Plants category: 1045 books

In Trees and Shrubs of the Pacific Northwest, Mark Turner and Ellen Kuhlman cover 568 species of woody plants that can be found in Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, and northern California. The comprehensive field guides features introductory chapters on the native landscape and plant entries...

Featuring 250 of the region’s most common and interesting succulents, this is an accessible, user-friendly guide to identifying these increasingly popular plants. Colour photographs vividly portray all the species covered. Authoritative text describes key identification features, and distribution...

Aloes are stately succulent plants that capture the allure of the African savanna. Aloes in Southern Africa explores the character and biology of African aloes, their habits, characteristic features and distribution in nature. It details 58 aloe and related species, cultivation and propagation, gardening...

Most people have memories of playing on well-manicured lawns or running across the flat green surface of a local park, but we often don’t think of grasses as something we consume. Indeed, grasses include four species—wheat, rice, maize, and sugar—that provide sixty percent of human calorie intake,...

Frederick Law Olmsted, popularly known as the "Father of American Landscape Architecture," is famous for designing New York City's Central Park, the U.S. Capitol grounds, and the campuses of institutions such as Stanford University and the University of Chicago. His celebrated projects in...

International Herb Association's  2017 Thomas DeBaggio Book Award Winner 2016 Silver Nautilus Book Award Winner History, literature, and botany meet in this charming tour of how humans have relied on plants to nourish, shelter, heal, clothe, and even entertain us. Did you know that during...

When you know where to look, each season Nature provides a generous spread of tasty treats ripe for the picking. Foraging can be an adventure for the entire family, and Food You Can Forage is packed with photos, illustrations and useful information to help you identify and find food in the wild, as...

Curious and detailed collection of images of botanical subjects belonging to the citrus family, made by artists, scientists,biologists and anthropologists. Artists of the past engaged in the realization of real museums of natural history. One of them, among the best known, the bolognese Aldrovandi...

Bertram Luce did a remarkable job concealing the murder of his wife. His story was unshakable, his alibis sound. No human eyes witnessed the atrocity and Luce went on his way, wealthier and more pompous than ever with the success of his crime. The deed might have gone unpunished if not for...

Do you have a garden and you’ve been thinking of adding a compost to it? This is often a fun and very rewarding thing for some but there are certain ways to put it all together. How do you do it? How do you even manage to actually do all of this? well, you’re about to find out.Compost is a huge...

One of the best ways to help your body is through the use of medicinal herbs. Medicinal herbs are something that you can use in order to benefit your body, and its uses can extend to many frontiers. However, there is a way to get them for cheaper, because many times you have to go to the store to...

Greenhouse gardening. Its type of gardening that you can do all year around, and it’s something that many are interested in. You need to have a lot of discipline in order to do this, but it’s possible. It’s a lot of fun as well, and with this, you can grow your own vegetables in an effective...

When it comes to our health, more and more people want to take it into their own hands. In this modern day and age, where medicine has become an industry and people don't trust drugs that haven't fully been tested and relied upon, it is comforting to go back to our roots in nature and consider the healing benefits of herbs.

Growing fresh fruit is a healthy alternative to a store bought fruits.Growing your own fruit guarantees it is strait from the tree and not sprayed with chemicals, ensuring it is the healthiest fruit for your family. A downfall to growing your own organic food does require plenty of space which...