The Waterwise Australian Native Garden

Author : Angus Stewart,AB Bishop
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-03
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781760873028

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The Waterwise Australian Native Garden by Angus Stewart,AB Bishop Pdf

Winner of the 2018 HMAA Laurel Award for best book First published as The Australian Native Garden There's never been a more crucial time to droughtproof your garden and to consider Australian native plants as a key component in your outdoor space. This award-winning practical volume, from two of the country's foremost horticultural experts, offers everything you need to know about designing and growing a garden that promotes careful water use and features Australian native plants in the home garden. Including information on the fundamentals of Australian soils, cultivation techniques, drainage, pruning, fertilising and maintenance, as well as creating a fire-resistant garden, establishing habitats attractive to native fauna and growing your own bush foods. The Waterwise Australian Native Garden is a highly illustrated, comprehensive showcase of the best plants to choose and the best gardens from which to draw inspiration. It's a must-have for garden lovers all over this wide, brown land. 'If you're looking to improve or create a native garden, this is the book for you' - Australian Geographic 'This is a book to treasure, and one that will be a companion for a lifetime' - Adelaide Advertiser 'An authoritative reference for home gardeners everywhere' - Country Home Ideas

Author : Angus Stewart
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 17 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781742370835

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Creating an Australian Garden by Angus Stewart Pdf

A gloriously illustrated guide to planning the design and choosing the right plants to make a rich and sumptuous garden featuring Australian natives from the ABC garden guru.

Author : Angus Stewart,AB Bishop
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-18
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781925268744

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The Australian Native Garden by Angus Stewart,AB Bishop Pdf

This authoritative and practical book--written in an approachable and accessible style--focuses on growing and using native plants in the home garden. It provides expert information on the fundamentals--soils, cultivation techniques, pruning, fertilising and maintenance--and looks at different styles of garden design, using Australian plants not only for aesthetic reasons but for creating droughtproof gardens, fire resistant gardens, and environments attractive to native fauna as well. Growing your own bush foods is also covered. Highly illustrated and information-packed, The Australian Native Garden showcases some of the best designed Australian gardens and explores rural areas around Australia where indigenous species thrive in the wild, representing a fascinating source of inspiration and information.

Author : Maria Hitchcock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Correa
ISBN : 1877058920

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Correas by Maria Hitchcock Pdf

Correas, also known as Native Fuchsia, occur naturally from the Queensland Border Ranges to Eucla in the west and throughout Tasmania and the Bass Strait islands. As garden plants they have been steadily growing in popularity in Australia over the past 20 years. Most Correa varieties are reliable and long-lived in the garden. This is the first comprehensive guide to the identification and cultivation of Correas in Australia

Author : Angus Stewart
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781742694818

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Let's Propagate! by Angus Stewart Pdf

If you're a gardener who buys everything from the standard and limited nursery range, then you are missing out on one of the most satisfying of all human endeavours - propagating your own plants. Let's Propagate is for anyone interested in hands-on propagation in Australia, either professionally or in the home garden. The book is a marvellous gardening companion for suburban gardeners who crave a creative element amidst the weeding, mowing and pruning; gardeners who are frustrated after trying to adapt imported and inappropriate information to local conditions; gardeners in search of Australian varietals; recreational gardeners and professional propagators alike who wish to be abreast of new techniques and research to stimulate germination in many difficult-to-propagate Australian plants; those who wish to expand the range of plants currently available to them; and anyone who wishes to experience the joy of fostering and nurturing new life. Gardening media personality and avid propagator, Angus Stewart, takes us from the first principles to the latest sophisticated techniques. His infectious passion for his subject will make you yearn to get out there to create landscapes and gardens, grow trees, or perhaps help revive endangered species.

Author : Allan Windust
Publisher : Landlinks Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0643068007

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Waterwise House and Garden by Allan Windust Pdf

This practical guide shows how we can contribute to conserving water in our home and garden. This book takes a planned approach to saving water in the home using different household reticulation options including the use of rainwater tanks and recycling greywater. It shows how to eliminate unnecessary watering in the garden by working with nature to create a garden that is both enjoyable and sensitive to the environment.

Author : Simon Rickard
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780643102293

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The New Ornamental Garden by Simon Rickard Pdf

This book takes a fresh look at garden-worthy plants for Australian conditions. It will help gardeners to reappraise their climate, select appropriate plants and modify gardening practices to create beautiful gardens featuring native and exotic plants with proven drought tolerance, reliability and minimal weed potential. The New Ornamental Garden shows how heat, cold, water availability, rainfall patterns, length of growing season, evaporation rate and humidity influence plant growth in Australia, from the wet sub-tropics to the temperate climate of southern Australia. It also discusses the influence of microclimates within a garden: dry sun, dry shade, moist sun, moist shade, seaside conditions, exposed sites, urban situations and root competition from eucalyptus and allelopaths. The main focus of the book is the plant index, which contains notes on hundreds of plant varieties and how they function in the garden. All gardeners will benefit from reading this book!

Author : Dick Chadwick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Gardening
ISBN : OCLC:1378841141

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Australian Native Gardening-made Easy by Dick Chadwick Pdf

Author : Gabriel Frank
Publisher : Ten Speed Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-26
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9780399580994

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Striking Succulent Gardens by Gabriel Frank Pdf

Design a succulent garden of your own, with inspiration, advice, and instructional step-by-step projects for container gardens, small-space gardens, mixed gardens, and more. You can't help but be mesmerized by the eye-catching geometric forms and jewel-toned colors of succulents. But how do you grow these beauties in your own garden? One of the only books dedicated to succulent garden design, Striking Succulent Gardens is a stylish, modern gardening book for beginners and enthusiasts alike. Known for his colorful approach and bold use of varied textures and shapes, garden designer Gabriel Frank offers practical ideas, simple concepts, stunning full-color photography, step-by-step instructions for a dozen different gardens, plant recommendations, basic succulent care, and an inspired approach to creating living art in your own garden. For those in colder climates, there is a list of cold-hardy succulents and advice for bringing container gardens indoors for the winter, making succulent gardens achievable no matter where you live. Tough, water-wise, wildly popular, and nearly indestructible, succulents will transform your outdoor space, providing gardens of every size with minimal maintenance and maximum impact.

Author : Paul Thompson
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-12
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780643107038

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Australian Planting Design by Paul Thompson Pdf

Australian Planting Design identifies and explores all aspects of developing better planting designs on any scale, raising awareness of the essential elements and encouraging readers to look with fresh eyes, to create anew. This new edition guides the reader through all the stages of designing a new garden and helps to visualise the garden through an understanding of space, light, earth form, structures and vegetation. It discusses the choosing of plants, their form and shape, balancing plant types, fire and vegetation, design and form. The final section of the book looks at the dynamic garden and the importance of designing for change. Australian Planting Design focuses on how Australian plants may be used in gardens, whatever their size, function or site. It shows the way to use our plants to form a variety of satisfying, interesting and purposeful areas for both people and nature. As the availability of a much wider range of Australian plants grows, so too does our understanding of their qualities and habits. Our changing ecological attitudes and broader understanding of local habitats have brought the Australian landscape into sharper focus and we have gained a new appreciation of its value for design expression. We are beginning to develop an urban landscape that belongs to the land, and garden designs that are more suitable to the environment of tomorrow. At last we have Australian plants for Australian places.

Author : Jocelyn McClean Jones,Nola Parry
Publisher : Reed New Holland
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 1877069612

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Small Native Plants for Australian Gardens by Jocelyn McClean Jones,Nola Parry Pdf

Small Native Plants for Australian Gardens is a complete guide to native grasses and grass-like plants, with full-colour images.Native plants, through their versatility, striking and elegant forms and their beautiful flowers, foliage and seed heads, can greatly enhance your garden. They can be mass planted or used singly as a feature and be grown around ponds, along paths or in containers.

Author : Kevin Walsh
Publisher : Reed New Holland
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Landscape gardening
ISBN : 1877069647

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Waterwise Gardening by Kevin Walsh Pdf

With many parts of Australia still in drought conditions, Waterwise Gardening sets out the six vital principles by which we can have a beautiful garden and save water too. This new and updated edition has many colour photographs, easy to follow text and diagrams so that you can pick up some handy hints, contemplate changes to your garden's layout, or get into the finer points of setting up a tank and using grey water.

Author : Kate Herd,Jela Ivankovic-Waters
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : Native plant gardening
ISBN : 1760760803

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Native by Kate Herd,Jela Ivankovic-Waters Pdf

Native offers planting palettes and design themes, gardening techniques and inspiration for an original and exciting perspective on the very best of Australian local flora. When Kate Herd started experimenting with how she pruned and trained the native plants in her riverside garden in Melbourne, she made some amazing discoveries. A eucalyptus shrub she had cut right back to the ground reappeared as the most beautiful sprawling ground cover. Westringia was shaped to impersonate perfect English Box balls. And she found that Tasmanian beech trees could grow as a copse in small city courtyards. Jela had similar experiences in her own garden design practice and together Kate and Jela have explored the unique beauty and resilience of Australia's native plants. Known for their absolute versatility and hardiness in the garden, native plants also offer up original forms for cut flowers and sculpture. Garden designers Fiona Brockhoff and Sue Barnsley, Sculptor Tracey Deep and Artist Janet Lawrence all share their own love of Australian plants and how they incorporate them into their work. Chapters cover topics such as: Feature Foliage, Sculptural Forms, Pliability, Shady Spaces and Flowering Meadows.

Author : AB Bishop
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-24
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781760870041

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Habitat by AB Bishop Pdf

In a world where suburban nature is declining and diversity is shrinking, Habitat is a practical guide for those of us who want to encourage insects, reptiles, frogs, birds and animals into our garden. Not only for our own enjoyment, but as a direct contribution to the health and sustainability of our local environment and wildlife. AB Bishop shows how to design, plant and maintain fauna-friendly landscapes, stressing the importance of understanding how all aspects of the backyard ecosystem are interlinked in order to create a truly authentic and effective habitat. This information-packed resource includes a detailed plant directory; information on what plants (native and exotic) suit what creatures and why; and advice on how to factor in the shelter, nesting, food and water requirements of different types of wildlife. A practical projects chapter features step-by-step instructions for soil testing; making compost tea; building and planting a frog pond; and constructing nesting boxes and insect hotels.

Author : Diana Snape
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Native plant gardening
ISBN : 1876473991

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The Australian Garden by Diana Snape Pdf