Plant Life category: 1095 books
Flowers, Butterflies and Insects
All 154 Engravings from "Erucarum Ortus"
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
Fine-line images of roses, butterflies, tulips, caterpillars, and other specimens of plant and insect life in elegant full-page compositions. These plates are considered among the finest achievements of a great age of floral painting and the engraver's art. Reprinted from the classic, influential works of the famed artist/entomologist Merian (1647–1717). New English captions.
The Urban Tree Book
An Uncommon Field Guide for City and Town
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2009
Open The Urban Tree Book and discover the joys of forest trekking--right in your city or town. This first-of-a-kind field guide introduces readers to the trees on their block, in neighborhood parks, and throughout the urban landscape. Unlike traditional tree guides with dizzying numbers of woodland...
Nature's Ways
Lore, Legend, Fact and Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2006
A fascinating collection of animal and plant truths, tales, and traditions from the author of Amazing & Extraordinary Facts: Royal Family Life.
Trying to understand the ways of the natural world has been a human preoccupation since the earliest times. The knowledge of which animals were helpful...
by Robert A. Vines
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2014
This comprehensive and compact field guide covers the richest plant-life region in the state—the Upper Gulf Coast Prairie, the Post Oak Savannah, and the Pineywoods of east Texas. Eastern, northern, Gulf coast, and western Texas trees occur together in the Big Thicket area of the Pineywoods, where...
The Untold History of Healing
Plant Lore and Medicinal Magic from the Stone Age to Present
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
The Untold History of Healing takes the reader on an exciting, expansive journey of the history of medicine from the Stone Age to modern times, explaining that Western medicine has its true origins in the healing lore of Paleolithic hunters and gatherers, herding nomads, and the early sedentary farmers...
Mushrooms
A Natural and Cultural History
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Mushrooms hold a peculiar place in our culture: we love them and despise them, fear them and misunderstand them. They can be downright delicious or deadly poisonous, cute as buttons or utterly grotesque. These strange organisms hold great symbolism in our myths and legends. In this book, Nicholas...
by Michael Fogden, Patricia Fogden
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2018
Flowers have played an important role in human culture and survival for thousands of years. The final products of flowers—fruits and seeds—are vitally important as food. Flowers provide bursts of color to homes and gardens and they symbolize love, sorrow, and renewal. Yet we often overlook their...
by Alfred Richardson
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
The Rio Grande Delta is fabulously rich in wildflowers and other plant life. Lying in the geographically and environmentally diverse region common to southern Texas and northern Mexico, it supports plants that also grow in Central America and throughout Mexico, the Gulf Coastal plains, the South Texas...
A Garden of Marvels
How We Discovered that Flowers Have Sex, Leaves Eat Air, and Other Secrets of Plants
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
In the tradition of The Botany of Desire and Wicked Plants, a witty and engaging history of the first botanists interwoven with stories of today’s extraordinary plants found in the garden and the lab.
In Paradise Under Glass, Ruth Kassinger recounted with grace and humor her journey from...
Wild Flowers of Namaqualand
A Botanical Society guide
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
Namaqualand is justifiably famous for the floral wonderland it becomes in spring, when seas of bright flowers carpet the land. Astonishingly, the carpet comprises some 3,800 species, of which 28% are endemic. This book introduces nearly 600 species, highlighting those most commonly found, most conspicuous,...
Mycelium Running
How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2011
Mycelium Running is a manual for the mycological rescue of the planet. That’s right: growing more mushrooms may be the best thing we can do to save the environment, and in this groundbreaking text from mushroom expert Paul Stamets, you’ll find out how.
The basic science goes like this:...
Bringing Nature Home
How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants, Updated and Expanded
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
“A fascinating study of the trees, shrubs, and vines that feed the insects, birds, and other animals in the suburban garden.” —The New York Times
As development and habitat destruction accelerate, there are increasing pressures on wildlife populations. In Bringing Nature Home, Douglas...
Succulents Simplified
Growing, Designing, and Crafting with 100 Easy-Care Varieties
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
“Demystifies these popular low-water beauties.” —Country Gardens Magazine
Whether you’re a novice or veteran, have an acre to fill or a just few pots, or live in Calexico or Canada, Succulents Simplified is a dazzling primer for success with succulents! Debra Lee Baldwin, the Queen...
Bloom-Again Orchids
50 Easy-Care Orchids that Flower Again and Again and Again
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Orchids have a reputation as the divas of the plant world: fussy, difficult-to-grow plants that—on top of all that—are prohibitively expensive. But there are plenty of orchids that anyone can grow. Orchids are no more difficult than familiar houseplants such as the African violet, and can be made...