Lavender for All Seasons
An essential guide to to the multifaceted plant, from a passionate gardener. Lavender for All Seasons covers everything you need to know about the basics of growing lavender. Inspirational crafts and recipes that follow the seasons of the year will empower readers to discover how to integrate lavender beyond the garden and into the apothecary, pantry, and crafting space. For over twenty years, gardening expert Paola Legarre has been implementing sustainable farming practices, nourishing soil life, avoiding herbicides and synthetic fertilizers, rotating plantings with cover crops, and encouraging pollinators and beneficial insects through diversified plant hedgerows, and companion planting. With Legarre as a guide, readers will discover: -The basics of growing lavender in different zones and conditions -Growing requirements for healthy plants, including advice on pruning, pest control, propagation, and more -An array of the best lavender varieties including species and cultivars for cooking, essential oils, crafting, landscaping and more -Incorporating lavender as a key pollinator plant in your garden -How to harvest and preserve lavender flowers for multiple uses, including techniques for drying and distilling -Enjoying the harvest with delicious recipes incorporating lavender as an essential herb in the kitchen
Journeys to the Nearby
Inspired by adventures of world travellers but unwilling to rack up her fossil fuel consumption, Elspeth sets out with a deep curiosity to explore the world that exists in her own garden. Told over the course of four seasons, the book is inspired by the beauty in the small moments of discovery. After spending the winter holidays lazing comfortably with a stack of books by ambitiously adventurous travel writers, Elspeth soon realizes that their derring-do and far-flung, often gas-guzzling exploits, are not her cup of tea. But impressed by their energy she resolves to abandon her recliner to set off on a year-long journey of her own. Her tentative efforts of ' untravelling' become a voyage of discovery and rediscovery as she learns to slow down and observe. With gentle humour and a warm, intimate and conversational style, Elspeth evokes her world as richly as any travel writer. Accompanied by Elspeth's elegant pen-and-ink drawings. A charming gift book for travellers, gardeners and those looking for solace in our overwhelming and relentlessly-fast-paced digital world.
Beyond Organic
What if we could garden in true harmony with nature - gently, effectively and with powerful results? Organic and Regenerative gardening and farming methods have made great advances in restoring natural practices and removing harmful toxins. Agrihomoeopathy takes us one step further. By applying well-tested, highly effective homoeopathic principles and remedies, we can stimulate the health, vitality and immunity of both plants and soil. Homoeopathy is one of the most widely used systems of alternative medicine in the world, helping millions of people stay well. Can the same principles work for plants? Yes - and in the most remarkable ways. In this groundbreaking guide, you'll learn how to: Diagnose soil imbalances and treat them with potentised remediesStrengthen seeds and seedlings to improve germination and vitalityBoost plants' natural immunity against pests and diseaseIncrease yields and grow more nutritious food using remedies that work with nature, not against itEnhance companion planting with homoeopathy, creating resilient and thriving plant communitiesHelp in the difficult transition from non-organic to organic farming
Garden Planner (Cottagecore Spring Mirrored Pattern)
Garden Planner - Durable Hardcover Edition to Grow Smarter, Stay Organized, and Watch Your Garden Thrive Year After YearWhether you're a first-time gardener or a seasoned green thumb, this yearly hardcover Garden Planner is the perfect companion to help you plan, track, and reflect on your gardening journey. With thoughtfully structured sections and over 100 pages of guided content, this 6" x 9" hardcover planner keeps everything from planting schedules to treatment logs in one tidy, long-lasting place-so you can focus on growing, not guessing.Perfect for anyone who wants to document their evolving garden, track what worked (and what didn't), and plan future seasons with clarity and purpose.Key Features: ✅ Hardcover Design & Compact 6" x 9" Size - Durable, portable, and built to last through all four seasons, perfect for garden sheds, potting benches, or everyday use.✅ Monthly Overviews - Plan and reflect with structured spreads for watering, planting, treatments, and customizable to-do lists.✅ 5 Garden Layout Spreads - Design your garden with easy-to-use grids, color-coded plantings, and record sun exposure, watering needs, treatments, soil amendments, and more.✅ Individual Log #s - Track every plant and supplier with reference numbers that tie into your supplier and plant profiles.✅ Seed & Treatment Trackers - Log sowing and germination notes and monitor fertilizers, pesticides, and amendments with linked log numbers for easy reference.✅ 100 Comprehensive Plant Description Pages - Capture key details for each plant including light, water, pruning needs, growth timeline, treatments, and important milestones.Whether you're tracking the journey of a tomato seedling or recording years of flower bed redesigns, this hardcover Garden Plannerwill grow with you-helping you improve, plan, and celebrate your garden season after season.Plant it. Track it. Watch it grow-one season at a time!
Garden Planner (Illustrated Wildflowers)
Garden Planner - Grow Smarter, Stay Organized, and Watch Your Garden Thrive Year After YearWhether you're a first-time gardener or a seasoned green thumb, this yearly Garden Planner is the perfect companion to help you plan, track, and reflect on your gardening journey. With thoughtfully structured sections and over 100 pages of guided content, this 6" x 9" planner keeps everything from planting schedules to treatment logs in one tidy place-so you can focus on growing, not guessing.Perfect for anyone who wants to document their evolving garden, track what worked (and what didn't), and plan future seasons with clarity and purpose.Key Features: ✅ Monthly Overviews - Plan and reflect with structured spreads for watering, planting, treatments, and customizable to-do lists.✅ 5 Garden Layout Spreads - Design your garden with easy-to-use grids, color-coded plantings, and record sun exposure, watering needs, treatments, soil amendments, and more.✅ Individual Log #s - Track every plant and supplier with reference numbers that tie into your different supplier and plant profiles.✅ Seed & Treatment Trackers - Log your seed collection's sowing & germination notes and monitor fertilizers, pesticides, and more with linked log numbers for specific plants and suppliers.✅ 100 Comprehensive Plant Description Pages - Capture details for each plant including water/light/pruning needs, growth timelines, treatments, and important milestones.✅ Compact 6" x 9" Design - Perfectly sized for garden sheds, potting benches, or toolboxes-portable, practical, and easy to use.Whether you're tracking the journey of a tomato seedling or recording years of flower bed redesigns, this yearly Garden Planner will grow with you-helping you improve, plan, and celebrate your garden season after season.Plant it. Track it. Watch it grow-one season at a time!
Garden Planner (Cottagecore Botanical Plants)
Garden Planner - Grow Smarter, Stay Organized, and Watch Your Garden Thrive Year After YearWhether you're a first-time gardener or a seasoned green thumb, this yearly Garden Planner is the perfect companion to help you plan, track, and reflect on your gardening journey. With thoughtfully structured sections and over 100 pages of guided content, this 6" x 9" planner keeps everything from planting schedules to treatment logs in one tidy place-so you can focus on growing, not guessing.Perfect for anyone who wants to document their evolving garden, track what worked (and what didn't), and plan future seasons with clarity and purpose.Key Features: ✅ Monthly Overviews - Plan and reflect with structured spreads for watering, planting, treatments, and customizable to-do lists.✅ 5 Garden Layout Spreads - Design your garden with easy-to-use grids, color-coded plantings, and record sun exposure, watering needs, treatments, soil amendments, and more.✅ Individual Log #s - Track every plant and supplier with reference numbers that tie into your different supplier and plant profiles.✅ Seed & Treatment Trackers - Log your seed collection's sowing & germination notes and monitor fertilizers, pesticides, and more with linked log numbers for specific plants and suppliers.✅ 100 Comprehensive Plant Description Pages - Capture details for each plant including water/light/pruning needs, growth timelines, treatments, and important milestones.✅ Compact 6" x 9" Design - Perfectly sized for garden sheds, potting benches, or toolboxes-portable, practical, and easy to use.Whether you're tracking the journey of a tomato seedling or recording years of flower bed redesigns, this yearly Garden Planner will grow with you-helping you improve, plan, and celebrate your garden season after season.Plant it. Track it. Watch it grow-one season at a time!
Garden Planner (Cottagecore Spring Mirrored Pattern)
Garden Planner - Grow Smarter, Stay Organized, and Watch Your Garden Thrive Year After YearWhether you're a first-time gardener or a seasoned green thumb, this yearly Garden Planner is the perfect companion to help you plan, track, and reflect on your gardening journey. With thoughtfully structured sections and over 100 pages of guided content, this 6" x 9" planner keeps everything from planting schedules to treatment logs in one tidy place-so you can focus on growing, not guessing.Perfect for anyone who wants to document their evolving garden, track what worked (and what didn't), and plan future seasons with clarity and purpose.Key Features: ✅ Monthly Overviews - Plan and reflect with structured spreads for watering, planting, treatments, and customizable to-do lists.✅ 5 Garden Layout Spreads - Design your garden with easy-to-use grids, color-coded plantings, and record sun exposure, watering needs, treatments, soil amendments, and more.✅ Individual Log #s - Track every plant and supplier with reference numbers that tie into your different supplier and plant profiles.✅ Seed & Treatment Trackers - Log your seed collection's sowing & germination notes and monitor fertilizers, pesticides, and more with linked log numbers for specific plants and suppliers.✅ 100 Comprehensive Plant Description Pages - Capture details for each plant including water/light/pruning needs, growth timelines, treatments, and important milestones.✅ Compact 6" x 9" Design - Perfectly sized for garden sheds, potting benches, or toolboxes-portable, practical, and easy to use.Whether you're tracking the journey of a tomato seedling or recording years of flower bed redesigns, this yearly Garden Planner will grow with you-helping you improve, plan, and celebrate your garden season after season.Plant it. Track it. Watch it grow-one season at a time!
Essential Guide to Ecological Gardening
An authoritative handbook focused on the important practice of ecological gardening, a modern and increasingly popular approach that treats the garden as the living ecosystem it is. Essential Guide to Ecological Gardening, from The American Horticultural Society, shares insight on the many ways gardeners can embrace nature for a healthier, more vibrant home landscape. True ecological gardening goes far beyond the battle cry of "Leave the leaves!" spread across social media every autumn. It is about making thoughtful decisions in your garden each and every day, knowing they impact the millions of plants and animals living there and the greater environment beyond. Becoming a responsible steward of a thriving garden ecosystem has never been more important. Some of the ecological gardening concepts you'll learn in these beautifully illustrated pages include how to: Design a garden that's both aesthetically pleasing and ecologically soundFoster a greater diversity of plants and animals through considerate gardening practicesPrevent stormwater runoff with the use of rain gardens and rain-capturing systemsReduce and replace resource-intensive lawnsMaintain your garden in a nature-friendly wayIncorporate keystone plants in your garden that support a broad diversity of lifeManage weeds and pests safelyConduct wildlife-friendly garden cleanupsFoster pollinators, soil organisms, and other wildlife by focusing on native plantsBy adopting and implementing the principles of ecological gardening, you and your garden will become part of the solution...and you'll have a beautiful, resilient garden you can feel good about. Also included in this series are Essential Guide to Organic Vegetable Gardening and Essential Guide to Perennial Gardening.
The Complete Guide to Home Permaculture
Create a regenerative, self-sustaining landscape where plants, people, and wildlife all thrive with this practical guide full of easy-to-implement solutions. At its core, permaculture is gardening and living with a deep respect for--and responsibility to--nature. In The Complete Guide to Home Permaculture, you'll learn the fundamental concepts of permaculture in simple, actionable steps through case studies adapted to the suburban/urban landscape and a modern lifestyle. A plethora of before-and-after photos and examples of existing home permaculture gardens, coupled with how-to projects, detailed illustrations and landscape plans, and a thoughtful explanation of the 3 pillars of a regenerative landscape (water, soil, and plants), will lead you to discover that every garden--no matter its size--can have a positive impact. Discover uncomplicated, tried-and-tested processes to transition conventional landscapes into beneficial and interconnected ecosystems. Learn how to: Protect biodiversityGrow food, medicine, habitat, and beautyLimit resource useCreate a closed-loop system that reduces wasteCapture and reuse rainwaterHelp restore depleted soil and capture carbonFoster a functional polyculture filled with a diversity of plants and lifeGrow vegetables and other edible plants in an edible landscapeThe Complete Guide to Home Permaculture offers accessible ways to address the global climate crisis we face, allowing you to participate in the Earth's return to health right from your own backyard.
Food Flowers Medicine
Writers share gifts of the garden in a collection of personal essays. In "Origins and Ra(t)velations" a new home owner receives wisdom from the unlikeliest of guests to her garden. A woman makes discoveries tending the garden of an elder in "A Year in Sissy's Garden." A self-described "reluctant gardener" learns about nature from her rescue dogs. A woman visits botanical gardens close to home and around the world, finding them places of joy throughout her life. A praying mantis named Babycakes becomes a magnificent companion and teacher. In "Mein Apfelbaum" a beloved apple tree provides a sense of belonging from childhood and into adolescence and adulthood. Discover the magic of these and other personal reflections on the garden in this spirited essay collection from contemporary writers.
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.
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.
My Garden
A month-by-month tour of the renowned naturalistic garden designer Jacqueline van der Kloet's home garden--a visual feast of perennials, trees, grasses, shrubs, and bulbs that have inspired a generation of gardeners and designers. From a pioneer of the New Perennial movement, My Garden showcases the practice and process behind Jaqueline van der Kloet's leading-edge, naturalistic planting experimentations, rooted in her site of experimentation for the past forty years: her home garden. Jacqueline has established a design process emphasizing naturalized bulbs and other plants that intermingle in every month of the year, supporting biodiversity and embracing the natural tendencies of plants. With an elegance admired the world over, each corner of van der Kloet's garden reflects an important aspect of her creative process, sharing down-to-earth wisdom from her own little piece of paradise. Enter into this stunning, innovative garden and discover: -Visionary techniques and methods for tending and cultivating a natural garden, training one's focus to shift along with the seasons -Lists of Jaqueline's favorite plants by color, with insight on inspiring and unexpected combinations -Snapshots of specific spots in her garden, documenting the subtle shifts in each plant as it traverses the seasons' rhythms -A glimpse into the conceptual frameworks for many of her international projects -Inspiration for your home garden, with ideas for maintaining interest throughout every season, even in the cold and snow
