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Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"With rare plants to find, a dead sister who keeps bringing her coffee, and another sister whose anger fills the sky with lightning, Sage doesn't have time for romance. Sage Flores has an affinity for plants, but it wasn't enough to save her younger sister Sky's life. She ran from the tragedy, only to return to her hometown eight years later. Like slipping into an old, comforting sweater, Sage takes back her job at Cranberry Rose Company and uses...
Author
Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Catapult edition.
Language
English
Description
A seed slips beyond a garden wall. A tree is planted on a precarious border. A shrub is stolen from its culture and its land. What happens when these plants leave their original homes and put down roots elsewhere? In fourteen essays, Dispersals explores the entanglements of the plant and human worlds: from species considered invasive, like giant hogweed; to those vilified but intimate, like soy; and those like kelp, on which our futures depend. Each...
Author
Publisher
Abrams
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
The Hidden Beauty of Seeds & Fruit' is a unique photographic study of seeds and fruit in mind-blowing magnification that celebrates the wonders of nature and science. Each picture captures the breathtaking and beautiful details of the world of carpology, the study of seeds and fruit. Each picture in this book is created from approximately 8,000 individual photographs. The samples come from the carpological collection at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh....
Author
Series
Publisher
[Library Ideas, LLC]
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Fantastic plants cover our world. But which ones are the smelliest, thorniest, or largest? Through easy-to-read text, amazing photos, and a fun activity, beginning readers will learn all about the most extreme plants growing on our planet.
Author
Series
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Learn about the importance of seeds and how saving and conserving them for the future is key to sustaining healthy life on the planet. Seeds are essential to all life on the planet. They provide us with food, clothing and other materials we need and use every day. Without seeds, the planet wouldn't have as many species of plants as we do now. Without plants, there wouldn't be oxygen to breathe and there would be less food for all life on Earth. But...
Author
Publisher
Tuttle Publishing
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
The healthier your plants, the happier you'll feel!
A Beginner's Guide to House Plants teaches you how to bring your indoor spaces alive with lovely and easy-to-maintain plants -- and how to keep them healthy. It provides detailed instructions on how you can unleash the power of plants to energize and relax you, and how to promote well-being by greening your environment.
In this book you'll find hundreds of useful tips,...
A Beginner's Guide to House Plants teaches you how to bring your indoor spaces alive with lovely and easy-to-maintain plants -- and how to keep them healthy. It provides detailed instructions on how you can unleash the power of plants to energize and relax you, and how to promote well-being by greening your environment.
In this book you'll find hundreds of useful tips,...
Author
Publisher
Tuttle Publishing
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Adored for their charming shapes and colors, respected for their resilience and adaptability, and just plain fun to have around--succulents are the hottest home gardening trend today.
A Beginner's Guide to Succulent Gardening is a friendly guide to popular succulents, walking novices through all the basics, like:
A Beginner's Guide to Succulent Gardening is a friendly guide to popular succulents, walking novices through all the basics, like:
- Choosing your succulents--from Hens and Chicks (Echeveria) to bristly flowering cactus varieties
- Mixing
9) Herbolario de la senda de los venenos: hierbas nocivas, solanáceas medicinales y enteógenos rituales
Author
Publisher
Inner Traditions en Español
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
En parte grimorio y en parte herbolario, esta guía de la senda de los venenos de la herboristería oculta comparte historia, sabiduría e información sobre el uso de plantas venenosas, mágicas y que alteran la consciencia. El autor, Coby Michael, explic cómo, a pesar de su naturaleza venenosa, las hierbas maléficas pueden convertirse en poderosas aliadas, ya que ofrecen potentes cualidades curativas, sabiduría mágica y acceso al reino de los...
Author
Publisher
Creative Homeowner
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Part gardening book and part craft book, this complete guide will not only show you basic growing techniques for nearly 200 succulent varieties, but it will also show you how to make high-quality succulent crafts too! Succulents for Your Home and Garden includes overviews on how to grow succulents and care for them, plant profiles of over 180 succulent species – from the easy-to-grow hens and chicks plant to the ever-popular jade plant
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Series
Publisher
Cool Springs Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
There are no stupid questions here. Everyone has to start somewhere, after all. In The First-Time Gardener: Growing Plants and Flowers, Sean and Allison McManus, the gardening pros behind the popular website and podcast Spoken Garden, answer all of your questions and more.
Caring for outdoor plantings can be intimidating, especially if the process is completely new to you. Before running to the
...Caring for outdoor plantings can be intimidating, especially if the process is completely new to you. Before running to the
12) Herbarium
Author
Publisher
Parkstone International
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Mega Square Herbarium is based on the work of Basilius Besler, the famous plant expert who, for the first time in history, described, painted and engraved over a thousand species of plants. His drawings are of great scientific as well as artistic value, and offer vivid insights into Europe's eclectic flora.
Author
Publisher
Ballantyne, Hanson & Co.
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
In Wood and Garden, Gertude Jekyll's first book, she writes, "For the love of gardening is a seed that once sown never dies, but always grows and grows to an enduring and ever-increasing source of happiness." Written as a gardening calendar, this seminal work reveals her personal approach to planting a garden, which revolutionized Edwardian horticultural thinking.
Author
Publisher
Parkstone International
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"Reflecting their owner's taste and serving as an impressive exhibition space for visitors, cabinets of curiosities were a place of interest in the houses of the wealthy in the 16th an 17th centuries.Displaying rare vegetable and animal species and fossils, these cabinets were always dedicated to science and knowledge. By collecting uncommon and beautiful objects in nature, rich noblemen were able to build a microcosm expressing the diversity of God's...
Author
Publisher
Dorling Kindersley Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A fully illustrated, practical guide that explains how to follow a sustainable approach to food and fashion Live sustainably with style - grow fruits and vegetables, cook them, create natural dyes, then make your own clothes with five full-size pattern sheets. Focused around five crops (blackberry, nettle, onion, red cabbage, and rhubarb) that can be foraged or grown in an allotment, planter, or container, Bella Gonshorovitz - fashion designer, dressmaker,...
Author
Publisher
Abrams Image
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Urban gardener, plantrepreneur, and star of Netflix’s Instant Dream Home "Farmer Nick" Nick Cutsumpas combines sustainability, science, and philosophy to coach new plant owners on how to find the right houseplants for their space and help them thrive
Despite the abundance of resources on caring for houseplants, many people continue to struggle with their plant care or don’t even know where to begin on the journey...
Despite the abundance of resources on caring for houseplants, many people continue to struggle with their plant care or don’t even know where to begin on the journey...
17) Mi primer jardín
Author
Publisher
DK
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
Primera edición.
Language
Español
Appears on list
Description
This is the perfect gardening book for kids who want to plant fruit and vegetables, create mini-farms from plants, and go on wildflower missions. No matter how tiny your space, you can be a gardener. Livi Gosling has advice on creating places for plants to live in your home, scavenging from the recycling to create a vegetable kingdom, and adding a splash of color to grey city streets with your own wildflower seed mix. This great gardening book for...
18) Flowers
Author
Series
Publisher
Parkstone International
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Flowers are the centerpiece in the majority of pictorial still-lifes. By painting their colours and forms, artists from Brueghel to O'Keeffe have created symbols for both life and mortality. Van Gogh's sunflowers, Monet's water lilies and Matisse's bouquets are, of course, unforgotten. Most of the works contained in Flowers are true masterpieces, which have often marked whole epochs and styles.
Author
Publisher
Orange Judd Company
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Mushrooms and their extensive and profitable culture should concern everyone. For home consumption they are a healthy and delicious food, and for the marketplace, when grown properly, they become a very lucrative crop. Contained herein is a comprehensive handbook on all matter of mushroom culture, written with the layperson in mind. Accessible and informative, this book is the perfect guide for budding amateurs and constitutes a great addition to...
Author
Publisher
Tuttle Publishing
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Interior decorating just got a green thumb!
Harness the beauty of plants, leaves and foliage--green decor--in this unique collection of 40 nature projects that are fun, easy and inexpensive to make. Six of Japan's leading floral and plant designers offer a range of ideas to turn found and foraged materials into stunning arrangements and displays.
With these visionary stylists as your guides, a few materials you already have...
Harness the beauty of plants, leaves and foliage--green decor--in this unique collection of 40 nature projects that are fun, easy and inexpensive to make. Six of Japan's leading floral and plant designers offer a range of ideas to turn found and foraged materials into stunning arrangements and displays.
With these visionary stylists as your guides, a few materials you already have...
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