Category: Gardening
Suzanne Turley is one of New Zealand's most sought-after landscape designers. Across her 30-year career, from her Auckland studio, she has crafted some of the country's most prestigious gardens. Today, Suzanne works with young Italian landscape architect Ermanno Cattaneo; with their combined experience, ...Show more
Category: Gardening
Pruning Fruit Trees: A Beginners Guide is here to unbundle the complicated world of pruning and provide step-by-step instructions to beginners. Calm trees is the overall aim. A less is more approach to cutting with a focus on training as well as pruning. This doesn’t mean wild, woolly things that ...Show more
Category: Gardening
In recent years home gardeners have become increasingly concerned about the use of pesticides. Unfortunately this concern has been exacerbated by many garden journalists and authors who have promulgated misleading and sometimes totally erroneous information about pests and diseases in general, and pesti ...Show more
Category: Gardening
Ever wondered how worms breathe? Or why exactly trees are so big? This book covers all aspects of gardens and gardening, and will satisfy all your horticultural curiosity. Packed with photographs, vintage engravings and diagrams, this book will answer everything from the practical to the quirky and whim ...Show more
Category: Gardening
A practical, highly illustrated guide to planting and maintaining a vegetable garden that will become an essential reference for gardeners of all skill levels seeking to grow some, or all, of their own food. This newly revised and updated third edition of The Tui NZ Vegetable Gardencontains all the esse ...Show more
Category: Gardening
Get to grips with pruning in your garden with this handy little guidebook from an experienced National Trust head gardener. It's packed with useful, easy-to-follow advice on pruning all the plants that need it, from individual roses to the hedge that encircles your garden, including shrubs, climb ...Show more
Category: Craft - Floral | Reading Level: 6 Gardening
A glorious survey of work by more than 70 contemporary floral designers who are extending the boundaries of their art Blooms celebrates the explosive impact that floral designers from the last decade have had on a previously underappreciated art form. This stunning book is the most ambitious survey of ...Show more
Category: Gardening
This lavish book from Veranda--the magazine that knows the art of luxurious living--offers a wealth of ideas for creating exceptional outdoor rooms and spaces. You're invited to enjoy abundant gardens, elegant porches, stunning courtyards, and magnificent pools--all of which grace homes designed by th ...Show more
Category: Gardening
Monk's House in Sussex is the former home of Leonard and Virginia Woolf. It was bought by them in 1919 as a country retreat, somewhere they came to read, write and work in the garden. From the overgrown land behind the house they created a brilliant patchwork of garden rooms, linked by brick paths, secl ...Show more
Category: Gardening
Adapted from the U.S. bestseller "All New Square Foot Gardening," this new edition applies the proven principles of square foot gardening to the European growing environment. The entire book has been converted to the metric system, but the adaptations go much deeper than that. We consulted the finest ga ...Show more
Category: Gardening
One of the foremost plant conservationists in the world, Amy Goldman has devoted her life to cultivating fruits and vegetables. A 200-acre plot of land in the Hudson Valley has become home to an abundance of organic produce, with orchards full of apples, pears and peaches and plots of squashes, melons, ...Show more
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When Falstaff calls upon the sky to rain potatoes in The Merry Wives of Windsor, he highlights the belief that the exotic vegetable, recently introduced to England from the Americas, was an aphrodisiac. In Romeo and Juliet, Lady Capulet calls for quinces to make pies for the marriage feast, knowing th ...Show more
