Now you can keep the beautiful colors of your summer garden with you all year long in the form of vibrant dyes for natural fibers. A DYER'S GARDEN walks you through a garden season from design to planting to harvesting for the dye pot. The hundreds of colors presented are but a sampling of the striking hues you can achieve by following the author ...
This book, with its color photographs of present-day Shaker gardens and quotes from their original gardening manual and Shaker journals, includes detailed discussions of medicinal and culinary herbs that can be of use today.
54 designs created by Southeastern landscape professionals featuring 200 region-specific plants. Over 450 color photos and drawings. Now covers the entire state of Florida. US: AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN
Valuable hints on dyeing fibers and fabrics, soap plants to use for cleaning textiles, fragrant plants to scent and protect fabrics; planning and creating a garden featuring cotton, flax, indigo, much more.
In this series, homeowners will find inspiring ideas for making the home landscape more attractive and functional. Created by landscape professionals in each region, each book contains 46 designs with more than 200 plants that are proven performers. Provides detailed instructions for projects such as paths, patios, ponds, and arbors. 176 color ...
The essential one-volume reference for all North American gardeners, Taylor's Master Guide to Gardening covers the six distinct gardening regions in North America and features the contributions of thirty-five expert consultants from every region. More than three thousand outdoor ornamental plants are described. No matter how many garden books you ...
46 designs by area professionals, over 200 plants that are proven performers, and 430 color photos and drawings. Now includes coverage of 4 new states. US: IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI Canada: Ontario (southern)
Includes 46 designs created by Mid-Atlantic landscape professionals, over 200 plants that are proven performers, and more than 430 color photos and drawings. US: DE, Long Island, MD, NJ, PA, VA, WV
In this series, homeowners will find inspiring ideas for making the home landscape more attractive and functional. Created by landscape professionals in each region, each book contains 46 designs with more than 200 plants that are proven performers. Provides detailed instructions for projects such as paths, patios, ponds, and arbors. More than 400 ...
Readers learn landscaping fundamentals, including choosing plants that match the site, avoiding common mistakes with foundation plantings, designing and building paths and steps, creating privacy, and caring for landscape vegetation. 35 illustrations. 400 color photos.
In this series, homeowners will find inspiring ideas for making the home landscape more attractive and functional. Created by landscape professionals in each region, each book contains between48 and 54 designs with more than 200 plants that are proven performers. Provides detailed instructions for projects such as paths, patios, ponds, and arbors. ...
In this series, homeowners will find inspiring ideas for making the home landscape more attractive and functional. Created by landscape professionals in each region, each book contains 46 designs with more than 200 plants that are proven performers. Provides detailed instructions for projects such as paths, patios, ponds, and arbors. More than 400 ...
The book for gardeners in Maryland, Virginia, Tennessee, West Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Arkansas, and eastern Texas includes more than 250 species of trees, shrubs, ground covers, vines, ferns, and grasses. 300 color photographs; maps.
Gardeners who choose plants only for their flowers can miss out on as much as six months of gardening beauty. In this comprehensive guide, the emphasis is on plants that are beautiful all year long. Here you'll find trees, shrubs, vines, ferns, and grasses with evergreen foliage, distinctive profiles, colorful twigs, textured bark, bright berries, ...
Plants for dyeing, herbs for repelling moths, fibers for spinning and stuffing, woody shrubs for traditional textile tools -- their histories, complete horticultural treatments, and contemporary uses are all covered in detail.
Here are complete instructions for 20 different handspun, handknitted socks. Patterns include hiking socks, knee socks, "girly-girl" lace socks, and much more. You'll also find notes on spinning, choosing equivalent commercial yarns, and managing all the tricky little techniques that make socks so much fun to knit.
For whatever reasons gardeners plant herbs, they will find in this book the answers to all their questions, plus an encyclopedia of 400 herbs and a gallery of 260 color photos and 60 black-and-white drawings.
After years in preparation, here is the landmark one-volume reference that American gardeners have been awaiting. Includes more than 3,000 detailed descriptions of species, the essentials for creating a garden, and a complete, environmentally sound approach to garden maintenance. 1,300 color photos and illustrations; 330 line drawings.
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