Flowers category: 871 books
Flower Power
Lessons from the Los Angeles School of Flower Design
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2015
Flower Power Lessons from the Los Angeles School of Flower Design is a comprehensive look at floral designing with a bit of West Coast infusion.
Michael Gaffney has incorporated his best and fastest techniques for producing professional looking floral design. Michael is Director of American...
by Terry Rye
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2003
Make your wedding extraordinary with these inspired floral creations!
For years to come, the colors and fragrances of your wedding flowers will be potent reminders of the big event. Now you can make those memories last forever with New Inspirations in Wedding Florals - a completely illustrated...
Designer Plant Combinations
105 Stunning Gardens Using Six Plants or Fewer
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
Turn your backyard garden into a lush and colorful wonderland where every plant is presented to its fullest potential. Scott Calhoun provides more than 100 stunning garden designs that are adaptable to a range of climates, budgets, and space considerations. As you learn to use proven groupings and...
Keiko's Ikebana
A Contemporary Approach to the Traditional Japanese Art of Flower Arranging
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
Keiko's unique approach to ikebana, the Japanese art of flower arranging, combines traditional techniques with modern tastes. Her influences—which range from sculpture to today's Western floral design—come together to create one-of-a-kind arrangements that are authentic and eye-catching, simple...
Saving Seeds
The Gardener's Guide to Growing and Saving Vegetable and Flower Seeds
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
Enjoy a delicious bounty of heirloom vegetables every year. Marc Rogers guides you through the time-honored and cost-effective tradition of collecting seeds from this year’s harvest to grow next year’s crop. Learn how to select and store seeds from proven varieties of more than 100 common vegetables...
by Dueep Jyot Singh
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
Table of Contents
Essential Guide to Orchids
Introduction
Collecting Orchids
Natural Conditions
Division of Species
Terrestrial orchids –
Epiphytic Orchids –
Cultivation of Orchids
Cultivation of Orchids at High Altitudes
Propagation of Orchids
Blossoming Orchids
Making an Orchid House
Types...
by Margery Fish
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2011
First published in 1956, We Made a Garden is the story of how Margery Fish, the leading gardener of the 1960s, and her husband Walter transformed an acre of wilderness into a stunning cottage garden, still open to the public at East Lambrook Manor, Somerset, England. This is now one of the most important...
The Complete Guide to Saving Seeds
322 Vegetables, Herbs, Fruits, Flowers, Trees, and Shrubs
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2011
Enjoy your favorite varieties of garden plants year after year with this comprehensive guide to gathering, preparing, and planting seeds. Authors Robert Gough and Cheryl Moore-Gough provide simple instructions that clearly explain the whole process, from basic plant biology to proper seed storage...
Guide to Identifying Annuals
With Simple Descriptions and Color Images
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2014
This is a plant identification book, pure and simple. Weather you're installing Annuals or purchasing them for your own use, you're often presented with row upon row of plants in containers. If you're unfamiliar with the plants' other characteristics, how do you know which to choose? It's easy. Just...
Foraged Flower Arranging
A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Stunning Arrangements from Local, Wild Plants
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
Give Your Home That Special Touch With Fresh Wild Flowers
In Foraged Flower Arranging, floral designer Rebekah Clark Moody shares more than 40 new ways to use the natural beauty of your backyard or neighborhood to enhance and brighten any room in your home. Foraging for local, wild plants is...
The Exquisite Book of Paper Flower Transformations
Playing with Size, Shape, and Color to Create Spectacular Paper Arrangements
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
In The Exquisite Book of Paper Flower Transformations, artist Livia Cetti ups the ante with a host of grander and more intricate flowers and projects—more blooms, more petals, stronger stems, and bigger, bolder arrangements! Cetti will teach you how to play with size, shape, color, and texture to...
Gardening with Perennials
Lessons from Chicago's Lurie Garden
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014
For gardeners, inspiration can come from the most unexpected places. Perennial enthusiasts around the world might be surprised to find their muse in the middle of a bustling city. Lurie Garden, a nearly three-acre botanic garden in the center of Chicago’s lakefront in Millennium Park, is a veritable...
The Bee Garden
How to Create or Adapt a Garden to Attract and Nurture Bees
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2011
Bees play a vital and irreplaceable role in pollinating our flowers, fruits and vegetables. The more bees in your garden the healthier, more productive and more pleasant a place it will be. Yet bees are declining rapidly and many people, even if they do not wish to keep bees themselves, are asking...
The Bee Friendly Garden
Easy ways to help the bees and make your garden grow
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2016
Bees are our most important pollinators and they are in decline the world over. They love to live in urban environments, where it's a short flight path from one type of plant to the next. But conventional gardens that favour lawns and pesticides over flowers and edible plants are scaring the good...