Authors:Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Beth Hanson,
Publisher: Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Keywords: garden, botanic, brooklyn, gardening, series, region, guide, century, compost, spectacular, plants, easy, secret, soil
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 1997-12
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 1889538035
ISBN-13: 9781889538037
Author: Sarah Raven
Publisher: Frances Lincoln
Keywords: garden, flowers, arranging, growing, cutting
Number of Pages: 168
Published: 1996-10-17
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0711210470
ISBN-13: 9780711210479
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.
Author: Derek Fell
Publisher: Firefly Books
Keywords: garden, inspiration, ideas, design, encyclopedia, structure
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2006-03-04
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1554071291
ISBN-13: 9781554071296
A ready reference of stimulating garden features from all over the world. Renowned garden designer Derek Fell has compiled more than 1,000 photographs to create a personal scrapbook of his favorite design features from around the world. Together with his insightful commentary, they provide a wealth of ideas and inspiration for the home gardener. The book features: - A-Z listing of more than 150 design categories, from balconies and paths to abstract concepts like silhouettes, framing, and whimsy - More than 1,000 fully captioned, full-color photographs of award-winning gardens - H
Author: Scott Appell
Publisher: Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Keywords: garden, guide, region, brooklyn, annuals, botanic
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 2003-05-28
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 1889538574
ISBN-13: 9781889538570
Hundreds of spectacular annuals, at-a glance growing information by the best experts in the field, inspired plant combinations, and more than 80 dazzling photos: how could any gardener do without this guide? It covers almost every type of annual in an encyclopedic directory, including some less well-known varieties from the Southwestern United States and Mexico: there are plants for drying; edible ones from Asia and Africa to enhance the herb garden and kitchen table; evening bloomers and morning glories; annuals to pick for a perfect bouquet and others that create shade; tropicals and tender
Author: Walter Chandoha
Publisher: Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Keywords: garden, region, guide, botanic, brooklyn, tips, timesavers
Number of Pages: 120
Published: 2005-09-28
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 1889538698
ISBN-13: 9781889538693
With this latest in the distinguished Brooklyn Botanic Garden series, you can minimize maintenance and maximize enjoyment of your garden. An A to Z handbook to saving money, time, and resources offers clever shortcuts for all your indoor and outdoor gardening chores. Try these ideas: Set a small pot inside a larger one to propagate dozens of African violets at once. Use birds as your chief insecticide, with birdbaths along paths, seed sprinkled on plant leaves, and shade tree resting-nesting places. Create free composts, mulches, and fertilizers from your fall leaves, summer grass clippings, k
Author: Sarah Garland
Publisher: Frances Lincoln
Keywords: garden, bookshelf, herb
Number of Pages: 168
Published: 2006-07-12
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0711220573
ISBN-13: 9780711220577
A practical guide to herb gardens, the varieties of herbs available and how best to grow and cultivate them. The photographs seek to illustrate the attractiveness of herbs in any situation. Practical instruction on cultivating, propagating, harvesting and using the herbs is set in the wider context of designing a pleasing and functional garden: planning a knot garden, building raised beds and banks, and establishing plants underfoot and training them overhead. A herb index catalogues the enormous variety of herbs available, with illustrations comparing species from the more complicated herb fa
Author: The European Garden Flora Editorial Committee
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: european, flora, volume, garden, europe, doors, cultivated, glass, manual, hardback, identification, plants
Number of Pages: 494
Published: 1989-07-28
List price: $285.00
ISBN-10: 0521361710
ISBN-13: 9780521361712
Eventually in six volumes, The European Garden Flora is the definitive manual for the accurate identification of cultivated ornamental plants. Families, genera, and species are described, keys are provided, and guidance is given on the cultivation of each genus. It is designed to meet the highest scientific standards, yet the vocabulary is kept uncomplicated to make the book fully accessible to the informed gardener and landscape architect, as well as the professional botanist. Although based on European flora, the series will be an extremely useful reference on cultivated plants throughout t
