Vicki Mattern, Fern Marshall Bradley
This Almanac and Pest-Control Primer is a trusted organic gardening friend that will help you plan, plant and enjoy your garden. Its filled with the best ideas, nifty gadgets and secret shortcuts from the editors and readers of Organic Gardening magazine. You'll find to-do lists for gardening tasks, how-to instructions and illustrations for composting, planting, pruning, harvesting, and more, plus problem-solving for garden pests.
256pp, 9.5x8, illus. ... ISBN 0875968643 ... Paperback
Published price £16.99 -- You save £11.00 ... 65%
The ultimate guide to annuals, biennials, and perennials. This comprehensive A-Z listing identifies over 2,000 flowering plants, and includes a wealth of information on cultivation in all climate and soil conditions. Also includes a handy reference table and an index of common names and synonyms, which makes for easy use. Truly an exceptional value with over 1,000 pages and over 2,500 beautiful, full-color images.
1008pp, 8x6, illus. ... Paperback
Published price £19.99 -- You save £11.00 ... 55%
Peter Chan
This illustrated volume looks at the history and philosophy of Japanese gardening explaining, without technical jargon, the reasons behind the aesthetic, as well as showing the practical aspects that go to make up this form of gardening. The introduction looks at the general principles of the Japanese garden and its history, before going on to look in detail at elements of these gardens such as rocks, water, plants and accessories (including fences, gates, lanterns, water basins and stepping stones). The author then shows how to create a Japanese, with practical hints and tips for design and construction. This is the main section of the book and is split into three parts: the courtyard garden, the strolling garden and the Zen garden. There are photographs to show step by step how each garden was created, with detailed captions that explain the process from design and planning to the finished garden.
176pp, 11x9, illus. ... Hardback
Published price £18.99 -- You save £10.00 ... 53%
Philip Cave
For the Japanese, the garden is a microcosm of the world, full of abstract symbols. Their fascinating gardening tradition has its origins in ancient philosophy and religion and is the perfect expression of the Oriental affinity with nature. These serene and distinctive gardens, with their potent spiritual force, have inspired gardeners the world over. Creating Japanese Gardens brings this great tradition within the scope of any modern gardener through an examination of its philosophy and the meaning of its essential features, providing the knowledge and techniques for Westerners to understand and design a Japanese-style garden in the true spirit of the art.
176pp, 11x8½, illus. ... Paperback
Published price £16.95 -- You save £8.00 ... 47%
Loren Nancarrow & Janet Hogan Taylor
A beautiful garden that's pest-free and environmentally conscious? Yes! Dead Daisies Make Me crazy, a companion to the highly successful Dead Snails Leave No Trails, picks up where the first book left off, offering a wide range of new tips and techniques for truely effective organic gardening. Whereas most organic gardening books go into mind-numbing detail and require many labour-intensive steps, here you'll find a myriad of easy suggestions and techniques that are proven to work - with minumum effort yet maximum yield. Remainder mark.
178pp, 9x6, illus. ... Paperback
Published price £9.99 -- You save £5.60 ... 56%
Claire Nahmad
A collection of over thirty charms and spells, all associated with the magic of the garden, including how to create a healing garden and how to create flowerbeds that harbour peace and goodness. Forty beautiful full-colour and black-and-white illustrations.
96pp, 7.25x4.5 ... Hardback
Published price £4.99 -- You save £2.00 ... 40%
Roni Jay
The land we plant, cultivate and decorate has always represented perfection in a flawed world. Gardens provide fresh food, beauty for the eyes and a restful place for the soul. This book will help you to create your own special garden, using some of history's most lovely and exotic landscapes as a model and inspiration. Choose from the meditative tranquillity of a Zen garden, the fruit-and-rose-filled sanctuary of an Islamic garden, the pathways, arbours and fountains of a medieval garden, and an Italian renaissance garden.
144pp, 9x7.5, illus. ... Paperback
Published price £10.99 -- You save £5.50 ... 50%
David Squire
"The Healing Garden" is a practical guide to a wide range of ways in which the garden can be made into a place to heal body, mind and soul. Interpreting "healing" in its widest sense, the book explores historical traditions of gardens as places of peace and meditation and as a source of medicinal plants. Each chapter deals with one kind of healing and introduces specific plants of interest, explaining their uses in a variety of contexts - from edible feasts to folklore remedies.
144pp, 9.75x9, illus. ... Paperback
Published price £12.99 -- You save £9.00 ... 69%
Les Bridgewood
Plants need nutrients, air, water and light with a little warmth to survive. Traditionally these have been provided by soil, but hydroponic techniques allow plants not only to survive but also to thrive by gaining the perfect balance of nutrients from a regulated solution. Offering step-by-step instruction on how to build you own hydroponic systems, this straightforward guide demonstrates how to arrange and automate a greenhouse and advice on how to grow a variety of plants and control pests. It covers the flood and drain method, drip feed, nutrient film technique, aeroponics and aquaponics. It also contains a detailed examination of nutrient content and the strength of solutions.
144pp, 10x7.5, illus. ... Paperback
Published price £14.99 -- You save £9.00 ... 60%
Lauri Brunton & Erin Fournier
Peaceful gardens come alive in this lushly photographed and oversized volume. Serenity is found in soothing, flowing water and the brilliant colors and mystical perfume of fragrant plants. "Each chapter is devoted to a particular aspect of a sanc-tuary garden: peace, change, passion, mystery, and contemplation....The photographs are glorious." - The American Gardener.
144pp, 11.75x10.5, illus. ... Hardback
Published price £23.99 -- You save £13.00 ... 54%
Christopher Forrest McDowell & Tricia Clark-McDowell
To create a garden with deep intent is to create a sacred place. The authors made such a place - a sanctuary garden and teaching centre. This book is a lovingly written and illustrated sharing of their experience, filled with the knowledge of a reverential way of life devoted to peace, to place and to stewardship. Seven design elements are key in making a space that will nurture the soul of each garden visitor: a special entrance, water, colour, sitting areas, natural anchor points, art and wildlife habitat. A chapter is devoted to each of these elements, with tips, sketches and lovely line drawings that reveal spiritual meaning as well as teach the element’s place in garden design. Remainder mark.
160pp, 9.25x7.5, illus. ... Paperback
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David R Murray
Completely revised and updated, this new edition of David Murray's authoritative and comprehensive book covers everything you need to know to bew a successful organic gardener. In simple and straightforward language, David gives practical advice on soil preparation, mulching, water conservation, weed management and how to collect and store seeds to propogate your own plants. Separate chapters include information on growing herbs, the various types of root and leaf vegetables, fruit and nut trees, and growing in pots and containers. David Murray challenges the traditional concepts of gardening, such as planting flowers and vegetables in separate beds, and instead adopts the ecologically sustainable method of companion planting. In following his approach, natural pest and weed management can be achieved without resorting to pesticides. THIS IS AN AUSTRALIAN EDITION SO SOME INFO MAY BE AUSTRALIA SPECIFIC SUCH AS THAT ON PESTS. Remainder mark.
176pp, 9.5x7.25 ... ISBN 0731812670 ... Paperback
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David Pearson
There has always been romance and magic in the idea of living in the treetops. Here's a book to satisfy even the most vivid imagination. However appealing the fantasy, the reality of designing and building a treehouse is a daunting challenge. Once accomplished, however, the rewards are a source of endless pleasure. Treehouses features the stories of more than 20 not-so-ordinary people who turned their dreams into real treehouses This is a collection of the pinnacles of treehouse construction selected from all over the globe, from frigid Scandinavia to the tropics of Hawaii, with plenty of stops in between. You'll learn how to: re-create a wilderness spirit in your own backyard; build your treehouse in the way that is best for the tree and the forest; and make building your treehouse as much fun as living in it.
96pp, 8x8, illus. ... Hardback
Organic Gardening Magazine
Nothing beats the taste of vegetables from a home garden-especially if they are organically grown, and it's never been easier. Vegetables includes chapters on preparing the soil, the latest tools, and new vegetable breeds with increased phytonutrient and vitamin content.
112pp, 9x6 ... Paperback
Published price £10.99 -- You save £6.60 ... 60%
W Lippert & D Podlech
Covers over 250 of the commonest flowers found in Britain and Europe. Each species is illustrated and described in detail in the text. The flowers are organized by colour.
256pp, 7x4, illus. ... Paperback
Published price £7.99 -- You save £4.00 ... 50%
