ilość książek w kategorii: 10210
Green Roofs: Ecological Design and Construction
ISBN: 9780764321894 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Cooling cities, Reducing energy demand, Containing water runoff, Preserving wildlife habitat, Enhancing urban well-being: These are a few of the many reasons why green roofs are sprouting in cities around the world. Examine possibilities for city-wide green roof development through 335 color photographs, 40 case studies of exemplary green roof building projects, and 7 municipal case studies describing green roofs in Berlin, Tokyo, London, Portland, Chicago, Toronto, and New York. This book details the ecological benefits, technical requirements, architectural history, and design possibilities...
Cooling cities, Reducing energy demand, Containing water runoff, Preserving wildlife habitat, Enhancing urban well-being: These are a few of the many ...
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186,70 zł |
Fences, Gates & Walls
ISBN: 9780764326431 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Do you know the difference among a boundary, privacy, and security fence? Or what a Good Neighbor fence is? Or a dry stonewall? You might know about living hedges but what about snow fences? Adding a wall or fence to your property can be a major decision. It requires good design and good thinking to identify the best style, design, and material to meet your needs. Originally, fences and walls were constructed primarily for protection. Today, they are built for privacy, security, as well as protection from noise and headlights. This new book helps you select the wall or fence that suits your...
Do you know the difference among a boundary, privacy, and security fence? Or what a Good Neighbor fence is? Or a dry stonewall? You might know about l...
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116,04 zł |
Landscaping for the Mid-Atlantic
ISBN: 9780764327001 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Celebrated landscape designer Terry Wallace guides you in the creation of the landscape of your dreams in the Mid-Atlantic United States. Discover the joy and satisfaction to be found in creating a garden that complements and enhances your lifestyle. Wallace takes you step-by-step through the process of creating a beautiful and sustainable garden. She offers a host of practical tips about basic design, planning, and maintenance specific to this climate. Most importantly, the beautiful images will inspire you to transform your garden home into an amazing botanical retreat.
Celebrated landscape designer Terry Wallace guides you in the creation of the landscape of your dreams in the Mid-Atlantic United States. Discover the...
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116,04 zł |
Lawn Care For Dummies
ISBN: 9780764550775 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Only one thing is standing between you and a fabulous lawn: It's called Lawn Care For Dummies. If you want a spiffy and well-coifed lawn (and not the overgrown, unruly one that people comment on when they pass by your house), you'll find everything you need to know to help you make your lawn the most dazzling spectacle on the block.
Let authors Lance Walheim and the gardening experts at the National Gardening Association treat you and your yard to a megadose of lawn care information. In Lawn Care For Dummies, Walheim and the NGA give you the dirt on all the essentials, including... Only one thing is standing between you and a fabulous lawn: It's called Lawn Care For Dummies. If you want a spiffy and well-coifed lawn (and not the ...
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84,96 zł |
Orchids For Dummies
ISBN: 9780764567599 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. 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, keep them healthy, encourage blooms, and even propagate your own plants. Discover how to: * Select orchids that will thrive in your home * Water, fertilize, repot, and propagate orchids * Decipher... Packed with photos, including 8 pages in full color
Color your world with orchids Orchids are beautiful, fragrant, wonderful... |
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90,27 zł |
National Geographic Field Guide to Birds: Colorado
ISBN: 9780792255611 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 271 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Designed to fit in a backpack or pocket for easy access, each of these handy and popular bird field guides comprises 272 pages and features about 175 birds organized by family as approved by the American Ornithological Union. Standard features include:
Locator Map at the front listing regional birding hotspots; Introduction by an expert on where to find the state's top birds How-To-Use Section with general tips on birding and advice on making the most of the guide; 125 Easy-Access Individual Entries providing a photograph of the bird in its habitat, recognition clues, specific... Designed to fit in a backpack or pocket for easy access, each of these handy and popular bird field guides comprises 272 pages and features about 175 ...
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63,89 zł |
Insects That Feed on Trees and Shrubs: Exotic European Travel Writing, 400-1600
ISBN: 9780801426025 / Angielski / Twarda / 1991 / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. A journal that is descriptive of insects that feed on shrubs and trees.
A journal that is descriptive of insects that feed on shrubs and trees.
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454,26 zł |
The Birds of Ecuador: Field Guide
ISBN: 9780801487217 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 816 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Birds of Ecuador comprehensively treats the nearly 1600 species of birds that can be found in mainland Ecuador. The authors describe Ecuador this way: "One of the wonders of the natural world. Nowhere else is such incredible avian diversity crammed into such a small country. . . . Birds are, happily, numerous in many parts of Ecuador: even the downtown parks of the big cities such as Quito and Guayaquil host their complement." Volume II, the field guide volume of this two-volume set, contains 96 full-color plates and facing pages of descriptive text, a color map of... The Birds of Ecuador comprehensively treats the nearly 1600 species of birds that can be found in mainland Ecuador. The authors describe E... |
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235,04 zł |
The Figure in the Landscape: Poetry, Painting, and Gardening During the Eighteenth Century
ISBN: 9780801839368 / Angielski / Miękka / 1989 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Eighteenth-century England saw the rise of a peculiarly English art form -- landscape gardening -- and a corresponding change in attitudes toward the natural world. While the French, who lived under tyranny, had tightly organized, restrictive gardens, the free English enjoyed gardens where they were at liberty to wander. John Dixon Hunt examines eighteenth-century letters, literary and critical works, biographies, paintings, prints, and drawings to trace the gradual movement from formal regularity toward a carefully calculated naturalness.
Eighteenth-century England saw the rise of a peculiarly English art form -- landscape gardening -- and a corresponding change in attitudes toward the ...
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146,11 zł |
Sea Turtles: A Complete Guide to Their Biology, Behavior, and Conservation
ISBN: 9780801880070 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. For more than a hundred million years, sea turtles have been swimming in the world's oceans. These magnificent, long-lived creatures spend their lives in the water, coming ashore to lay their eggs. Upon hatching, the baby turtles leave the nest and enter a dangerous world of storms and predators. The females will return to the same beach to lay their own eggs when they reach maturity a decade later. Today, there are seven species of sea turtle: the grass-eating green turtle; the sea sponge-eating hawksbill; the olive ridley; the Kemp's ridley, which is the smallest species; the loggerhead;... For more than a hundred million years, sea turtles have been swimming in the world's oceans. These magnificent, long-lived creatures spend their li... |
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146,11 zł |
Field Guide to the Natural World of New York City
ISBN: 9780801886829 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. New York just might be the most biologically diverse city in temperate America. The five boroughs sit atop one of the most naturally rich sites in North America, directly under the Atlantic migratory flyway, at the mouth of a 300-mile-long river, and on three islands--Manhattan, Staten, and Long. Leslie Day, a New York City naturalist, reveals this amazing world in her Field Guide to the Natural World of New York City. Combining the stunning paintings of Mark A. Klingler with a variety of photographs and maps, this book is a complete guide for the urban naturalist--with tips... New York just might be the most biologically diverse city in temperate America. The five boroughs sit atop one of the most naturally rich sites in ... |
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119,45 zł |
Pigeons: The Fascinating Saga of the World's Most Revered and Reviled Bird
ISBN: 9780802143280 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Pigeons have been worshipped as fertility goddesses and revered as symbols of peace. Domesticated since the dawn of man, they ve been used as crucial communicators in war by every major historical superpower from ancient Egypt to the United States and are credited with saving thousands of lives. Charles Darwin relied heavily on pigeons to help formulate and support his theory of evolution. Yet today they are reviled as rats with wings. Author Andrew D. Blechman traveled across the United States and Europe to meet with pigeon fanciers and pigeon haters in a quest to find out how we came to...
Pigeons have been worshipped as fertility goddesses and revered as symbols of peace. Domesticated since the dawn of man, they ve been used as crucial ...
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68,38 zł |
Beginning Bonsai: The Gentle Art of Miniature Tree Growing
ISBN: 9780804817295 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 56 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Learn to grow and care for decorative bonsai trees with this user-friendly Japanese gardening book. For those with no bonsai tree growing experience, Beginning Bonsai: The Gentle Art of Miniature Tree Growing covers everything from buying the first plant for beginning bonsai to creating a miniature landscape of rocks, grasses and trees. Authors Larry and Shirley Student describe different bonsai styles, list important tools, explain pruning and pinching and introduce procedures like defoliation. They cover all aspects of how to cultivate these miniature trees, anticipating...
Learn to grow and care for decorative bonsai trees with this user-friendly Japanese gardening book. For those with no bonsai tree growing e...
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63,89 zł |
The Gourd Book
ISBN: 9780806125725 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Humankind has had a long and intimate association with gourds, and one of them, the bottle gourd, or calabash, may have been man's first cultivated plant. Although grown in the United States today primarily as ornamentals, in other parts of the world gourds have many other important uses. With charming text and stunning black-and-white photographs, "The Gourd Book"provides fascinating scientific information and folklore about these remarkable plants and keys for identifying species.
The first part of the book deals with tree gourds, widely used as containers and for decoration;... Humankind has had a long and intimate association with gourds, and one of them, the bottle gourd, or calabash, may have been man's first cultivated pl...
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155,58 zł |
The Earth Knows My Name: Food, Culture, and Sustainability in the Gardens of Ethnic Americans
ISBN: 9780807085714 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Patricia Klindienst crossed the country to write this book, inspired by a torn and faded photograph that shed new light on the story of her Italian immigrant family's struggle to adapt to America. She gathered the stories of urban, suburban, and rural gardens created by people rarely presented in books about American gardens: Native Americans, immigrants from across Asia and Europe, and ethnic peoples who were here long before our national boundaries were drawn--including Hispanics of the Southwest, whose ancestors followed the Conquistadors into the Rio Grande Valley, and Gullah gardeners of...
Patricia Klindienst crossed the country to write this book, inspired by a torn and faded photograph that shed new light on the story of her Italian im...
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102,56 zł |
Jacques-Felix Lelievre's New Louisiana Gardender
ISBN: 9780807124796 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Originally published in 1838, Nouveau Jardinier de la Louisiane, by Jacques-Felix Lelievre, was the first of only two books on Louisiana gardening to be written in the nineteenth century. The book drew upon the confident spirit of eighteenth-century Enlightenment France, forming a bridge from the writings of French horticulturalists to an American audience. Optimistic, ambitious, and progressive, the guide urged gardeners to manage nature by acclimating new species and constantly improving native ones through the application of innovative scientific techniques. Now available in English for... Originally published in 1838, Nouveau Jardinier de la Louisiane, by Jacques-Felix Lelievre, was the first of only two books on Louisiana gardening ... |
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149,36 zł |
Gardening in the Humid South
ISBN: 9780807129746 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 359 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Two self-proclaimed "crotchety old horticulture professors," Ed O'Rourke and Leon Standifer share an immense love of gardening, a vast knowledge of all things horticultural, and a hearty sense of humor. In Gardening in the Humid South, they combine all of these traits to provide a practical and entertaining guide to gardening in the region they know best, the humid subtropics of the lower South. In chapters with titles like "Bulbs and Things That Act Like Bulbs" and "Weeds: Telling Good Guys from Bad Guys," Ed and Leon offer friendly how-to advice on a broad array of issues, including... Two self-proclaimed "crotchety old horticulture professors," Ed O'Rourke and Leon Standifer share an immense love of gardening, a vast knowledge of... |
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93,81 zł |
The Herb Society of America's Essential Guide to Growing and Cooking with Herbs
ISBN: 9780807132555 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Fresh herbs offer a healthy and delicious way to spice up any meal, but growing and cooking with these delectable plants are endeavors fraught with uncertainty. What herbs will grow year-round on my kitchen windowsill? What foods complement rosemary? Which part of a lemongrass plant has the best flavor? Can I really eat the geraniums growing in my flower bed? This indispensable guide from The Herb Society of America takes the guesswork out of using herbs in the garden and in the kitchen by providing detailed information for cultivating a wide variety of herbs, along with easy-to-follow... Fresh herbs offer a healthy and delicious way to spice up any meal, but growing and cooking with these delectable plants are endeavors fraught with... |
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128,00 zł |
Growing and Propagating Wild Flowers
ISBN: 9780807841310 / Angielski / Miękka / 1985 / 341 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This book, the most complete and expert treatment of wild flower propagation and cultivation to date, offers a sure approach to gardening with native plants while practicing good conservation. Based on ten years of pioneering research at the North Carolina Botanical Garden, Growing and Propagating Wild Flowers features practical, easy-to-follow methods for raising native plants from seeds, cuttings, and divisions specific instructions on the propagation and cultivation of plants representing nearly 100 genera of wild flowers, carnivorous plants, and ferns more than 250 illustrations,...
This book, the most complete and expert treatment of wild flower propagation and cultivation to date, offers a sure approach to gardening with native ...
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166,67 zł |
Successful Southern Gardening: A Practical Guide for Year-Round Beauty
ISBN: 9780807842416 / Angielski / Miękka / 1989 / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In this practical, how-to book on the problems and possibilities of gardening in the tricky environments officially known as zones 7 and 8, Ladendorf draws on her own experience, interviews and research for her weekly newspaper column, and visits to hundreds of public and private gardens. Although this book will be particularly helpful to novice gardeners and newcomers to the area, it also offers a vast amount of current information for the seasoned gardener.
In this practical, how-to book on the problems and possibilities of gardening in the tricky environments officially known as zones 7 and 8, Ladendorf ...
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123,93 zł |