by Bern ...
Amazon / Gibbs Smith / Book
Price: 14.29 $ |  | From the rose gardens of the Smithsonian Institution. Roses are ancient symbols of love and beauty. There are over 100 species of roses, some of the most beautiful featured in this lovely 2011 wall calendar. Eco-friendly paper and inks. ...
Amazon / Zebra Publishing Corp. / Book
Price: 13.99 $ |  | Wild flowers in the spring time not only bring alive our senses with rich colours and fragrant odours, but inspire the hope and creativity of life itself. Gardens give space for beauty, inspiration, meditation and enjoyment. Flowers have been used to heal for centuries whether this is simply by walking in rose gardens or by using them in teas, balms, ointments, and dressings for specific discomforts. Here are the poetic descriptions of the healing qualities and energetic spirits of forty wild me ...
Amazon / The Petite Bergerie Press / eBooks
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