Garden Design Bible: 40 great off-the-peg designs – Detailed planting plans – Step-by-step projects – Gardens to adapt for your space
ISBN: 9780600632443 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Do you dream of transforming your back garden into a romantic retreat? Would you like to make a modern-day Utopia on your balcony? Is your ideal outdoor space a minimalist design with easy-to-care-for plants or a family garden with room to grow culinary herbs? Whatever your desire, the Garden Design Bible has a plan that you can adapt to your own space. Choose from 40 off-the-peg designs, or mix and match elements from several to create your ideal garden. Each of the designs is fully illustrated and has a comprehensive plant list and planting diagram. With a huge range of... Do you dream of transforming your back garden into a romantic retreat? Would you like to make a modern-day Utopia on your balcony? Is your ideal o... |
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103,25 zł |
Japanese Gardens Revealed and Explained
ISBN: 9781909908055 / Angielski / Miękka / 74 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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42,90 zł |
Japanese Zen Gardens
ISBN: 9781909908062 / Angielski / Miękka / 54 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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42,90 zł |
Technology and the Garden
ISBN: 9780884023968 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Technology is the practice and activity of making, as well as the tools that enable that making. It is also the realm of ideas behind those endeavors, the expanse of technical knowledge and expertise. At once material, intellectual, active, and social, technology is the purposeful organization of human effort to alter and shape the environment. Gardens, like other designed landscapes, are products of a range of technologies; their layout, construction, and maintenance would be unthinkable without technology. What are the technologies of garden making, what are the concepts and ideas behind...
Technology is the practice and activity of making, as well as the tools that enable that making. It is also the realm of ideas behind those endeavors,...
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223,77 zł |
Gardens in the Modern Landscape: A Facsimile of the Revised 1948 Edition
ISBN: 9780812222913 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Between 1937 and 1938, garden designer Christopher Tunnard published a series of articles in the British Architectural Review that rejected the prevailing English landscape style. Inspired by the principles of Modernist art and Japanese aesthetics, Tunnard called for a "new technique" in garden design that emphasized an integration of form and purpose. "The functional garden avoids the extremes both of the sentimental expressionism of the wild garden and the intellectual classicism of the 'formal' garden," he wrote; "it embodies rather a spirit of rationalism and through an... Between 1937 and 1938, garden designer Christopher Tunnard published a series of articles in the British Architectural Review that rejected ... |
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180,15 zł |
Backyard Poultry - Naturally
ISBN: 9780975778289 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Perfect as micro-livestock for the edible backyard, the popularity of poultry is not surprising. However, good information about natural poultry care can be hard to come by. But this book has it all!
Now in its 3rd edition, Backyard Poultry - Naturally has become the bible for the chemical-free raising of your feathered friends. From housing to feeding, from selection to breeding, from pets to production, from the best lookers to the best layers, this book covers everything the backyard farmer needs to know about poultry husbandry - including preventative and curative herbal medicines and... Perfect as micro-livestock for the edible backyard, the popularity of poultry is not surprising. However, good information about natural poultry care ...
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128,84 zł |
Indoor Gardening Made Easy: How To Grow Herbs & Vegetables In Your House
ISBN: 9781497561229 / Angielski / Miękka / 48 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Gardening is an activity that is good for both you and your environment; it is relaxing and leaves you with a sense of achievement. With people increasingly living in apartments and in urban areas, they often assume that a garden is not even an option for them. There's no need to miss out on the joy and health benefits gardening brings just because you may not have an outside space. Whether you live in an urban loft, a studio apartment, or a traditional house, "Indoor Gardening Made Easy" will be your guide to bringing a little bit of outside, inside.
Gardening is an activity that is good for both you and your environment; it is relaxing and leaves you with a sense of achievement. With people increa...
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29,26 zł |
The New Zen Garden: Designing Quiet Spaces
ISBN: 9781626548909 / Angielski / Miękka / 90 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The New Zen Garden enlivens a tradition dating back 1500 years and introduces the contemplative Japanese space in all its varied forms. Author Joseph Cali guides you through the basics of theory, design, and construction, blending age-old techniques with modern innovation. Beginning with a brief history of the spiritual and cultural aspects of the Japanese garden, Cali reveals the underpinnings of the gardener's art. In simple and straightforward terms, Cali presents a broad range of modern stone and sand gardens, provides a detailed outline of the history of Japanese... The New Zen Garden enlivens a tradition dating back 1500 years and introduces the contemplative Japanese space in all its varied forms. Auth... |
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134,43 zł |
Landscape Professional Practice
ISBN: 9781472441218 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Graduate of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Chartered Landscape Architect, MBA and Barrister, Gordon Rowland Fraser draws upon 30 years of project management, professional practice and teaching experience to provide an uncomplicated and intuitive guide to the business aspects of the landscape profession. An indispensable reference for seasoned professionals, the book will enable the student or novice practitioner to turn their drawing board inspiration into reality without being overwhelmed or afraid of overseeing the implementation of their proposals. Guided by the Landscape Institute's 2013...
Graduate of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Chartered Landscape Architect, MBA and Barrister, Gordon Rowland Fraser draws upon 30 years of project man...
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684,09 zł |
The New Zen Garden
ISBN: 9781626540057 / Angielski / Twarda / 90 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The New Zen Garden enlivens a tradition dating back 1500 years and introduces the contemplative Japanese space in all its varied forms. Author Joseph Cali guides you through the basics of theory, design, and construction, blending age-old techniques with modern innovation. Beginning with a brief history of the spiritual and cultural aspects of the Japanese garden, Cali reveals the underpinnings of the gardener's art. In simple and straightforward terms, Cali presents a broad range of modern stone and sand gardens, provides a detailed outline of the history of Japanese... The New Zen Garden enlivens a tradition dating back 1500 years and introduces the contemplative Japanese space in all its varied forms. Auth... |
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168,11 zł |
Planting and Rural Ornament: Volume 1: Being a Second Edition, with Large Additions, of Planting and Ornamental Gardening: A Practical Treatise
ISBN: 9781108075909 / Angielski / Miękka / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. William Marshall (1745 1818), an experienced farmer and land agent, published this work in 1795, and early in 1796 produced a second edition (reissued here), 'with large additions'. The two-volume work was intended as a practical guide for the owners or managers of large estates on how to establish and maintain timber plantations, both for their financial value and also as important decorative elements in the landscaping of the surroundings of the owner's house. The work covers the practical issues of planting, propagating and transplanting, and discusses the choice of trees for different...
William Marshall (1745 1818), an experienced farmer and land agent, published this work in 1795, and early in 1796 produced a second edition (reissued...
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162,10 zł |
Planting and Rural Ornament: Volume 2: Being a Second Edition, with Large Additions, of Planting and Ornamental Gardening: A Practical Treatise
ISBN: 9781108075916 / Angielski / Miękka / 486 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. William Marshall (1745 1818), an experienced farmer and land agent, published this work in 1795, and early in 1796 produced a second edition (reissued here), 'with large additions'. The two-volume work was intended as a practical guide for the owners or managers of large estates on how to establish and maintain timber plantations, both for their financial value and also as important decorative elements in the landscaping of the surroundings of the owner's house. The work covers the practical issues of planting, propagating and transplanting, and discusses the choice of trees for different...
William Marshall (1745 1818), an experienced farmer and land agent, published this work in 1795, and early in 1796 produced a second edition (reissued...
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167,17 zł |
Old-Time Gardens
ISBN: 9781507566541 / Angielski / Miękka / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. After ten wearisome weeks of travel across an unknown sea, to an equally unknown world, the group of Puritan men and women who were the founders of Boston neared their Land of Promise; and their noble leader, John Winthrop, wrote in his Journal that "we had now fair Sunshine Weather and so pleasant a sweet Aire as did much refresh us, and there came a smell off the Shore like the Smell of a Garden."
After ten wearisome weeks of travel across an unknown sea, to an equally unknown world, the group of Puritan men and women who were the founders of Bo...
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44,87 zł |
Lawn Care for the Big Boys: A Quick Resource on Landscaping and Gardening
ISBN: 9781681279510 / Angielski / Miękka / 86 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Regardless of how much you spend on landscaping, plants and accents, without a beautiful lawn to complete the picture your home will be missing an important ingredient. Proper lawn care is the 'grass roots' effort which will make your home exterior outstanding and beautiful.
Regardless of how much you spend on landscaping, plants and accents, without a beautiful lawn to complete the picture your home will be missing an imp...
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60,08 zł |
Heritage Gardens, Heirloom Seeds: Melded Cultures with a Pennsylvania German Accent
ISBN: 9780764348631 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Heritage, or traditional, gardens and heirloom seeds are joined at the hip, but previous books have separated them. This is the first holistic look at several of the most vibrant trends in contemporary horticulture, both in vegetables and flowers. Lavishly illustrated, it is a how-to manual, a history, and a guide to gardens and historic landscapes. The basics of heritage garden design from California to the East Coast are here, with special attention to the Pennsylvania four-square garden. Plans and suggestions for your garden are included, and seed-saving techniques are clearly enumerated....
Heritage, or traditional, gardens and heirloom seeds are joined at the hip, but previous books have separated them. This is the first holistic look at...
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162,10 zł |
Planting in a Post-Wild World: Designing Plant Communities for Resilient Landscapes
ISBN: 9781604695533 / Angielski / Twarda / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "As practical as it is poetic. . . . an optimistic call to action." --Chicago Tribune
Over time, with industrialization and urban sprawl, we have driven nature out of our neighborhoods and cities. But we can invite it back by designing landscapes that look and function more like they do in the wild: robust, diverse, and visually harmonious. Planting in a Post-Wild World by Thomas Rainer and Claudia West is an inspiring call to action dedicated to the idea of a new nature--a hybrid of both the wild and the cultivated--that can flourish in our cities and... "As practical as it is poetic. . . . an optimistic call to action." --Chicago Tribune
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129,06 zł |
A Cultural History of Gardens in the Medieval Age
ISBN: 9780857850300 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Middle Ages was a time of great upheaval - the period between the seventh and fourteenth centuries saw great social, political and economic change. The radically distinct cultures of the Christian West, Byzantium, Persian-influenced Islam, and al-Andalus resulted in different responses to the garden arts of antiquity and different attitudes to the natural world and its artful manipulation. Yet these cultures interacted and communicated, trading plants, myths and texts. By the fifteenth century the garden as a cultural phenomenon was immensely sophisticated and a vital element in the... The Middle Ages was a time of great upheaval - the period between the seventh and fourteenth centuries saw great social, political and economic cha... |
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506,73 zł |
A Cultural History of Gardens in the Renaissance
ISBN: 9780857850317 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The history of the garden in the Renaissance, traced from the late fourteenth century in Italy to the death of Andre Le Notre in 1700 in France, is a story both of dynamism and codification. The period saw the emergence of what would become archetypal elements of the formal garden and the fixing of theory and language of the garden arts. At the same time, newly important sciences, developments in engineering, as well as globalization, historicity, and theories of aesthetics were embraced in the construction of such gardens. The result was the notion of the landscape as something to... The history of the garden in the Renaissance, traced from the late fourteenth century in Italy to the death of Andre Le Notre in 1700 in France, is... |
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506,73 zł |
A Cultural History of Gardens in the Age of Enlightenment
ISBN: 9780857850324 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Enlightenment raised fundamental quetions about what it meant to be human in a truly global world. At the heart of debates about nature, culture and history, the garden offered itself as a practical demonstration, a living experiment, and a site of debate and discourse. The design, planting, experience and representation of contemporary gardens in Europe, China and North America reveal intense contributions to debates on aesthetics, both personal and national politics, and on the shaping of nature. The Enlightenment raised fundamental quetions about what it meant to be human in a truly global world. At the heart of debates about nature, cultur... |
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506,73 zł |
A Cultural History of Gardens in the Age of Empire
ISBN: 9780857850331 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As much as the nineteenth and early twentieth century gardens and their designs were a product and representation of industrialisation and urbanisation, they were also motors of change. Gardens became an industry in and of themselves. They were both the last resting places of the dead and cultivated plots for surv ival. Gardens were therapeutic environments regarded as civilising, socialising and assimialting institutions, and they were designed and perceived as social landscapes and community playgrounds. Rich with symbolism, gardens were treated as the subject and the setting for... As much as the nineteenth and early twentieth century gardens and their designs were a product and representation of industrialisation and urbanisa... |
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506,73 zł |