Nature in the arts Books
Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Engelse Bulldog
£16.71
Independently Published Rode panda
£16.71
Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Aerial Wonders Exploring Prespes Lakes from Above
£14.40
Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Zomer
£16.73
Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Gier
£19.42
Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Winter
£19.40
Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Insekty i chrz261szcze
£19.72
Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Mastering Macro
£14.59
Independently Published Picture Book of Bird for Alzheimers or Dementia Patients
£13.71
Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp SCOTLAND Whispers by Waterfalls
£19.99
Independently Published Les oiseaux de nos jardins
£14.78
Independently Published Golden Retriever
£18.08
Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Gustave Loiseau
£28.99
Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Birds From My Window
£8.20
Independently Published Birds: A Special Edition Coloring Book
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£13.74
Parragon Sticker by Number Animals
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£11.44
Little, Brown & Company Cabin Porn Inside
Book SynopsisLearn to make your own quiet place somewhere with this inspiring journey inside tranquil cabins and handmade homes, from the creators of the wildly popular Cabin Porn phenomenon. Cabin Porn began as an online project created by a group of friends to inspire their own homebuilding. It has grown into a global phenomenon, attracting thousands of submissions from fellow cabin builders and a passionate audience of millions interested in simple, efficient homes and the beauty of nature. Cabin Porn: Inside invites readers into these handmade homes to discover rooms of warmth and simplicity, connected by the universal desire to bring a simple building to life in harmony with the land around it. Each of these tranquil getaways is a lesson in living simply and joyfully.Here you will find hundreds of examples of what makes a cabin: the small details that enable their dwellers to live pleasantly
£20.20
The Natural History Museum The Art of India
Book SynopsisThis evocative collection of natural history drawings, produced over a period of more than two hundred and fifty years, captures the rich variety of animals, birds and insects to be found in India and the magnificent flora of the different regions.Trade Review"...features hundreds of drawings by the scientists and artists who revolutionised our understanding of the biodiversity of the Indian subcontinent" The Independent; "The text is interesting and very readable...the images are staggeringly beautiful and invite the reader to look at them time and time again. The author and Natural History Museum deserve praise." Yorkshire Gazette & Herald
£11.69
The Natural History Museum Interesting Insects
Book SynopsisInteresting Insects presents striking and surprisingly photogenic insect portraits, each specially selected from the oldest and most important entomology collection in the world - 34 million specimens held by London's Natural History Museum.
£11.69
British Museum Press Birds
Book SynopsisA richly illustrated poetry anthology featuring beautiful images of birds from around the worldTable of ContentsIntroduction • The poems • Further reading and sources • Illustration references
£9.49
Rizzoli International Publications The Coast of Maine
Book SynopsisWith a coastline that rivals California’s, Maine attracts millions of visitors each year who come to swim, fish, hike, or just enjoy the views. Many of the images present a near panoramic scope, placing the viewer in the middle of a wilderness splendor. The photographs capture the region’s famous sandy beaches, tree-covered mountains, tidepools brimming with life, and secluded harbors, as well as quaint villages, historic lighthouses, cranberry bogs, and lobster boats. Chapters cover Ogunquit, Kennebunkport, and Portland to Penobscot Bay, Mount Desert Island, and Cobscook Bay. A central focus is Acadia National Park, one of the top ten most visited national parks in America. Nearby, the town of Bar Harbor hosts more than eighty cruise ships each year. The book also celebrates offshore Maine, with images of whales, puffins, and other elusive sea creatures. The Coast of Maine makes an affordable and charming gift for anyone planning, or dreaming of, a visit to this glorious r
£13.48
Rizzoli International Publications Art Ecology and the Resilience of a Maine Island
Book SynopsisA richly illustrated catalogue of visual art recording the changing ecology of Monhegan Island, a renowned artist destination off the coast of Maine.
£35.20
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC A Cultural History of Insects
Book SynopsisInsects are the form of life most alien to us. Across millennia, insects have been providers and sources of food as well as feared vectors of infection. Particular insect types have come to be associated with beauty, diligence, and social and divine order, whilst others have become symbols of invasion, disease, and social decay. Today, insects are used to create luxury goods, to pollinate crops, to color political rhetoric, and to contribute to modern-day logistics, genetics, and forensics. A Cultural History of Insects reveals how our relationship with insects in life and in death is one of our most productive and intimate.The work is divided into 6 volumes, with each volume covering the same topics, so readers can either study a period/volume or follow a topic across history. The 6 volumes cover: Antiquity (c.1000 BCE-500 CE); the Medieval Age (500-1300); the Renaissance (1300-1600); the Age of Enlightenment (1600-1820); the A
£418.00
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Reading Underwater Wreckage
Book SynopsisPresenting a novel and needed theoretical model for interpreting shipwrecks and other drowned fragmentsthe histories they tell, and the futures they presageas junctures of artefact and ecofact, human remains and emergent ecologies, this book puts the environmental humanities, and particularly multispecies studies, in close conversation with literary studies, history, and aesthetic theory. Earth's oceans hold the remains of as many as three million shipwrecks, some thousands of years old. Instead of approaching shipwrecks as either artefacts or ecofacts, this book presents a third frame for understanding, one inspired by the material dynamism of sea-floor stuff. As they become encrusted by oceanic mattersome of it living, some inanimateanthropic fragments participate in a distinctively submarine form of material relation. That relation comprises a wide, and sometimes incalculable, array of things, lives, times, and stories. Drawing from several centuries of literary, philosophical, anTrade ReviewReading Underwater Wreckage is a book that does not operate at the surface; it is not an overview. Instead, The Encrusting Ocean introduces a dynamic methodology in oceanic interpretation that focuses on submerged artifacts. The book's encrusted theory unfolds as a valuable addition to the growing body of work in the blue humanities and new materialism. It is a book that inevitably will push the blue humanities to greater depths. -- Professor Sid Dobrin, University of Florida, USAThis book is a remarkable confluence of material culture, environmental humanities, and literary studies – but at its heart is the work of the sea itself. Quigley invites us to sift through the de debris of the seafloor with new feelers, new eyes, new conceptual prosthetics. We are invited to rethink the sea as archive and artist, and to reconsider what sunken treasure augurs in a time of rapid cultural and environmental change. * Astrida Neimanis, University of British Columbia, Canada *Reading Underwater Wreckage is a poignant and insightful entreaty to keep in mind that how we think and write, and conduct science, about wreckage is of paramount importance because wrecks are not things of the past. They are real things that impact real lives, then as now. -- Sarah Rich * Journal of Maritime Archaeology *Table of ContentsFigures Acknowledgements Preface: Submersions, Wrecks, and Stirrings Introduction I. Lively Debris: Ontologies of an Encrusting Ocean II. First Habit: Fouling III. Second Habit: Concrescing IV. Third Habit: Artmaking Bibliography Index
£80.75
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Tree Climbing Cure
Book SynopsisOur relationship with trees is a lengthy, complex one. Since we first walked the earth we have, at various times, worshiped them, felled them and even talked to them. For many of us, though, our first memories of interacting with trees will be of climbing them.Exploring how tree climbers have been represented in literature and art in Europe and North America over the ages, The Tree Climbing Cure unpacks the curative value of tree climbing, examining when and why tree climbers climb, and what tree climbing can do for (and say about) the climber's mental health and wellbeing.Bringing together research into poetry, novels, and paintings with the science of wellbeing and mental health and engaging with myth, folklore, psychology and storytelling, Tree Climber also examines the close relationship between tree climbing and imagination, and questions some longstanding, problematic gendered injunctions about women climbing trees. Discussing, among others, the literary works of MaTrade ReviewThe Tree Climbing Cure confirms what many of us knew as children—that there’s something intrinsically good about gazing down at the world from precarious perches in trees. It’s no wonder that there’s abundant literature and art devoted to the tree-climbing (and other ways of being near trees), and Andy Brown deeply examines this aesthetic tradition in his excellent contribution to the current movement of arboreal ecocriticism. -- Scott Slovic, University Distinguished Professor of Environmental Humanities, University of Idaho, USAIf the art of climbing rock has a long and popular literary and artistic history, why are those who climb trees associated with immaturity and derangement? Who knew that tree climbers, too, have a long and fascinating artistic history which Andy Brown reveals in this remarkable book? Without dodging the difficult questions, Brown carefully considers the wellbeing issues raised by tree climbing arts. And you don’t have to leave the ground to feel the benefits sensitively conveyed by this uplifting book. -- Terry Gifford, author of The Joy of Climbing, Green Voices, Pastoral and Reconnecting With John Muir.Andy Brown's The Tree Climbing Cure is a fascinating study of tree climbers and tree climbing in literature and art as well as in practice across Europe and North America. The book's emphasis on the restorative power of tree climbing is particularly timely. The Tree Climbing Cure will appeal to a range of readers, from scholars and students of ecocriticism and environmental philosophy to anyone who enjoys time among trees. -- Karen Thornber, Harry Tuchman Levin Professor in Literature and Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University, USA, author of 'Ecoambiguity' and 'Global Healing'Table of ContentsIntroduction: #manintree Chapter One: The Science of Nature and Wellbeing Chapter Two: Trees and the Mind Chapter Three: The Climbing Cure Chapter Four: The Family Tree Chapter Five: The Child in the Tree Chapter Six: The Archetypal Tree Chapter Seven: The Visionary Tree Chapter Eight: #womanintree Chapter Nine: ‘Tree Hugger’ Chapter Ten: Enthusiasm & Attitude: recreation, work, folly Conclusion: Descent Bibliography Index
£20.99
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC A Cultural History of Plants
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£123.50
Gibbs Smith Parklands
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£31.50
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Animal
Book SynopsisThis sumptuous book presents a selection of over one hundred stunning artworks, depicting animals real and mythical, from the prints and photography collections of the Bibliothèque nationale de France. The work opens with a preface from celebrated cultural historian Michel Pastoureau, who considers the symbolic importance of animals to our dreams and imagination. Each image is accompanied by a commentary from one of the BnF's expert editorial team of curators and archivists, which provides information on the natural and symbolic history of the creature depicted. Featured artworks include such masterpieces as Dürer's rhinoceros, Manet's cats, a carp by Hiroshige and Matisse's swan. This is a truly beautiful and authoritative collection of some of the most recognisable and accomplished works of animal-themed art, from the medieval period to the present day.Trade ReviewThe edition of Animal: A Beastly Compendium published by Bloomsbury in their beautiful range of “Art History” invites to touch, look, turn every page and to dream yourself into the pictures and immerse yourself in the stories they tell. * The Protagonist Magazine *Opulent, provocative and mind-opening, Animal is a magnificent compendium, which is witness to the intertwining of human and animal lives, showing not only how richly and insistently humans have thought about animals, but also how good animals are to think with. * Steven Connor, Professor of English at Peterhouse, University of Cambridge, UK *Informative, thought-provoking and visually stunning, this volume will prove richly rewarding for anyone interested in probing the connections between animals, culture, art and history. The book's authoritative, engaging texts and sumptuous illustrations make Animal an intellectual and visual pleasure. * Pia F. Cuneo, Professor of Art History at the University of Arizona, USA *Table of ContentsAss - Bear - "Beast of Gévaudan” - Beaver - Bee - Bird - “Bird-Woman” - Bull - Butterfly - Camel - Carp - Cat - Chimera - Cow - Crocodile - Deer - Dinosaur - Dog - Dolphin - Dromedary - Duck - Elephant - Fish - Fox - Frog - Giant Squid - Giraffe - Goat - Goose - Grasshopper - Hippopotamus - Horse - Jaguar - Lion - Mole - Monkey - Mouse - Ostrich - Owl - Ox - Panther - Parrot - Peacock - Pelican - Pig - Porcupine - Rabbit - Ram - Rhinoceros - Salamander - Shrimp - Snake - Snowy Owl - Sperm Whale - Spider - Spiny Lobster - Stag - Swan - Tiger - Turtle Dove - Unicorn - Water Spaniel - Wild Boar - Wolf - Zebra
£38.25
Workman Publishing Cynthia Harts Victoriana Dogs Fido and Friends
Book SynopsisPart of bestselling designer Cynthia Hart''s Victoriana Dogs stationery line, this 1,000-piece puzzle features sweet and charming pups from the Victorian era, combining two big trends-dogs and vintage-into one sophisticated gift.Dogs were celebrated during the Victorian era because they embodied important cultural values of the time: steadfast, loyal, courageous. They became the most popular domestic pets-Dash, a King Charles Spaniel, was considered Queen Victoria''s closest childhood companion-and were pampered just as they are today. Created by artist Cynthia Hart, who layers antique paper ephemera, fresh flowers, ribbons, and vintage objects into lush collages filled with life, color, and energy, this timeless 1,000-piece puzzle celebrates the charming personalities of the dogs that captured hearts everywhere during the 19th century.- 1,000 interlocking pieces- Mini-poster (8 3/8 x 6 5/8) for reference or framing- Completed puzzle size: 23 4/5 x 19<
£17.00
Hatherleigh Press,U.S. Earth, My Dearest: Inspirations on Nature,
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£11.39
Workman Publishing The Plant Recipe Book: 100 Living Arrangements
Book SynopsisA follow-up to the widely popular Flower Recipe Book, The Plant Recipe Book is the next great thing in interior plant design, providing simple steps showing anyone how to create stunning living plant decor. Each one of the 100 “recipes” specifies the type and quantity of plants needed; clearly numbered instructions detail each step; and 400 photographs show how to place every stem. Traditional pots and plant containers are used, but so are less conventional vehicles and methods, like shutters and planting under glass. A basic how-to chapter provides planting techniques, a tools and materials list, sourcing and plant care information, and expert advice.Trade Review“An ingredient-by-ingredient approach to gardening—container gardening, in this case. . . . Seeing the spare, elegant results, it nearly made our mouth water.” —New York Times“Chapman’s new book will be cause for celebration. . . . The horticulture is daring and innovative. . . . A great addition to the library of any gardener; those whose tastes incline toward the small will find this book positively transformative.” —Publishers Weekly“Chapman is a master at creating living plant arrangements. She professes that mini-container gardens rival cut arrangements not only in beauty, but also in their longevity and ability to be repurposed. And, her creations prove it. . . . A feast of information and images, The Plant Recipe Book offers 100 of Chapman's recipes for creating living arrangements at home. Each recipe contains a plant and material ingredient list and easy to follow step-by-step assembly instructions illustrated with stunning images. Accessible to the brown and green thumb alike, the recipes range from a single plant ("on its own") to special occasion arrangements that require a bit more time and several ingredients." —Gardenista“An ingredient-by-ingredient approach to gardening—container gardening, in this case. . . . Seeing the spare, elegant results, it nearly made our mouth water.” —New York Times“Chapman’s new book will be cause for celebration. . . . The horticulture is daring and innovative. . . . A great addition to the library of any gardener; those whose tastes incline toward the small will find this book positively transformative.” —Publishers Weekly“Chapman is a master at creating living plant arrangements. She professes that mini-container gardens rival cut arrangements not only in beauty, but also in their longevity and ability to be repurposed. And, her creations prove it. . . . A feast of information and images, The Plant Recipe Book offers 100 of Chapman's recipes for creating living arrangements at home. Each recipe contains a plant and material ingredient list and easy to follow step-by-step assembly instructions illustrated with stunning images. Accessible to the brown and green thumb alike, the recipes range from a single plant ("on its own") to special occasion arrangements that require a bit more time and several ingredients." —Gardenista
£18.99
Workman Publishing The Life Cycles of Butterflies: From Egg to
Book SynopsisThis stunning photographic guide will have butterfly enthusiasts of all ages aflutter. Judy Burris and Wayne Richards include more than 400 full-color, up-close images that present the life cycles of 23 common North American butterflies in amazing detail. Watch caterpillars hatch from eggs, eat and grow, form into chrysalides, emerge as colorful butterflies, and fly through the air. You’ll also learn which plants butterflies avoid and which native species they’re attracted to, so you can create your own backyard butterfly haven.
£13.29
Workman Publishing Among Wild Horses: A Portrait of the Pryor
Book SynopsisSee the wild horses run! The Pryor Mountain Mustangs have roamed the high desert and mountains of the American West for centuries. Descended from steeds brought over by the Spanish conquistadores, their untamable nature and enduring courage inspire awe in all who have the chance to see them. Photographer Lynne Pomeranz spent two years with these magnificent creatures along the Montana-Wyoming state line, and her startlingly intimate photographs capture the resilience and free spirit that define these mustangs.
£16.14
Workman Publishing Storey's Illustrated Guide to Poultry Breeds:
Book SynopsisMore than 128 birds strut their stuff across the pages of this definitive primer for intrepid poultry farmers and feather fanciers alike. From the Manx Rumpy to the Redcap and the Ancona duck to his Aylesbury cousin, each breed is profiled with a brief history, detailed descriptions of identifying characteristics, and colorful photography. Comprehensive and fun, Storey’s Illustrated Guide to Poultry Breeds celebrates the personalities and charming good looks of North America’s quirkiest barnyard birds and waterfowl.
£17.09
Counterpoint The Nation Gone Blind: America in an Age of
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£14.39
Rizzoli International Publications African Menagerie: A Celebration of Nature
Book SynopsisDepicting more than 220 African species, the stunning large-scale mural African Menagerie is artist Brian Jarvi s masterwork. Lavishly reproduced in an oversize format with a gatefold, this book brings this landscape masterpiece to the conservationist, lover of Africa, and fan of wildlife art. In oversized colour reproductions, the book African Menagerie offers readers a look at the finer details of the realist renderings of the animals and birds across the seven panels and thirty feet. There are also reproductions of the animal studies Jarvi created in the seventeen years leading up to the final work. Measuring 28 feet across and a full one-story tall, and connected via seven interlocking panels, Brian Jarvi s painting includes more than 200 different African wildlife species, presented as if they are looking at us, the human viewers, seemingly challenging us to save this planet. Many of the species featured in Jarvi s painting are, according to experts, expected to be extinct in the wild by the middle of this century unless humankind takes bold action to ensure their continued existence. In oversized colour reproductions, African Menagerie brings the masterpiece home in an accessible manner. The studies offer a glimpse into the work and mind of a creative genius. In addition, the book tells the story of the work, and tracks the evolution and unlikely journey of Jarvi from once being a Duck Stamp artist to becoming one of the most notable wildlife painter of this generation.
£34.00
Workman Publishing Storey's Illustrated Breed Guide to Sheep, Goats,
Book SynopsisFrom the large-tailed Karakul sheep to the floppy-eared Gloucestershire Old Spot pig, North America is home to an extraordinary array of livestock. Comprehensive, colorful, and captivating, Storey’s Illustrated Breed Guide to Sheep, Goats, Cattle, and Pigs features full-color profiles of 163 livestock breeds. Whether you’re looking for a gentle domestic backyard animal or are hoping to introduce a rare heritage breed on your farm, you’re sure to find an animal that’s perfect for your needs.
£19.00
Workman Publishing Into the Nest: Intimate Views of the Courting,
Book SynopsisSee the intimate lives of birds as never before! Laura Erikson and Marie Read document the family lives of more than 50 common North American birds through breathtaking close-up photography. Stunning images of hummingbirds, owls, tanagers, and more showcase different stages of avian development and capture the loving bond that exists within each bird family. Bird enthusiasts of all feathers will cherish these beautiful images of courting, nest construction, eggs, nestlings, feeding time, and much more.
£13.94
Workman Publishing Poultry Breeds: Chickens, Ducks, Geese, Turkeys:
Book SynopsisPoultry Breeds is a fresh field guide of feathered friends with stunning photos highlighting the beauty and unique attributes of 104 chicken, duck, goose, and turkey breeds. Each profile outlines the bird’s history, physical characteristics, and common uses, with specially noted fun facts sprinkled throughout. This pocket-size, browsable guide is easy to use, and author Carol Ekarius knows her birds: she has been writing about livestock for nearly 20 years and has raised her own for decades.
£11.90
Princeton Architectural Press Paper Flowers Cards and Envelopes
Book SynopsisEach exquisite paper flower in this elegant collection blooms with extraordinary detail and color. Eighteenth-century British artist Mary Delany created each piece by cutting and layering tiny pieces of paper on black ink backgrounds. The fine shading and depth are as intricately detailed as a botanical illustration and scientifically accurate as well. Printed on thick, textured paper, the set features sunflowers, rhododendron, cornflower, water lilies, and more. Perfect for any occasion that warrants beauty and sophistication.
£14.78
Design Studio Press Principles of Creature Design: Creating Imaginary
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£31.99
Workman Publishing Nature Anatomy Notebook: A Place to Track and
Book SynopsisAdults and children are irresistibly drawn to Julia Rothman’s best-selling illustrated guide to the natural world, Nature Anatomy, with its colorful drawings that awaken curiosity — and invite imitation. With this companion volume, Rothman leads fans deeper into nature observation with her specially designed record pages for tracking daily nature sightings throughout the seasons. Her step-by-step technique tutorials for drawing a flower, a dragonfly, a robin, and much more, along with blank sketchbook pages, will inspire nature lovers and art enthusiasts of all ages to take up their own colored pencils or favorite pens and create their own unique Nature Anatomy Notebook. Also available in Julia Rothman's Anatomy series: Ocean Anatomy, Farm Anatomy, and Food Anatomy.
£14.24
Storey Publishing Nature Anatomy Posters
£16.14
Akashic Books,U.S. The Idealist: In My Eyes 25 Years
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£40.00
Timber Press (OR) The Illuminated Book of Birds
£22.50
David Zwirner Harold Ancart: Traveling Light
Book SynopsisIn the Belgian artist Harold Ancart’s rich new body of work, he turns an immersive landscape of trees, mountains, and seas into a meditation on painting itself. Harold Ancart often paints subjects that naturally invite contemplation, such as the horizon, clouds, flowers, flames, and icebergs. His newest body of work captures the experience of landscape seen in motion or from a distance: trees blurred while driving past, an inky-black sea seen from a distance, an evocative Martian mountain range. Recalling René Magritte, Egon Schiele, Gustav Klimt, and Piet Mondrian, who approached this subject matter in distinct ways, Ancart blurs form and color, figure and ground, and figuration and abstraction. Reproduced here in magnificent foldouts, two multipanel canvases situate the viewer between a mountainscape and a seascape, both monumental in scale. Ancart segments the seascape with a stark horizon line, dividing sky and ocean. Like other comparable motifs within the artist's oeuvre, the vividly colored cloudy sky functions in an anthropomorphic way, alluding to the endless possibilities and personalities of organic forms. Including an interview with Bob Nickas, this catalogue offers insight into Ancart’s frank reflections on painting, writing, nature, and more. The publication also features a new essay by Laura McLean-Ferris. Taken together, the works in Harold Ancart: Traveling Light meditate on the expansive possibilities of painting.
£36.00
Ulysses Press The Cottagecore Coloring Book: Coloring Pages of
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£12.52
Workman Publishing Creating a Garden Retreat: An Artist’s Guide to
Book SynopsisA garden is more than the sum of its parts—a garden can be anything one wants it to be. What’s important is that it have a heart. Through ethereal illustrations, textile designer and artist Virginia Johnson takes the reader on her own garden journey, from blank slate to dreamscape. Over the years, she has transformed a small, narrow city lot into a garden that is personal, carefree, wild, and welcoming. It all began with a fence to allow her children to play freely but safely, and over the years has turned into a city-dweller’s “secret garden.” Hornbeams, with their elegant shape, are the heroes of her garden, and the overall palette reflects an artist’s lens—peonies, hollyhocks, roses, and hydrangeas abound. Johnson explains her process with ease and clarity, bringing her ideas to life through words and illustrations so that readers can be encouraged and empowered to start their own garden journeys. The book is organized into clear chapters—Trees & Shrubs; Vines; Flowers; Seasons; Edibles; and more.Trade Review“Refreshingly low key. . . . Johnson’s irreverent sensibility will take the intimidation out of the game for those looking to have fun. New gardeners big on imagination will find Johnson’s encouragement just what they need to get out in the dirt.”—Publishers Weekly
£18.04
