Plant Life category: 1095 books
A Garden of Flowers
All 104 Engravings from the Hortus Floridus of 1614
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Excellent reproduction teems with accurate, full-page images of garden flowers. Information on each plant describes leaves, flowers, seed pods, roots, and size and color of each blossom. 104 black-and-white illustrations.
Soil Fertility, Animal Health
With "The Loss of Soil Organic Matter and Its Restoration
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
Nature works and has been working for a billion and a half years—ever since there were living things on earth. This is important. We talk of controlling nature, but any wise farmer or stockman knows that nature makes the rules for us to learn and follow, if we can. In short, the ecologist is in...
by Amanda Jones
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
Stop purchasing fruits from the local supermarket. They are laced with pesticides and can do more harm than good.
Learn how to grow a fruit tree in your yard. It is not as difficult as you might think!
Amanda Jones guides you through the process in this wonderful book showing you what it takes to plant a fruit tree.
The Edible Front Yard
The Mow-Less, Grow-More Plan for a Beautiful, Bountiful Garden
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2011
“Front lawns, beware: The Germinatrix has you in her crosshairs! Ivette Soler is a welcome voice urging us to mow less and grow some food—in her uniquely fun, infectious yet informative way.” —Garden Rant
People everywhere are turning patches of soil into bountiful vegetable gardens,...
The Biggle Orchard Book
Fruit and Orchard Gleanings from Bough to Basket, Gathered and Packed into Book Form
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
The first thing to do about starting an orchard is to plan for it,” Jacob Biggle, the author of this handy little book, advises. Put on your thinking-cap, study into the matter, and do not jump in the dark. A slow start is much better than a poor start. Harriet says that an orchard set in the...
by Herbert Maxwell
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
First published in 1923, "Flowers" is a fantastic handbook on the various flowers commonly found in an English garden, with chapters on equipment, growing, maintaining, and much more. This timeless volume is highly recommended for all green-fingered gardeners, and it would make for a worthy...
Sacred Leaves of Candomblé
African Magic, Medicine, and Religion in Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Candomblé, an African religious and healing tradition that spread to Brazil during the slave trade, relies heavily on the use of plants in its spiritual and medicinal practices. When its African adherents were forcibly transplanted to the New World, they faced the challenge not only of maintaining...
The Green Thread
Dialogues with the Vegetal World
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015
The Green Thread: Dialogues with the Vegetal World is an interdisciplinary collection of essays in the emerging field of Plant Studies. The volume is the first of its kind to bring together a dynamic body of scholarship that shares a critique of long-standing human perceptions of plants as lacking...
A Greenhouse Garden To Grow All Kinds Of Plants
Greenhouse Gardening Information For The Beginner To Help You Set Up A Greenhouse For Your Home Or For Commercial Use And Keep It Running Without A Hitch So You Can Enjoy Gardening Or Make Money Through Crop Growing All Year Round
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2012
The general idea of a greenhouse is to protect climate-sensitive plants from extreme shifts in temperature—either too hot or too cold. Maintaining a greenhouse has its own share of toil. Unlike the normal outdoor environment, which may be left to its own devices to some extent as nature creates...
Essential Perennials
The Complete Reference to 2700 Perennials for the Home Garden
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2015
Essential Perennials focuses on what every gardener needs to know to choose from the thousands of perennials available, and care for the ones you already have. This A-to-Z guide is packed with more than 2,700 plants, with each entry listing flower color, bloom time, foliage characteristics, size,...
Wild Food
A Complete Guide for Foragers
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
'I can safely say that if I hadn't picked up this book some twenty years ago I wouldn't have eaten as well, or even lived as well, as I have. It inspired me then and it inspires me now' Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstal
Wild food is all around us, growing in our hedgerows and fields, along river banks...
by Mara Murphy, Anna Branning, Dutch Door Press
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
This enchanting tour of America's most cherished birds and flowers is an intimate collection of lovely images from beloved letterpress studio Dutch Door Press. Each state's emblematic flora and fauna are paired in winsome vintage-inspired compositions and accompanied by fascinating facts about the...
by Bob Gibbons
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
This book is as visually impressive as it is useful in the field, with many stunning full-page and double-page photographs to support the authoritative text.
The introduction explains the basics of tree forms and their identification. Each species is illustrated by the author's remarkable photographs....
Backyard Foraging
65 Familiar Plants You Didn't Know You Could Eat
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
There’s food growing everywhere! You’ll be amazed by how many of the plants you see each day are actually nutritious edibles. Ideal for first-time foragers, this book features 70 edible weeds, flowers, mushrooms, and ornamental plants typically found in urban and suburban neighborhoods. Full-color...