California, blessed with an idyllic climate, is the perfect environment for gardens and gardeners. In this sun-filled state are some of the most beautiful gardens in the world. From those created by the Jesuits, simple, rugged and tinged with Spanish influence, to today's environmentally sensitive designs, the scope of the style and concept is astonishing. This is a tour of 30 public and private gardens in the state of California. It examines the estates of turn-of-the-century magnates with thei...
Southern Living Everyday Gardening (Southern Living (Paperback Oxmoor))
In May 2001, the National Trust held a major conference on garden conservation and restoration as part of its celebration of gardens over the year. Many of those providing papers for the conference have contributed to the book, which is the Trust's guide for those involved in the conservation of gardens, whether private individuals or professional. Although the National Trust's gardens are world famous, the sheer depth and range of professional skills and work that is undertaken behind the scene...
Plant Nutrient Management in Hawai'I's Soils
Masculinities at the Margins
Across a rich terrain of empirical and theoretical trajectories, the concept of military masculinity (now understood in its plural as military masculinities) has been a significant conceptual tool in both feminist international relations (IR) and in critical men and masculinities studies scholarship. The concept has helped us to unpack the relationships between gender, war, and militarism, including how military standards function in the production of wider normative, hegemonic manliness. As suc...
Transform your too-small yard into a beautiful, textured, and colorful garden with this new book! Master Gardener and Seattle Post-Intelligencer columnist Marty Wingate details design, planning, and planting ideas that will bring a bounty of flowers, variety, and volume to small yards, tight spaces with limited sunlight, decks, and balconies. This colorful book of great ideas proves that garden-making possibilities for small spaces are enormous!
This book is a survey of 12 breathtakingly beautiful gardens by award-winning photographer Andre Baranowski, whose eye for beauty will embolden readers the world over to embrace their inner instincts and create their own garden wild. The new movement in contemporary gardening is about going back to the wilderness, creatively landscaping with native plants to enrich their environments and seamlessly merge with their natural surroundings. Politely rejecting traditional manicured, hedged and prune...
Practical Management of Invasive Non-Native Weeds in Britain and Ireland
Advice involves immediate 'rapid-response' actions to initiate containment along with preventative strategies, measures for control and monitoring requirements post-control. The manual responds to the GB Non-Native Species Strategy and deals with over 40 species which have been selected from plants listed in Schedule 9 of the Wildlife & Countryside Act 1981 (as amended) for the UK; invasive alien species of EU concern (as per EU IAS Regulation 1143/2014); and other noteworthy species of the urba...
Gardener's guide indigenous garden plants of southern Africa
by Glenice Ebedes
Native Plants for Florida Gardens
by Stacey Matrazzo and Nancy Bissett
The Tennessee Fruit and Vegetable Book (Southern Fruit and Vegetable Books)
by Felder Rushing
A Practical Treatise on the Management of Fruit Trees
by George Jaques
Midwestern (Jackson & Perkins Beautiful Roses Made Easy)
by Teri Dunn