According to HGTV, the popular home and garden cable television station, water features are currently among the hottest landscaping trends in the United States, offering a way to increase a home's resell value and providing a creative outlet for homeowners.
When famine, drought, and malnutrition plagued their communities, these farmers tried something revolutionaryand managed to nourish their families and their land in the process.
The Times Best Gardening Books of 2022 Ornamental plants are the cornerstone of our gardens and we are spoiled for choice with literally tens of thousands of hardy beauties from which to select.
As more and more people seek locally grown food, independent, family owned and operated agriculture has expanded, creating local networks for selling and buying produce, meat, and dairy products and reviving local agricultural economies throughout the United States.
This book offers a detailed guide to cultivating potatoes, with information on varieties, seed selection, cultivation, diseases of the potato, and much more.
The new Kew guide to planting and cultivating bulbs features 12 easy and inspiring projects, detailed information on 66 of the most important species to grow, accompanied by Kews beautiful botanical illustrations.
Adventures on the road to real-world self-sufficiency Many of us want to increase our self-sufficiency, but few have access to the ideal 5 sunny, gently-sloping acres of rich, loamy, well-drained soil.
A guide to creating community-based art installations using green waste, invasive species and natural materials Disposing of unwanted natural materials can be expensive and time-consuming, or it can present a tremendous opportunity for creating collaborative eco-art.
It's been more than forty years since the second edition of this landmark guide to the preservation and restoration of gardens and landscapes at historic sites was published.
"e;Garden Ponds and Pools"e; is a vintage guide to large garden water features, with chapters on designing, constructing, populating, and maintaining them.
"e;It's up to every single one of us to do our bit for wildlife, however small our gardens, and The Butterfly Brothers know just how that can be achieved.
A stylish, inspirational and practical guidebook to maintaining a more environmentally friendly outdoor space, now shortlisted for the GMG GARDEN BOOK OF THE YEAR award!
A treasure for all lovers of wild plants - Wild Orchids of Britain provides a detailed account of all our orchid species, varieties and hybrids, and has a useful key to identification.
In this eloquent plea for compassion and respect for all species, journalist and gardener Nancy Lawson describes why and how to welcome wildlife to our backyards.
A full-colour and beautifully illustrated guide into transforming your existing garden or plot of land into a modern, visually-stunning - but also easily achieved and maintained - space.
"e;Roses And Rose Growing"e; is a vintage guide that deals with every aspect of growing roses, including planting, pruning, propagation, different varieties, climate considerations, and much more.
Window and indoor gardening has long been a popular and fascinating hobby with those who possess an enthusiastic love of floriculture, and who have no facilities for indulging in the latter pursuit except in the home, on the window-sill, or in the balcony or veranda.
GROWING MARIJUANA HYDROPONICALLY shows how to grow marijuana indoors utilizing the Sea of Green Perpetual Harvest process adapted by Hans into a "e;cottage"e; approach.
A little plant science grows a long way Plant Science for Gardeners empowers growers to analyze common problems, find solutions, and make better decisions in the garden for optimal plant health and productivity.
The Hunter Region, between the Hawkesbury and Manning rivers in eastern New South Wales, hosts a rich diversity of vegetation, with many species found nowhere else.
'A remarkable book from one of our greatest plant experts' DAILY TELEGRAPHWith a new introduction by Monty DonIn revealing what worked in her own garden, Beth Chatto passes on a wealth of advice gleaned from her personal experience.
The history of science discipline is contributing valuable knowledge of the culture of soil understanding, of the conditions in society that fostered the ideas, and of why they developed in certain ways.
Visibility: The Seeing of Near and Distant Landscape Features reviews the science of visibility from how to measure it quantitatively to its impacts by one of the foremost experts in the field.
This rare antiquarian book contains a definitive handbook for greenhouse and tropical house management, comprising timeless information as helpful today as it was at the time of its original publication.
