What goes in, must come out, and as soon as humans ceased to be hunter-gatherers and settled with their families and livestock into static communities, both ends needed sustainable attention. Dung from an array of sources - man, horse, blackbird, pigeon and the Beast of Paeonia - has fuelled economies, superstitions and rich rewards. In this ...
Do you dare delve into the thorny undergrowth? Why do jasmine flowers make you more sexually alluring? When is an apple not an apple? Are trees the tallest plants? Why should tadpoles look out for Fairy Aprons? What could I grow on Mars? This book answers hundreds of intriguing questions about flowers, plants and trees for which you thought you'd ...
Part of Prestel's "Icons" series, this book takes a look at the masterpieces of garden design and how they have influenced our understanding of this ancient and complex art. Through 80 iconic gardens, illustrated with over 300 colour images, this book traces the development of garden design worldwide from mediaeval gardens to contemporary ...
As heard on BBC Radio 4, broadcaster Caroline Holmes conducts a tour through gardening tips and tales down the ages, from the biblical Noah, who 'began to be a husbandsman, and he planted a vineyard, and he drank of the wine and was drunken' to George Bernard Shaw - 'Gardening is the only unquestionably useful job.' The range of advice is wide in ...
The must-have ingredient of any garden, herbs have long been the stalwarts of the cottage garden, imparting fragrance and health as well as flavor to beds and borders. However, today's garden designers have realized that herbs can also help to shape or be a key visual element in a garden. The Romantic Herb Garden shows how you can design with ...
Claude Monet spent the last 43 years of his long life at Giverny creating the beautiful gardens: the most famous in France and one of the most visited in the world. Garden historian and designer Caroline Holmes explores Monet's twin passions -painting and plants - and looks at his intelligent approach to creating a personal paradise of lily ponds ...
Arranged in thematic chapters, this practical book not only discusses the many ways you can use herbs, but looks at herbs either as a backdrop to, or indeed as the star, of any garden scheme. The adaptibility of herbs has enabled them to be planted in healing gardens, herbaceous borders, paving, walls, and raised bed planting, pots and other ...
This delightful book presents Victorian gardening style and design using beautiful landscapes lavish with carpet beds, topiary, statuary, sundials, marble and stone walkways, as well as classical architectural ruins, fountains, and pools. Highlights include Osborne House, on the Isle of Wight (Queen Victoria's country home), Biddulph Grange in ...
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