Plants category: 1045 books
The Complete Guide to Edible Wild Plants, Mushrooms, Fruits, and Nuts, 2nd
How to Find, Identify, and Cook Them
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2010
Edible wild plants, mushrooms, fruits, and nuts grow along roadsides, amid country fields, and in urban parks. All manner of leafy greens, mushrooms, and herbs that command hefty prices at the market are bountiful outdoors and free for the taking. But to enjoy them, one must know when to harvest and...
Edible Wild Plants
A Falcon Field Guide
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
Edible Wild Plants highlights ninety of the most common and sought-after edible plant species in North America. Detailed illustrations and descriptions make it easy to identify plants in your backyard and beyond. Organized by family for easy identification, this is the essential source when you’re out in the field.
Foraging
Discover Free Food from Fields, Streets, Gardens and the Coast
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2011
“A useful and practical field guide” to finding delicious, indigenous edibles—full of color photos and including a forager’s calendar (The Countryman).
Long before there were convenient supermarkets, foraging for edible plants was as essential to survival as hunting and farming. For today’s...
In Praise of Poison Ivy
The Secret Virtues, Astonishing History, and Dangerous Lore of the World's Most Hated Plant
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Deadly. Powerful. Beautiful. The much-hated plant called poison ivy is all of these—and more.
Poison ivy has long irritated humans, but the astounding paradox is that poison ivy is a plant of immense ecological value. In Praise of Poison Ivy explores the vices and virtues of a plant with a dramatic...
The Complete Guide to Edible Wild Plants, Mushrooms, Fruits, and Nuts
Finding, Identifying, and Cooking
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2016
Edible wild plants, mushrooms, fruits, and nuts grow along roadsides, amid country fields, and in urban parks. All manner of leafy greens, mushrooms, and herbs that command hefty prices at the market are bountiful outdoors and free for the taking. But to enjoy them, one must know when to harvest and...
Wetland Plants of Queensland
A Field Guide
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2002
This practical field guide describes and illustrates in colour 90 common and widespread wetland plants found in Queensland, and gives a distribution map for each species. To assist those readers who are keen to learn more, the book includes a series of keys to help identify those species that are not...
by W. Vivian De Thabrew
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
This is a book on aquatic plants written in accessible language, so that anyone interested in water plants can acquire useful knowledge about them. As far as possible botanical language has been used sparingly, and then only when absolutely necessary. There are nearly half a million aquatic species...
Garden Flora
The Natural and Cultural History of the Plants In Your Garden
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2016
“A beautifully illustrated reference book covers the origins, ecology and history of popular garden plants.” —Shelf Awareness
The oldest rose fossil was found in Colorado and dates to 35 million years ago. Marigolds, infamous for their ability to self-seed, are named for an Etruscan god...
by Olaf Booy, Max Wade, Helen Roy
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
The impact of invasive organisms is second only to habitat loss as a threat to biodiversity and yet, despite increasing ecological awareness, people remain largely unaware of these plants and animals and their potentially devastating impact. Although most biological introductions fail, many prove...
by Alan Titchmarsh
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2012
Herbaceous perennials flower each year, dying down in the winter and springing back to life the following spring. They are central features in the landscape of a garden as they appear year-after-year and must be regarded as constant features. This book gives the expert view on the vast array of flowers...
Seeds
A Natural History
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
From the magnificence of a towering redwood to the simple elegance of a tiny dandelion, seed-bearing plants abound on planet Earth. The sheer diversity of plants thriving today is largely thanks to the evolution of the seed, as this made plants resilient to environmental changes by enabling them to...
Plants and Planting Plans for a Bee Garden
How to design beautiful borders that will attract bees
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
For many people gardening is predominantly about plants and choosing the right combination and balance to make beautiful borders. This book will help you achieve this - and more, because it will also help you create an ecologically sound, bee-friendly garden, showing that you can have an aesthetically...
The Marijuana Grower's Handbook
Practical Advice from an Expert
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
Anyone can buy marijuana seeds-they are legal to purchase-and with some soil, water, and light, you can grow your own plants. With step-by-step instructions, Tommy McCarthy will show you how to cultivate and raise beautiful hemp plants, as well as how to harvest and prepare the final product.
The...
Window Gardening - A Practical Introduction
How to Grow Flowers of All Seasons on Your House or Apartment's Windowsills
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
This guide book vividly introduces the budding gardener to the joyous hobby of window box gardening.
Window Box Gardening - A Practical Introduction is intended for those living in cities without much - or any - gardening space. This well-written, passionate guide introduces the plants...