GARDENLUST: A BOTANICAL TOUR OF THE WORLD'S BEST NEW GARDENS
"An extraordinary collection of 21st-century gardens that will arouse wanderlust... Whether you are a garden globetrotter or an armchair explorer,...
PLANTOPIA: JOYFUL AND MINDFUL BENEFITS FOR BRINGING NATURE INTO THE HOME
Taking the houseplant trend to the next level, this book offers--in addition to growing tips for over twenty varietals--rich inspiration for home...
INDOOR JUNGLE: A GUIDE FOR GROWING AND STYLING FOLIAGE IN YOUR HOME
This book is a luxurious guide to creating the very densest of jungles in your living room. It's time to finally turn that thumb green. With this...
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WILD EDENS: UNVEILING THE ORIGINS OF OUR GARDEN PLANTS
Written by Musgrave, Toby
A fantastic gift book about global plant exploration and our gardens There are books that recognize famous garden designers and offer inspiration to would-be garden-makers. And there are thousands of manuals that will tell you how to garden. But only one tells the story of any garden's most important 'raw material' - its ornamental plants.
PHILOSOPHY FOR GARDENERS: IDEAS AND PARADOXES TO PONDER IN THE GARDEN
Written by Collyns, Kate
Explore ideas, consider the big questions and learn life lessons in your garden.
JAPANESE GARDENS AND LANDSCAPES, 1650-1950
Written by Kuitert, Wybe
Moss, stone, trees, and sand arranged in striking or natural-looking compositions: the tradition of establishing and refining the landscape has been the work of Japanese gardeners and designers for centuries.
OLMSTED AND YOSEMITE: CIVIL WAR, ABOLITION, AND THE NATIONAL PARK IDEA
Written by Carr, Ethan
How the work and writings of Frederick Law Olmsted, the founder of American landscape architecture, inspired the creation of parks to benefit the public. During the turbulent decade the United States engaged in a civil war, abolished slavery, and remade the government, the public park emerged as a product of these dramatic changes.
LANDSCAPES OF EXCLUSION: STATE PARKS AND JIM CROW IN THE AMERICAN SOUTH
Written by O'Brien, William E
The first-ever study of state park segregation across the Jim Crow SouthWinner, J. B. Jackson Book Prize from the Foundation for Landscape StudiesAward of Merit, American Association for State and Local History An outgrowth of earlier park movements, the state park movement in the twentieth century sought to expand public access to scenic places.
ENGLISH GARDEN ECCENTRICS: THREE HUNDRED YEARS OF EXTRAORDINARY GROVES, BURROWINGS, MOUNTAINS AND MENAGERIES
Written by Longstaffe-Gowan, Todd
A highly original study of eccentric English garden-makers and their extraordinary gardens In English Garden Eccentrics, renowned landscape architect and historian Todd Longstaffe-Gowan reveals a series of obscure and eccentric English garden-makers who, between the early seventeenth and early twentieth centuries, created intensely personal and idiosyncratic gardens.
BOTANY FOR GARDENERS, FOURTH EDITION: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE SCIENCE OF PLANTS
Written by Capon, Brian
"This should be the cornerstone of every gardener's library." --Jeff Gillman, Director of the UNC Charlotte Botanical Gardens What happens inside a seed after it is planted? How are plants structured? How do plants reproduce? The answers to these and other questions about complex plant processes can be found in the bestselling Botany for Gardeners.
MONTH-BY-MONTH GARDENING GUIDE: DAILY ADVICE FOR GROWING FLOWERS, VEGETABLES, HERBS, AND HOUSEPLANTS
Written by Bohmig, Franz
"Bursting with useful advice, especially for new gardeners." --Booklist To be a successful gardener, you need to know two things: how to do something and when to do it. Both concepts are thoroughly tackled in The Month-By-Month Gardening Guide.
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A GARDEN
Written by Webster, Patterson
Autobiography of a Garden follows Patterson Webster's twenty-five-year journey as she transforms a beautiful but conventional country property into a 750-acre landscape that challenges what a garden is, or can be.A unique, personal memoir, this book details how a neophyte gardener moved from copying the ideas of other people to learning from them, and finally to striking out on her own.
VIEW FROM FEDERAL TWIST: A NEW WAY OF THINKING ABOUT GARDENS, NATURE AND OURSELVES
Written by Golden, James
Federal Twist is set on a ridge above the Delaware River in western New Jersey. It is a naturalistic garden that has no utilitarian or leisure uses and the site is not an obvious choice for a garden (heavy clay soil, poorly drained: quick death for any plants not ecologically suited to it).
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