Home Garden category: 30467 books
Mycelial Mayhem
Growing Mushrooms for Fun, Profit and Companion Planting
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2016
Most supermarket mushrooms are bland and boring; products of an industrial process which typically relies on expensive equipment and harmful pesticides. Many people would like to add more flavorful and diverse fungi to their diets, but lack the knowledge or confidence to gather or grow their own....
A Grand Tour of Gardens
Traveling in Beauty through Western Europe and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2012
From Italy to Switzerland, Germany to Spain, and Philadelphia to New Orleans, Anne Sinkler Whaley LeClercq describes the beauty of different historic gardens in this collection of essays. A Grand Tour of Gardens: Traveling in Beauty through Western Europe and the United States showcases her excursions...
by Alma Queen
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
This book gives you everything you need to design and create your very own Zen Garden. It covers both indoor and outdoor Zen Gardens, traditional and modern plantings, topiaries, as well explaining the historical influences of Feng Shui, Chi, and Buddhist influences on the Zen Garden.
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Japanese Gardens
Symbolism and Design
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
The unique beauty of the Japanese garden stems from its spirituality and rich symbolism, yet most discussions on this kind of garden rarely provide more than a superficial overview. This book takes a thorough look at the process of designing a Japanese garden, placing it in a historical and philosophical...
Gardening with Biochar
Supercharge Your Soil with Bioactivated Charcoal: Grow Healthier Plants, Create Nutrient-Rich Soil, and Increase Your Harvest
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
Bio-activated charcoal — called biochar — is the new darling of organic gardeners, embraced for its outstanding abilities to enrich the soil and improve plant growth. Gardening with Biochar is the first comprehensive guide to understanding, making, and using it effectively in the home garden.
In...
Garden Blessings
Prose, Poems and Prayers Celebrating the Love of Gardening
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
Garden Blessings is an eloquent tribute to the wonders of the garden, a place where our souls are nourished and memories grown. June Cotner is a legend in the world of gift books with her inspirational books that have sold nearly one million copies. Her books comprise a balance of about 20 percent...
DIY Succulents
From Placecards to Wreaths, 35+ Ideas for Creative Projects with Succulents
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2015
As featured in The Washington Post
Dig into dozens of stunning succulent creations!
Go beyond the garden to create succulent projects that take center stage in any space. DIY Succulents shows you how to use beautiful and resilient plants like echeveria, sedum, and graptopetalum to craft...
First Ladies of Gardening
Designers, Dreamers and Divas
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
The English Garden is the universal measure of all things related to garden design. It is in the UK that the great garden designers live and work and where a major gardening movement has developed over the last few decades, influencing the rest of the world with its ideas and vision. This book introduces...
Ireland's Garden Birds
A Guide to Attracting and Identifying Garden Birds
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
An essential companion for bird lovers and gardeners alike since it was first published, this highly successful guide to identifying garden birds has now been fully updated with the latest information and statistics. Highlighting a range of plants and planting schemes that support wildlife, it provides...
Hugh Johnson in the Garden
The Best Garden Diary of Our Time
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2009
Tradescant's Diary, a column of garden jottings, first appeared in the RHS magazine, The Garden, in June 1975. Hugh Johnson was its author (in addition to his being Editorial Director of the magazine) and it became a monthly fixture for the RHS's committed gardeners. Hugh's writings are filled with...
by Jay Gross
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2017
A collection of 23 inspiring, fun and easy DIY projects that will transform your home to the after part of a renovation show. Take everyday objects from around your home, or at least tell your friends they were, and turn them into benches, beds, knife blocks or barbeques. Create unique bespoke furniture...
by Geoff Tibballs
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
Stocking a garden with plants can be an expensive business, so there are few things more frustrating than when the prized specimen for which you have paid a king's ransom either online or at a garden centre shrivels up and dies within a year or so of purchase. If you can prove that the plant was half-dead...
Native Plants of the Midwest
A Comprehensive Guide to the Best 500 Species for the Garden
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2016
Native Plants of the Midwest, by regional plant expert Alan Branhagan, features the best native plants in the heartland and offers clear and concise guidance on how to use them in the garden. Plant profiles for more than 500 species of trees, shrubs, vines, perennials, ground covers, bulbs, and annuals...
The Thoughtful Gardener
An Intelligent Approach to Garden Design
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
‘The most romantic, creative person in garden design I know.’ Piet Oudolf
‘Jinny's genius is to marry a beautiful vision to an extraordinary empathy with the landscape into which that vision will fit, resulting in a pastoral harmony second to none’ – Victoria, Lady Getty
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