A professional horticulturist provides tips for maintaining a healthy, happy perennial garden, including how to prepare the soil, control pests and diseases, and choose plants, plus sage directions for dead-heading, pinching back, and pruning. An encyclopedia of perennials is also included, along with a calendar showing when to do what. ...
Includes more than 2,000 plants and animals. Spanning the land from Florida to Alaska, it embraces field, forest and prairie. Includes color-coded name tabs for all 16 sections, habitat guides, maps and 2000 color portraits (1 for every plant and animal).
Inspired by a short, bizarre newspaper article, journalist Susan Orlean embarks on an amusing two-year journey to understand a passionate, yet somehow principled crook and one of his ephemeral obsessions--wild orchids. Her profile of John Laroche was the basis for the critically acclaimed film, ADAPTATION (2003), directed by Spike Jonze, and ...
Showcasing a lush bouquet of blossoms perfect for embellishing clothing or accessories, these lovely blooms are the perfect way to use up scraps of yarn or try out interesting new yarns. Breeze through this gorgeous collection featuring a colorful palette of simple spiraling roses, saucer-sized poppies, delicate lilacs, an assortment of vegetables ...
"Perennial Combinations" features plant medleys that bring colour, texture, and excitement to the garden in every season. The book features 130 of the best perennial combinations with photographs of each grouping, along with a numbered photo key and plant list. Each grouping features just two to six plants; gardeners can plant the combinations as ...
Lawrence Newcomb's system of identification on wild flowers is based on natural structural features that are easily visible to the untrained eye and enables amateurs and experts to identify almost any wildflower quickly and accurately.
This work is packed with photos, including 8 pages in full color. Color your world with orchids. Orchids are beautiful, fragrant, wonderfully varied, and surprisingly affordable. But aren't they hard to grow at home? No! says orchid grower extraordinaire Steve Frowine. In this handy guide, he shows you step by step how to select the right orchids, ...
Easy-to-follow diagrams show how to use simple shapes to draw realistic likenesses of a sunflower, daisy, rose, morning glory, tulip, daffodil, and 24 other blossoms.
Go behind the scenes in Tasha Tudor's 19th-century gardens, her "paradise on earth." Martin's text and Brown's photos explore gardens filled not only with flowers and vegetables but with a menagerie of corgis, Nubian goats, fantail doves, exotic finches, cockatiels, nightingales, and parrots.
Based on the author's 30-year study with over 50,000 plants, "The Complete Book of Cacti and Succulents" offers a photographic A-Z which profiles more than 300 plants, with practical advice for propagating and cultivating them and imaginative ideas for display. The expert advice, supported by step-by-step photographs, covers subjects ranging from ...
From the producers of the bestselling "Illustrated Encyclopedia of Orchids" (Timber Press, 1992) comes the definitive reference for orchid enthusiasts. More than 1500 orchids are described in full detail, with over 1500 stunning photographs showing plants in their native habitats wherever possible. Listed alphabetically by botanical name, each ...
This trustworthy guide and tour through the jungle of perennials that are available from nurseries, garden centers, and mail-order sources describes the 150 greatest, most beautiful, longest-flowering, easiest to care for "all star" perennials. A Perennials Plant Finder helps readers pinpoint the perfect plants for each specific site in a garden. ...
This handsome reference, now available in paperback, is sure to delight gardeners. Encompassing a wide spectrum of orchid genera, more than 1,100 species and hybrids commonly in cultivation are detailed.
The perfect tree-ripe apple is as tempting today as it was in the day of Adam and Eve. Now every gardener can grow their temptations with the help of this in-depth guide. Over 80 charts and illustrations will lead the novice through selecting, planting, and caring for the young fruit tree. For the more experienced gardener, there are tips on ...
In this picture book retelling of a folk legend, a Native American artist sets out to create a painting that is as beautiful as the sunset. Color illustrations accompany the text.
In his first book in more than ten years, David Austin introduces 40 recently developed varieties of English roses, in addition to 40 of his best-loved and time-tested favorites. Beautiful photographic portraits of each are complimented by notes on attributes, history, and special requirements for growing in the garden.
Christopher Beane's extraordinary work moves beyond the cliches of flower photography and has reinvigorated the genre with a different kind of intensity and vision, making flower images new again. Avoiding the hackneyed and sentimental, Beane's photographs have earned him comparisons to Robert Mapplethorpe, Georgia O'Keefe, Edward Weston, Brice ...
Uses interactions between the plant and the environments as a foundation for developing plant physiology principles-light and plant development, temperature effects, etc. Discusses the role of plants on specific ecosystems and global ecology and provides information on the cell, chemical background, plant growth regulators and biochemistry. This ...
Describes how pumpkins come in different shapes and sizes, how they grow, and their traditional uses and cultural significance. Includes instructions for carving a pumpkin and drying the seeds.
The bestselling National Audubon Society field guides to North American wildflowers have been brought to a new level of beauty, accuracy, and usefulness. More than 700 new full-color photos, showing every species both in close-up and in its natural setting, highlight these updated guides. New introductions provide clearer and more complete ...
Judith Baker Montano shows the reader how to create floral scenes in thread, ribbon and more. She offers a collection of embroidery stitches, along with her own stitching wisdom and creative design ideas, for hand-worked pieces to enhance the home, clothing and special gifts.
One of Germany's most innovative Bach flower practitioners presents his healing system, which correlates zones of the body with appropriate remedies. Profusely illustrated. Includes many case studies.
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