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The Ultimate Container Gardening Guide is a very resourceful book that will provide you with plenty of information and gardening tips to introduce beginners to the practice and also improve the skills for those already embracing this noble practice. Readers of this book will benefit from information...

Learn How To Grow Your Own Organic Vegetables and Fish With Aquaponic Gardening! Would you like to grow your own organic: Fruits Herbs  Vegetables Fish With Aquaponics, you can! BUY: 'Aquaponics 101' What is Aquaponics? Aquaponic farming is the process of raising...

Across the world hundreds of botanic gardens combine scientific research, conservation and beauty with public access, with Kew Gardens alone attracting around one million visitors a year. For centuries they have variously focused on cultivating medicinal and exotic plants, introducing lucrative crops...

Escaping the traditional ‘Sissyfussian’ farming dilemma with a proven ‘no-till’, generative approach to soil management and gardening. Your holistic guide to a minimum work, maximum benefit, lifestyle that you will be able to, and more importantly, will want to, sustain. A lifestyle without...

"ILLUMINARE UN GIARDINO", è una guida che aiuta il lettore nelle fasi necessarie alla creazione di effetti di luce per illuminare le diverse zone di un giardino. Mettere in pratica un progetto di trasformazione di un giardino attraverso la luce richiede conoscenze ma anche creatività, perché la...

Você é apaixonado por jardinagem? Está interessado em fazer o seu próprio jardim, mas não possui o espaço necessário para isso? Muitas pessoas gostariam de aproveitar o tempo livre trabalhando em um jardim, porém moram em apartamento ou simplesmente não dispõem de espaço suficiente para fazê-lo....

Develop your green thumb as you learn to grow your own food. In this introductory guide to growing vegetables, Barbara Pleasant addresses common problems that first-time gardeners encounter. Using simple language and illustrated garden layouts, Pleasant shows you how to start, maintain, and eventually...

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...

How did Jenny Butchart turn an ugly, disused limestone quarry into the world’s most famous private garden?  Over 100 years later Butchart Gardens still attracts almost a million visitors from around the globe, to enjoy a world created by an unrivalled green-thumb visionary. The stuff...

This book incorporates lessons learned over a quarter of a century of managing, renewing and caring for the gardens of the National Trust; negotiating change with a variety of colourful characters, including former owners, now tenants. It traces the very British way the Trust learned about conserving...

This vintage book contains a fantastic guide to gardening, concentrating on planting and propagating perennials. A Perennial is a plant that lives for longer than two years and grows to boom over the spring and summer, dies every autumn and winter, and then returns in the spring from its rootstock....

A quick-reference guide to planting perennials for gardeners with little experience and time Choosing perennials for a garden can be a daunting task, considering that there are thousands of choices. Yarrow? Columbine? Aster? To make the selection easier, this guide profiles the easiest-to-grow...

Vegetable container gardening is the art of growing vegetables unconventionally in vessels like pots, window boxes (that leave you thinking how can someone take care of all that) and those raised garden beds that leave you wishing you had a lawn too. The idea to write this book began when...

“Small Gardens And How To Make The Most Of Them” is a vintage guide to gardening designed for people with restricted space for their plants and flowers. It offers the reader information on what the best plants for smallholdings are, with details on when and where to plant, propagation, hybrids,...