Category: Plants & Flowers
In Green, Jason Chongue explains and simplifies how to curate and look after plants in small urban spaces. He provides a practical and personal guide to creating urban gardens and styling with plants, perfect for a range of environments and climates, inside or out. From balconies, porches, courtyards an ...Show more
Category: Plants & Flowers
This is the story of The Land Gardeners, creators of productive gardens and stunning bundles of cut flowers. Based in the original walled garden at Wardington Manor, The Land Gardeners have revived the tradition of working with the land to produce abundant, seasonal flowers for clients' use in decoratio ...Show more
Category: Plants & Flowers
Captivating, beautiful, incredibly diverse and often elusive, orchids can be found in nearly all environments, ranging from sea level to an elevation of almost 5,000 metres. Victorian plant hunters scoured the globe for new species to bring back for botanical gardens and private collectors; "orchidmania ...Show more
Category: Plants & Flowers
- This little book, beautifully illustrated with antique prints, tells the story of roses of all colours from the perspective of botany, history, literature, poetry and songs, among others - A charming gift book illustrating heirloom and modern roses, with botanical and historical information on each va ...Show more
Category: Plants & Flowers
Combining science, horticulture, art and economics, this lavishly illustrated book - with many never-before-published images - reveals the motives and complex networks that led to the international spread of knowledge and cultivation of hundreds of Australian plants in Europe in the late eighteenth and ...Show more
Category: Plants & Flowers
How did aspirin originate from the Willow? What is an alternative name for catnip? Where does Eucalyptus come from? What benefits are there from drinking Chamomile tea? With which afflication does cornflower water help? What is the use of slipping hop cones into your pillow case? Why is a dandelion deto ...Show more
Category: Plants & Flowers
A perennial favourite among flower-buyers, Tulips is next in the strand of Pavilion's successful and stylish floral gardening companions. Spectacular photography, inspirational commentary and no-fuss gardening tips show you that anyone can grow and enjoy tulips at home. With tulip production in the Neth ...Show more
Category: Plants & Flowers | Series: Botanical Ser.
Could a book by any other name smell as sweet? Absolutely not. The rose is the world's favorite flower--and always has been. It is our greatest floral symbol of love and romance, and it is a bloom that touches our hearts as the flower most often chosen to celebrate significant milestones--weddings, anni ...Show more
Category: Plants & Flowers
Everyone loves fresh flowers, and this book presents the finest details on over 200 different flowers: how to grow them, how to cut them, how to care for them, and how to preserve them. There are even sections on flower arranging and in fact the book is filled to the brim with all kinds of information t ...Show more
Category: Plants & Flowers
The essential guide to the selection, cultivation and presentation of miniature trees and shrubs, with over 800 photographs The ancient art of creating perfectly formed miniature trees is clearly explained in this practical book. An expert introduction describes the best trees and shrubs to use and the ...Show more
Category: Plants & Flowers
Plant Namesis an invaluable guide to the use of scientific, commercial, and common names for plants and the conventions for writing them. Written by horticultural botanists at the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria, this book covers the naming of wild plants, plants modified by humans, why plant names chang ...Show more
Category: Plants & Flowers
Jane Packer Flowers is one of the world's most influential floristry companies, with a distinctively elegant yet refreshingly modern look. The highly successful Jane Packer flower schools make the company's floral expertise and design creativity available to all those who are lucky enough to at ...Show more
