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 | A definitive account of this fascinating genus of woodland perennials. With notes on horticultural selections and care of epimediums, this book covers all epimediums---many discovered only in the last decade. In addition, the documentation extends to other herbaceous Berberidaceae, including the genus Podophyllum. Exquisite paintings from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, complement the text. ...
Amazon / Timber Press, Incorporated / Book
 Price: 195.00 $ |  | This is a compact box set of twelve handbooks covering a selection of the most popular gardening subjects, written by experts and beautifully illustrated with artwork and colour photography. This is a perfect gift for garden enthusiasts and a self-purchase for gardeners of both sexes and any age. This box set represents a joint publication with the Royal Horticultural Society, which now boasts over 36,000 members. Titles covered comprise: Bonsai, Euphorbias, Ferns, Garden Succulents, Grapes, Har ...
Amazon / Mitchell Beazley / Book
Price: 187.02 $ |  | RHS Address Book is illustrated with botanical prints from three great 19th-century multi-volume anthologies of rare and unusual plants from around the world. The anthologies are from the RHS Lindley Library, acknowledged as the worlds finest horticultural library. ...
Amazon / Frances Lincoln / Book
Price: 183.23 $ |  | Established in the Middle Ages for the protection of the royal deer, the parks that surround Windsor Castle have served a practical and ornamental purpose for more than a thousand years. This book is the first to tell the story of the Windsor parks and gardens, where generations of gardeners, architects, and farmers have worked and developed the 4,800-acre Great Park and 650-acre Home Park. With the assistance of documents in the Public Record Office and the Royal Archives, and works of art in t ...
Amazon / Yale University Press / Book
Price: 124.99 $ |  | Produced in association with the Royal Horticultural Society, the titles in this series have become standard works of practical gardening reference. Each book is illustrated with easy-to-follow, step-by-step illustrations that clearly guide the reader through all the essential techniques of successful gardening. Beautiful garden creation often calls for basic DIY skills, such as carpentry and bricklaying. This book presents design options and provides step-by-step instructions for carrying out e ...
Amazon / Mitchell Beazley / Book
Price: 124.88 $ |  | Produced in association with the Royal Horticultural Society, the titles in this series have become standard works of practical gardening reference. Each book is illustrated with easy-to-follow, step-by-step illustrations that clearly guide the reader through all the essential techniques of successful gardening. Explaining how to use greenhouses, conservatories, and frames to raise every sort of plant from the humble to the exotic, this text also includes information about alpine houses and cloc ...
Amazon / Mitchell Beazley / Book
Price: 114.38 $ |  | Produced in association with the Royal Horticultural Society, the titles in this series have become standard works of practical gardening reference. Each book is illustrated with easy-to-follow, step-by-step illustrations that clearly guide the reader through all the essential techniques of successful gardening. Providing step-by-step instructions to all aspects of propagating greenhouse and garden plants and shrubs, this text includes coverage of seeds, roots, layering, stems, modified stems, a ...
Amazon / Simon and Schuster / Book
Price: 99.95 $ |  | The RHS Address Book for 2009 is illustrated with works from the collection drawings made by Chinese artists under the supervision of John Reeves (1774–1856). Reeves, an inspector of tea at Canton and Macao for the East India Company, sent a total of 755 drawings to the Society. The Reeves Chinese drawings were divided into two sets. One set consists of three folio volumes containing 127 drawings of camellias, chrysanthemums and peonies. The remaining drawings were grouped in five volumes coveri ...
Amazon / Frances Lincoln / Book
Price: 99.04 $ |  | The RHS Treasury of Garden Verse is a celebration of the garden through poetry and botanical art, spanning the centuries and the globe. With an array of gardening classics, perennial favourites and more recent contributions from Dorothy Parker, Sylvia Plath and John Agard, theres something for everyone. Its companion volume, The RHS Treasury of Garden Writing, captures the same spirit through the prose of authors ranging from Jane Austen and Gustave Flaubert to Christopher Lloyd and Beth Chatto. ...
Amazon / Frances Lincoln / Book
Price: 84.97 $ |  | Produced in association with the Royal Horticultural Society, the titles in this series have become standard works of practical gardening reference. Each book is illustrated with easy-to-follow, step-by-step illustrations that clearly guide the reader through all the essential techniques of successful gardening. This text provides the techniques needed for growing both popular and more unusual vegetables, including salad greens, brassicas, roots and tubers, onions, and herbs. It treats each vege ...
Amazon / Mitchell Beazley / Book
Price: 83.58 $ |  | A visual feast of stunning illustrations and authoritative text. Fruit appears in art, mythology, and nearly every religious belief. The uses of fruit are varied: for food, drink, paint pigment, decoration, and medicine. The cultivation of fruit encouraged the development of plant propagation methods, grafting, hybridization, and selective breeding to produce ever improved varieties. In this book Blackburne-Maze challenges myths such as the story of Johnny Appleseed whose real name was John Chap ...
Amazon / Firefly Books / Book
Price: 80.00 $ |  | The pictures...bring inspiration and envy to the heart of almost any gardener, and the text tells an interesting story of the royal gardeners victories and defeats.--The Times. Take a royal tour of Prince Charles celebrated Highgrove Estate, led by the future monarch himself. In his own words, he chronicles his frustrations, failures, and finally success at turning his Cotswolds home into a matchless example of enlightened gardening in action. Every breathtaking photograph attests to his achieve ...
Amazon / Seven Dials / Book
Price: 71.83 $ |  | Natures Government is a daring attempt to juxtapose the histories of Britain, western science, and imperialism. It shows how colonial expansion, from the age of Alexander the Great to the twentieth century, led to complex kinds of knowledge. Science, and botany in particular, was fed by information culled from the exploration of the globe. At the same time science was useful to imperialism: it guided the exploitation of exotic environments and made conquest seem necessary, legitimate, and benefi ...
Amazon / Yale University Press / Book
Price: 70.94 $ |  | A selection of rare and beautiful paintings by some of the greatest botanical artists from the 17th century to the present, chosen from the more than 18,000 drawings and paintings in the Lindley Library, the Royal Horticultural Societys great archive. ...
Amazon / Timber Press, Incorporated / Book
Price: 68.99 $ |  | England has perhaps the most perfect orchards in the world, and this book is a celebration of the supreme loveliness of the English apple. In 142 sensuously detailed watercolors, Rosie Sanders depicts the unrivaled range of form, color, and texture that characterize such varieties as the Beauty of Bath, the Peasgood Nonsuch, Coxs Orange Pippin, and the Egremont Russet. The apples are shown together with their blossom, twig, and leaf, and a detailed description records their shape, color, aroma, ...
Amazon / Philosophical Library / Book
Price: 68.48 $ |
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