This guide to tree identification contains more than 1,000 full color photographs. Each tree is illustrated in full detail by leaf, flower, and shape. Includes index with Latin and common names.
The most comprehensive shrub guide to be published anywhere, covering over 1,900 shrubs--in stunning four-color photographs. The format is the same as the successful Roses and Trees of North America.
Describes over 1,000 bulbs and bulblike plants from all over the world. Arranged in the calendar order in which they flower. Text and illustrations guide gardeners on how to plant and grow bulbs.
A comprehensive guide to the mushrooms and other fungi of North America. The author has spent years in field research, studying and photographing thousands of specimens and even identifying a previously unknown variety that is now named after him. Each of the photographs are taken in controlled studio light, revealing the characteristic physical ...
In addition to detailed coverage of more than 650 types of vegetables from around the world, all of which can be grown in the U.S., this primer on vegetables and vegetable gardening gives descriptions of the important vegetable families, tips on culitvation, lists of seed suppliers, and more. Over 1,000 color photos. Index.
The spectacular reception of the book and audio versions of Feynmans Six Easy Pieces (published in 1995) resulted in a worldwide clamor for More Feynman! More Feynman! The outcome is these six additional lectures, drawn from the celebrated three-volume Lectures on Physics. Though slightly more challenging than the first six, these lectures are ...
The perfect valentine for garden lovers, "The 3,000 Mile Garden" recounts the correspondence of nature photographer Roger Phillips, who lives in London, and American food writer Leslie Land. Their exchange of ideas, bed plans, practical tips, and recipes has already been a bestseller in Britain and is the basis for a PBS-TV series. of color photos ...
World-famous gardening and nature photographer Roger Phillips and American food writer Leslie Land's shared passion for gardening and food led them to begin a long-distance relationship via letters. Their exchange of ideas, bed plans, practical tips, and recipes became the foundation for this book (a bestseller in Britain) and the basis of the PBS ...
Part of the bestselling Random House Book of . . . gardening series, this volume also stands alone as a necessary handbook for any gardener, novice or experienced. More than 1,500 of the easiest-to-growt trees, shrubs, roses, perennials, annuals, and bulbs are profiled, with tips on planting, feeding, propagating, transplanting, and more. 1,500+ ...
The authors have compiled eight small format books that cover the most popular subjects for gardeners in the "Plant Chooser Series". The series is aimed at the less-expert gardener who may be buying plants for the first time.
Authoritative and unsurpassed in the quality of its photographic illustrations, this book is designed to give gardeners and cooks ideas for choosing the very best herbs for use in the kitchen. Color photos.
These 2 handbooks--organized by seasonal flowering periods--feature over 3,000 color photos, as well as practical advice on selection, planting and cultivation. Some 5,000 of the world's favorite flowering plants are depicted.
Roger Phillips, creator of "Wild Flowers" and its bestselling companion volumes, turns his attention and his camera to the wide range of good things to eat from the countryside and seashore. From the multitude of species that are safely edible, he has selected those that are actually attractive and appetizing as food. Beautiful colour photography ...
A beautifully designed, comprehensive book featuring 1,400 roses from all over the world serves as the definitive guide to roses. Full-color photographs accompany each rose.
Focusing on topics related to Einstein's theory of relativity, this book and audio CDs reproduce the author's lectures of the 1960s. The book is also available on its own (ISBN 0-201-15025-5).
Volume two includes begonias, lilies, jasmines, orchids, hoyas, palms, ferns, oleanders and other select groups of conservatory and indoor plants. All these plants grow outdoors in Mediterranean or subtropical climates and most of them need shelter of a cool greenhouse or conservatory in areas that have frost in winter, a few need heat. All of ...
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