Armchair Gardening

Author : Thomas Hubbard McHatton
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010-05-01
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9780820335452

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Armchair Gardening by Thomas Hubbard McHatton Pdf

Published in 1947, Armchair Gardening is a meditation on the sensual and spiritual aspects of gardening. Thomas Hubbard McHatton believes gardening is an art—a method of expression analogous to sculpture or dance. He carefully dissects the delicate components of a garden, explaining how one can pinpoint the intricate and harmonious tastes, sounds, and odors fl owing freely among the plants. McHatton includes a chronicle of America's interest in gardening, starting with its genesis, expanding to explain its role in universal gardening, and concluding with a written pilgrimage through some of America's most famous gardens.

Author : Jane Billinghurst
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9780762767823

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Armchair Book of Gardens by Jane Billinghurst Pdf

The Armchair Book of Gardens is a collection of indiviual essays focused on understanding gardens in a different light/perspective. The book concentrates on the emotional, social, spiritual, and politicial aspects of the garden.

Author : Thomas Hubbard McHatton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0598374256

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Armchair Gardening by Thomas Hubbard McHatton Pdf

Author : D. G. Hessayon
Publisher : Expert
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 0903505231

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The Armchair Book of the Garden by D. G. Hessayon Pdf

From the author of the Expert series of gardening books, this is a collection of horticultural lore and facts.

Author : Sarah Raven
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-04
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781526640390

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A Year Full of Flowers by Sarah Raven Pdf

Inspiration, planting ideas and expert advice for a beautiful garden all-year round Colour and scent are the hallmarks of Sarah Raven's style – and they are simple luxuries that everyone can bring into their garden. A Year Full of Flowers reveals the hundreds of hardworking varieties that make the garden sing each month, together with the practical tasks that ensure everything is planted, staked and pruned at just the right time. Tracing the year from January to December at her home, Perch Hill, Sarah offers a complete and transporting account of a garden crafted over decades. Sharing the lessons learned from years of plant trials, she explains the methods that have worked for her, and shows you how to achieve a space that's full of life and colour. Discover long-lasting, divinely scented tulips, roses that keep flowering through winter, the most magnificent dahlias and show-stopping alliums, as well as how to grow sweet peas up a teepee, take cuttings from chrysanthemums and stop mildew in its tracks. This is passionate, life-enriching gardening; it's also simple, adaptable and can work for you. Sarah has made the garden central to her life – this book shows you how you can too.

Author : Arthur T. Vanderbilt II
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2007-03-13
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 1416554572

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Gardening in Eden by Arthur T. Vanderbilt II Pdf

"Though an old man," Thomas Jefferson wrote at Monticello, "I am but a young gardener." Every gardener is. In Gardening in Eden, we enter Arthur Vanderbilt's small enchanted world of the garden, where the old wooden trestle tables of a roadside nursery are covered in crazy quilts of spring color, where a catbird comes to eat raisins from one's hand, and a chipmunk demands a daily ration of salted cocktail nuts. We feel the oppressiveness of endless winter days, the magic of an old-fashioned snow day, the heady, healing qualities of wandering through a greenhouse on a frozen February afternoon, the restlessness of a gardener waiting for spring. With a sense of wonder and humor on each page, Arthur Vanderbilt takes us along with him to discover that for those who wait, watch, and labor in the garden, it's all happening right outside our windows.

Author : Danesha Seth Carley,Anne M. Spafford
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-06
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781469659428

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Pollinator Gardening for the South by Danesha Seth Carley,Anne M. Spafford Pdf

This step-by-step guide will answer all of your questions about how to create beautiful gardens designed to welcome beneficial pollinators across the South. Combining up-to-date scientific information with artful design strategies, Danesha Seth Carley and Anne M. Spafford teach gardeners of all levels to plan, plant, and maintain successful pollinator gardens at home and in shared community sites. Everyday gardeners, along with farmers, scientists, and policy makers, share serious concerns about ongoing declines in bee and other pollinator populations, and here Spafford and Carley deliver great news: every thoughtfully designed garden, no matter how small, can play a huge role in providing the habitat, nourishment, and nesting places so needed by pollinators. This book explains all you need to be a pollinator champion. *Covers USDA hardiness zones 6, 7, 8, and 9, including twelve southern states *Explains what makes pollinators happy—bees, for sure, and many others, great and small *Brings science and art together in gardens of all types, including urban, food, container, community, school, and large-scale gardens *Provides step-by-step instructions for choosing locations, preparing soil and garden beds, selecting the best plants, considering seasonality in your garden design, managing your garden throughout the year, and much more *Richly illustrated with photographs, design plans, and handy charts and lists

Author : Mary Ann Newcomer
Publisher : Timber Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-24
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781604695946

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The Timber Press Guide to Vegetable Gardening in the Mountain States by Mary Ann Newcomer Pdf

How to grow your own food in the Rockies! Growing vegetables requires regionally specific information—what to plant, when to plant it, and when to harvest are based on climate, weather, and first frost. The Timber Press Guide to Vegetable Gardening in the Mountain States tackles this need head on, with regionally specific growing information written by local gardening expert, Mary Ann Newcomer. Monthly planting guides show exactly what you can do in the garden from January through December. The skill sets go beyond the basics with tutorials on seed saving, worm bins, and more. For home gardeners in Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, eastern Washington and Oregon, northern Nevada, and the southernmost parts of Alberta and Saskatchewan.

Author : Anne Wilkinson
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-12
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9780752495712

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Victorian Gardener by Anne Wilkinson Pdf

Gardening is one of the most popular leisure activities today and most people take it for granted that suitable plants, equipment and information are easily available. This was not always the case. Anne Wilkinson's engaging book recreates the world of amateur Victorian gardeners - those who had no idea how to start gardening, and no information to help them.In the 1860s gardening was mainly the preserve of professionals who worked on large estates, but a new breed of gardeners was emerging - ordinary householders. Their gardens range from country cottage and rectory gardens to urban gardens behind terraced houses. With no help from the professionals - who refused to believe that gardens in towns were a practical possibility - those innovators laid down the foundations for modern amateur gardening as it is today.This book, richly illustrated with images from contemporary magazines and other sources, explores their journey to create their own piece of England's 'green and pleasant land'.

Author : Peter Scott
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191664885

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The Making of the Modern British Home by Peter Scott Pdf

The Making of the Modern British Home explores the impact of the modern suburban semi-detached house on British family life during the 1920s and 1930s - focusing primarily on working-class households who moved from cramped inner-urban accommodation to new suburban council or owner-occupied housing estates. Migration to suburbia is shown to have initiated a dramatic transformation in lifestyles - from a `traditional' working-class mode of living, based around long-established tightly-knit urban communities, to a recognisably `modern' mode, centred around the home, the nuclear family, and building a better future for the next generation. This process had far-reaching impacts on family life, entailing a change in household priorities to meet the higher costs of suburban living, which in turn impacted on many aspects of household behaviour, including family size. This volume also constitutes a general history of the development of both owner-occupied and municipal suburban housing estates in interwar Britain, including the evolution of housing policy; the housing development process; housing and estate design, lay-outs, and architectural features; marketing owner-occupation and consumer durables to a mass market; furnishing the new suburban home; making ends meet; suburban gardens; social filtering and conflict on the new estates; and problems of 'mis-selling' and 'Jerry building'. Peter Scott integrates the social history of the interwar suburbs with their economic, business, marketing, and architectural/planning histories, demonstrating how these elements interacted to produce a new model of working-class lifestyles and 'respectability' which marked a fundamental break with pre-1914 working-class urban communities.

Author : Susan Berry
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 1740453735

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The Home Guide to Gardening Techniques by Susan Berry Pdf

A new guide to gardening techniques, containing valuable horticultural information and advice across a wide range of topics. The book covers over ninety techniques and projects from propagation to making your own compost; from sowing seedlings to basic weeding.

Author : Liz Zorab
Publisher : Permanent Publications
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-13
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781856232647

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The Seasoned Gardener by Liz Zorab Pdf

Dig deeper into the processes of growing your own organic food with Liz Zorab, self-sufficiency practitioner. In this personal gardening journey, she explores seasonal harvests and how the vegetable garden sits within the wider context of the gardening landscape – including weather, microclimates, water cycles, light levels, seasons and the gardener’s personal tastes. Liz’s salt of the earth approach to life and to the garden and her gentle humor makes The Seasoned Gardener an easily digestible read. She provides hundreds of practical tips, including how-to guides, observations and inspiration for both the beginner and practiced gardener alike. Unlike many gardening books that run from January to December, this book starts in the autumn, when harvesting is at its peak. Most of the fruit, vegetables, herbs and flowers highlighted are grouped according to when we enjoy them most – at the point of harvest. The Seasoned Gardener will show you how to: Enjoy the abundance of each month of the year Decide which plants are best to grow in your garden Find pleasure in your growing space year-round Avoid the pitfalls of doing too much at once Be creative with your garden resources Make the most of your time and energy Celebrate nature’s productivity as much as your own. This is a journey of experimentation and learning that will inspire you to grow tastier food and savor the experience.

Author : Claus Dalby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-12
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9780760374658

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Containers in the Garden by Claus Dalby Pdf

Create a bold and beautiful container garden with design and planting guidance from Danish gardening celebrity Claus Dalby in this English-language edition of his book, Containers in the Garden.

Author : Susan Guagliumi
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-18
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781613127988

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Handmade for the Garden by Susan Guagliumi Pdf

A collection of seventy-five one-of-a-kind, affordable, and manageable DIY projects for the garden. The DIY craze has moved beyond the craft room and into the garden! Relying on easy-to-find, inexpensive, and repurposed materials, Handmade for the Garden is a treasure trove of original projects that not only make planting and growing efficient and successful but also add a personal touch to the gardenscape. Among the myriad projects in this hardworking book are mini hothouses; painted, stamped, and stenciled terracotta planters; hypertufa and cement pots and decorations; rustic and formal fencing and trellises; plant markers and stakes; and sieves and baskets. With Handmade for the Garden to inspire them, gardeners of all skill levels will be empowered to experiment with form and function to discover creative, artful ways to personalize and beautify their gardens with handmade objects. “This book is bursting with beautiful and creative ways of using everyday materials to liven up your outdoor spaces” ―Country Woman Magazine “This book adds new dimension to playing outside . . . if you love the garden, tinkering with tools and creating beautiful objects for out-of-doors, this is your book.” ―Examiner.com “Any person with a modicum of entry-level crafting skills can add individual flair to their garden following the descriptive step-by-step instructions. . . . Many illustrations depict precise details in the fabrication process. A source list, with website addresses, will prove useful to those who cannot find supplies at their local home improvement center.” ―Better Homes and Gardens / Country Gardens

Author : Martyn Cox
Publisher : Mitchell Beazley
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-25
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781784728847

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The Gardener's Yearbook by Martyn Cox Pdf

'An experienced horticulturist's monthly guide to gardening, with wise, clear and helpful advice on tackling the essential tasks and dealing with problems.' Gardens Illustrated One of the keys to happy gardening is knowing what to do and when for the best results. In this handy guide, experienced horticulturist Martyn Cox takes you through the gardening year, month by month, offering wise, clear and helpful advice on the essential tasks and how to avoid problems along the way. No matter the size of the plot, nor the expertise of the gardener, The Gardener's Yearbook is the perfect handbook to return to throughout the seasons, with tips including: - How to get your lawn into shape for the summer - When you should plant lilies, roses and sweet peas - How and when to harvest and store your fruit and vegetables - When to prepare containers for winter - How to fit a water butt and start a compost bin - An easy-to-follow crop planner Featuring specially commissioned linocuts by artist Heather Tempest-Elliott.