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by Gideon Smith
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2011
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...
by Gideon Smith
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2011
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...
by Jeanne Grunert
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2014
Learn how to attract, feed and care for wild birds. In this book by gardening expert Jeanne Grunert, you'll learn about planting trees, shrubs and flowers that naturally create a wild bird sanctuary in your yard. Jeanne also shares tips for choosing bird feeders for different species of birds,...
Vintage Roses
Beautiful varieties for home and garden
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
The focus of this book is on the classic, ageless, and enduring flowers, which we have dubbed Vintage roses. This user-friendly term encompasses both the true Old roses and the best of the Modern roses. All Vintage roses have one thing in common; they are garden-friendly roses that celebrate the style...
by Francine Raymond
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2017
Selected as a Book of the Year 2017 in You Magazine
'A lavish monthly guide to getting the most from your garden' Daily Mail
A punnet of plums from your tree, a handful of gooseberries; home-grown nuts and herbs, and a few freshly laid eggs from your hens – all enjoyed in your own...
Power Plants
Simple Home Remedies You Can Grow
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
A local and natural DIY guide to help you grow yourself healthy.
Natural remedies are nature’s gift to us. From alternatives to side-effect ridden prescriptions to solutions that will amplify the effectiveness of a healthy lifestyle, evolving research suggests that plants may have more power...
100 Edible & Healing Flowers
cultivating - cooking - restoring health
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
Margaret Roberts is a well-known proponent of the use of natural products to enhance health and wellbeing. In 100 Edible & Healing Flowers, she encourages readers to create a garden of flowers that can be used in celebrations, in the kitchen, and also to produce medicines and cosmetics. In this...
by Orian Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
Welcome To The Medicinal Herbal Garden!I believe that starting a garden, is one of the most creative activities one can do. When you start your garden, nature will step in, in miraculous and powerful ways. A co-creation begins to happen between you and Nature. Adding herbal plants to your garden will...
by Joy Larkcom
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
This revised, updated and expanded edition Joy Larkcom's classic guide to growing your own vegetables contains everything you need to know to create a highly-productive vegetable plot. It covers every aspect of vegetable gardening, including preparing soil; manures, composts and fertilizers; growing...
Australian Garden Rescue
Restoring a Damaged Garden
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
Whether you have a garden suffering from lack of attention, damaged from weather events or suffering pest attacks, Australian Garden Rescue will guide you through practical solutions, helpful tips and preventative tactics to minimise future harm. Best-selling author Mary Horsfall explores how our harsh...
Celeste's Garden Delights
Discover the Many Ways a Garden Can Nurture You
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
You've heard it: You are what you eat. The evidence is mounting that what you put into your mouth matters. What better way is there to know exactly what you are eating than to grow some of your own food or get to know your farmer? Celeste has decades of experience providing good, nutritious food for...
Old-Fashioned Fruit Garden
The Best Way to Grow, Preserve, and Bake with Small Fruit
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Jo Ann Gardner and her husband, Jigs, have been farming for nearly four decades, specializing in fruit, dairy, and herb products. Jo Ann herself makes and sells seventy-five cases of jams, jellies, and preserves a year. She knows her subject well-and this breezy, delightful reissue of her classic...
Machiavelli's Lawn
The Great Writers' Garden Companion
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2011
Twelve great authors offer their top tips on gardening, from Sylvia Plath's struggles with autumn bulbs, to Pablo Neruda on pruning roses at the end of a romance. In Brecht's mini opera, a courageous mother's fight to protect her tender young potatoes from the army reveals the tragic consequences...
A Country Garden
Observations and Advice from Both Sides of the Garden Gate
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2013
This book is not intended to be a manual. There are a lot of how-to books readily available if one needs a reference book. Rather this is a journey through the garden and beyond. It is full of tips and advice for green and low maintenance gardening, landscaping and lawn care but it is mostly a journal...