Plants category: 1045 books
The Beginner's Guide to Growing Marijuana
Everything You Need to Start Growing Weed at Home
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
Advice for growing cannabis at home!
Cannabis can be a tricky plant to cultivate, but The Beginner's Guide to Growing Marijuana makes it easy by guiding you through each stage of development to ensure that you always build a thriving garden. Inside, you'll find everything you need to know about growing...
Southeast Foraging
120 Wild and Flavorful Edibles from Angelica to Wild Plums
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
“This is the ultimate guide, and Chris is the undisputed heavyweight champion of foraging in the South.” —Sean Brock, author of Heritage and chef of McCradys, Minero, and Husk
The Southeast offers a veritable feast for foragers, and with Chris Bennett as your trusted guide you will learn...
Dandelion Hunter
Foraging the Urban Wilderness
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
In this engaging and eye-opening read, forager-journalist Becky Lerner sets out on a quest to find her inner hunter-gatherer in the city of Portland, Oregon. After a disheartening week trying to live off wild plants from the streets and parks near her home, she learns the ways of the first people...
by Hope Jahren
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography
A New York Times 2016 Notable Book
National Best Seller
Named one of TIME magazine’s "100 Most Influential People"
An Amazon Top 20 Best Book of 2016
A Washington Post Best Memoir of 2016
A TIME and Entertainment Weekly...
The Plant Hunters
True Stories of Their Daring Adventures to the Far Corners of the Earth
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Driven by an all-consuming passion, the plant hunters traveled around the world, facing challenges at every turn: tropical illnesses, extreme terrain, and dangerous animals. They battled piranhas, tigers, and vampire bats. Even the plants themselves could be lethal! But these intrepid eighteenth-...
The Unexpected Houseplant
220 Extraordinary Choices for Every Spot in Your Home
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
“An imaginative guide to bringing the delights of the garden indoors.” —Publishers Weekly
The Unexpected Houseplant, by renowned plant authority Tovah Martin, offers a revolutionary approach to houseplants. Instead of the typical varieties, Martin suggests hundreds of creative choices—brilliant...
The Layered Garden
Design Lessons for Year-Round Beauty from Brandywine Cottage
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
“Gardenmaking, in its finest form, is a celebration of life and of love. David and his book epitomize this.” —Lauren Springer Ogden
Brandywine Cottage is David Culp's beloved two-acre Pennsylvania garden where he mastered the design technique of layering—interplanting many different...
The Everything Guide to Foraging
Identifying, Harvesting, and Cooking Nature's Wild Fruits and Vegetables
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
If you're searching for the freshest fruits and vegetables to add to your diet, you don't have to look any further than your own backyard! With dozens of detailed illustrations, color photos, and more than 150 tasty recipes, this guide is your ultimate one-stop reference for identifying and harvesting...
Landscaping on the New Frontier
Waterwise Design for the Intermountain West
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
A practical volume for the home or business owner on landscaping with native, drought-tolerant plants in the Rocky Mountain West. Filled with color illustrations, photos, and design sketches, over 100 native species are described, while practical tips on landscape design, water-wise irrigation, and...
Pagan Portals - By Wolfsbane & Mandrake Root
The Shadow World Of Plants And Their Poisons
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
A large number of poisonous plants have beneficial uses in both domestic medicine and magic. Needless to say, when utilising a toxic plant in magic, we are adding certain extra deadly or potent energies into the mix and it is inadvisable to start messing about with deadly poisons unless we’ve made...
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This classic book on the theory of metamorphosis, written by Goethe, the famous scientist, author, and independent thinker, is one of the early works that describe the dynamic spiritual forces of nature. Introduced with a chapter from Rudolf Steiners Goethe the Scientist. This English translation was taken from the British Journal of Botany (1863).
by Margaret Redfern
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2011
A much-needed study on plant galls – growths on plants formed of plant tissue that are caused by other organisms. Most naturalists have come across oak apples, robin’s pincushions, marble galls and witches’ brooms, a few of the more familiar examples of the strange growths that are plant galls....
by Johanna Knox
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2013
In New Zealand's urban and rural wildernesses, there is an abundance of food just waiting to be discovered, if only you know what to look for. Foraged food is healthy, economical and sustainable, but the best part about it is the fun you will have finding wild food.
This book is guaranteed...
by Ronald D. Quinn, Dr. Sterling Keeley
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2006
The characteristic look of California Chaparral—a soft bluish-green blanket of vegetation gently covering the hills—is known to millions who have seen it as the backdrop in movies and television productions. This complex ecological community of plants and animals is not just a feature of the hills...