Plant Life category: 1095 books
by Michael Eason
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
A comprehensive field guide to the wildflowers of the Lone Star State
In Wildflowers of Texas, Michael Eason describes and illustrates more than 1,100 commonly encountered species, both native and introduced. The book is organized by flower color, with helpful color coding along the page edges...
Keepers of the Trees
A Guide to Re-Greening North America: True Stories of a Tree Doctor, a Big Tree Hunter, an L.A. Tree Planter, a Plant Amnesty Pruner, and a Ninety-Eight-Year-Old Logger
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2010
Uplifting stories of fourteen people who have dedicated their lives to trees—beautifully illustrated with one hundred color photographs of tree keepers in action.
Across North America, writer and naturalist Ann Linnea found a diverse group of people with one thing in common: their love of trees....
by Geoff Tibballs
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
Stocking a garden with plants can be an expensive business, so there are few things more frustrating than when the prized specimen for which you have paid a king's ransom either online or at a garden centre shrivels up and dies within a year or so of purchase. If you can prove that the plant was half-dead...
The Perfume of Life: Book Two
The Perfume of Life, #2
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
The Perfume of Life comprises an unparalleled series of conversations in the matter of storytelling vapors of Nature, on distillation and extraction technologies, the science of drawing out or intercepting the chemical communications of vital beings, and including also classes presented to baristas...
by Richard M. Anderson, Jay Dee Gunnell, Jerry L. Goodspeed
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
Many recreational hikers have stopped along the trail to admire a wildflower only to wonder what, exactly, they are looking at. Wildflowers of the Mountain West is a useful field guide that makes flower identification easy for the general outdoor enthusiast.
Many available plant guides are...
by Susanne Lucas
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
We may think of bamboo only as a snack for cuddly panda bears, but we use the plant as food, clothing, paper, fabric, and shelter. Drawing on a vast array of sources, this book builds a complete picture of bamboo in both history and our modern world. Susanne Lucas shows how bamboo has always met...
by John Philbrick, Helen Philbrick
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1995
A simple, down-to-earth introduction to the method of biodynamic gardening especially written for the backyard gardener. Long out of print, this classic introduction to biodynamic gardening introduces the gardener to an obvious, often forgotten principle: gardening is about living things, life forces,...
Endophytes of Forest Trees
Biology and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2011
Found in every plant species, the diversity of endophytic micro-organisms can be extremely high within different plant organs and tissue types. In trees, their ecological roles with respect to host tree can vary from latent pathogens or saprophytes to neutral commensalists and mutualists. Given their...
The Prepper's Guide to Foraging
How Wild Plants Can Supplement a Sustainable Lifestyle, Revised and Updated, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2019
Revised and updated.
The Prepper's Guide to Foraging is not a plant identification guide in the traditional sense. It is instead a guide to using plants to supplement other means of food production and subsistence living. Author David Nash believes that there is not enough land available for...
Plants of the Chesapeake Bay
A Guide to Wildflowers, Grasses, Aquatic Vegetation, Trees, Shrubs, and Other Flora
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2012
Buttonbush. Hercules' Club. Panic Grass. Tearthumb. Beach Spurge. Sea Rocket. Ladies' Tresses. These name a few of the wild and wonderful plants found in this quick reference guide to plants of the Chesapeake Bay.
Written by wetland scientists with decades of experience in the Bay's waterways,...
Techniques in Bioproductivity and Photosynthesis
Pergamon International Library of Science, Technology, Engineering and Social Studies
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2014
Techniques in Bioproductivity and Photosynthesis, Second Edition is a manual that provides information on the field and laboratory techniques associated with the measurement of plant productivity. The title discusses the most reliable and relevant techniques that can be applied to a wide variety of...
by Gil Nelson
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
This handy handbook, which can be used independently or as a companion to The Trees of Florida and The Shrubs and Woody Vines of Florida, makes it possible to easily identify all of Florida's native and naturalized woody plants. The text is formatted as a traditional botanical key, offering a series...
by Roy L. Lehman
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2013
Written for biology students, teachers, nature lovers, amateur naturalists, conservation workers, and parks and wildlife personnel, this up-to-date, easy-to-use guide describes the marine plants of the Gulf of Mexico coast. The author’s photographs accompany the updated identification keys, which...
by B. W. Wells
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
For seventy years, The Natural Gardens of North Carolina has been a must-read volume for anyone interested in wildflowers, native plants, ecology, or conservation in the state. This handsome revised edition features new line drawings and color photographs, an appendix that updates the botanical nomenclature,...