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The Landscape Garden: the quiet but startling national revolution that overthrew the parterres, avenues and canals of formal European-style gardens littering Britain in the eighteenth century. Thousands of landscape gardens were created for the wealthy, often looking so natural that we hardly recognise...

“The ever-alluring Arts and Crafts garden…is profoundly relevant to our 21st-century needs.” —Sam Watters, author of Gardens for a Beautiful America In Gardens of the Arts and Crafts Movement, landscape scholar Judith B. Tankard surveys the inspirations, characteristics, and development...

The organic gardening movement has been long established among vegetable growers. With the mainstreaming of ideas about environmental and ecological preservation, the organic movement has come to ornamental gardening. And one of the primary spokespeople for that movement is Sasquatch’s longtime...

Everyone loves the attractive tulips that blend beautifully at spring. If you fancy on having your own tulips in your garden, you can do them easily. And what's more, you don't need to wait until spring comes before you plant those colorful flowers. As early as now you can start planting them and...

Plant Solutions is a brand new contemporary problem-solving guide to finding the right plant for the right place in your garden. Packed with plant suggestions, cultivation notes and companion ideas, Plant Solutions helps you create a suitable and successful planting scheme by finding plants to suit...

Learn how to create a lovely Mexican garden and then create delicious dishes with your produce using this easy-to-use Mexican cookbook and gardening guide. Rosalind Creasy, the grande dame of edible landscaping, has compiled an amazing variety of Mexican herbs and vegetables and has brought...

A Beginner’s Guide to Growing Fruit TreesGardening Tips and Methods for Growing Fruit TreesFor Pleasure And Profit.Table of ContentsIntroductionWhich Fruit to Grow?Fruit Production Charts.ApplesCold Hardiness zonesCitrus fruitsStrawberriesPlanting Your StrawberriesMulching Strawberries.PropagationFeeding...

Micro gardening is essentially the practice of using small or limited spaces, such as patios, window sills, balconies, indoor pots, or courtyards in order to grow plants. The concept has recently gathered much press due to the attention given by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, highlighting...

Do you have a garden and you’ve been thinking of adding a compost to it? This is often a fun and very rewarding thing for some but there are certain ways to put it all together. How do you do it? How do you even manage to actually do all of this? well, you’re about to find out.Compost is a huge...

Do you have the desire to create a beautiful rose garden? Discover the simple secrets of growing beautiful roses. While each rose and rose garden is unique, every rose garden has a list of routine tasks that absolutely must get done. Through trial and error, Gary Emmett has found dozens of...

Looking to grow your own vegetables? This little book contains all the basic information you need to get started. It takes you through the process of choosing tools, clothing, cultivating the soil, growing and choosing vegetables. Suggestions are made for easy to grow vegetables like carrots and beetroot;...

William Dangar's Garden is a journey through a series of twenty-one inspiring, emotive and lyrical gardens. Each is photographed at its optimum moment - not when newly planted, but when nature has reasserted itself and there is a certain expressiveness, a sense of wildness, breaking through the original...

What exciting ways can we get children interested in gardening and nature? This ebook shows you how! G. Edwin Varner once read, "Get children interested in growing flowers, and you prevent them from a life of crime." That statement may contain a kernel of truth. One way to respect...

“An extraordinary collection of 21st-century gardens that will arouse wanderlust… Whether you are a garden globetrotter or an armchair explorer, this book is definitely one to add to your collection.” —Gardens Illustrated A steep hillside oasis in Singapore, a garden distinguished by...