The Wild Gardener
ISBN: 9781622680092 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Selected as one of the 75 Great Garden Books by the American Horticultural Society Winner of the Garden Writers of America Art of Communication Award In this modern classic of gardening, noted author and artist Peter Loewer explores native American plants for the wild garden, whether it's a green sanctuary in the midst of a concrete landscape or a natural area on the edge of virgin forest. The book includes reliable information on cultivating and propagating the best wildflowers and shrubs and offers curious folklore and historical footnotes on wild flora and fauna.
Selected as one of the 75 Great Garden Books by the American Horticultural Society Winner of the Garden Writers of America Art of Communication Award ...
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69,16 zł |
The Life and Work of an English Landscape Architect
ISBN: 9781845300708 / Angielski / Miękka / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When Thomas Mawson published his autobiography in1927 he was looking back over a 50 year career as a landscape architect, a reflection he found 'most congenial'. It is a story that charts not only his life, but also the development of his chosen profession as a creative art. Beginning with a 'passion for the arts' and practical experience of garden-making, architecture and forestry, he set out to contribute with others to 'a revival of intelligent and scholarly garden design'. He cites his luck in finding 'appreciative clients' and skilled assistants, as well as in moving in the right...
When Thomas Mawson published his autobiography in1927 he was looking back over a 50 year career as a landscape architect, a reflection he found 'most ...
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170,00 zł |
The New Book of Salvias: Sages for Every Garden
ISBN: 9781604695106 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Showcases 150 of the most beautiful, gardenworthy species. Salvia is derived from the Latin word salvare, -to heal, - and for centuries salvias have been valued for their medicinal and culinary qualities. Salvias, commonly known as sages, grow throughout the world. They occur in many forms: perennial, biennial, annual herbs, and evergreen or deciduous shrubs. These amazingly varied plants are also noteworthy for their remarkable resistance to pests and diseases, their drought tolerance-- and their beautiful flowers. In The New Book of Salvias: Sages for Every Garden, Betsy Clebsh...
Showcases 150 of the most beautiful, gardenworthy species. Salvia is derived from the Latin word salvare, -to heal, - and for centuries salvias have b...
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108,19 zł |
Taming Wildflowers: Bringing the Beauty and Splendor of Nature's Blooms Into Your Own Backyard
ISBN: 9780985562267 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Wildflowers are the jewels of spring and summer everywhere. Families drive miles to witness their beauty in wild landscapes. Now, gardeners are discovering that they can easily and successfully cultivate these hardy native wonders right at home, for year-after-year enjoyment. Wildflower farmer and floral designer Miriam Goldberger believes that wildflowers belong as an essential part of North American gardens. Taming Wildflowers is the ultimate DIY book on wildflower gardening and floral design: part wildflower history ("How Wildflowers Changed the World"), part upbeat, informative how-to, a...
Wildflowers are the jewels of spring and summer everywhere. Families drive miles to witness their beauty in wild landscapes. Now, gardeners are discov...
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86,51 zł |
The Cutting Garden: Growing and Arranging Garden Flowers
ISBN: 9780711234659 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This practical guide shows how to grow decorative flowers and foliage and use them to create floral arrangements, plans, plant and maintain a well-stocked cutting garden, and demonstrates how to create arrangements ranging from simple bunches to romantic hanging globes, swags and medallions.
This practical guide shows how to grow decorative flowers and foliage and use them to create floral arrangements, plans, plant and maintain a well-sto...
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126,69 zł |
Right Plant Right Place: Choosing the Perfect Plant for Every Location in Your Garden, with 120 Photographs
ISBN: 9780754826903 / Angielski / Twarda / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Putting a plant in the right location and soil will ensure that it has the best possible start and chance of long-term health. This book explains how to successfully match plants to the conditions in your garden. It covers the basics of ground preparation, sowing and planting, as well as offering tips on plant maintenance.
Putting a plant in the right location and soil will ensure that it has the best possible start and chance of long-term health. This book explains how ...
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20,23 zł |
Flowers
ISBN: 9780770436766 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It has been more than a decade since Carolyne Roehm first shared her love of gardening and flower arranging. Now, for the first time ever, she turns her own photographic lens to that passion with Flowers, showcasing more than 300 images of the varieties in her abundant gardens, all captured at their most vibrant and exquisite moments throughout the season.
With a gardener's intimate understanding and a designer's elegant eye, Roehm shows us the flowers she has cultivated for decades in and around Weatherstone, her historic Connecticut home. While alternating dramatic close-ups with... It has been more than a decade since Carolyne Roehm first shared her love of gardening and flower arranging. Now, for the first time ever, she turns h...
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368,60 zł |
Creative Water Effects in the Garden: Practical Inspiration for Professional Gardeners and Landscapers with Step-by-step Projects and 300 Photographs
ISBN: 9781780191515 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This lavishly illustrated book celebrates water gardening in all its forms. How to create a wealth of water features, with advice on incorporating them stylishly into the garden. Over 300 glorious photographs show ideas, examples and how to achieve the practical results you want."
This lavishly illustrated book celebrates water gardening in all its forms. How to create a wealth of water features, with advice on incorporating the...
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50,63 zł |
Zen Landscapes : Perspectives on Japanese Gardens and Ceramics
ISBN: 9781780231907 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The essential elements of a dry Japanese garden are few: rocks, gravel, moss. Simultaneously a sensual matrix, a symbolic form, and a memory theater, these gardens exhibit beautiful miniaturization and precise craftsmanship. But their apparent minimalism belies a true complexity. In Zen Landscapes, Allen S. Weiss takes readers on an exciting journey through these exquisite sites, explaining how Japanese gardens must be approached according to the play of scale, surroundings, and seasons, as well as in relation to other arts revealing them as living landscapes rather than abstract...
The essential elements of a dry Japanese garden are few: rocks, gravel, moss. Simultaneously a sensual matrix, a symbolic form, and a memory theater, ...
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191,10 zł |
Midway: Letters from Ian Hamilton Finlay to Stephen Bann 1964-69
ISBN: 9781908524348 / Angielski / Twarda / 426 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925 2006) was one of Scotland's leading twentieth-century public intellectuals, and famously one of its most brilliant and combative correspondents. His letters raise issues of particular and widespread interest both within Scotland and further afield. His correspondence with Stephen Bann, the English poet and academic, have a very special place in this context. These letters present in a clear and commensurable form the development of his ideas about poetry and art, and increasingly about sculpture and gardening, over this critical five-year period of his creative... Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925 2006) was one of Scotland's leading twentieth-century public intellectuals, and famously one of its most brilliant and co... |
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173,46 zł |
11 Simple Ways to Turn Your Garden Japanese
ISBN: 9781909908048 / Angielski / Miękka / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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43,32 zł |
The Urban Garden: How One Community Turned Idle Land Into a Garden City and How You Can, Too
ISBN: 9781629143996 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Fifteen people--plus a class of first graders--tell how local food, farms, and gardens changed their lives and their community . . . and how they can change yours, too.
Urban Farming Handbook includes: - Fifteen first-person stories of personal and civic transformation from a range of individuals, including farmers and community garden members, a low-income senior and a troubled teen, a foodie, a food bank officer, and many more - Seven in-depth "How It Works" sections on student farms, community gardens, community-supported agriculture (CSA), community education, farm work... Fifteen people--plus a class of first graders--tell how local food, farms, and gardens changed their lives and their community . . . and how they can ...
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108,19 zł |
The Suburban Gardener, and Villa Companion
ISBN: 9781108074629 / Angielski / Miękka / 774 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Scottish landscape gardener and prolific horticultural writer John Claudius Loudon (1783 1843) published this guide to suburban living in 1838. The book is intended to provide instruction on choosing a house or 'villa' (or the site on which to build one); on the furnishing of the house; and on the laying out, planting and general management of the garden and grounds. Loudon had also planned a section on horticulture, but was forced to postpone this to a separate volume, which was never written. Like most of Loudon's books (several of which have been reissued in this series), the work is...
The Scottish landscape gardener and prolific horticultural writer John Claudius Loudon (1783 1843) published this guide to suburban living in 1838. Th...
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507,49 zł |
An Introduction to Landscape and Garden Design
ISBN: 9780754674863 / Angielski / Miękka / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How do you design a landscape book suitable for its intended uses? How can the natural qualities of a landscape be enhanced with new features and focal points? How can you make pedestrians stay on the footpath? What kind of plant, path or wall should you put where, and what sort of contract should you choose for your client's contractor? This refreshingly down-to-earth introduction to the vast subject of landscape design and construction answers all these questions, guiding new students through the many facets of professional practice and welding together the artistic, legal, financial,...
How do you design a landscape book suitable for its intended uses? How can the natural qualities of a landscape be enhanced with new features and foca...
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280,05 zł |
Eating God's Way
ISBN: 9781498418041 / Angielski / Miękka / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. We live in a world where processed and GMO foods strain the shelves of our markets today. The world population suffers as a result from its effects. Eating God's Way is a logical solution to an already sick and ailing world population. By obeying God and His Word, we increase our survival rate. Learn to produce God-inspired fruits and vegetables your family will love and enjoy. Create natural fertilizer at your home or living space by God's design. Eat vegetables and fruits packed with compost nutrition. Feed your Soul and Spirit from God. Put God's power in your diet and growing space(s) by...
We live in a world where processed and GMO foods strain the shelves of our markets today. The world population suffers as a result from its effects. E...
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77,66 zł |
Basilius Besler. Florilegium. The Book of Plants
ISBN: 9783836557870 / Angielski / Twarda / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Botanical beauty: Basilius Besler's complete Hortus Eystettensis of 1613 A magnificent pictorial document of the flowers grown in thegreatest German garden of its time, theHortus Eystettensisis in a class of its own when it comes tothe range of flowers engraved.First published in 1613, the 367 copperplate engravings byBasilius Besler(1561 1629) capture the spectacular diversity of the palatial gardens of Prince-Bishop Johann Konrad von Gemmingen (1593/95 1612) in Eichstatt, Bavaria, Germany. The meticulous illustrations are organized according to the four seasons, and, following the...
Botanical beauty: Basilius Besler's complete Hortus Eystettensis of 1613 A magnificent pictorial document of the flowers grown in thegreatest German g...
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108,41 zł |
Ideas of Chinese Gardens: Western Accounts, 1300-1860
ISBN: 9780812247633 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Europeans may be said to have first encountered the Chinese garden in Marco Polo's narrative of his travels through the Mongol Empire and his years at the court of Kublai Khan. His account of a man-made lake abundant with fish, a verdant green hill lush with trees, raised walkways, and a plethora of beasts and birds took root in the European imagination as the description of a kind of Eden. Beginning in the sixteenth century, permanent interaction between Europe and China took form, and Jesuit missionaries and travelers recorded in letters and memoirs their admiration of Chinese gardens... Europeans may be said to have first encountered the Chinese garden in Marco Polo's narrative of his travels through the Mongol Empire and his years... |
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409,77 zł |
The Ultimate Guide to Companion Gardening for Beginners: How to Use Companion Plants for a Successful Flower or Vegetable Garden
ISBN: 9781505809688 / Angielski / Miękka / 54 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Ultimate Guide to Companion Gardening for Beginners 2nd Edition: How to Use Companion Plants for a Successful Flower or Vegetable Garden JUST RELEASED 2ND EDITION
Companion gardening is just planting certain plants together because they will help each other grow and become healthier. It is said that companion gardening is even better than using fertilizers or artificial ways of letting plants grow because the plants can benefit from each other and it's all a natural process. Some of the basics of Companion Gardening: Tall plants are... The Ultimate Guide to Companion Gardening for Beginners 2nd Edition: How to Use Companion Plants for a Successful Flower or Vegetable Garden <...
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86,60 zł |
The Ultimate Guide to Companion Gardening for Beginners & the Ultimate Guide to Raised Bed Gardening for Beginners & the Ultimate Guide to Vegetable G
ISBN: 9781507724545 / Angielski / Miękka / 62 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Ultimate Guide to Companion Gardening for Beginners: How to Use Companion Plants for a Successful Flower or Vegetable Garden & The Ultimate Guide to Raised Bed Gardening for Beginners: How to Grow Flowers and Vegetables in Raised Beds for a Successful Garden & The Ultimate Guide to Vegetable Gardening for Beginners: How to Grow Your Own Healthy Organic Vegetables All Year Round Companion Gardening
Companion gardening is just planting certain plants together because they will help each other grow and become healthier. It is said that companion gardening is even... The Ultimate Guide to Companion Gardening for Beginners: How to Use Companion Plants for a Successful Flower or Vegetable Garden & The Ultimate Gui...
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132,42 zł |
Pietro Porcinai and the Landscape of Modern Italy
ISBN: 9781472460004 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Born in Florence in 1910, Pietro Porcinai grew up on the classic grounds of the Villa Gamberaia in Settignano where his father served as head gardener. Although he studied agriculture in college, Porcinai's true interest lay in the landscape architecture practice he founded in 1938. Early projects centered in the area of Arezzo, whose style reflected modernA-ized traditional models. In the postwar era the office flourished, producing modern gardens of remarkable design and use of plants. In these works, Porcinai convincingly demonstrated the affinity between historical architecture and...
Born in Florence in 1910, Pietro Porcinai grew up on the classic grounds of the Villa Gamberaia in Settignano where his father served as head gardener...
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700,25 zł |