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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Sustainable Gardening for the Southeast"A timely, accessible guide to responsible landscaping that convincingly explains how and why our home landscapes must participate in local ecosystems."--Douglas Tallamy, coauthor of The Living Landscape: Designing for Beauty and Biodiversity in the Home Garden "By explaining the importance of individual decisions, presenting...
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Attracting Birds to South Florida Gardens"South Florida is a unique and spectacular environment for both birding and gardening, and this is a thorough and enjoyable guide."--Carl Lewis, director, Fairchild Tropical Gardens "A step-by-step guide on how to create a garden that not only benefits birds but increases your enjoyment...
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Best Native Plants for Southern Gardens: A Handbook for Gardeners, Homeowners, and ProfessionalsAn essential guide to native plants of the Southeast"This book is filled to the brim with important information on native plants and is a must for any serious gardener in the southeastern region of the country."--Ginny Stibolt, author of Sustainable Gardening for Florida "Here...
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Chanticleer: A Pleasure GardenChanticleer, a forty-eight-acre garden on Philadelphia's historic Main Line, is many things simultaneously: a lush display of verdant intensity and variety, an irreverent and informal setting for inventive plant combinations, a homage to the native trees and horticultural heritage of the mid-Atlantic, a testament...
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Tradition and Innovation in French Garden Art: Chapters of a New HistoryIn the absence of any modern history of French garden art, this volume offers twelve chapters that review some of the most interesting and innovative moments of French garden history. This series of studies traces a progression from what is taken as the golden...
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Lavender: How to Grow and Use the Fragrant HerbNew full-color photosGrowing and using in the gardenInstructions for a variety of crafts and potpourris plus recipes for entrees, sides, and pastriesThe leaves, stems, buds, and flowers of lavender are valuable for a variety of uses. This revised and updated edition of the best-selling...
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Chicago and Its Botanic Garden: The Chicago Horticultural Society at 125Formed in 1890, during the heady days before the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, the Chicago Horticultural Society boasted members with names deeply rooted in Chicago history: Buckingham, McCormick, and Palmer, among others. Today, as it leads the Garden in a model public-private partnership with...
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Growing and Propagating Showy Native Woody PlantsBir identifies some of the showiest woody plants native to the eastern United States and tells how to propagate and care for them. He describes more than ninety species of native plants, most illustrated with a color photograph, and includes several useful appendixes listing...
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Backyard CookbookWhat's growing in your garden? This book is full of fun recipes for all seasons. Find out what you can grow and how to make it into something tasty! Recipes include Sticky Toffee Pears and Strawberry Zinger Milkshake. Teacher's guide available.Author: Rob ReesPublisher: Crabtree...
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Outdoor Carpentry: Make It YourselfOutdoor Carpentry is the first "tool" you need to fulfill all your dreams for a large terrace, a flowerbox, an outdoor kitchen, a fence, a shed, a small bench, an entire carport, or a whole array of other projects for the yard. The projects...
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This Was Wheat FarmingReach into the grain bin for a handful of wheat...and as it runs out through your fingers, so do more than 6000 years since wheat was grown in Persian Gulf lands. The story of this age-old, most extensive grain crop the world has ever...
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Exploring Guatemala's Gardens from Atlantic to PacificUp until now, many of these gardens have only been enjoyed by family and friends. They spotlight innovative design, native plants, natural scenery, and Guatemala's rich history and culture. Stunning photographs show how plants and architectural features come together to create extraordinary indoor and...
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Mastering the Art of Vegetable Gardening: Rare Varieties * Unusual Options * Plant Lore & GuidanceMastering the Art of Vegetable Gardening is your "201" level course in cultivating produce. Expand your knowledge base and discover options that go beyond the ordinary Prepare to encounter new varieties of common plant species, learn their history and benefits, and, most of all,...
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How to Create an Eco Garden: The Practical Guide to Sustainable and Greener GardeningEco gardening can lessen our overconsumption of natural resources, reduce waste, cut energy use, and make a positive contribution to reducing our carbon footprint. Each page of this planet-friendly book is bursting with ideas for creating your own eco garden on any scale from...
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Gertrude JekyllAlmost eighty years after her death, Gertrude Jekyll (1843-1932) is still one of the most influential of all English garden designers. Best known for her superb use of colour schemes in her hallmark flower borders, she combined an early training in art with self...
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The Great Dixter Cookbook: Recipes from an English GardenSeasonal recipes and expert planting guides from Great Dixter, Christopher Lloyd's quintessential English country gardenThe Great Dixter Cookbook features seventy simple and delicious seasonal recipes from the kitchen garden at Great Dixter, the historic house and garden located on the borders of Kent and...
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Rhs Half Hour Allotment: Timely Tips for the Most Productive Plot EverThis perennial gardening classic gives you everything you need to create and manage a bountiful and beautiful allotment with just half an hour's work a day! The Royal Horticultural Society The Half Hour Allotment (first published in 2005) has been a best-selling gardening title...
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It's Not Just About the Hat: The Unlikely Journey of a PlantsmanDr. Allan Armitage reflects on "How did I get here?" in a open-hearted, conversational style book. After many years of teaching horticulture at the University of Georgia and inspiring students, gardeners, and practitioners in the horticulture industry, he retired Professor Emeritus. From the grave...
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Tree IdentificationA new method for the practical identification and recognition of trees -- and an important supplement to existing botanical methods.The book is in two parts: Pictorial Keys and Master Pages. The Keys are designed for easy visual comparison of details which look alike, narrowing...
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Water Features for patios and gardensWater Features for Patios and Gardens is an inspirational guide to water features and patios and gardens that will turn your home into a lifestyle experience. It is a comprehensive, practical guide to designing, building and installing ponds, formal pools and the full range...
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