Home Garden category: 30467 books
by Steven A. Frowine
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
You’re now officially out of excuses for not planting the garden of your dreams. Even if you’ve never sowed a seed nor pulled a weed, Gardening Basics For Dummies contains everything you need to know about flowers, beds, borders, trees, shrubs, and lawns to create your own private paradise. This...
Rock Gardening
Reimagining a Classic Style
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
AHS Book Award winner
Rock gardening —the art of growing alpines and other miniature plants in the company of rocks in order to recreate the look of a rugged mountaintop—has been surging in popularity. Time and space constraints, chronic drought in the American West, and a trend toward...
by Chami Jotisalikorn, Karina Zabihi
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
With over 180 color photographs and insightful commentary, this Asian design book showcases the most luxurious and cutting edge pools and gardens of the Pacific region.
The new Asian garden is all about structure and sensuality, and the delicate balance of enhancing the architecture and design...
by Gloria Van Patten
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
Home Theater Planning and Buying on a Budget
This book covers several topics including:
Chapter 1: Home-theater Chapter 2: Identifying-your-home-theater-needs Chapter 3: Home-theater-system Chapter 4: Home-theater-speaker-basics Chapter 5: Home-theater-speaker Chapter 6: Home-theater-review...
Beautiful at All Seasons
Southern Gardening and Beyond with Elizabeth Lawrence
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2007
Elizabeth Lawrence (1904–85) is recognized as one of America’s most important gardeners and garden writers. In 1957, Lawrence began a weekly column for the Charlotte Observer, blending gardening lore and horticultural expertise gained from her own gardens in Raleigh and Charlotte, North Carolina,...
Compostology 1-2-3
Composting Made Simple
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2011
Want to compost but aren't sure where to start? Need a little help with a compost pile that's already in the garden? Compostology 1-2-3 is the answer! It's simply the best--and most complete--guide to successful composting for every garden size, and it answers the most-asked questions: What is compost?...
Ma Frump's Cultural Guide to Plastic Gardening
A Humorous Guide to Colorful All-Season Gardening with Plastic Plants and Flowers
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2012
Do you want to spend less time gardening? Are you looking for ways to save water? Have you been disappointed in the way your garden turned out? Do you dread the dull winter months? Do you understand the true meaning of “garden loveliness”? Do you want people to stop by your garden and exclaim...
Continuous Container Gardens
Swap In the Plants of the Season to Create Fresh Designs Year-Round
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
Extend the life of your container garden beyond the summer months with an innovative system created by Sara Begg Townsend and Roanne Robbins. Beginning with a central woody plant, garden ornament, or eye-catching perennial, you’ll learn how to swap in seasonal plants for a dynamic display that looks...
Sissinghurst
Vita Sackville-West and the Creation of a Garden
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
From 1946 to 1957, Vita Sackville-West, the British poet, bestselling author of All Passion Spent and maker of Sissinghurst, wrote a weekly column in the Observer depicting her life at Sissinghurst, showing her to be one of the most visionary horticulturalists of the twentieth-century. With wonderful...
Fairy Gardening
Creating Your Own Magical Miniature Garden
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
Fairy gardens are enjoying an astonishing surge in popularity and now you can begin making your own enchanting miniature landscapes, complete with pint-sized accessories, diminutive plants, and quaint fairy figures. Gardeners Julie Bawden-Davis and Beverly Turner provide you with step-by-step instructions...
How to Cheat at Gardening and Yard Work
Shameless Tricks for Growing Radically Simple Flowers, Veggies, Lawns, Landscaping, and More
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2009
Do you love the look of a stunning flowerbed or a nice expanse of lawn bordered by attractive shrubs, but don't have time to spend the whole weekend in your backyard? It's time to cheat—in a smart way. In How to Cheat at Gardening and Yard Work, you'll find hundreds of work-reducing, time-saving,...
Vertical Gardening
Grow Up, Not Out, for More Vegetables and Flowers in Much Less Space
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
The biggest mistake gardeners make each season is starting out too big and then quickly realizing their large plot requires too much weeding, watering, and backbreaking labor. Vertical gardening guarantees a better outcome from the day the trowel hits the soil—by shrinking the amount of "floor"...
by Rosalind Creasy
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 1999
This vegetable cookbook and gardening guide has everything you need to know about cultivating, harvesting, and serving green leafy vegetables from around the world.
You'll learn about preparing soil, when to plant, and when and how to harvest. Creasy shares her own extensive knowledge, as well...
Small-Space Vegetable Gardens
Growing Great Edibles in Containers, Raised Beds, and Small Plots
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
“Size matters! Andrea Bellamy shares creative ways to grow a wide array of vegetables, fruits, and herbs in diminutive settings, year-round.” —Debra Prinzing, author, speaker, and podcaster
Small-Space Vegetable Gardens explains the basics of growing a bounty of edibles in a minimal...