Plant Life category: 1095 books

Award-winning author Amy Stewart takes readers on an around-the-world, behind-the-scenes look at the flower industry and how it has sought—for better or worse—to achieve perfection. She tracks down the hybridizers, geneticists, farmers, and florists working to invent, manufacture, and sell flowers...

“[A] witty and beguiling meditation on weeds and their wily ways….You will never look at a weed, or flourish a garden fork, in the same way again.” —Richard Holmes, author of The Age of Wonder “In this fascinating, richly detailed book, Richard Mabey gives weeds their full due.” —Carl...

A photography journey through Vancouver's flora rich season of spring packed with dozens of images from cherry blossoms to tulips that will delight the curious nature lover. The pictures in this photobook are arranged in a timeline sequence according to the month(s) in which the flowers bloom for easy reference.

When Jason King blew our minds with the first two CANNABIBLE books, we never imagined that the best was still to come. In CANNABIBLE 3, he's back with a whole new crop of marijuana strains, accompanied by informative and entertaining notes on their flavors, aromas, and effects. King heralds the latest...

Do you want to fulfill your dreams/ burning desire of growing or cultivating these psilocybin mushrooms? If yes, then this book is for you! Mushrooms add great dimensions to our cuisine and our consciousness. They are an essential component of all our planets ecosystems. And we love them for...

A tale of obsession so fierce that a man kills the thing he loves most: the only giant golden spruce on earth. When a shattered kayak and camping gear are found on an uninhabited island in the Pacific Northwest, they reignite a mystery surrounding a shocking act of protest. Five months earlier,...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK   A modern classic of personal journalism, The Orchid Thief is Susan Orlean’s wickedly funny, elegant, and captivating tale of an amazing obsession. Determined to clone an endangered flower—the rare ghost orchid *Polyrrhiza lindenii—*a...

Do you know your mushrooms? This is the only mushrooming book that will introduce you safely and with confidence to the not-so "underground" hobby of mushroom hunting and gathering. Gathering edible wild food is a wonderful way to forge a connection to the earth. Mushrooms are the ultimate...

  21 Native Wild Edible Plants The few wild plants listed here are likely the only ones that are about as close as domestic plants can be in digestability. Of the 1800 flowering plants in Alberta, about 800 are mentioned as being used as food. I suspect some wild edible plants may require weeks to really acclimatize to them. Written by Mors Kochanski

In this classic work of Mississippi history, Nollie W. Hickman relates the felling of great forests of longleaf pine in a southern state where lumbering became a mighty industry.Mississippi Harvest records the arduous transportation of logs to the mills, at first by oxcart and water and later by rail....

At the time of his death in 1907, John Waldie, founder of the Victoria Harbour Lumber Company, was identified as "the second largest lumber operator in Canada." A young Scottish immigrant who came to Wellington Square (now Burlington, Ontario) in 1842, he rose to prominence as a wealthy...

In this engaging and eye-opening read, forager-journalist Becky Lerner sets out on a quest to find her inner hunter-gatherer in the city of Portland, Oregon. After a disheartening week trying to live off wild plants from the streets and parks near her home, she learns the ways of the first people...

Have you ever contemplated venturing out into the world with the intent of harvesting a tree or two for firewood? Do you know what to do and how to do it? Are you familiar with trees, the differences between the trees that make suitable firewood and those that do not? Have you received instruction...

Un giovane uomo appasionato di fotografia naturalistica scompare. Poco prima della sua scomparsa una donna incrocia in modo singolare la sua vita e diventa involontariamente artefice della sua profonda trasformazione. La vicenda si evolve in un lungo viaggio - fuga durante il quale potenti e misteriose...