Jane Packer's Guide to Flower Arranging
Jane Packer is one of London's most sought-after florists and also runs celebrated flower schools in London, New York, and Tokyo. In this irresistible book, Jane covers the same ground as in her four-week career course, here divided into three sections. Flowers to Give teaches all the techniques needed to make a variety of floral gifts. Flowers for the Home covers vase arrangements of all shapes and sizes. Flowers for Celebrations offers all the necessary know-how for party flowers, festive wreaths, table arrangements, and beautiful wedding flowers. Lovely photographs of the finished creations are accompanied by step-by-step photographs and easy-to-follow instructions. This book distils all Jane Packer's expertise and style into one volume, and imparts the secrets of successful flower arranging to every reader, novice and expert alike.
A Time to Plant
Captures Southern indoor/outdoor living traditions for a new generation . . . A vital young voice in the gardening scene teaches a new generation of Southerners to love gardening and to make it a focal point of their lifestyle. James Farmer III teaches respect for the age-old rules of flower and vegetable gardening in the Deep South (e.g., plant in spring for fall blooms, plant in fall for spring blooms), in a fresh voice that resonates love of life and entertaining at home. Also included are delicious recipes for seasonal meals, as well as suggestions for floral arrangements and centerpieces from the garden.
Northwest Home Landscaping
Northwest Home Landscaping, including Western British Columbia is an updated, expanded edition of Creative Homeowner's award-winning best seller on landscaping northwest-style. Readers will find inspiring ideas for making the home landscape more attractive and functional. The 48 featured designs are created by landscape professionals from the region and use more than 200 plants that thrive in the southeast. Detailed instructions for projects such as paths, patios, ponds, and arbors are also included. Over 400 full-color photos and paintings are complemented by easy, step-by-step instructions. The Pacific Northwest will be in full bloom with Northwest Home Landscaping.US: WA, ORCAN: Western British Columbia
Tasty Tables 2
o A new edition following on from the highly successful Tasty Tables Annick Van Wesemael, master florist, translates her passion for her profession in romantic creations. Her floral art is a constant witness of femininity and sober finesse. After her successful first book, Tasty Tables, Annick again introduces us to a world of decorated tables. This book bubbles over with ideas to adorn tables and their environment for the most diverse occasions in an atmospheric, homey, snug, delicate, sometimes exuberant way with vegetative as well as floral materials. A spectrum of tips to turn every occasion into a fantastic party.
Cool Orchids and How to Grow Them
Englishman Frederick William Burbidge (1847-1905) was a legendary and intrepid collector of tropical orchids, traveling in Borneo, Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei, Australia, and the Fiji Islands in search of specimens. His experience trying to cultivate these tropical plants in more temperate regions led him to publish "Cool Orchids" in 1874, which focused on successful orchid growing in cooler climates. Burbidge, who worked for Victorian orchid distributor James Veitch and Sons, was named Curator of the Trinity College Botanic Gardens at Dublin, Ireland in 1879. More than 20 black-and-white illustrations accompany the text.
Carnations and Pinks
This 1911 work, written by three British expert cultivators of the carnation, includes a "Calendar of Operations" a month-by-month description of plants in four varieties: Border Carnations and Picotees; Malmaison Varieties; Perpetual-flowering Varieties; and Pinks. The book includes eight black-and-white plates of carnations.
The Book of Roses
Renowned American historian and leading horticulturalist Francis Parkman (1823-1893), briefly a Professor of Horticulture at Harvard University and President of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, wrote "The Book of Roses" specifically for American rose enthusiasts. The book contains information on the culture, training and propagation of roses, as well as descriptions of rose families, groups, and best varieties. According to Parkman biographer Howard Doughty, "[Parkman] was among the foremost of American rose-growers. He is said to have had at one time over a thousand varieties in his garden, and "The Book of Roses," which he published in 1866, was for many years a standard manual of the subject." Beautiful black-and-white illustrations accompany the text.
Penstemons
A horticultural monograph on Penstemon, the largest plant genus endemic to North America. This is a black-and-white edition.
Reading the Garden
Whether a small plot in the backyard of an inner-urban home or a capital city's sprawling botanic garden, Australians have long desired a patch of dirt to plough or enjoy. Reading the Garden explores our deep affection for gardens and gardening and illuminates their numerous meanings and uses from European settlement to the late twentieth century. More than just a pastime, the act of garden making has helped migrants create 'home' and an identity in a new place, and we continue to use our outdoor landscapes to preserve the memory of a loved one, feed the family or beautify our surrounds. In Reading the Garden, new ways of seeing Australian history and culture-memory and belonging; domestication and civilisation; nationalism and identity-are woven into a compelling narrative around gardens and landscape.
Golden Gate Gardening
The bible of vegetable gardening in the San Francisco Bay Area has been revised and updated! Packed with more than 400 pages of reliable information, Golden Gate Gardening offers encyclopedic coverage of gardening principles and practices specific to the Bay Area and the Northern California coast. Author Pam Peirce explains strategies for growing common favorite vegetables and herbs, plus unusual ones that bring variety to the garden. She includes information on organizing a garden, dealing with pests, assessing a microclimate, cultivating fruit trees, gardening on a rooftop, harvesting the crop, and creating delicious gardener's dishes. This third edition also contains new or updated information on resources for specific seeds, tomato planting, organic gardening, and vegetables not included in previous editions, including amaranth, shell beans, Chinese broccoli, broccoli raab, Florence fennel, oca, okra, and quinoa. Charts, sidebars, maps, and online resources help make the vegetable gardening experience easier and more fun.
Environmentally Friendly Way to Manage Pests and Disorders in Your Garden and Landscape
This best-selling guide has been revised to include an expanded section on establishment, irrigation, pruning, and soil and nutritional requirements. Also new is a discussion of the mossy rose gall and an expanded reference section. Healthy Roses adapts Integrated Pest Management practices to the home garden--methods of controlling pests and diseases using beneficial insects, traps and barriers, and less toxic pesticides such as soaps, oils, and microbials. The book also covers careful selection of varieties, site selection and planting, proper watering, how and when to prune, and weed management.
Hardy Gingers
A guide to the temperate zone and high altitude ginger varieties that are perfectly at home in cooler climates. This is a black-and-white edition.
Guide to Canadian Vegetable Gardening
The Guide to Canadian Vegetable Gardening includes how-to and when to information for successful vegetable gardening thoughout the gardening regions in Canada. Filled with the need to know information on planting, growing and harvesting more than 50 vegetables and herbs. Includes full-color images and helpful maps and charts.
Oh Garden of Fresh Possibilities
Inspiration and practical advice for a fantastic garden. Kim Smith's passion is her garden, a small and densely-packed quarter acre beside her family's seaside home in Gloucester, brimming with every species imaginable and some (including apricots) a few might consider unimaginable. Here she has created a living tapestry of fragrance, foliage, flower and fruit. She is sensitive to the plant's forms, hues, and horticultural demands, and has, by design, established a succession of blooms and a selection of plant materials that reduce the needs for pesticides and herbicides. Any gardener wrestling with the challenges of blight, bugs, poor soil, limited light, and the vagaries of weather will find in these pages both sound advice and practical solutions. But this is intended as more than another how-to book. The author is especially interested in the intangibles a garden provides: the moods and ambiance, the butterflies attracted, the harmonious patterns of color, light, and texture. Her advice is as much about how to visualize a garden, as about particular trees, shrubs, vines, perennials, and annuals. Illustrated in full color with the author's own exquisite drawings, containing twenty-two chapters that illuminate every aspect of garden planning and planting, this book is for gardeners seeking both sensible guidance and extraordinary design ideas.
The Bulb Book
John Weathers's 1911 work is detailed discussion of bulbous plants from all over the world.
Handbook on Pruning Roses
Created by the National Rose Society (England), this 1905 handbook is a concise, practical guide to the art and science of pruning roses.
Welcome Wreaths
Learn how to give a warm welcome at your door by making and hanging these lovely wreaths. Paula Philips' craft book offers the reader a beginner-friendly, step-by-step guide on how to make 19 different fresh, colorful, welcoming door wreaths. A wreath on your front door is a beautiful sign of welcome for your visitors. But, you need not limit your use of wreaths to the Christmas season. There are wreath designs that are appropriate for every holiday and season. Paula Philips will show you how to create these beauties. She will also show you how to make smaller wreaths with fruit and flowers which can be placed on a surface near the wreath, turning them into beautiful centerpieces for your dining table or decorations for your fireplace mantle. You can make a wonderful and wispy grapevine wreath featuring rust and gold flowers, appropriate for every season or a festive and fruity small wreath with fruit spilling out, perfect for the Thanksgiving dinner table. Welcome Wreaths includes photos of each design, step-by-step instructions for wiring and weaving the wreaths, and suggestions for how to make and attach decorations. As the seasons and holidays change, you'll want to change up your wreath. You might not have room to store a dozen wreaths for the year. So, the book shows you quick and easy ways to reuse your basic woven wreath. All you need to do is remove bows, flowers, and other decorations. You then simply replace them with fresh ones. Before you begin, it will simplify your work to gather all supplies in one spot. The book lists details for each design, such as size, colors of silk flowers, stems, leaves, sprays, and bows, and other design elements. Consider making two wreaths, one smaller than the other, and then layering them. The resulting depth of design is pleasing to the eye. Purchase or make a flower garland and lay it on top of the wreath for a fresh spring look. Make your own bows out of burlap, cotton, silk, or ribbon with your choice of colors and patterns. Plastic fruits incorporated into the design help make perfect Thanksgiving wreaths. A tiny bird's nest with eggs will give the perfect touch for a spring wreath. You can buy plastic ones or make them yourself. Wreaths make beautiful gifts. Your friends and relatives will appreciate them and use them to greet people at their front door for years to come. As you go through Paula's book, working on her wreath designs, you will become a master of this fascinating art. You'll gain confidence, knowing you can create any wreath of your design for any occasion.
Silk Florals 101
Silk Florals 101 for All Seasons offers a beautiful array of styles from classic to eclectic to country with designs for every month of the year. Whether you require a striking arrangement for a special holiday or want to create a soft romantic mood, you will find something to please the most discriminating taste.
A History of the Orchid
Describes the intriguing adventures of orchid hunters and the early attempts at orchid identification and classification.
The Chrysanthemum
Both amateur and professional growers will appreciate this comprehensive source of information on the history, propagation, marketing, and exhibition of chrysanthemums.
Practical Floriculture
Peter Henderson's 1892 comprehensive guide covers the growing of all manner of florist-quality plants, for both amateur and professional gardeners, and includes advice on how to become a florist.
Bulbophyllums and Their Allies
This groundbreaking, practical guide for orchid lovers focuses on those species likely to be cultivated, including 375 Bulbophyllum species and 170 related species and hybrids. This is a black-and-white edition.
Garden Lover’s Martha’s Vineyard
In this sequel to her 2007 best-seller A Garden Lover's Cape Cod, one of New England's foremost gardeners photographs and analyzes her favorite public and private gardens on Martha's Vineyard.
Pictorial Guide to Perennials
Pictorial Guide to Perennials features a complete A to Z listing of over 450 popular and new perennials, special sections includes planning, soil preparation, and special uses as well as easy-to-understand cultural information.
Month by Month Gardening in Arizona
Desert gardening presents its own unique set of challenges and knowing what maintenance tasks to perform throughout each month of the year is key to success. This quintessential guide walks you thorough a list of gardening to-dos, telling you exactly what dryland gardens need to look their best, no matter the season. With valuable care tips throughout the book, Arizona gardeners are handed the answers to the region's most common questions. From pruning shrubs and trees to caring for cacti, succulents, and other desert perennials, this month-by-month guide to water-wise landscaping is the perfect handbook for desert homeowners. Easy to use, filled with colorful, descriptive photographs, and written by desert gardening expert Mary Irish, Month-By-Month Gardening in the Deserts of Arizona is like having a professional landscape advisor in the garden with you all year long. The Month-By-Month Gardening series is the perfect companion to take the guesswork out of gardening. With this book, you'll know what to do each month to have gardening success all year in the xeric landscapes of Arizona and other Southwestern states. Written just for gardeners where you live, you can be confident that the information is right for you. Other Month-By-Month Gardening books in this series include: Pacific Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Deep South, New England, Carolinas, Mid-Atlantic, Florida, and others.
