Growing Your Own Tea Garden, Second Edition
Part gardening book, part tea book, and jam-packed with practical instructions and tons of inspiration, Growing Your Own Tea Garden, 2nd Edition will show gardeners and tea drinkers how to plant, maintain, harvest and enjoy a productive backyard tea garden! Featuring insight on container gardening and raised beds, also included are nine suggested garden designs and useful cultivation advice. This book also provides insight on how to choose the right crops for your soil and climate, starting with the tea plant (Camellia sinensis) and herbal teas (tisanes). A comprehensive directory of more than 60 plants, medicinal herbs, leaves, flowers, fruits, and roots is included, from milk thistle, chickweed, rugosa rose, and burdock to chamomile, lavender, rose hips, peppermint, lemon verbena, and many other popular tea ingredients. Each plant profile provides the properties and health benefits of each tea ingredient before presenting 19 delicious tea recipes that address common ailments, offer immune support, support stress management, sooth tension headaches, boost energy, and more! If you enjoy gardening and you love a cup of tea, Growing Your Own Tea Garden, 2nd Edition is the perfect book to help you grow ingredients from home and enjoy them all year-round!
Native Plant Gardening for Birds, Bees & Butterflies: Pacific Northwest
Plan your landscape or garden with more than 100 native plants that benefit birds, bees, and butterflies of the northwestern United States and southwestern Canada.The presence of birds, bees, and butterflies suggests a healthy, earth-friendly place. These most welcome guests also bring joy to those who appreciate watching them. Now, you can turn your yard into a perfect habitat that attracts them and, more importantly, helps them thrive. Acclaimed author and expert entomologist Jaret C. Daniels provides the information you need in this must-have guide for Oregon, Washington, northern Idaho, and southern British Columbia. Learn how to landscape and create pollinator gardens with native plants.The book begins with an in-depth introduction to native pollinators and to birds. It's followed by a "field guide" section to more than 100 native plants that are widely available to utilize, are easy to care for, and provide great benefit to birds, bees, and butterflies. Each species includes full-color photographs and information about hardiness zones, what they are most likely to attract, soil requirements, light levels, and Jaret's notes. As an added bonus, you'll make use of blooming charts, tips on attracting specific species, and more! Plan, plant, and grow your beautiful garden, with native plants that benefit your favorite creatures to watch and enjoy.Inside you'll find: Overview of native pollinator species in the Pacific NorthwestField guide to over 100 native plants, organized by level of sunlight neededQuick-reference chart to plants, blooming periods, and what animals each plant attractsHardiness zone information, weed control tips, and moreBONUS: Garden plans that can be customized to suit your specific interests
Old Dog, New Dog
From two revered experts, a concise guide to caring for a beloved senior dog and skillfully introducing a puppy to the household in a way that allows both dogs to flourish It's a natural impulse: As you watch your canine best friend age, you think about getting a puppy, hoping that the new pup will be influenced by the older dog while softening the inevitable loss. But it's challenging to fully support a senior while also trying to meet the needs of a puppy. In this first-of-its-kind guide, senior dog expert Helen St. Pierre and puppy expert Kathy Callahan come together to help dog lovers navigate this terrain with joy and compassion. They'll help you: - assess your older dog's well-being and keep them comfortable and safe - decide whether it's the right time to add another dog - prepare yourself with a refresher on the basics (and the intensity) of puppy care - manage the most difficult aspects of living with both a senior and a puppy And in perhaps its most critically needed chapter, Old Dog, New Dog covers -- with honesty and empathy -- the difficult decision of when and how to say goodbye to your beloved old companion while honoring the deep friendship you'll always keep in your heart.
Vegetables Natural Pests and Diseases Control
Vegetables, Natural Pests and Diseases Control, Authorised in organic farming version 2025 is the practical guide how to assist gardeners in growing organic vegetables. In the first section the common vegetables grown in your garden are described with the candidate pests and diseases to disturb them. A simple list of symptoms on plant parts assist you in identifying the pests or disease who can be insects, fungi, bacteria, nematodes, acariens or viruses. In the second section you shall find more detailed information on every pests or diseases encountered on the vegetables of the first section. Finally in the third section organic and natural control remedies are provided for immediate action or proactive action with detailed information on how to use them and eventually how to brew or make them at home.
Plants with Purpose
Many gardeners in the southwest are perfectly satisfied with beautiful, ornamental plants and cultivate lush lawns despite the environmental consequences of doing so. Other gardeners, however, have moved to embrace pollinator plants that provide resources to bees and butterflies. And some have embraced the xeriscape approach, which uses indigenous plant life to minimize the need for water. But this is just the beginning. Plants with Purpose speaks to gardeners who are mindful of the environmental impact of traditional ornamental plants and offers twenty-five alternative plantings that are beautiful, viable, and functional. Whether edible, therapeutic, medicinal, or attractive to pollinators, the plants in this collection provide a pathway to a more environmentally sustainable and functional garden and landscape. From agarita (for jelly and tarts) to wild garlic (edible greens), this selection of plants is curated specifically for warm climates and are beneficial to the larger ecosystem. In addition to history and description, each plant entry provides basic information and care tips such as plant type, light/water/soil needs, size, bloom and time, fruit, and availability. Many entries contain recipes, tea ideas, and herbal remedies. This "secret life of plants" provides a counternarrative to the standard texts on gardening and landscaping. Illustrated throughout with 200 beautiful color photographs of plants in their various stages of development and showcasing their multiple applications, Plants with Purpose will encourage readers to experiment with their gardening for a deeper engagement with plant life and the environment.
Happy Spots - A Dalmatian Puppy Owner's Guide to Behaviour Management and Diet Plan
The Lost Orchid
The forgotten story of a decades-long international quest for a rare and coveted orchid, chronicling the botanists, plant hunters, and collectors who relentlessly pursued it at great human and environmental cost. In 1818, a curious root arrived in a small English village, tucked--seemingly by accident--in a packing case mailed from Brazil. The amateur botanist who cultivated it soon realized that he had something remarkable on his hands: an exceptionally rare orchid never before seen on British shores. It arrived just as "orchid mania" was sweeping across Europe and North America, driving a vast plant trade that catered to wealthy private patrons as well as the fast-growing middle classes eager to display exotic flowers at home. Dubbed Cattleya labiata, the striking purple-and-crimson bloom quickly became one of the most coveted flowers on both continents. As tales of the flower's beauty spread through scientific journals and the popular press, orchid dealers and enthusiasts initiated a massive search to recover it in its natural habitat. Sarah Bilston illuminates the story of this international quest, introducing the collectors and nurserymen who funded expeditions, the working-class plant hunters who set out to find the flower, the South American laborers and specialists with whom they contracted, the botanists who used the latest science to study orchids in all their varieties, and the writers and artists who established the near-mythic status of the "lost orchid." The dark side of this global frenzy was the social and environmental harm it wrought, damaging fragile ecologies on which both humans and plants depended. Following the human ambitions and dramas that drove an international obsession, The Lost Orchid is a story of consumer desire, scientific curiosity, and the devastating power of colonial overreach.
Affirmators! Activity Book & Journal (Sb)
A whimsical, non-work-y workbook full of quirky illustrations, wise and funny affirmations, and creative prompts and activities to deepen the affirmations' impact. Based on the bestselling affirmation decks by Suzi Barrett, this activity book and journal guides users through the world of Affirmators!-style self-help, where positivity is never toxic and self-seriousness is not needed! Fans and newbies alike will enjoy this deep dive into the mirthful guidance of the Affirmators! series, and all-new, inspiring prompts and activities to help you release gripes and grudges, accept the world as it is while protecting your tender emotions, and re-ignite a sense of wonder at just being alive!
The Garden Against Time
In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore an eighteenth-century walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual plants. The work brought to light a crucial question for our age: Who gets to live in paradise, and how can we share it while there's still time? Moving between real and imagined gardens, from Milton's Paradise Lost to John Clare's enclosure elegies, from a wartime sanctuary in Italy to a grotesque aristocratic pleasure ground funded by slavery, Laing interrogates the sometimes shocking cost of making paradise on earth.But the story of the garden doesn't always enact larger patterns of privilege and exclusion. It's also a place of rebel outposts and communal dreams. From the improbable queer utopia conjured by Derek Jarman on the beach at Dungeness to the fertile vision of a common Eden propagated by William Morris, new modes of living can and have been attempted amidst the flower beds, experiments that could prove vital in the coming era of climate change. The result is a humming, glowing tapestry, a beautiful and exacting account of the abundant pleasures and possibilities of gardens: not as a place to hide from the world but as a site of encounter and discovery, bee-loud and pollen-laden.
Grand Interiors
Grand Interiors is an immersive 'grand tour' of Belgian Decorator Geoffroy Van Hulle's grandiose interiors. "Van Hulle is not an interior designer but an interior artist. He understands the art of transforming the soul of the occupants into the soul of a house." - Elle Deco Grand Interiors is an immersive 'grand tour' of Geoffroy Van Hulle's grandiose interiors. The Belgian decorator gives us a look inside exuberant private homes, from Knokke to New York. In his unpretentious interiors, he sprinkles generously with colors, patterns and exoticism. 'Nowhere in my interiors is the distance to a bookcase, fireplace or bar cabinet more than five steps, ' he says. With the bravura of his teachers Cecil Beaton and David Hicks, he designs dazzling sets for everyday theater. Please welcome on stage, mister Geoffroy Van Hulle and his Grand Interiors!
England’s Lost Transport Heritage from the Air
Britain was the first country in the world to industrialise and alongside new means of production, came novel forms of transport, including steam trains and steamships in the 19th century and jet aircraft and hovercrafts in the middle of the 20th century. Aerofilms, flying across the country from 1919 onwards, recorded the country's complex infrastructure of road, rail and maritime transport that was in place between the wars and the company was evolving alongside, and was part of, the new aviation industry that was being created. While flying across the country, Aerofilms' remarkable photographers also recorded how Britain communicated with its imperial territories. The collection includes images of the country's vast merchant fleet of liners and cargo vessels as well as the flying boats that formed an international network before jets came to dominate the sky. Aerofilms were there to record the first flight of the ill-fated airship, R101. Much of this interesting transport history that the company's photographers witnessed has now disappeared or has been relegated to being museum exhibits. This book uses Aerofilms' photographs to tell the story of England's lost transport heritage, from Roman roads to supersonic Concorde.
