Revolution In The Garden

Author : Larry Weaner,Thomas Christopher
Publisher : Timber Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-18
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781604696165

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Garden Revolution by Larry Weaner,Thomas Christopher Pdf

AHS Book Award winner This lushly-photographed reference is an important moment in horticulture that will be embraced by anyone looking for a better, smarter way to garden. Larry Weaner is an icon in the world of ecological landscape design, and now his revolutionary approach is available to all gardeners. Garden Revolution shows how an ecological approach to planting can lead to beautiful gardens that buck much of conventional gardening’s counter-productive, time-consuming practices. Instead of picking the wrong plant and then constantly tilling, weeding, irrigating, and fertilizing, Weaner advocates for choosing plants that are adapted to the soil and climate of a specific site and letting them naturally evolve over time. Allowing the plants to find their own niches, to spread their seed around until they find the microclimate and spot that suits them best, creates a landscape that is vibrant, dynamic, and gorgeous year after year.

Author : Dell Williams,Lynn Vannuucci
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Feminism
ISBN : 1596370386

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Revolution in the Garden by Dell Williams,Lynn Vannuucci Pdf

Author : Tara Nolan
Publisher : Quarto Publishing Group USA
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-01
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9780760350812

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Raised Bed Revolution by Tara Nolan Pdf

A comprehensive manual to gardening in raised beds, with information on everything from construction, maximizing space and maintaining your garden. Raised bed gardening is the fastest-growing garden strategy today, and Raised Bed Revolution is the definitive guidebook to mastering this consistently proven and effective gardening method. Raised Bed Revolution provides you with information on size requirements for constructing raised beds, height suggestions, types of materials you can use, and creative tips for fitting the maximum garden capacity into small spaces—including vertical gardening. Enhanced with gorgeous photography, this book covers subjects such as growing-medium options, rooftop gardening, cost-effective gardening solutions, planting tips, watering strategies (automatic water drip systems and hand watering), and more. The process of creating and building raised beds is a cinch, too, thanks to the extensive gallery of design ideas and step-by-step projects. This gardening strategy is taking serious root. Why? Several reasons: · Raised beds allow gardeners to practice space efficiency as well as accessibility (the beds can be customized to be any height). · Raised beds permit gardeners to use their own soil, and they can be designed with wheels for easy portability if partial sunlight is a problem. · Water conservation is easier for gardeners who use raised beds. · Pest control is assisted because most garden pests can’t make the leap up into the raised bed. Find out more about why everyone is joining the raised bed revolution, roll up your sleeves and join in! “This is a great good for the experienced gardener as well as the novice.” —David Williams, Four Shires magazine

Author : Andy Wasowski,Sally Wasowski
Publisher : McGraw-Hill
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2002-12-01
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 007141312X

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The Landscaping Revolution by Andy Wasowski,Sally Wasowski Pdf

Award-winning gardening experts Andy and Sally Wasowski deliver a landscaping approach for gardeners that is environmentally friendly and promotes the use of native plants, natural alternatives to man-made chemicals, and easy-to-maintain designs.

Author : E. C. Spary
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226768700

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Utopia's Garden by E. C. Spary Pdf

The royal Parisian botanical garden, the Jardin du Roi, was a jewel in the crown of the French Old Regime, praised by both rulers and scientific practitioners. Yet unlike many such institutions, the Jardin not only survived the French Revolution but by 1800 had become the world's leading public establishment of natural history: the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle. E. C. Spary traces the scientific, administrative, and political strategies that enabled the foundation of the Muséum, arguing that agriculture and animal breeding rank alongside classification and collections in explaining why natural history was important for French rulers. But the Muséum's success was also a consequence of its employees' Revolutionary rhetoric: by displaying the natural order, they suggested, the institution could assist in fashioning a self-educating, self-policing Republican people. Natural history was presented as an indispensable source of national prosperity and individual virtue. Spary's fascinating account opens a new chapter in the history of France, science, and the Enlightenment.

Author : Brie Arthur
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : GARDENING
ISBN : 1943366292

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The Foodscape Revolution by Brie Arthur Pdf

"Once upon a time, veggie gardens lived in the backyard, isolated from the rest of the landscape. that's so yesterday! Welcome to a whole new world of food gardening--right up front, sharing space with your ornamental plants for year-round, knockout beauty and function...in a way that even homeowners associations (HOAs) would approve."--Back cover.

Author : Laurie Cluitmans
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9493246000

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On the Necessity of Gardening by Laurie Cluitmans Pdf

On the Necessity of Gardening tells the story of the garden as a rich source of inspiration. Over the centuries, artists, writers, poets and thinkers have each described, depicted and designed the garden in different ways. In medieval art, the garden was a reflection of paradise, a place of harmony and fertility, shielded from worldly problems. In the eighteenth century this image tilted: the garden became a symbol of worldly power and politics. The Anthropocene, the era in which man completely dominates nature with disastrous consequences, is forcing us to radically rethink the role we have given nature in recent decades. There is a renewed interest in the theme of the garden among contemporary makers. It is not a romantic desire that drives them, but rather a call for a new awareness of our relationship with the earth. Through many different essays and an extensive abecedarium, On the Necessity of Gardening reflects on the garden as a metaphor for society.00Exhibition: Centraal Museum, Utrecht, The Netherlands (11.09.2021 ? 09.01.2022).

Author : Ariane Dröscher
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-24
Category : History
ISBN : 3030853454

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Plants and Politics in Padua During the Age of Revolution, 1820–1848 by Ariane Dröscher Pdf

This book highlights the close interactions between plants, plant knowledge, politics, and social life in Padua during the age of revolution. It explores the lives and thoughts of two brothers, the lawyer Andrea Meneghini and the botanist GiuseppeMeneghini, illustrating the unspoken dreams of progress and a new social order, but also sheds light on the ambiguous relationship between the Paduan elite and Austrian rule before the 1848 revolution. A closer look at park designs, gardening associations and networks, fl ower exhibitions, agricultural societies, organicist metaphors, and botanical research on the organization of living bodies opens up unexpected parallels between actors and ideas of two apparently distant areas: botany and political economy.

Author : James Wong
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-09
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9780297867142

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James Wong's Homegrown Revolution by James Wong Pdf

A revolution in the garden - a completely new range of fruit and vegetables to grow and eat. Whether it's a window box of homegrown saffron, your very own kiwi vine or a mini green tea plantation on your patio, TV botanist and best-selling author James Wong proves that 'growing your own' can be so much more exciting than spuds, sprouts and swede. Breaking free from the 'dig for victory' time warp of allotment staples, James reveals the vast array of 21st century crops that will flourish outdoors, even in our blustery North Atlantic climate - no greenhouse necessary. From goji berries to food-mile free sweet potatoes, James' revolutionary approach to edible gardening will show you how to grow, cook and eat all manner of superfood crops that are just as easy (if not easier) and far more exciting to grow than the 'ration book' favourites. Inspiring, fun and full of plant know-how, this book is set to revolutionise the whole concept of 'growing your own' for newbie growers to seasoned allotment veterans alike. You'll never look at your garden the same way again!

Author : Tom Williamson
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-20
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781789142990

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Humphry Repton by Tom Williamson Pdf

Humphry Repton (1752–1818) remains one of England’s most interesting and prolific garden and landscape designers. Renowned for his innovative design proposals and distinctive before-and-after images, captured in his famous “Red Books,” Repton’s astonishing career represents the link between the simple parklands of his predecessor Capability Brown and the more elaborate, structured, and formal landscapes of the Victorian age. This lavishly illustrated book, based on a wealth of new research, reinterprets Repton’s life, working methods, and designs, and examines why they proved so popular in a rapidly changing world.

Author : Andy Wasowski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Native plant gardens
ISBN : OCLC:52376293

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The Landscaping Revolution by Andy Wasowski Pdf

Author : Tara Nolan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781591866503

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Raised Bed Revolution by Tara Nolan Pdf

Join the raised garden bed craze! Use this book to guide you through the step-by-step planning and construction phases along with a design gallery.

Author : John Claudius Loudon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1454 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1824
Category : Gardening
ISBN : HARVARD:32044103113833

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An Encyclopaedia of Gardening by John Claudius Loudon Pdf

Author : Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn,Ronald Clark
Publisher : Akademische Verlagsgemeinschaft München
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-26
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9783960915737

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From Garden Art to Landscape Architecture by Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn,Ronald Clark Pdf

Originally, the area of responsibility for landscape architecture was based on the premise that the planning and creating of open spaces such as parks and gardens was the business of garden artists. Today, the training of landscape architects and future challenges of the profession include the protection of natural resources and the environment, urban planning or tourism - to name but a few. The international symposium "From Garden Art to Landscape Architecture - Traditions, Re-Evaluations, and Future Perspectives" addressed questions which, based on the idea of garden art, should help to reconstruct its historical development but also discussed the notion and the relevance of "art" in everyday work. The contributions critically reflect on the professional self-image of landscape architects at the beginning of the 21st century. The symposium in September 2018 was co-organized by the City and State Capital of Hannover's Herrenhausen Gardens Division, the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Gartenkunst und Landschaftsarchitekturt (DGGL), the Volkswagen Foundation and the Centre of Garden Art and Landscape Architectur. With contributions from: Makoto Akasaka, Nayla M. Al-Akl, Camilla Jane Allen, Teresa Andresen, Ana Catarina Antunes, Philip Belesky, Ronald Clark, Sonja Dümpelmann, Hubertus Fischer, Monika Gora, Ben Jamin Grau, Stefanie Hennecke, Jakob Hüppauff, Karsten Jørgensen, Michelle Knopf, Wilhelm Krull, Jasmin Laske, Kamel Louafi, Michaela Ott, Jeong-Hann Pae, Christoph Pelka , Teresa Portela Marques, Jörg Rekittke, Bianca Maria Rinaldi, Anet Scherling, Mario Schjetnan, Karin Seeber, Myungjin Shin, Jens Spanjer , Christoph Strutz, Hartmut Troll, Udo Weilacher, Christian Werthmann, Anorthe Wetzel , Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn, Verena Zapf, Yichi Zhang

Author : Helen Carr
Publisher : Random House
Page : 996 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781446434765

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The Verse Revolutionaries by Helen Carr Pdf

The Verse Revolutionaries tells the story of the Imagists, a turbulent and colourful group of poets, who came together in London in the years before the First World War. As T. S. Eliot was to say, appropriately re-invoking the Imagist habit of turning anything they admired into French, the imagist movement was modern poetry's point de repère, the landmark venture that inaugurated Anglo-American literary modernism. A disparate, stormy group, who had dispersed before the twenties began, these 'verse revolutionaries' received both abuse and acclaim, but their poetry, fragmented, pared-down, elliptical yet direct, exerted a powerful influence on modernist writers, and contributed vitally to the transformation of American and British cultural life in those crucial years. Among those involved were the Americans Ezra Pound, H.D., William Carlos Williams, Amy Lowell and John Gould Fletcher, and the British T.E. Hulme, F.S. Flint, Richard Aldington and D.H. Lawrence. On the edges of the story are figures such as W.B. Yeats, Ford Madox Ford, Wyndham Lewis and T. S. Eliot. They came from very different class backgrounds, a heterogeneous mélange then only possible in a great metropolis like London. The Verse Revolutionaries traces the passionate interactions, love affairs and bitter quarrels of these aspiring poets from 1905 to 1917. Helen Carr unpicks the story of how they came together, what they gained from each other in the heady excitement of those early days, and what were the fissures that eventually broke up the movement and their friendships in the dark days of the Great War. Her compelling account challenges the conventional view of Imagism, and offers an acute analysis of the poetry, of the psychology of the individuals involved, and of the evolution and emergence of a transformative cultural movement.