Gardening: plants and cultivation guides Books
Hamlyn Herb Book
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£7.99
Perennials
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£4.38
Charlesbridge Publishing,U.S. Pumpkins
Book SynopsisDid you know pumpkins have been around for 11,000 years? Or that the biggest pumpkin on record weighed over 1,300 pounds? Learn all about pumpkins—where they come from, how to grow them, and more—in this informative book that''s guaranteed to squash the competition. Recipes, fun facts, and resources round out the text.
£7.59
Todtri Book Publishers Success with Orchids
Book SynopsisLearn which orchid plants to choose, how to obtain them, and how to cultivate them, either in a greenhouse or in the home.
£7.19
Timber Press Uncommon Climbers for Every Garden: A Hand-picked
Book SynopsisClimbing plants constitute a huge, and largely untapped, resource for today's gardeners. Because their habit of growth is primarily vertical, they can be used for utilitarian as well as ornamental purposes. This title features profiles of more than 115 of the climbing plants for various sites and conditions.
£15.00
Shambhala Publications Inc The Garden Classroom: Hands-On Activities in Math, Science, Literacy, and Art
£17.99
Lone Pine Publishing,Canada Herb Gardening for Canada
Book SynopsisHerbs add fragrance, beauty and practicality to your garden -- and it's easy to grow a wide variety of them just about anywhere in Canada. This book, by veteran garden writer Laura Peters, offers handy tips and advice on growing 47 varieties of herbs perfect for Canadian conditions: * Starting, maintaining and harvesting herbs * Propagation and winter care * Solutions to common garden problems. * This practical book will help you contribute to the age-old tradition of using herbs to flavour foods, give seductive scents to potpourris and perfumes, and add healthful, healing qualities to lotions and lip blams: * Exotic herbs such as kaffir lime, lemongrass, red valerian, fenugreek and stevia can be grown easily across Canada * Edible flowers such as nasturtiums and calendula can be grown for salads and flavouring in teas, honeys and butters * Fragrant herbs such as basil, rosemary and sage can be used in infusions, herbal baths and soaps.
£17.99
Lone Pine Publishing,Canada Vegetable Gardening for Alberta, Saskatchewan and
Book SynopsisThe Canadian prairies are an ideal place to grow a huge variety of vegetables, and there are plenty of healthful and economic benefits to having your own garden. Whether you have a traditional backyard space or several containers on a high-rise balcony, you can grow a season-long supply of tasty produce. Best-selling garden writer Laura Peters provides all you need to know to dig in: * Basics such as light, soil, exposure and frost tolerance * Almost infinite garden styles, including raised beds and limited space gardening * Preparing the garden and selecting which vegetables to grow where * Recommended varieties, including new, traditional, heirloom and unusual selections * Seasonal care, including mulching, weeding and watering * Tips throughout, including how to extend the growing season and what to do with your harvest * Organic approaches to management of pests and diseases * An appendix featuring companion plants and relationships * Helpful hardiness maps, and delicious colour photos throughout. * From A to Z--yummy asparagus, through to healthy kale and peculiar kohlrabi, all the way to colourful peppers, potatoes, tomatoes and zucchini--it's all here in this informative gardening guide.
£18.89
Short Books Ltd Veg Street: Growing Dinner on Your Doorstep
Book SynopsisYou don't need a country garden or an allotment to grow good fruit and veg... This book celebrates the fact that anyone can 'grow your own' and that through veg growing you can meet your neighbours and grow your own community too.
£14.44
Octopus Publishing Group RHS Plants from Pips: Pots of plants for the
Book SynopsisNEW EDITION COMING AUGUST 2021What do avocados, apples, mangos and tomatoes have in common? The answer is that they can all be grown at home, for free, from pips that you would otherwise throw into the recycling bin.RHS Plants from Pips shows you how to grow a range of fruit and vegetables, indoors and out, with minimum equipment and experience. This complete guide covers everything from the science of how plants grow to how to deal with pests and other problems. Find out what to grow, what to grow it in and when and where to grow it for the best results. Packed with colourful photographs and step-by-step illustrations, this is the perfect way to introduce beginners of all ages, from 6 to 60, to the joys of watching things grow.
£999.99
Rayne Norris Microdosing Cannabis Evolution for Pain: The
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£17.09
Anness Publishing Easy to Grow Vegetables and Fruit: A Practical
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£4.49
IMM Lifestyle Books Garden Plants of the World
Book SynopsisDesigned to aid in the identification of over 4250 cultivated trees, shrubs and climbers of the world, this reference guide provides easy-to-access photographic information on a vast range of plants. The guide briefly descibes each genus, providing details of the country of origin, climatic preference, planting use and propogation method. Photographs of relevant species for that genus are shown along with a brief text giving their common name or names and typical characteristics and growth habits. All the plants are listed in alphabetical order by genus.
£16.99
Cavalier Paperbacks Vegetables: Grow Them, Cook Them, Eat Them
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£8.99
Fushsias
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£10.18
The Good Life Press No Time to Grow: Gardening Solutions for a Busy
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£9.45
Vintage Publishing The Garden Farmer
Book SynopsisSelected as a Book of the Year 2017 in You Magazine'A lavish monthly guide to getting the most from your garden' Daily MailA punnet of plums from your tree, a handful of gooseberries; home-grown nuts and herbs, and a few freshly laid eggs from your hens – all enjoyed in your own small plot. What could be more satisfying?The Garden Farmer is an evocative journal and monthly guide to getting the most out of your garden throughout the year. Whether you are a keen gardener looking for inspiration, or just starting out and wanting to rediscover and reclaim your patch of earth, Sunday Telegraph garden-columnist Francine Raymond lays the groundwork for a bountiful year of garden farming. Maybe you would like to get outside more, grow a few essential vegetables, some fruit trees or bushes for preserving, and create a scented kitchen garden to provide for you year round. Or perhaps you will raise a small flock of ducks or geese, or even a couple of pigs? Could this be the year you decorate your home with nature’s adornments, encourage wildlife back to pollinate your trees and plants, and spend celebratory hours in a haven of your own creation? Each chapter of The Garden Farmer offers insight into the topics and projects you might be contemplating that month, along with planting notes and timely advice, and a recipe that honours the fruits of your labour. With just a little effort and planning, every garden can be tended in tune with nature, and every gardener can enjoy a host of seasonal delights from their own soil.Keep up-to-date with Francine's gardening adventures on her blog at kitchen-garden-hens.co.uk.
£18.00
New Holland Publishers All about Roses: A guide to growing and loving roses
£11.99
Indus Publishing Company Propagation of Plants
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£10.00
Lone Pine Publishing International Inc. Best Garden Plants for Missouri
Book SynopsisA handy, easy-to-use reference of the plants best-suited for Missouri gardens and covering annuals, perennials, trees, shrubs, vines, climbers, roses, bulbs and herbs. St. Louis garden writer Anita Joggerst has co-written this great garden companion that features an abundance of beautiful photographs and information about each plant''s special features, its habitat, height and spread, best soil, light and water conditions, and tips about the best use of the plant in your garden.
£13.49
Lone Pine Publishing International Inc. Perennials for Georgia
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£15.29
Lone Pine Publishing International Inc. Herb Gardening for the Midwest
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£14.39
Lone Pine Publishing International Inc. Water Garden Plants for Washington and Oregon
Book SynopsisThe rewards of the water garden can be great. The sight of ponds and waterfalls, and the sound of running or trickling water, automatically brings a sense of calm to our otherwise hectic lives. Water gardening has become increasingly popular with gardeners in the Northwest but it brings with it some unique challenges. Water Garden Plants for Washington and Oregon is an excellent guide to getting started. The book features over 100 types of plant suitable to water garden and border plantings under Northwest growing conditions. Each account features a full-color photographic enlargement of the plant up close, as well as a picture of the plant in the garden setting. The text includes information on habitat, height, spread, hardiness, optimal growing conditions, recommended species, as well as possible problems and pests. The Plants At A Glance section at the front of the book makes it quick and easy to find any type of plant in the collection. A comprehensive 51-page Introduction covers the basics of climactic conditions in the Northwest, determining the best pond design, size and location, building a pond, establishing and maintaining pond ecosystems, types of water plants and how to buy, plant and maintain them, as well as problems and pests you may encounter. A Quick Reference Chart at the back of the book is handy when you''re in the garden and need to quickly check specific plant information. The book also features a Glossary of terms and an Index.
£15.29
Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp The Money Saving Gardener
£12.46
HarperCollins Publishers THE GRASS IS GREENER Our love affair with the lawn An AngloSaxon Passion
Book SynopsisGrass and its organisation into lawns is a particularly English obsession.Trade Review‘A witty, quirky history of the lawn – and fond tribute to the lawnmower’ The Times ‘This book is absolutely hilarious. Brilliantly written, a minor classic. A gem.’ The Field ‘Even those without green fingers will find Tom Fort’s hymn to horticulture entertaining.’ Evening Standard ‘Cultural history at its best’ Country Life
£14.24
Random House Publishing Group A Victorian Flower Dictionary
Book Synopsis“A flower is not a flower alone; a thousand thoughts invest it.” Daffodils signal new beginnings, daisies innocence. Lilacs mean the first emotions of love, periwinkles tender recollection. Early Victorians used flowers as a way to express their feelings—love or grief, jealousy or devotion. Now, modern-day romantics are enjoying a resurgence of this bygone custom, and this book will share the historical, literary, and cultural significance of flowers with a whole new generation. With lavish illustrations, a dual dictionary of flora and meanings, and suggestions for creating expressive arrangements, this keepsake is the perfect compendium for everyone who has ever given or received a bouquet.
£20.00
Kejafa Knowledge Works The Vegetable Producers Manual A Practical guide for cultivating vegetables profitably
£35.10
CSIRO Publishing Pruning and Training Systems for Modern Olive Growing
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£40.12
CSIRO Publishing Grafting and Budding A Practical Guide for
Book SynopsisA comprehensive and practical guide on all of the grafting techniques the professional and home gardener is likely to need.
£26.25
DK Companion Planting for Beginners
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£17.99
DK No Dig
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£32.00
Harvard Common Press Landscaping with the Native Plants of Wisconsin
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£16.99
IntechOpen Malus domestica New Insights
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£95.00
Workman Publishing Bulbophyllums and Their Allies
Book SynopsisThis is the first book devoted solely to bulbophyllums, a very diverse group of orchids comprising the largest genus in the orchid family; it is an introductory guide for amateur and advanced orchid growers. The author focuses on those species likely to be cultivated, including 375 Bulbophyllum species and 170 related species and hybrids; she gives practical suggestions on how best to grow each plant in cultivation. This book is only available through print on demand. All interior art is black and white.
£25.50
Wildeye 101 Uses for Stinging Nettles
Book SynopsisStinging nettles are, for many of us, nothing more than persistent weeds with a painful sting. But apart from having an important role in the web of life, nettles are an incredibly useful plant to mankind. They have been put to myriad uses by our ancestors, and many of these are still valid today. Already stinging nettle products are growing in popularity in the field of alternative medicine, as their wide range of health benefits becomes better known.This unique book explores the diverse uses of this fascinating plant - in the garden and the kitchen, for their medical and fibrous properties and so on. It is packed with practical suggestions, as well as a guide to the botany of stinging nettles, and how to collect and store them. For example, you will discover how to use nettles to:make a liquid plant fertiliser brew an unusual beer make a dandruff treatment protect beehives flavour an omelette make friendship bracelets repel flies naturally make green or yellow fabric dyes keep yourself warm in the winter and much more ...The many health benefits of taking nettles in various forms include relief from: hay fever and other allergies; acne and other skin conditions; arthritis and rheumatism; asthma; stress; high blood pressure; depression; enlarged prostate gland.The book also features Digital Nettle Art!
£8.90
£11.99
Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Arborsculpture
£22.34
Norton Creek Press We Wanted a Farm
£20.42
Whitworth and I - Press A Garden of Herbs
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£17.09
The Art of Simpling
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£9.49
B&b Publications Success With Hydrangeas A Gardeners Guide
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£25.37
B&B Publications Success With Hydrangeas
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£35.43
£10.58
Evans Webb Blooming Verses
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£11.88
Legare Street Press Annuals Biennials the Best Annual and Biennial Plants and Their Uses in the Garden
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£15.95
LEGARE STREET PR An Island Garden
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£22.75
LEGARE STREET PR An Island Garden
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£14.96
LEGARE STREET PR Colour in the Flower Garden
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£25.60
