Plant Life category: 1095 books
The California Wildlife Habitat Garden
How to Attract Bees, Butterflies, Birds, and Other Animals
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2012
This attractive, practical guide explains how to transform backyard gardens into living ecosystems that are not only enjoyable retreats for humans, but also thriving sanctuaries for wildlife. Beautifully illustrated with full-color photographs, this book provides easy-to-follow recommendations for...
by Nina Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
We spray them, pluck them, and bury them under mulch; and we curse their resilience when they spring back into place. To most of us, weeds are a nuisance, not worth the dirt they are growing in. But the fact is weeds are a plant just like any other, and it is only we who designate them as a weed or...
States of Nature
Science, Agriculture, and Environment in the Spanish Caribbean, 1760-1940
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
The process of nation-building in Latin America transformed the relations between the state, the economy, and nature. Between 1760 and 1940, the economies of most countries in the Spanish Caribbean came to depend heavily on the export of plant products, such as coffee, tobacco, and sugar. After the...
by Michael L. Schummer, Heath M. Hagy, K. Sarah Fleming
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
Moist-soil wetlands are seasonally flooded areas that produce early-succession plant communities of grasses, sedges, and other herbaceous plants. Moist-soil wetland plants provide food and cover for a diversity of wildlife species, including waterfowl and other waterbirds. Thus, conservation and management...
by Debra Lee Baldwin
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017
“Designing with Succulents is inspiring, practical, and complete—a treasure for any gardener who loves these otherworldly beauties.” —Kathleen N. Brenzel, Sunset
Succulents offer dazzling possibilities and require very little maintenance to remain lush and alluring year-round. No...
by Big Book of Photos
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
This is a wonderful collection of 30 high-quality amazing images produced by a series of today's top professional photographers. Enjoy and be inspired!
by Gideon Smith
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
Southern Africa is the natural home of the richest and most diverse succulent flora in the world. These plants come in all shapes and sizes, from trees such as the baobab at more than 20 m tall, to miniature soil huggers, just a few millimetres high, which mimic their pebble-desert surroundings. This...
by Alys Fowler
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2018
Alys Fowler takes a fresh look at foraging, encouraging you to look closer to home, from the weeds in your garden to the trees in your street, rather than the fields and hedgerows of the countryside. Alys showcases her favourite edibles with a plant directory packed with useful information - photographic...
Roses Without Chemicals
150 Disease-Free Varieties That Will Change the Way You Grow Roses
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
“I wish I had this when I planted my rose garden twenty-five years ago. I am now about to plant another garden, full of wonderful rose varieties and I intend to follow Peter's advice wholeheartedly.” —Martha Stewart
Have you tried to grow roses, only to give up once you realized how dependent...
Central Beauty
Wildflowers and Flowering Shrubs of the Southern Interior of British Columbia
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2011
Central Beauty: Wildflowers and Flowering Shrubs of the Southern Interior of British Columbia is a follow-up to three previous volumes on wildflowers written by Neil Jennings and published by Rocky Mountain Books. It is being published at the same time as Coastal Beauty Wildflowers and Flowering Shrubs...
Gardening with a Wild Heart
Restoring California's Native Landscapes at Home
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2007
Judith Lowry's voice and experiences make a rich matrix for essays that include discussions of wildflower gardening, the ecology of native grasses, wildland seed-collecting, principles of natural design, and plant/animal interactions. This lyrical and articulate mix of the practical and the poetic...
by Elizabeth Wenk
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2015
This new book by Sierra expert Elizabeth Wenk includes photos and descriptions of approximately 300 species of wildflowers and flowering shrubs in the High Sierra. Focused on areas above 8,000 feet in elevation from Yosemite south through the Whitney Region, by restricting the collection of species...
The Perfume of Life: Book One
The Perfume of Life, #1
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
The Perfume of Life comprises an unparalleled series of conversations in the matter of storytelling vapors of Nature, on distillation and extraction technologies, the science of drawing out or intercepting the chemical communications of vital beings, and including also classes presented to baristas...
The Fracture Mechanics of Plant Materials
Wood and Bamboo
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2018
This book introduces readers to the application of fracture mechanics and mesomechanics to the analysis of the fracture behaviors of wood and bamboo. It presents a range of research methods to study the fracture behaviors of wood and bamboo, taking into account their various fracture mechanisms resulting...