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	Garden Feast It's been a dream of mine to write this book and bring together the two things I'm most passionate about-gardens and foodHorticulturalist, gardening writer and tv presenter Melissa King invites you to join a feast in which the garden provides inspiration for mouthwatering meals based on fresh seasonal ingredients.Melissa introduces us to a world of fruits and vegetables never seen in the shops, with a particular focus on heirloom varieties which have been lovingly preserved by generations of gardeners. From the rich, sweet flavour of the charcoal-fleshed Black Russian tomato to the deliciously tender pods of the Purple King bean, from the juicy tang of the Australian rainforest native Finger lime to the luscious melt-in-your-mouth texture of the Red Noonan peach, the spectacular colours and flavours are a true feast for the eyes and the tastebuds.Detailed, practical information for the gardener on everything from climate and soil type to watering and harvesting means everyone can enjoy these reliable, productive, easy-to-grow garden treasures. As each chapter moves from the garden to the kitchen, there are simple-and simply delicious- recipes which have been specially designed to showcase the natural flavours of garden-fresh produce. With additional features on the health and nutrition benefits and creating gardens in small spaces, a guide to bottling and preserving, and information on complementary herbs, this is an essential reference for the gourmet gardener.A sumptuous book full of colour, texture and flavour, Garden Feast will delightthe senses. Author: Melissa King, Virginia Cummings Publisher: ABC Books ISBN: 9780733317644 Format: Paperback Book List Price: $49.95 Our Price: $44.46
	The Gardener's Guide to Planting and Growing Trees This is a comprehensive guide to planting trees successfully in any size garden, whether as solitary decorative specimens, in small groups and woodland plantings, in beds and borders, in containers or under glass. It contains expert advice on the best trees for every season, revealing how they can be used to produce a range of colourful and seasonal effects, from spectacular spring blossom to dramatic autumn foliage. It provides helpful step-by-step photographic guidance on choosing, caring for and maintaining trees, conifers and palms throughout the year. Useful how-to sections explore the practicalities of growing trees. There is clear advice, illustrated with step-by-step techniques, on selecting the right tree for a plot, planting and arboriculture, and growing trees in containers and under glass. There is also easy-to-follow photographic guidance on staking, mulching, watering and feeding, as well as pruning, propagation and dealing with common problems. An invaluable alphabetical tree directory, including temperate and tropical trees, conifers and palms, is also included, giving horticultural information on reliable species and cultivars, growing requirements, season of interest, height and spread, and hardiness. This authoritative illustrated reference, with over 800 colour photographs, is the most comprehensive general sourcebook available and a classic reference for all gardeners. Author: Michael W. Buffin Publisher: Anness Publishing ISBN: 9780754816119 Format: Hardback Book List Price: $32.95 Our Price: $29.33
	Houseplants for Dummies Looking to bring some outside greenery indoors? Maybe you already have an indoor garden and are looking to create a botanical jungle. Whatever the case may be, houseplants are an ideal inexpensive way to beautify your dwelling. You'll be rewarded with purer air and you're sure to enjoy watching your plant sprout, climb, and even flower. Of course, before you start working on crafting a greenhouse, you need to know what kinds of plants you can grown in your home and which plants are best suited to your taste and style. Houseplants For Dummies introduces dozens of different foliage plants, flowering plants, cacti, and exotic varieties. Your green thumb is sure to get even greener once you've read about: Houseplant basics Identifying indoor microclimates Indoor plant biographies Differentiating between direct, indirect, and low light Watering needs Rules of fertilizing Temperature and growing cycles Houseplants For Dummies is packed with houseplant growing techniques, tips, tricks, and even goes the extra mile with a chapter devoted to the various ways you can display houseplants if you're looking for some bragging rights! Whether you're new to the world of houseplant basics or you're a seasoned gardener, you'll get the inside dirt on topics such as: Various potting soil mixes Preparing plants for indoor life Cleaning, pruning, and staking Propagating houseplants Dealing with pests and diseases Building your own controlled climate And much more The material is arranged into six clear and helpful sections: houseplant basics, houseplant profiles, growing essentials, potted plant maintenance, houseplant settings, and valuable ideas - each section helping you create your own indoor forest. Even if you're convinced you have a black thumb, Houseplants For Dummies will have you living among the green in no time! Author: Dummies, Hodgson Publisher: John Wiley and Son ISBN: 9780764551024 Format: Paperback Book List Price: $22.95 Our Price: $20.43
	Tropical Flowering Plants This book bridges a long-standing gap between obscure references in tropical botany and the gardener's need for an accurate, practical guide with clear photographs. Incorporating the latest advances in plant taxonomy from the definitive text of Dr. Walter Judd, the book is a rare work of scrupulous research -- and magnificent photography -- that will be as useful to the gardener as it is to the botanist. Kirsten Llamas exhaustively documents more than 1400 flowering trees, shrubs, vines, and herbaceous plants commonly grown in tropical and subtropical gardens. She provides thorough information on cultivation for each plant, including growth characteristics, light exposure, cold hardiness, invasive tendencies, and unique horticultural features. More than 1500 color photos of magnificent flowering specimens make this book as much a pleasure to browse as it is a resource for research. Sure to appeal to gardeners, landscapers, nurseries, collectors, botany students, florists, and botanical gardens, Tropical Flowering Plants promises to be a staple reference for decades to come. Author: Kirsten Albrecht Llamas Publisher: Timber Press ISBN: 9780881925852 Format: Hardback Book List Price: $99.99 Our Price: $88.99
	Clematis for Small Spaces Clematis have long enjoyed popularity in gardens large enough to accommodate them - and now, with the arrival of a new generation of cultivars that excel in a myriad of small garden spots, there is more reason than ever to grow them. As well as being modest in height, many of these new cultivars are extremely floriferous and self-supporting, and they are joined here by a selection of classic species and cultivars that perform especially well in compact niches.Raymond J. Evison recommends the best clematis for small spaces such as indoor and outdoor containers, mixed borders, deck gardens, hanging baskets and balconies, and goes on to provide detailed plant descriptions of more than 150 high-performance species and cultivars organized by flowering season. Easy-to-follow guidelines for pruning, cultivation and propagation complete the indispensable volume. Illustrated with 167 colour photographs, this long-awaited book celebrates a new generation of clematis and will appeal to enthusiasts and beginners alike. Author: Raymond J. Evison Publisher: Timber Press ISBN: 9780881928518 Format: Hardback Book List Price: $49.99 Our Price: $44.49
	The Homeowner's Complete Tree and Shrub Handbook Trees and shrubs bring permanence and structure to home landscapes, adding character and beauty to the entire property. They can impart an immediate sense of geography act as background staging for flower gardens, outdoor living spaces, and children's play areas and provide cool shadows and privacy from neighbours and passers-by. They are essential to every beautiful yard, yet many homeowners do not give them the attention that flowers and lawns traditionally receive. Penny O'Sullivan gives trees and shrubs the respect they deserve in her lively, comprehensive book, The Homeowner's Complete Tree & Shrub Handbook. Woody plants, she maintains, can be the heart and soul of the home landscape plan. Their contribution to the yard might include a springtime canopy of blossoms colourful, delicious summer fruit a regal year-round silhouette rough and rugged bark or seasonally changing foliage. Their presence is a soothing anchor in the ever-changing environment of a typical yard. In three sections - design, plant profiles, and care - this handbook covers every essential consideration of tree and shrub gardening. After an introduction to the principles of garden design, O'Sullivan guides readers through tree and shrub selection, with special considerations for owner expectations and growing conditions. The heart of the book is the extensive encyclopaedia of hundreds of tree and shrub portraits. Each profile covers ease of cultivation, availability, history, hardiness, size, growth rate, and special characteristics. O'Sullivan also includes warnings about plants not to grow, such as invasive exotics and disease-prone trees and shrubs. The final section covers care and maintenance, with thorough advice on buying and planting sitting pruning fertilizing and coping with diseases, pests, and environmental problems. Adding trees and shrubs to a home landscape is always an expensive proposition. This is the book homeowners will refer to when making their purchases and p Author: Penny O'Sullivan Publisher: Storey Books ISBN: 9781580175708 Format: Paperback Book List Price: $49.99 Our Price: $44.49
	The Organic Lawn Care Manual In the modern suburban landscape, beautiful, green lawns are perhaps the most ubiquitous feature of all. It's difficult to imagine a friendly neighbourhood without broad, clean stretches of neatly shorn grass. More and more in recent years, those lawns are evolving into organic systems as homeowners - concerned about the long-term effects of chemicals on their children, their pets, and the environment - turn to natural methods to keep their yards healthy and inviting, and, yes, still green and lush, too. Paul Tukey, a self-confessed mowing addict, answers the growing demand for organic grass with a comprehensive volume of natural lawn-care information. Step by step, he takes readers through the many elements that work together to form a healthy, organic lawn. Well-treated soil, fed properly with compost and natural fertilizers, is the foundation of every great lawn. Plant it with a grass cultivar matched properly to the climate and sunlight, nourish the soil and grass with the proper amount of water, and maintain the height with a good mower equipped with a sharp blade. A beautiful, naturally maintained lawn can be as simple as that. An organic, healthy lawn is the best defence against weeds and pests, but when unwanted visitors creep in, Tukey is ready with Weed and Thug ID Guides and advice on dispatching them naturally or learning to live with the benign offenders. Tukey also provides helpful advice for lawn keepers making the transition from a synthetic to an organic lawn system. It's all here - I everything today's homeowner needs to keep his lawn off drugs, and make it an inviting living and play area for the whole family. Author: Paul Tukey Publisher: Storey Books ISBN: 9781580176491 Format: Paperback Book List Price: $34.99 Our Price: $31.14
	Flowers Award-winning photographer Adam Kufeld takes on the always popular subject of flowers in a fresh and provocative way, using a close-range lens to describe the intricate, surprising forms hidden inside blossoms. His macro lens allows Kufeld to capture detail invisible to the naked eye, and take advantage of the naturally brilliant color and suggestive forms of petal, stamen, and pistil to create images that transform their subject. A flower grower from an early age and an orchid tender for almost 15 years, Kufeld knows flowers intimately. His elegant, stylized, seductive portraits depict common garden flowers, including morning glories, bougainvillea, daisies, poppies, lilies, zinnias, roses, and passion flowers, as well as more exotic varieties, such as orchids. His original Giclee prints, on traditional watercolor paper, have been hugely successful in exhibition. Flowers: Portraits of Intimacy includes more than 60 photographs captioned with the common name of the flower and an introduction by acclaimed floral designer Rebecca Cole. Author: Adam Kufeld, Adam Kufeld Publisher: Stewart, Tabori & Chang Inc ISBN: 9781584790792 Format: Hardback Book List Price: $70.00 Our Price: $62.30
	How to Grow Shrubs and Climbers Shrubs and climbers provide the gardener with one of the principle tools for design and decoration throughout the year. Their huge range and variety allow a great deal of choice and flexibility to shape the composition and mood of any garden. They have the facility to add colour throughout the seasons, and also height, scent and texture. This expertly written and lavishly illustrated book shows how to select the best shrubs and climbers for any garden, with inspirational ideas for a range of decorative effects. Climbing plants bring height to the garden, and an element of privacy, with the additional benefit of covering unsightly walls and fences with colourful blooms in spring and summer, as well as stunning autumn foliage. Shrubs provide a permanent planting structure and will always be an attractive and stable part of any garden design. The book covers all the technical aspects of planting, propagating, and maintaining plants. There is clear advice, illustrated with step-by-step techniques, on selecting the right plant, planting, and providing support for climbers on vertical surfaces such as walls and fences and hedges. There is also easy-to-follow guidance on weeding, mulching, watering, feeding and moving plants, as well as basic pruning, propagation and dealing with pests and diseases. With practical guidance, stunning plant portraits, and 400 colour photographs and artworks in total, this informative book is an indispensable guide for any garden enthusiast seeking the knowledge and expertise to use shrubs and climbers to create a beautiful and uniquely personal garden. Author: Jonathan Edwards Publisher: Anness Publishing ISBN: 9781844763443 Format: Paperback Book List Price: $26.95 Our Price: $23.99
	Roses Revealed Roses Revealed gives you confidence when it comes to choosing the right rose for you. Here are Dermot O'Neill's top 200 roses, selected from the thousands available for their combination of exceptional qualities, such as exquisite scent, long flowering period and good disease resistance. The majority is widely available and can be grown in several countries, including America and Australia. The first part of the book showcases the best roses for particular purposes in the garden, so whether you are looking for the best options for ground cover, for trailing over a wall, or for small gardens you can easily find what you are looking for. Dermot gives a personal account of each rose, his passion and enthusiasm bringing it to life, while Sarah Cuttle's photographs provide a glorious colour reference. The directory in the second part of the book contains all the essential information on your chosen rose, including flowering period, height and spread, and shade tolerance, with tips drawn from Dermot's many years of experience. The third part of the book covers rose care, where Dermot's sound advice and easy-to-follow instructions reveal everything you need to know about looking after your roses, making trouble-shooting a breeze. Roses Revealed encapsulates all the romance of this universally popular plant and makes choosing and growing roses a joy. Author: Dermot O'Neill Publisher: Kyle Cathie ISBN: 9781856266543 Format: Hardback Book List Price: $59.95 Our Price: $53.36
	Success with Clematis Climbing plants are perfect for softening a garden, hiding unattractive bare brickwork, fences or sheds, and also providing height and colour. Whether you want to create a romantic cottage garden look, with pretty pastel hues or a make a striking visual statement with intense, bold colour, clematis is the ideal plant. With over 250 known species and cultivars, there is an abundance of choice, both in terms of colour and form. This practical book gives all the guidance you need to choose the right clematis for your garden and expert advice on planting and cultivation. There are also tips on choosing companion plants to make the most of your displays. It includes: detailed lists of the species and cultivars, arranged according to season what to look for when buying clematis planting for best results providing support: trellises, pergolas and free-standing structures and raising new plants from seed or cuttings by layering. It also includes aftercare with a clear guide to pruning & what to do when things go wrong. It is illustrated in full colour, with 150 colour photographs. Author: Marigold Badcock Publisher: Guild of Master Craftsman Publications Ltd ISBN: 9781861084071 Format: Paperback Book List Price: $34.99 Our Price: $31.14
	Tricks with Trees Trees are an underappreciated and underused aspect of the garden. Their 'bendy' form means they can be manipulated and pruned into fantastic shapes, which can transform a garden from ordinary to entirely unique. The authors, Ivan Hicks and Richard Rosenfeld, show how trees and shrubs can be turned into practical and fun towers for children to play in, bent over as pliable saplings to create bridges, arches, tunnels and temples, planted in semi-circles or pairs to create arbours and arches or even transformed into conceptual sculptures. Accessible and practical, this text is accompanied by the author's original concept sketches and a wealth of beautiful photos showing the sculptures in situ. These inspirational ideas are supported by lists of trees and horticultural information suitable to the related project. The book is divided into seven main chapters: chapter one covers how trees grow and the basic points of arboriculture chapter two lists the best trees to use for the many projects included chapters three through to six cover the many forms one can create and includes tricks suitable for the urban gardener or those with small balconies or terraces the final section comprises a comprehensive plant directory. With many simple tricks and quick ideas, as well as more challenging projects, Tree Sculpture will inspire readers to view trees and shrubs as potential design aspects of their garden. Author: Ivan Hicks & Richard Rosenfeld Publisher: Anova Books ISBN: 9781862057340 Format: Hardback Book List Price: $49.99 Our Price: $44.49
	Sprouts and Sprouting Turn your kitchen into a garden. Discover the pleasures of transforming wheat, lentils, mustard or alfalfa into sprouts and shoots. This work includes 70 healthy and creative recipes with an accent on raw nutrition and flavour. Bean sprouts, sprouted seeds and legumes are wonderfully healthy, delicious and convenient foods. Perfect for today's busy lives, they are the ultimate fast food. Sprouts are living plants ideal for making soups, salads, sandwiches, stir-fries, humus, and dips, but add great flavour, texture and colour to any dish. Seeds are a store house of latent energy which bursts forth when they germinate, converting the stored nutrients into highly nutritious sprouts, alive with plant enzymes, anti-oxidants, protein and a vast array of vitamins and minerals. Regularly eating sprouts can have a dramatic effect on your general health and wellbeing. Research has shown that sprouts improve and maintain the immune system, improve your digestion, and help prevent and fight serious diseases, such as cancer. Sprouts are also an excellent nutritional source for vegetarians, vegans and those on a gluten free diet. Sprouts & Sprouting is the complete guide to sprouting seeds and beans, including how to sprout successfully, sprouting equipment, nutritional information and over 70 recipes. It is the ideal handbook, both for the beginner and the seasoned sprouter. Author: Valerie Cupillard Publisher: Grub Street ISBN: 9781904943907 Format: Paperback Book List Price: $29.99 Our Price: $26.69
	Lavender The scent of lavender fills the air in the French region of Provence. Hans Silvester, who has lived in Provence for almost 40 years, has photographed lavender in all four seasons, capturing the changing colors, shapes, and formal beauty of the plant. This vibrant new edition of the 1996 original features an updated design and a smaller format. The stunning photographs, 40 of which are new to this edition, are complemented by a revised text and the addition of informative captions. As Silvester's photographs show, the fields of lavender encapsulate the sometimes contradictory nature of Provence: the rich, potent purple of summer contrasting with the subdued amber of autumn the hard, gray earth of winter giving way to the tender green of spring. His images also reveal the area's varied terrain, from broad plains to hills and mountains, where scattered farms form a lavender patchwork on the rocky slopes. The text, by fragrance expert Christiane Meunier, recounts the history of lavender, which, as this sumptuous volume demonstrates, remains an essential element of the character and beauty of Provence. Author: Hans Silvester Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. ISBN: 9780810956049 Format: Hardback Book List Price: $45.00 Our Price: $40.05
	Moro East Follows the life of East End allotment, reflected in recipes that are unusual without being daunting. This book includes recipes for parts of the crop that might otherwise be discarded (celery leaves, pea shoots, poppy leaves), even making use of produce that does not ripen, such as green tomatoes. Author: Samantha Clark & Samuel Clark Publisher: Ebury Press ISBN: 9780091917777 Format: Hardback Book List Price: $75.00 Our Price: $66.75
	How to Make a Forest Garden A forest garden is a food-producing garden, based on the model of a natural woodland or forest. It is made up of fruit and nut trees, fruit bushes, perennial vegetables and herbs. It can be tailored to fit any space, from a tiny urban back yard to a large rural garden. A close copy of a natural ecosystem, it is perhaps the most ecologically friendly way of gardening open to us. It is also a low-maintenance way of gardening. Once established there is none of the digging, sowing, planting out and hoeing of the conventional kitchen garden. The main task is picking up the produce! This highly practical, yet inspiring book gives you everything you need to know in order to create a beautiful and productive forest garden, including: * Basic principles * Layout * How to choose plants * Details of over one hundred plants, from apples to mushrooms * the most comprehensive account of perennial and self-seeding vegetables in print * A step-by-step guide to creating your garden * Full details of an example garden, and pictures of many more Forest gardening is an important element of permaculture. This book explains in detail permaculture design for temperate climates and contains much of interest for anybody wanting to introduce sustainable practices into their garden. Author: Patrick Whitefield, Tricia Cassel- Gerard Publisher: Permanent Publications ISBN: 9781856230087 Format: Paperback Book List Price: $47.95 Our Price: $42.68
	Vegetables, Herbs and Fruit The demand for locally sourced organic foods continues to rise. This resource is a prime reference for the many who are growing or wanting to grow their own vegetables, herbs and fruits. The book features superb full-color photographs and illustrations and an easy-to-use A-Z directory. Comprehensive growing, harvesting and preserving tips and a wealth of recipes are a boon to gardeners and cooks alike. Practical aspects of gardening are explained in detail, with in-depth sections on creating a garden, pollination, soil fertility and greenhouse growing. Some of the topics covered are: Nutritional values The most useful and most recommended varieties Plant hardiness, propagation and growing guidelines Cropping, harvesting and storing Weed, pest and disease control Ornamental and wildlife value Pruning and training Companion planting Container growing. A yearly maintenance calendar, glossary, further reading section, seed sources list and detailed index round out this outstanding book. Author: Jekka McVicar & Matthew Biggs Bob Flowerdew Publisher: Firefly Books ISBN: 9781554071265 Format: Hardback Book List Price: $47.95 Our Price: $42.68
	Perennial Vegetables Imagine growing vegetables that require the same care as the flowers in your perennial beds and borders -- no annual tilling and planting. They thrive and produce abundant and nutritious crops throughout the season. In Perennial Vegetables, author and plant specialist Eric Toensmeier introduces gardeners to a world of little-known and wholly under-appreciated plants. Ranging beyond the usual suspects (asparagus, rhubarb, and artichoke) to include such 'minor' crops as ground cherry and ramps and the much sought-after, antioxidant-rich wolfberry (also known as goji berries), Toensmeier explains how to raise, tend, harvest, and cook with plants that yield great crops and satisfaction. Perennial vegetables are perfect as part of an edible landscape plan or permaculture garden. Profiling more than a hundred species, with dozens of colour photographs and illustrations, and filled with valuable growing tips, recipes, and resources, Perennial Vegetables is a groundbreaking and ground-healing book that will open the eyes of gardeners everywhere to the exciting world of edible perennials. Author: Eric Toensmeier Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing Co ISBN: 9781931498401 Format: Paperback Book List Price: $55.95 Our Price: $49.80
	The American Woodland Garden North America's eastern half, roughly from the Midwest to the Atlantic, was once a great deciduous forest. Although centuries of human intervention have cleared much of the land, the timeless forest remains in the spirit of the place. Today, even the shortest period of human neglect allows for the resurgence of the process of forest creation. The greatest gardens -- and happiest gardeners -- in this area will be those that take into account the nature of the land. In his unique, and often thought-provoking new book, award-winning author Darke promotes and stunningly illustrates a garden aesthetic based on the strengths and opportunities of the woodland, including play of light, sound, and scent seasonal drama and the architectural interest of woody plants. While written from a compelling and fresh perspective, The American Woodland Garden never strays from the realistic concerns of the everyday gardener. Information on planting, soils, and maintenance provides a firm foundation for horticultural accomplishment. An alphabetical list of woodland plants offers useful advice for every garden, emphasizing native trees, shrubs, vines, ferns, grasses, sedges, and flowering perennials that fit the forest aesthetic. More than 700 of the author's stunning photographs show both the natural palette of plants in the wild and the effects that can be achieved with them in garden settings. Many of the most striking photos in the book were taken at classic gardens that are paragons of an ecological style. The American Woodland Garden is a clarion call to a new awareness of our relationship to the natural world. This book will take its rightful place among the classic works that have influenced our concept of the American landscape. Author: Rick Darke Publisher: Timber Press ISBN: 9780881925456 Format: Hardback Book List Price: $69.99 Our Price: $62.29
	Native Orchids of the Southern Appalachain Mountains This authoritative guide showcases the unmatched beauty and diversity of the native orchids of the southern Appalachian mountains. Based on Stanley Bentley's many years of nature study, it covers the 52 species--including one discovered by Bentley and named after him--found in a region encompassing western Virginia and North Carolina and eastern West Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee. The entry for each orchid provides the plant's scientific and common names, a description of the flower (including color, shape, and size), and information on the time of flowering, range, and typical habitat, all in the context of the southern mountains. A range map accompanies each description, and Bentley's own superb photographs are an additional aid to identification. Using straightforward language yet incorporating the most up-to-date scientific information and nomenclature, the book will be welcomed by amateur naturalists or professional botanists looking for species in the field and by those who simply enjoy photographs of beautiful wildflowers. Author: Stanley L. Bentley Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press ISBN: 9780807848722 Format: Paperback Book List Price: $41.95 Our Price: $37.34