Gardening
Find top gardening books and essential reads for green thumbs at our online bookstore, featuring the best books on gardening for beginners, vegetable gardening, and organic gardening. Discover must-read and best-selling titles, including books about planting and gardening for dummies.
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Guide to Deadly Herbs: A Guide to Deadly HerbsProtect yourself! A Guide to Deadly Herbs discusses, twenty-eight of the most beautiful, yet deadly, herbs found in the fields, meadow, forests, mountains, roadsides and backyards of North America. All the herbs discussed in this guide are extremely dangerous. Children, wild-food enthusiasts, pets and...
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A Contemplation Upon Flowers: Garden Plants in Myth and LiteratureThe author has trailed, traced, and tracked down hundreds of literary references to many of our favorite flowers.Author: Bobby J. WardPublisher: Timber Press (OR)Published: 08/21/2009Pages: 447Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.42lbsSize: 9.02h x 6.12w x 1.36dISBN: 9780881927276About the AuthorWard, Bobby J.: - Bobby J. Ward is...
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Plant Survival: Adapting to a Hostile WorldThis book, for young readers ages 10 and up, is filled with detailed information about the fascinating world of plant ecology. Discusses how plants have adapted to survive the challenges of various habitats. This is a black-and-white edition.Author: Brian CaponPublisher: Timber Press (OR)Published: 07/24/2009Pages:...
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Stand Up and Garden: The No-Digging, No-Tilling, No-Stooping Approach to Growing Vegetables and HerbsKnowing where our food comes from is a huge issue; food safety and costs seem to figure more prominently in our lives all the time. Many people would like to grow their own vegetables but don't know how to begin--digging, plowing, planting, weeding, and...
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Gardening for Health and Nutrition: An Introduction to the Method of Biodynamic Gardening"A simple, down-to-earth introduction to the method of biodynamic gardening especially written for the backyard gardener." Long out of print, this classic introduction to biodynamic gardening introduces the gardener to an obvious, often forgotten principle: gardening is about living things, life forces, and life...
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Growing Trees and Shrubs Indoors: Breathe New Life Into Your Home with Large PlantsThe complete guide to growing trees and shrubs indoors to beautify and purify your home Some of the most polluted places on earth are where we spend 90% of our time: inside our homes. Science is continually uncovering more effective ways of improving the...
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City of Angels: Houses and Gardens of Los AngelesLos Angeles's dramatic setting, Mediterranean climate, and outdoor lifestyle have long attracted creative individuals to its diverse neighborhoods. The thirty houses and gardens featured in City of Angels, designed by renowned architects, interior designers, and garden designers, offer a rich mix of quirkiness, elegance,...
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Organic Gardening in the American WestIn this compact book, Robert Smith gives clear and detailed instructions for gardening organically in a semi-arid climate. Using New Mexico as an example, he gives full directors for raising everything from asparagus to zucchini; shows how depressed bed planting protects plants and conserves...
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The Biodynamic Farm: Developing a Holistic OrganismLarge-scale agriculture tends to view a farm as a means for producing a certain amount of grain, milk or meat. This practical book argues instead for a holistic method of farming: the farm as a living organism. This is the principle of biodynamic farming....
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How to Create a New Vegetable Garden: Producing a Beautiful and Fruitful Garden from Scratch /]ccharles DowdingCharles Dowding draws on his years of experience, to show how easy it is to start a new vegetable garden. Any plot - whether a building site, overgrown with weeds or unwanted lawn - can be turned into a beautiful and productive vegetable area....
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The Edible Flower: A Modern Guide to Growing, Cooking and Eating Edible FlowersOn a seven-acre small holding in rural Northern Ireland, organic gardener Jo Facer and head chef Erin Bunting run fork-to-fork supper club, organic small-holding and fledgling cooking and growing school, The Edible Flower. In their first cookbook, learn to grow and cook edible flowers...
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Eden Revisited: A Garden in Northern MoroccoA lovingly photographed tour of internationally renowned writer Umberto Pasti's famous hillside garden in Morocco. Italian writer and horticulturist Umberto Pasti's passion for the wild flora of Tangier and its surrounding region led him to create his world-famous garden, Rohuna, where he has transplanted...
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Home-Grown Mushrooms from Scratch: A Practical Guide to Growing Edible Mushrooms Outside and IndoorsAuthor: Magdalena Wurth, Herbert WurthPublisher: Filbert PressPublished: 05/01/2018Pages: 144Binding Type: HardcoverISBN: 9780993389290About the AuthorMagdalena Wurth is an agricultural scientist and enthusiastic home mushroom grower. She was born into a family which has a long history of mushroom growing and enjoys cooking with home-grown mushrooms....
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The Official Cookbook of the Chile Pepper InstituteThe world-famous Chile Pepper Institute is the only organization devoted to the study, cultivation, and enjoyment of the world's favorite fiery fruit, and The Official Cookbook of the Chile Pepper Institute is your guide to cooking with and enjoying chile peppers in all their...
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Hare & Hare, Landscape Architects and City PlannersWhen Sidney J. Hare (1860-1938) and S. Herbert Hare (1888-1960) launched their Kansas City firm in 1910, they founded what would become the most influential landscape architecture and planning practice in the Midwest. Over time, their work became increasingly far-ranging, in both its geographical...
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Collards: A Southern Tradition from Seed to TableFood is essential to southern culture, and collard greens play a central role in the South's culinary traditions. A feast to the famished, a reward to the strong, and a comfort to the weary, collards have long been held dear in the food-loving southern...
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Gardening for Moths: A Regional GuideThis guide to moths, native plants, and their environmental roles is an indispensable resource for gardeners, conservationists, and nature enthusiasts across the midwestern United States.Gardening for Moths is the first book to show midwestern gardeners and naturalists why they should attract specific moth species...
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Orchids of the Northeast: A Field GuideThis field guide provides a survey of orchids found in the northeastern United States. Along with identification keys and glossary of botanical terms, the book includes research collected on orchids.Author: William ChapmanPublisher: Syracuse University PressPublished: 06/01/1997Pages: 220Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.92lbsSize: 8.52h x 5.28w x...
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The Fruits and Fruit Trees of Monticello: Thomas Jefferson and the Origins of American HorticultureLavishly illustrated, Peter Hatch's The Fruits and Fruit Trees of Monticello is not only a detailed history of Jefferson's gardens and their re-creation but a virtual encyclopedia of early American pomology.Author: Peter J. HatchPublisher: University of Virginia PressPublished: 05/11/2007Pages: 222Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.73lbsSize: 9.95h...
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Gods and Goddesses in the Garden: Greco-Roman Mythology and the Scientific Names of PlantsZeus, Medusa, Hercules, Aphrodite. Did you know that these and other dynamic deities, heroes, and monsters of Greek and Roman mythology live on in the names of trees and flowers? Some grow in your local woodlands or right in your own backyard garden. In...
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