 | Includes:The Little Red Hen by Helen Dean Fish**A Rose is Red**The Nonsense ABC by Edward Lear**The Story of Little Black Sambo by Helen Bannerman**How Charlie Made Topsy Love Him by Helen Hill and Violet Maxwell**Hurt No Living Thing by Christina G. Rossetti**The House The Jack Built by Randolph Caldecott**Finger Games**The Owl and the Pussy Cat by Edward Lear**The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter**What Is Pink? A Rose Is Pink by Christina G. Rossetti**Names by Dorothy Aldis**Meeting the ...
Amazon / Meredith Press / Book
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 | Here is a celebration of the genus Rosa, our heritage from the past of the delicate charm of wild roses, the richly fragrant treasures of ancient Mediterranean civilization, the opulent beauties of France, the lacy loveliness of English Moss roses, and the glories plundered from the Orient by daring Victorian plant-hunters. These old roses flourished in colonial Australia. Today they are authentically refurbishing both town and country gardens. Their abundance of bloom and fragrance, vigor, incr ...
Amazon / Kangaroo Pr / Book
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 | Also called Jelly palm or feather palm. This beautiful feather palm has long pinnate leaves that arch and recurve towards the ground from atop a thick stout trunk. The trunk can grow to 20 feet, but normally reaches 12-15 ft with a diameter of 1-1.5 ft . Typically, the old leaf stalks persist for years, although specimens with clean trunks are not uncommon. Leaves range from light green to bluish gray and grow 5 to 10 feet long. The leaf stems range from about 2-4 ft in length and have spines al ...
Amazon / Tropical Oasis / Lawn & Patio
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 | We are a nation of gardeners, and we take pleasure in tending our backyards. But this pleasure sits uneasily with our knowledge that the places where most of us live are running out of water. We suspect that our lawns and many of our plants from the damp climates of northern European gardens are too demanding of scarce supplies, but cant imagine our streets and gardens without them. The Old Country opens our eyes, and minds, to other possibilities. It does so by telling us stories about our natu ...
Amazon / Cambridge University Press / Book
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 | For everyone who is going or growing green! Original full-color illustrations dominate each monthly spread that includes useful and entertaining gardening lore, timely advice, and fun facts. Plus, a region-specific chart identifies the best days and Moon phases for planting vegetables. ...
Amazon / OFA / Book
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 | The Old Rose Adventurer is devoted in large part to the classic once-blooming European shrub roses. There are also chapters on the old Oriental repeat-blooming shrub roses and climbers both European and Oriental. The author has examined original material from France, Britain, and the U.S. to obtain not only the fullest descriptions and cultural directions ever compiled for these delightful roses but also the most complete history of the development of each group---including in many cases remarks ...
Amazon / Timber Press, Incorporated / Book
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 | Reflects the increasing interest in Eastern philosophies on the creation of natural balance in the garden; Provides detailed practical examples showing how to imbue your garden with the elements of harmony and peace; Gardens inspired by Zen are the ideal antidote to todays busy lifestyle - an oasis of calm and tranquillity - and require very little maintenance; Zen gardens are for contemplation, reflecting the beauty of nature and the aesthetic sense of the gardener. Originally created in Japane ...
Amazon / Collins & Brown / Book
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 | This volume comprises three books by Graham Stuart Thomas that have transformed our gardens, establishing him as one of the most influential gardeners of the 20th century. The Old Shrub Roses(1955) brought to public attention the favourite roses of the early 19th century: the intensely scented Damasks, the rich and sombre Gallicas and the Albas with their unique combination of elegance and thriftiness. Shrub Roses of Today (1962) identified the species and hybrids from Japan and North America, f ...
Amazon / Frances Lincoln / 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 ...
Amazon / Key Porter Books / Book
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 | Though an old man, Thomas Jefferson wrote at Monticello, I am but a young gardener. Every gardener is. In Gardening in Eden, we enter Arthur Vanderbilts small enchanted world of the garden, where the old wooden trestle tables of a roadside nursery are covered in crazy quilts of spring color, where a catbird comes to eat raisins from ones hand, and a chipmunk demands a daily ration of salted cocktail nuts. We feel the oppressiveness of endless winter days, the magic of an old-fashioned snow day, ...
Amazon / Simon & Schuster / Book
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 | 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
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 | Allotment gardens (or community gardens as they are called here) are taken for granted as party of the everyday scene on the fringe of very city, town and village. This unique and fascinating book explores the culture and landscape of the allotment and the part it has played in Britain for 150 years. The old mental image of the cloth-clapped plot-holder, sitting in his shed on a Sunday morning and pedaling home with a bunch of carrots over his handlebars is no longer valid. Recent research is sh ...
Amazon / Five Leaves / Book
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 | Lilacs are among the most popular cultivated shrubs in the temperate world. Aside from roses, there is no flower as beautiful and aromatic. There is nothing better than the sweet scent of a freshly picked bouquet of lilacs in early spring. Lilacs are seldom bothered by pests, easy to grow and are renowned for their showy fragrant flowers produced profusely in spring to early summer. All make great specimen plants. Even when the flowers drop, the foliage continues to make the lilac an attractive ...
Amazon / Tropical Oasis / Lawn & Patio
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 | 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 Press / Book
Price: 39.00 $ |
