Home Garden category: 30467 books
Troll Knoll
A Garden Like No Other
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Heres a formula for excitement: Take a retired (and slightly bored) legal professional with an abiding love of his wife, Ann, a passion for gardening, creative skills ranging from embroidery to arc welding and lots and lots of imagination. The result is Troll Knoll. Nearly everything within the confines...
The Water-Wise Home
How to Conserve, Capture, and Reuse Water in Your Home and Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2015
Save the earth’s most precious resource while also saving yourself money. Laura Allen provides expert strategies for using water smartly and efficiently while fulfilling all of your home and garden needs. Learn how to create a water-wise landscape, reuse greywater, harvest rainwater, and even set...
Got Sun?
200 Best Native Plants for Your Garden
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Are you looking for more butterflies and birds in your yard? Do you enjoy seasonal color and beauty? Are you concerned about environmental issues such as water conservation and pollution control? Do you yearn for simple, maintenance-free gardening? Arranged in a question-and-answer format, Got Sun?...
New England Bird Lover's Garden
Attracting Birds with Plants and Flowers
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
New England Bird Lover's Garden helps you maximize your home birding experiences and attract a wider variety of birds. With over 100 full-color photos and concise, informative text, it provides indispensable details on what foods, plants, trees, water sources, and nesting materials will attract particular...
Small Holding And Cottage Gardens
Instructions And Plans For - Planting And Cropping - Flower And Market Garden Produce - Profitable Fruit Culture - Three Year's Trading Accounts - Profitable Poultry Keeping
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
Originally published in 1915, this book contains a detailed guide to small-scale fruit and vegetable gardening at home or at the allotment, including chapters on planning, plating, cropping, making a profit, and much more. With easy-to-follow instructions and simple explanations, this fantastic and...
Flora's Empire
British Gardens in India
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
Like their penchant for clubs, cricket, and hunting, the planting of English gardens by the British in India reflected an understandable need on the part of expatriates to replicate home as much as possible in an alien environment. In Flora's Empire, Eugenia W. Herbert argues that more than simple...
A Garden of Inspiration
Quotations for Lovers of Gardening and Growing
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
Rich with meaningful quotes and enduring messages, A Garden of Inspiration brings readers into a deeper connection with nature, dealing with topics including Earth’s natural beauty, growing food, and our place on the planet.
Simple and accessible for all ages, this inspirational title makes...
by Dueep J. Singh
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
Table of Contents
A Beginner’s Guide to Rock Gardens
Introduction
Wrong Way Of Placing Rocks
The Right Way to Place Rock Stones
Good Rock Work-
Flat Ground
Wall
Stones on Slopes
Choosing the Best Soil
Building Your Rock Garden
Planting Your Rock Plants
Maintenance
Conifers
Bulbs
List of Rock...
by Elizabeth Lawrence
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 1990
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 1990
As readers and critics around the country agree, any new book by the renowned garden writer Elizabeth Lawrence is like finding a buried treasure. A Rock Garden in the South will not disappoint. Released posthumously, this book is not only a welcome addition to the Lawrence canon, but fills an important...
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...
by Barbara Segall
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
The big skies and the extraordinary light of East Anglia make it unlike anywhere else in Britain, and offer the most amazing natural conditions in which to create gardens. The twenty-two gardens selected for Secret Gardens of East Anglia celebrate the culture, beauty and diversity of the counties...
The Backyard Homestead Seasonal Planner
What to Do & When to Do It in the Garden, Orchard, Barn, Pasture & Equipment Shed
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
This hardworking addition to the best-selling Backyard Homestead series offers expert advice on what tasks to do around your farm and when to do them — no matter where on the planet you call home. Author Ann Larkin Hansen sets the priorities for each area of the farm, including the barn, garden,...
Gardening for Butterflies
Planning and planting an insect-friendly garden
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2015
Eco-friendly gardening is fast catching on. Butterfl ies are visible signs of a healthy garden, and, with their whimsical flight patterns and glorious colours, they are among the most alluring ofour aerial visitors. Gardening for Butterflies shows how to attract these beautiful insects, giving step-by-step...
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...