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This handy text presents more than 150 suggestions for growing healthy and beautiful plants. It covers healthy soil, propagation, plant care, watering and pest control, offering ways to make your thumb greener.

Fotografias y dibujos acompanan las explicaciones de todos los procedimientos sobre que hacer en cada momento del ano con los ornamentales, frutales y bayas y parras.

A beautiful, comprehensive guide to going green and living sustainably. Permaculture is an important but often misunderstood method of growing food and building homes in a manner that works with nature, rather than against it, to create beautiful, healthy, and useful gardens. Blending ecology, organic agriculture, green home design, appropriate technology, and biology can be confusing and overwhelming, but The Ultimate Guide to Natural Farming and Sustainable Living simplifies this vast field f...

Offers instructions for twenty-five container garden projects, including flowers, grasses, herbs, and vegetables for both indoors and outdoors.

Planted freshwater aquariums combine the DIY aspects of terrariums with a sophisticated palette of gorgeous foliage plants. Sunken Gardens is packed with everything someone new to the hobby needs to know; it details the equipment needed to get started; surveys the best plants for aquascaping; and shows how to design, plant, and maintain an aquascape.

Learn how to cultivate your own magical garden, begin your journey with folk herbalism, and awaken to your place in nature through practical skills from an experienced Appalachian forager and witch. Witchcraft is wild at heart, calling us into a relationship with the untamed world around us. Through the power of developing a relationship with plants, a witch-beginner or experienced-can practice their art more deeply and authentically by interacting with the beings that grow around us all. Bridg...

There is something essentially charming about a simple cottage surrounded by a fence covered with roses. More than 1,200 of these houses can be found on Nantucket Island. Nowhere in this country are there more charming and diverse cottages featuring small pocket gardens and window boxes than on Nantucket. To a large extent, the character of the island is reflective of these little early homes. They were originally built by and for island residents at a time when islanders didn't require, didn't...

"A useful and a wonderful resource whether you grow on a balcony, rooftop or in the ground." --Yolanda Burrell, owner of Pollinate Farm and Garden Supply Once a fringe topic, permaculture is moving to the mainstream as organic gardeners discover the wisdom of a simple system that emphasizes the simple idea that by taking care of the earth, the earth takes care of you. The Vegetable Gardener's Guide to Permaculture is for home gardeners of every skill--with any size space--who want to live in...

By selecting over 85 plants - shrubs, climbers, trees, and perennials and other border plants - each photographed in at least two seasons of interest, this title shows how, with imagination and a little planning, your garden can look good throughout the year. An entire page is allocated to each plant, although a plant that has an especially outstanding display in three or four seasons has been allocated a two-page description. The introduction explains the principles of planting for more than on...

However tiny the plot, you can make a contribution to restoring the balance of nature by gardening the ecological way. Grow flowers, shrubs, climbers and trees and even a wildlife have, all in a small space and without the use of harmful chemicals. Using nature to get the best from a garden, this book helps readers to: choose the most suitable plants for the soil and situation; feed them with natural compost; and attract bees and butterflies by growing the right plants. A small pond brings frogs...

Stefan Buczacki's 'Best Water Gardens' is a comprehensive guide on how to design and construct a water feature and what plants to use. The book provides inspirational ideas on all types of water feature - pond, wall fountain, waterfall - as well as giving full details on what type of plants are needed and where and how to plant them. Plant types featured include marginals, submerged, floating and those suitable for bog gardens.

Many people consider themselves to be good gardeners, but it takes something extra to put to use a variety of basic design principles to create a garden that is extraordinarily beautiful. This book explains every piece of the gardening puzzle in a friendly, straightforward way. It demystifies the art of designing with plants, offering practical, how-to advice on: Basic Design Techniques; Successfully Using Colour; Extending Seasons; Designing a Year-Round Garden; Using Plants for Special Effects...