Garden design and planning Books
Lone Pine Publishing,Canada 1001 Tips for Canadian Gardeners
Book SynopsisWell, maybe not 1001 tips, but certainly many hundreds of tips are featured in this collection of handy information all gardeners should keep at their fingertips. Divided into sections, the tips deal with seasonal gardening issues such as getting started in the spring, as well as maintenance, planning and design, soil, critters such as pets and bugs, garden centres, naming, tools and choosing plants. The authors have written or co-written dozens of garden books and are horticultural experts.
£11.39
Lone Pine Publishing,Canada Beginner Gardening for Canada
Book SynopsisWherever you live--in a big-city apartment with a blank slate for a balcony, or a new subdivision with no grass or fences, or a mature neighbourhood with a neglected yard--there are simple things you can do to create a successful and wonderful garden space. In this book, author and professional gardener A.H. Jackson shares a lifetime of experience to help you achieve your own vision of the perfect garden: * Practical advice to get started * The basics: soil, plant location, watering and sunlight * Expert-tested lists of the best trees, shrubs, perennials, annuals, vines, grasses and more for Canada * Step-by-step instructions on: lawns, vegetable gardens and container gardens; fertilizers, mulches and composting; greenhouses and other structures; how to handle pest and disease problems * "How-to" sidebars, illustrations and colour photos throughout. Even if it's been a long time since you helped your parents or grandparents maintain their lawn or weed their vegetable patch, this handy guide is all you'll need to get started.
£15.29
Lone Pine Publishing,Canada Gardening With Colour: Creative Design Ideas for
Book SynopsisIf you yearn to make your garden the jewel of the neighbourhood--or even if you'd just like some fresh, new ideas to update the look of your front entry or deck--look no further. Rob Sproule is here to help. He's spent most of his life at his family's garden centre absorbing information on what plants look nice together, and he knows what plants work where and with what other plants. He calls the plant combinations ''recipes'' and in this book provides you with all the ''ingredients'' and ''instructions'' you'll need: * How to plan garden recipes keeping in mind the elements and principles of design, such as colour, texture, harmony and contrast, balance and proportion * 60 featured recipes with gorgeous colour photos, illustrations of plant placement, descriptions of specific plants and their needs, plus alternatives to suit your taste, zone and space * Basics such as soil types, container styles, what to look for when buying plants and how to care for the plants once you get them home * Answers to commonly asked questions relating to plant size and habitat, exposure, moisture, fertilizer requirements, and compatibility.
£17.99
Workman Publishing Inside Outside: A Sourcebook of Inspired Garden
Book SynopsisAn inspiring guide to creating stylish and livable outdoor spaces An outdoor room is an extension of the home—a space that can used for entertaining, relaxing, cooking, playing, swimming, and more. In spaces large and small, outdoor rooms offer a retreat from daily life and a connection to nature. In Inside Outside, Linda O’Keeffe—former creative director of Metropolitan Home—will inspire you to create an outdoor living space that offers an oasis of comfort and style. O’Keeffe uses the language of interior design to inform her approach to exterior design, focusing on space, structure, movement, mood, and furniture.Inside Outside is filled with private gardens from North America and Europe that are inspiring and illustrative examples. From dramatic topiaries and black tulips in Massachusetts to the living wall in the courtyard of a Paris penthouse, fresh ideas permeate both the gardens found within this book and the design thinking behind them.
£24.29
K.C. Irving Environmental Science Centre & H. Irving Botanical Gardens A Natural Balance: The K.C. Irving Environmental
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£29.74
Hole's What Grows Here? Problems: Favorite Plants for
Book SynopsisIn the first, bestselling volume of the What Grows Here? Series, Jim Hole offered practical answers to gardening''s most important questions. Now, Jim turns his attention to problems, answering questions both mundane and bizarre, solving the most perplexing gardening dilemmas and describing today''s best plant varieties, plants you can count on to tackle the garden''s toughest challenges while providing peerless beauty. With over 400 full colour photographs, tips from other successful gardeners, and advice from one of Canada''s most accomplished gardening professional, What Grows Here? Volume 2: Problems is a must-own volume for today''s gardener.
£14.39
Impact Publishing Ltd Create Ponds
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£3.99
Pointed Leaf Press Bloom: The Luminous Gardens of Frederico Azevedo
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£54.00
teNeues Publishing UK Ltd Living Roofs: Urban Gardens Around the World
Book Synopsis"And Living Roofs is landscape inspiration galore."—Living Magazines(Cheshire, Cotswolds, Essex, Hampshire, Hereford, Oxford and Wiltshire) A green paradise high above the city’s rooftops is something so many people dream of, including those living in cities and searching for peace and quiet. Whether it’s a communal garden for an entire building or an exclusive personal and private oasis, a colourful sea of flowers, home-grown vegetables or a pool, there are no limits when it comes to the imagination of amateur gardeners. This book of photographs showcases the most beautiful and varied urban rooftop terraces and exotic garden paradises from all around the world: from the Berlin country garden and the sprawling sundeck of the U Penthouse in Madrid to the enchanting rooftop expanse of the Willow House in Singapore. The featured locations, both unusual and individual, offer ample inspiration for your own dreams of a rooftop garden. Just sit back and enjoy this gorgeous book on your sundeck or in your cosy alcove. The following locations are included in the book: Milan, Italy (3) Mantua, Italy Madrid, Spain Athens, Greece London, UK (3) Antwerp, Belgium (2) Rotterdam, Netherlands Munich, Germany (2) Berlin, Germany Dresden, Germany Singapore (2) Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Sydney, Australia (2) New York City (8) Austin, Texas San Francisco, California Berkely, California Mill Valley, California Toronto, Canada (2)Trade Review"Detailed plant listings mean that you can start to plan out your own rooftop oasis, knowing which varieties will best suit your space, climate and capabilities." - Homes & Interiors Scotland"And Living Roofs is landscape inspiration galore." - Living MagazinesTable of Contents5 A Roof with a View Introduction 9 Willow House Singapore 17 Edgeland House Austin, Texas, USA 23 Hilgard Garden Berkley, California, USA 31 Watermarque Sydney, Australia 35 Sky Garden Singapore 41 Mill Valley Cabins Mill Valley, California, USA 47 House for Trees Ho Chi, Minh City, Vietnam 55 41 Bond New York, USA 61 Euclid Avenue Toronto, Canada 65 Archilabo Milan, Italy 73 U Penthouse Madrid, Spain 77 Forest Lodge Eco House Sydney, Australia 85 Pacific Heights Rooftop Garden San Francisco, USA 89 Green Roof + Garden Toronto, Canada 101 Tribeca Loft New York City, USA 109 Carnegie Hill House New York City, USA 115 Rotterdam Rooftop Oasis Rotterdam, The Netherlands 121 Kᾱfer Rooftop Garden Munich, Germany 127 Central Park West Rooftop Terrace New York City, USA 133 Roof Terrace in Holland Park London, United Kingdom 139 Roof Garden Dresden-Strehlen Dresden, Germany 143 Spain on the Roof Antwerp, Belgium 149 Crosby Street Rooftop Terrace New York City, USA 157 Outside Urban Mantua, Italy 163 Copacabana De Luxe Antwerp, Belgium 169 Rooftop Munich Bogenhausen Munich, Germany 175 Milan Rooftop Terrace Milan, Italy 181 Thames Roof Terrace London, United Kingdom 187 West Village Co-op New York City, USA 193 Romolo Private Terrace Milan, Italy 199 East Village Rooftop Garden New York City, USA 205 Chelsea Creek Dockside House London, United Kingdom 211 Roofescape Melissia Athens, Greece 215 Tribeca Penthouse Garden New York City, USA 222 Index 224 Imprint
£43.96
Oxford University Press Dispossessing the Wilderness
Book SynopsisThis book examines the ideal of wilderness preservation in the United States from the antebellum era to the first half of the twentieth century, showing how the early conception of the wilderness as the place where Indians lived (or should live) gave way to the idealization of uninhabited wilderness. It focuses on specific policies of Indian removal developed at Yosemite, Yellowstone, and Glacier national parks from the early 1870s to the 1930s.Trade ReviewDispossessing the Wilderness has many virtues. Accurate, detailed accounts of the creation of Yellowstone and Glacier national parks rest on solid research, as does the story at Yosemite. * The Journal of American History *Adding to recent scholarship exploring the cultural construction of nature, this succinct study opens up new areas of research in park service scholarship and paves the way for a more comprehensive study of the role and place of Native Americans in the national parks * The Historian *Table of ContentsIntroduction: From Common Ground 1: Looking Backward and Westward: The "Indian Wilderness" in the Antebellum Era 2: The Wild West, or Toward Separate Islands 3: Before the Wilderness: Native Peoples and Yellowstone 4: First Wilderness: America's Wonderland and Indian Removal from Yellowstone National Park 5: Backbone of the World: The Blackfeet and the Glacier National Park Area 6: Crowning the Continent: The American Wilderness Ideal and Blackfeet Exclusion from Glacier National Park 7: The Heart of the Sierras, 1864-1916 8: Yosemite Indians and the National Park Ideal, 1916-1969 Conclusion: Exceptions and the Rule
£31.34
Little, Brown Book Group This Other Eden Seven Great Gardens 300 Years of English History
Book SynopsisTHIS OTHER EDEN is a captivating narrative of seven great gardens, beautiful canvases that represent not just pleasure grounds but a country''s evolution. Showpieces of grand design, they are also barometers of social change; lasting reflections of intellectual endeavour, of religion and philosophy, science and technology, art and literature. From Robert Cecil''s garden at Hatfield House, conceived by the famous botanist and plant-collector John Tradescant, who travelled widely to seek out unusual specimens, to Capability Brown, who ''improved'' upon nature to create the archetypal English parkland; from Joseph Paxton, whose engineering feats at Chatsworth mirrored the great Victorian age of technology, to Getrude Jekyll, who turned back to nature and designed the English cottage garden renowned the world over, this beautifully illustrated book will join the ranks of other bestselling cultural histories of the garden such as Anna Pavord''s THE TULIP and Simon Schama''s THE EMBARRASSMEN
£25.00
Lulu.com The Bug Out Gardening Guide Growing Survival Garden Food When It Absolutely Matters
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£20.35
Penguin Young Readers The Permaculture Garden
£25.92
£14.00
£47.48
LEGARE STREET PR Roses for English Gardens
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£19.95
LEGARE STREET PR How to Lay Out a Garden
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£28.45
LEGARE STREET PR How to Lay Out a Garden
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£19.90
Legare Street Press Le Potager De Versailles
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£22.75
Legare Street Press The The Water Garden Embracing the Construction of Ponds
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£22.75
Legare Street Press Selections From Observations On Modern Gardening
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£22.75
Legare Street Press The The Gardens of Italy by Charles Latham With Descriptions by E. March Phillipps. Volume Volume 1
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£23.70
LEGARE STREET PR Die Die GartenArchitektur
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£22.75
Legare Street Press Royal Gardens
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£25.60
Legare Street Press The The Cottage Garden of America
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£25.60
Legare Street Press Plans raisonnes de toutes les especes de jardins
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£23.70
Legare Street Press Colour in my Garden
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£28.45
Legare Street Press Japanese Gardens
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£26.55
Legare Street Press Garden Rockery how to Make Plant and Manage It
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£23.70
LEGARE STREET PR The The Home Garden
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£22.75
LEGARE STREET PR Lart De Former Les Jardins Modernes Ou Lart Des Jardins Anglois
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£29.40
LEGARE STREET PR The The Small Garden Beautiful
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£24.65
Creative Media Partners, LLC Garden Ornaments
£22.75
Creative Media Partners, LLC Magazijn Van Tuinsieraaden
£14.96
Lulu.com Seasonal Japanese Garden Design
£23.74
Read Books Roses For English Gardens
£25.64
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Vertical Gardening Tips For Beginners
£12.12
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform The Ultimate Guide to Companion Gardening for Beginners: How to Use Companion Plants for a Successful Flower or Vegetable Garden
£14.90
Read Books Gardens for Small Country Houses
£18.99
Read Books Colour in the Flower Garden
£16.99
Read Books The Ideal Garden
£18.99
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Baking Soda: Natural Remedies for Health, Beauty and Home
£11.52
Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc Trellises, Planters & Raised Beds: 50 Easy,
Book SynopsisA step-by-step guide that gives any gardener all the information needed to make garden furnishings that are both simple and beautiful. This book includes 50 complete plans for trellises, raised beds, planters, window boxes, and just about any imaginable project you can make to train and display plants in your garden and around your home. Featured projects are created using a host of easily found materials, including wood, metal, hypertufa, upcycled barrels, clay pots, sticks, latticework, copper tubing, re-rod, wire, landscape timbers, retaining wall block, and natural stone. Each plan includes photographs, a scaled plan drawing, cutting and shopping lists, and thorough step-by-step instructions.
£21.03
Echo Point Books & Media The New Zen Garden
£27.95
Mojo Enterprises Garden Styles: Introduction to 25 Garden Styles: Gardening Basics for Beginners Series
£7.03
Timber Press (OR) Gardens of Texas
£40.00
Transformative Adventures Beauty in Abundance: Designs and Projects for Beautiful, Resilient Food Gardens, Farms, Home Landscapes, and Permaculture
£36.89
The Choir Press I want to like my Garden: how to make your garden better
Book SynopsisThis is a garden book unlike any other because it will help make your garden better. Knowing what makes gardens work, helps you understand why your garden isn't working for you. Correct what's wrong, make the right changes to improve your garden. Redesigning all or part of the garden is made simpler, know what questions need asking, avoid making mistakes and understand how to combine plants to create beautiful borders with a unique but really simple method. Learn how to ensure your garden is better at looking after itself, so your free time is not spent gardening! Lastly change some gardening habits the world no longer needs, know your garden is good for the planet too. This is a book that shows how your garden can be made better.Trade ReviewInstead of using a method common in gardening books, (find a garden you like the look of and recreate it) Rachel's book encourages inexperienced and/or reluctant gardeners to take a new approach. This book will save you money, unnecessary hard work and disappointment and will help create your perfect garden. Sarah Wilson, Roots and All; full of ideas that will provide the deep satisfaction a garden will bring. From tackling unwanted plant guests, to top tips that will aid our precious environment . . . great design advice . . . easy to read and reference and guides you gently into the art of the garden. Chris Collins,Head of Horticulture - Garden Organic and Former Head Gardener, Westminster Abbey;A cracking read . . . for new and experienced gardeners . . . an eye-opener for those with more experience . . . bursting with that rarest of things in gardening books - common sense. Mandy Watson, award winning blogger at MandyCanUDigit.comTable of ContentsAcknowledgments iv; I WANTED MY GARDEN TO BE BETTER 1; DO YOU LIKE YOUR GARDEN? 5; What stops you enjoying the garden? 6; Putting things right 16; Learn to love your garden again 20; IMPROVING THE GARDEN 22; What's the difference between a front and back garden? 22; How to make an existing border lower maintenance 26; Proper planting 34; Perfectly good pruning 38; What to do with misbehaving plants 40; HOW TO CHANGE THE GARDEN 50; Rules to remember before you do anything! 51; Designing around problems you can't change 58; First time gardeners 63; Drawing the design 70; Planting with 'boxes' 76; Garden styles and why they don't work 79; Common garden mistakes 84; HOW YOUR GARDEN CAN HELP SAVE THE WORLD 113; OK, IT MIGHT NOT BE THE WORLD'S GREATEST GARDEN BUT ... 130; USEFUL STUFF TO KNOW ABOUT PLANTS 132; Designing with 'Boxes' 146; Bibliography 154; INDEX 155; AND FINALLY ... 158; ABOUT THE AUTHOR 159;
£14.11
