Landscape

The permaculture classic that launched a new movement in edible, wildlife-friendly gardening! The Permaculture Garden shows you how to transform a yard or even the smallest space into a highly productive garden that works in harmony with nature...

"Graham Payne has set out the ground rules for Mediterranean gardeners clearly and comprehensively. Here is the vast range of plants to consider growing, what they offer and what they demand. This is an eminently practical book." Hugh...

2020 independent Press Award Winner--Green Book Category Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 2 is a how-to guide enabling you to "plant the rain" by creating water-harvesting "earthworks" or "rain gardens." Earthworks are simple,...

'Garden Book of the Year' - Garden Media Guild Awards 2022 Discover Britain's most beautiful and inspiring wild gardens, and how you can make your own. Winner 'Best Garden Book of the Year'...

Widely acknowledged as the most influential land- scape designer of his age, Lancelot Capability Brown was to England what Frederick Law Olmsted was to America responsible for shaping the very ideal of the nation s parkland. Brown s...

An easily accessible, highly illustrated guide to the geology, geography and geomorphology that form landscapes. Interest in the environment has never been greater and yet most of us have little knowledge of the 4 billion years of history that formed...

"Demystifies these popular low-water beauties." -Country Gardens Magazine Whether you're a novice or veteran, have an acre to fill or a just few pots, or live in Calexico or Canada, Succulents Simplified is a dazzling primer for success with succulents!...

Gardening on a Gradient: Designing and Establishing Sloping Gardens is a complete guide to tackling one of a garden designer's biggest challenges. Whatever the size or the gradient, creating a garden on a sloping site presents lots of conflicting...

An awe-inspiring guide that weaves together permaculture design, food resiliency, climate adaptation, community organizing, and indigenous wisdom that you can implement in your own backyard. This book has been crafted for beginner gardeners and large...

"Shows us that guiding natural processes rather than fighting them is the key to creating healthier landscapes and happier gardeners." -Doug Tallamy, author of Bringing Nature Home Larry Weaner is an icon in the world of ecological landscape design, and...

'Brings both house and garden vividly to life... A magnificent achievement' Gardens Illustrated 'A finely crafted work... it is an important record of the history of one of the country's most splendid estates' The English Garden The Palladian house...

Brimming with botanical information, indoor and outdoor growing advice, details on propagation, display ideas, and even craft projects, this book is a petite but complete tribute to the mighty fern.Part of the Cool Springs Press "mini" series of...

Recreate the wild beauty and thriving ecology of meadows, prairies, woodlands, and streamsides in your own garden. In New Naturalism, horticulturist and modern plantsman Kelly D. Norris shares his inspiring, ecologically sound vision for home gardens...

Maximize your water harvesting potential with efficient, cost-effective earthworks In the face of drought and desertification, well-designed, water harvesting earthworks such as swales, ponds, and dams are the most effective way to channel water into...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780975778258Author Alanna MooreFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Python Press,AustraliaPublisher Python Press,AustraliaWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm)...

Andrew Mikolajski's Garden Design offers a complete breakdown of the process involved in creating a garden, from making an initial assessment of the site's possibilities to applying design principles and choosing plants and landscaping materials. It is...

This book helps you in choosing the perfect plant for every location in your garden, with 120 photographs. You can understand the properties of different soils, from acid and alkaline to light sand and heavy clay. You can make the most of various...

Since the first edition was published in 1992, Nick Robinson's The Planting Design Handbook has been widely used as a definitive text on landscape architecture courses throughout the world. It remains one of the few titles written by a practicing...

A Practical Step-by-Step Guide to Maintaining and Operating a Golf Course From the fairway to the flagsticks, operating a golf course presents a variety of challenges. To maintain a beautiful course and ensure smooth day-to-day operations, one must...

Before picking up the trowel, pick up the stickers! With 150 reusable illustrated stickers - representing dozens of plant cultivars that are versatile, readily available, and suitable for most temperate growing zones - plus a fold-out design board and a...

"A fascinating study of the trees, shrubs, and vines that feed the insects, birds, and other animals in the suburban garden." -The New York Times As development and habitat destruction accelerate, there are increasing pressures on wildlife populations...

The intimate Monk's Garden at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston embodies the design principles that inform the work of noted landscape architect Michael Van Valkenburgh. In Designing a Garden, Van Valkenburgh presents the design of the...

A classic in the making, Garden Design Master Class brings together 100 essays by some of the top garden designers working today, from acknowledged experts such as Deborah Nevins on trees and Arabella Lennox-Boyd on borders, to acclaimed tastemakers such...

Enjoy bushels of crispy apples and baskets of juicy blueberries from your own backyard. Authors Lewis Hill and Leonard Perry provide everything you need to know to successfully grow delicious organic fruit at home, from choosing the best varieties for...

A beautifully illustrated history of the Queen of Flowers and her enduring power in our gardens, art, religion and imagination. 'Fascinating... I'll never look at a rose in quite the same way again.' Adrian Tinniswood The rose is bursting with...

"Rich with photographs and descriptions of how landscape design has shaped and reflected culture over time." -The American GardenerThe History of Landscape Design in 100 Gardens explores the defining moments in garden design. Through profiles of 100 of...

'In this wide ranging and comprehensive survey of the designed landscapes of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, James Bartos argues convincingly that ornamental wildernesses should be viewed as distinctive design features which, when...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399580987Author Gabriel FrankFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Ten Speed PressPublisher Random House USA Inc

"A veritable goldmine for gardeners." -Plant Talk We've all seen gorgeous perennial gardens packed with color, texture, and multi-season interest. Designed by a professional and maintained by a crew, they are aspirational bits of beauty too difficult to...

Widely acknowledged as the last great landscape designer of the eighteenth century, Humphry Repton created work that survives as a bridge between the picturesque theory of Capability Brown and the pastoral philosophy of Frederick Law Olmsted. By turns...

Leading landscape architect Kim Wilkie is revered for his unusual vision and his acute grasp of how people have moulded their environment over the centuries. This updated version of his classic book, Led by the Land, has been expanded to include fresh...

Garden design in England was entirely reinvented during the eighteenth century. The strictly symmetrical gardens of the French Baroque were replaced by artificial landscapes almost indistinguishable from natural scenery. What continues to govern our...

Christopher Lloyd (Christo) was one of the greatest English gardeners of the twentieth century, perhaps the finest plantsman of them all. His creation is the garden at Great Dixter in East Sussex, and it is a tribute to his vision and achievement that,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781423650928Author Steve GiannettiFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Gibbs M. Smith IncPublisher Gibbs M. Smith IncWeight(grams) 216g

Ralph Dutton, 8th Baron Sherborne, was one of the leading taste-makers of his generation. Together with figures such as Christopher Hussey and James Lees-Milne, he helped create the perception that the apogee of English architecture and design was the...

It seems that almost everyone who has access to outside space, however small or large, wants to make the most of it. Interest in growing plants in ecologically sensitive ways that support pollinators, butterflies, birds, and other wildlife is a very...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780786888429Author MellorFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Little, Brown and CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & Company

William Barron is one of the unsung heroes of British garden design, often overshadowed by other famous horticulturists such as Capability Brown and Humphrey Repton. William Barron: The Victorian Landscape Gardener tells the story of an unassuming man...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781607747635Author Kate FreyFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Ten Speed PressPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 669gDimensions(mm) 226mm *...

Richmond Park is the largest Royal Park in London, covering an area of 2,500 acres. From its heights there is an uninterrupted view of St Paul's Cathedral, 12 miles away. The royal connections to this park probably go back further than any of the...