Author : Claire Kowalchik
Publisher : Rodale
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 31,91 MB
Release : 1998-01-15
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9780875969640
Provides information on the history, uses, range, and characteristics of more than one hundred herbs, and offers tips on growing them
Author : Fern Marshall Bradley
Publisher : Rodale
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 21,30 MB
Release : 2018-01-30
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 1635650984
Over 400 entries of the most practical, up-to-date gardening information ever, collected from garden experts and writers nationwide! "Gardens are places to renew yourself in mind and body, to reawaken to the truth and beauty of the natural world, and to feel the life force inside and around you. And the organic way to garden is safer, cheaper, and more satisfying. Organic gardeners have shown that it's possible to have pleasant and productive gardens in every part of this country without using toxic chemicals. They make their home grounds an island of purity."--Robert Rodale
Author : Barbara W. Ellis
Publisher : Rodale Books
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 28,41 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Gardening
ISBN :
Gardening and Landscaping.
Author : Neil O. Anderson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 860 pages
File Size : 40,19 MB
Release : 2007-10-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781402065699
Floriculture is one of the fastest-growing sectors of commercial agriculture. This book provides a unique and valuable resource on the many issues and challenges facing flower breeders, as well as the industry at-large. Featuring contributions from 32 international authorities, it offers tools and directions for future crop domestication and enhancement as well as offers essential information for breeding a wide range of floriculture crops.
Author : Jeff Cox
Publisher : Rodale
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 34,58 MB
Release : 2002-10-25
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9780875968896
Showcases one hundred fifty perennials of proven performance sure to live up to their catalog descriptions and offers advice on selection and cultivation
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 10,95 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Agriculture
ISBN :
Author : Jayne T. MacLean
Publisher :
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 31,37 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Herb gardening
ISBN :
Author : Jayne T. MacLean
Publisher :
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 26,23 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Herb gardening
ISBN :
Author : Tracy DiSabato-Aust
Publisher : Timber Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 46,69 MB
Release : 2006-07-24
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 1604692995
With more than 180,000 copies sold since its original publication, The Well-Tended Perennial Garden has proven itself to be one of the most useful tools a gardener can have. Now, in this expanded edition, there's even more to learn from and enjoy. This is the first, and still the most thorough, book to detail essential practices of perennial care such as deadheading, pinching, cutting back, thinning, disbudding, and deadleafing, all of which are thoroughly explained and illustrated. More than 200 new color photographs have been added to this revised edition, showing perennials in various border situations and providing images for each of the entries in the A-to-Z encyclopedia of important perennial species. In addition, there is a new 32-page journal section, in which you can enter details, notes, and observations about the requirements and performance of perennials in your own garden. Thousands of readers have commented that The Well-Tended Perennial Garden is one of the most useful and frequently consulted books in their gardening libraries. This new, expanded edition promises to be an even more effective ally in your quest to create a beautiful, healthy, well-maintained perennial garden.
Author : Geoffrey R. Dixon
Publisher : Springer
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 48,10 MB
Release : 2014-06-10
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9401785600
This Trilogy explains “What is Horticulture?”. Volume three of Horticulture: Plants for People and Places presents readers with detailed accounts of the scientific and scholastic concepts which interact with the arts and humanities and which now underpins the rapidly evolving subject of Social Horticulture. This discipline transcends the barriers between science, medicine and the arts. This volume covers:- Horticulture and Society, Diet and Health, Psychological Health, Wildlife, Horticulture and Public Welfare, Education, Extension, Economics, Exports and Biosecurity, Scholarship and Art, Scholarship and Literature, Scholarship and History and the relationship between Horticulture and Gardening. This volume brings the evolution of the Discipline and Vocation of Horticulture firmly into the 21st Century. It covers new ground by providing a detailed analysis of the value of Horticulture as a force for enhancing society in the forms of social welfare, health and well-being, how knowledge is transferred within and between generations, and the place of Horticulture in the Arts and Humanities. Substantial emphasis is given to the relationships between health, well-being and plants by the internationally acclaimed authors who have contributed accounts of their work in this book.
