Packed with more than 1000 photographs of over 1000 plants Shrubs & Climbers is an inspirational handbook to help you identify choose and grow your favourite varieties. Photographic plant catalogue Discover at a glance the full range of shrubs and climbers available. Each entry combines a plant portrait with a concise botanical description plus cultivation and propagation details. Helpful symbols indicate preferred growing conditions and frost hardiness. If you want a specific leaf or flower...
The organic grower's guide to planting, propagation, culture, and ecology Trees are our allies in healing the world. Partnering with trees allows us to build soil, enhance biodiversity, increase wildlife populations, grow food and medicine, and pull carbon out of the atmosphere, sequestering it in the soil. Trees of Power explains how we can work with these arboreal allies, specifically focusing on propagation, planting, and individual species. Author Akiva Silver is an enthusiastic tree growe...
It focuses on about 40 case histories of individual trees complete with meticulously recorded photographs of how each tree developed usually from very doubtful beginnings to their present-day glory. The author Martin Treasure is superbly talented technically but also has a unique skill in bringing out the personality of the plants so that even non-enthusiasts cannot help but be drawn into the case histories. In the book the case histories are supported by chapters on basic training techniques, a...
The Fruits and Fruit-Trees of America; Cherries, Grapes, Peaches, Pears, &C
by Andrew Jackson Downing
Christmas Trees and Holiday Greens
by Deborah Sweeton and Michael Sweeton
With more than thirty years experience in the gardening business, Deborah and Michael Sweeton have made quite an impact on the seasonal pleasure of gardening. In this book, they offer commonsense ideas for making the holiday season full of cheer, including: oCaring for plants of the season oUsing fresh-cut greens, inside and outsideoMaking and decorating wreathsoSearching for the perfect treeoSelecting and caring for cut and live treesoUsing plants and greens around the house Expert advice and s...
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.
Indoor bonsai are miniature versions of tropical and sub-tropical trees, whose native climate corresponds most closely to the climate inside a house. This book covers bonsai species which can be grown indoors and looks at care and maintenance, light and water requirements and at the training of bonsai trees. It has an A-Z selection of some 40 species of tropical, sub-tropical and tender bonsai.
Trees in Towns II
The Japanese and Chinese have been creating bonsai trees for centuries and it is now an internationally popular pastime. This compact and stylish guide will provide everything you need to know to grow bonsai successfully, including shaping with wires, watering, seasonal maintenance, tackling common ailments, choosing the right container, feeding and repotting. A directory of over 90 of the most popular species, illustrated with beautiful photographs, will enable you to find the tree that is righ...
Trees and Shrubs of the Gardens
by John Alexander Grant and Carol L. Grant
Practical information on growing, harvesting and using medicinal trees and shrubs sustainably in a temperate climate, whether for self-sufficiency or profit. The author draws on her direct experience of creating a medicinal forest garden in the UK to provide supplies for herbal medicine in practice. She provides advice on the design of new planting projects which can meet the needs of different users from small gardens to smallholdings and agroforestry. Includes: How medicinal trees can contribu...