Gardening category: 4300 books
Japan's Master Gardens
Lessons in Space and Environment
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
Presenting twenty-five master gardens, this landscape design book explores the ingenuity and range of Japanese landscaping, from the self-imposed confines of courtyard designs to the open expanses of the stroll garden.
No two Japanese gardens are ever the same. The Japanese Zen garden is a...
by Agnes Williams
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
The gardens around our homes reflect our souls to the world around us. Indeed, garden, through the beauty, quietness of the plants and flowers. Each layering of plants, and any addition of gardening elements add a new texture and picture to the garden. For me gardening has contributed to my personal...
The Backyard Parables
Lessons on Gardening, and Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
Margaret Roach has been harvesting thirty years of backyard parables-deceptively simple, instructive stories from a life spent digging ever deeper-and has distilled them in this memoir along with her best tips for garden making, discouraging all manner of animal and insect opponents, at-home pickling,...
by Jane Garmey
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Show me a person without any prejudice of any kind on any subject and I'll show you someone who may be admirably virtuous but is surely no gardener.--Allen Lacy. Idiosyncratic, determined, and occasionally obsessed, gardeners have a lot to say about their outdoor passion. THE WRITER IN THE GARDEN...
Tomorrow's Garden
Design and Inspiration for a New Age of Sustainable Gardening
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
With a keen eye for aesthetics matched by a strong concern for the environment, garden expert Stephen Orr has developed a sense of what a modern garden should be: small, visually pleasing, and responsible. In Tomorrow's Garden, he presents gardens in 14 American cities that have been scaled back and...
by Joe Eck, Wayne Winterrowd
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2010
This is the third book we have written together, though separately we have written others . . . But to say ‘written separately' makes no sense, for when two lives have been bent for so many years on one central enterprise—in this case, gardening—there really is no such thing as separately."
With...
Orchard House
How a Neglected Garden Taught One Family to Grow
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
For fans of Anne Lamott, a profoundly moving memoir of rediscovering, reinventing, and reconnecting, as an estranged mother and daughter come together to revive a long-abandoned garden and ultimately their relationship and themselves.
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Peeling paint, stained floors, vined-over windows, a neglected...
The Backyard Gardener
Simple, Easy, and Beautiful Gardening with Vegetables, Herbs, and Flowers
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
A beautiful and simple guide to edible gardening
The “garden to table” movement is inspiring another generation of gardeners but many of them have questions. How important is composting? Is seed saving really worth it? Focusing on sustainable, organic growing practices and plants, The Backyard...
Christopher Lloyd
His Life at Great Dixter
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2010
Christopher Lloyd (Christo) was one of the greatest English gardeners of the twentieth century, perhaps the finest plantsman of them all. His creation is the garden at Great Dixter in East Sussex, and it is a tribute to his vision and achievement that, after his death in 2006, the Heritage Lottery...
Plant Whatever Brings You Joy
Blessed Wisdom from the Garden
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
When veteran book publicist Kathryn Hall becomes an empty nester, she happily moves to a small village along the California coastline, gets a dog and starts a garden, realizing a longtime dream. Fashioning a lifestyle she had not anticipated, she has found herself beginning every morning out in the...
Deer-Resistant Landscaping
Proven Advice and Strategies for Outwitting Deer and 20 Other Pesky Mammals
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2009
Every year, before they decide to take defensive action, vulnerable homeowners throughout North America suffer expensive damage as deer and various other pesky mammals devour their gardens and landscape plants. Deer-Resistant Landscaping by Neil Soderstrom arms homeowners with the proven strategies...
by Mirabel Osler
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
In this book the author describes the way her garden evolved and how, without meaning to do so, she let it take over her life. She suggests moving away from planning, regimentation and gardening with the mentality of a stamp-collector. Frequently funny and always stimulating, she writes of the alchemy...
by Caroline Ikin
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
Over the course of the nineteenth century, gardening came to be considered a respectable profession, providing a means to an education, a good chance of advancement and decent working conditions. The hierarchy of the garden staff became just as regimented as that of domestic servants, and progression...
by Donald N. Wilber
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 1994
This Persian gardening book showcases classic gardens and pavilions and presents gardening advice for the aspiring amateur landscaper looking to add an Eastern flair to his or her yard.
The garden has always had a special meaning for Persian (Iran). The Persian garden, with its flowing pools,...