wyszukanych pozycji: 6
Farther Afield: A Gardener's Excursions
ISBN: 9780374520632 / Angielski / Miękka / 1988 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In this splendid collection of short essays, gardener, writer, and professor Allen Lacy takes readers on a series of garden excursions, beginning at home. Lacy writes of his experiences with a variety of plants--evening primrose, prairie gentian, sumac, coreopsis, fuchsias, gloriosa lilies--in his own garden in New Jersey. Then he charts his travels to other gardens, in the United States, Spain, Switzerland, the Netherlands. Final essays in Farther Afield include a discussion of garden writing, profiles of other horticulturists, and humorous pieces on cats and houseplants, and, of... In this splendid collection of short essays, gardener, writer, and professor Allen Lacy takes readers on a series of garden excursions, beginning a... |
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97,57 zł |
The American Gardener
ISBN: 9780374522179 / Angielski / Miękka / 1990 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Allen Lacy has gathered together a colorful sampler of American gardening writing from Thomas Jefferson to our own day. Among the fifty-two writers represented are such national treasures as Celia Thaxter, Neltje Blanchan, Elizabeth Lawrence, and Katherine S. White. Allen Lacy has gathered together a colorful sampler of American gardening writing from Thomas Jefferson to our own day. Among the fifty-two writers... |
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127,26 zł |
Henry Mitchell on Gardening
ISBN: 9780395957677 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. For readers who like gardening (and love the English language), this posthumous collection of Mitchell's "Washington Post" "Earthman" columns is "equal parts entertainment and shrewd horticultural advice" ("Science News").
For readers who like gardening (and love the English language), this posthumous collection of Mitchell's "Washington Post" "Earthman" columns is "equa...
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84,80 zł |
A Rock Garden in the South
ISBN: 9780822357759 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. As readers and critics around the country agree, any new book by the renowned garden writer Elizabeth Lawrence is like finding a buried treasure. A Rock Garden in the South will not disappoint. Released posthumously, this book is not only a welcome addition to the Lawrence canon, but fills an important gap in the garden literature on the middle South.
Lawrence, in her usual exquisite prose, deals with the full range of rock gardening topics in this work. She addresses the unique problem of cultivating rock gardens in the South, where the growing season is prolonged and humidity and... As readers and critics around the country agree, any new book by the renowned garden writer Elizabeth Lawrence is like finding a buried treasure. A...
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109,36 zł |
Green Thoughts: A Writer in the Garden
ISBN: 9780375759451 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A classic in the literature of the garden, Green Thoughts is a beautifully written and highly original collection of seventy-two essays, alphabetically arranged, on topics ranging from "Annuals" and "Artichokes" to "Weeds" and "Wildflowers." An amateur gardener for over thirty years, Eleanor Perenyi draws upon her wide-ranging knowledge of gardening lore to create a delightful, witty blend of how-to advice, informed opinion, historical insight, and philosophical musing. There are entries in praise of earthworms and in protest of rock gardens, a treatise on the sexual politics of...
A classic in the literature of the garden, Green Thoughts is a beautifully written and highly original collection of seventy-two essays, alphab...
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101,81 zł |
Passalong Plants
ISBN: 9780807844182 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Passalongs are plants that have survived in gardens for decades by being handed from one person to another. These botanical heirlooms, such as flowering almond, blackberry lily, and night-blooming cereus, usually can't be found in neighborhood garden centers; about the only way to obtain a passalong plant is to beg a cutting from the fortunate gardener who has one.
In this lively and sometimes irreverent book (don't miss the chapter on yard art), Steve Bender and Felder Rushing describe 117 such plants, giving particulars on hardiness, size, uses in the garden, and horticultural... Passalongs are plants that have survived in gardens for decades by being handed from one person to another. These botanical heirlooms, such as floweri...
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165,44 zł |