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 | Gardens have inspired artists for hundreds of years. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, photographers ranging from Eughne Atget to Edward Steichen were drawn to gardens for their beauty and their metaphorical associations. A century later, in the mid-1980s, an unusually large number of artists returned to the garden as a subject for their photography. This lovely book devoted to the garden photography of contemporary artists accompanies an exhibition organized by the American Federation ...
Amazon / Harry N. Abrams / Book
 Price: 500.00 $ |  | Practical gardening advice mingles charmingly with poetic descriptions of the plants that Vita Sackville-West admired. These essays, first published in the London Observer more than 50 years ago, reflect the authors experience in England with her garden at Sissinghurst Castle; however, all of the plants are grown in America and suited to large sections of the American climate. The result is a useful and gracious guide to some unusual but easy to grow plants from the pen of a poet who was also a ...
Amazon / Audio Partners / Book
Price: 195.00 $ |  | Like so many other aspects of modern life-the interstate highway system, fast food chains, telephones, televisions, and shopping malls-the lawn occupies a central, and often unconsidered, place in Americas cultural landscape. In spaces as diverse as city parks, town squares, and suburban backyards, it has played an essential part in the development of our national identity. The site of political demonstrations, sporting events, and barbecues, and the object of loving, if not obsessive, care and ...
Amazon / Princeton Architectural Press / Book
Price: 155.50 $ |  | Truffles are underground mushrooms, powerfully scented and expensive, important in the finest French and Italian cooking. They are used in the worlds great restaurants and command exorbitant prices. Truffles attract enthusiastic gourmets for whom passion can turn into obsession. The Truffle Book is a perfect introduction to the pleasurable and mysterious world of truffles. Gareth Renowden explores the truffle forests of France and the truffle markets of Italy, discovers the new truffles of the A ...
Amazon / Limestone Hills Publishing / Book
Price: 151.50 $ |  | By bringing what H. Marc Cathey, president of the American Horticultural Society, has called a new wave of naturalism to America, James van Sweden and his partner, Wolfgang Oehme, have revolutionized American landscape design. Van Sweden and Oehme are internationally renowned for their public projects and private commissions: responsible for the Hudson River Park in New York City and several gardens of the U.S. National Arboretum in Washington, D.C., they have landscaped the properties of celebr ...
Amazon / Watson-Guptill Publications / Book
Price: 120.80 $ |  | Alternative Medicine Review, March 2006 by Mario Roxas Herbal Medicine of the American Southwest by Charles W. Kane, published in January 2006, highlights the wealth of medicinal plants residing in just one corner of our vast national landscape. This text covers over 210 western plants within 100 distinct plant profiles, from Acacia to Yucca. Each profile is identified by what the author calls its main common name. This is followed by the plants Latin family name, its current Latin binomial, and ...
Amazon / Lincoln Town Press / Book
Price: 116.34 $ |  | Filled with brilliant before-and-after photography, it provides gardeners with complete information on how to create the garden of their dreams.Although primarily a reference text, Pruning & Training is also a stroll through an arboretum, intertwining beautiful and descriptive photographs with explanatory text. If youve ever wondered how a tree, shrub, or vine was trained or formed, this book will explain every how-to for every plant that stirs your experimental side. If youre saddled with a ...
Amazon / DK ADULT / Book
Price: 107.98 $ |  | More than 150 orchid genera are described, each accompanied by a superb Marion Sheehan illustration that shows a representative species; all display the same structures in similar views so that the reader can easily compare the variations among genera. In 1995, the authors received the American Orchid Societys Gold Medal of Achievement. ...
Amazon / Timber Press / Book
Price: 98.99 $ |  | Here are two new competitively priced, compact, full-color guides that focus on a specific gardening topic, solve an array of gardening problems, and present every important plant group. Find the solutions to your gardening problems from the American Horticultural Societys Practical Guides! Select from this ever-growing library of titles for the best gardening advice on plants and plant care, garden design, and garden construction. Growing From Seed includes: How to propagate from seed -- flower ...
Amazon / DK ADULT / Book
Price: 98.54 $ |  | Preserved by families, collected by seed savers, passed around among farmers, heirloom tomatoes are now being sought out by more and more home gardeners as an alternative to the bland sameness of commercial hybrids. And happily, these growers are discovering that heirlooms are not only vastly more flavorful, but are just as hardy and easy to cultivate as the hybrids. Dr. Carolyn J. Male, who has raised more than a thousand heirloom tomatoes, here presents 100 consistently top-performing varietie ...
Amazon / Workman Publishing Company / Book
Price: 84.50 $ |  | Eight years ago, Harpers Magazine editor Michael Pollan bought an old Connecticut dairy farm. He planted a garden and attempted to follow Thoreaus example: do not impose your will upon the wilderness, the woodchucks, or the weeds. That ethic did not, of course, work. But neither did pesticides or firebombing the woodchuck burrow. So Michael Pollan began to think about the troubled borders between nature and contemporary life. The result is a funny, profound, and beautifully written book in the f ...
Amazon / Atlantic Monthly Pr / Book
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