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Classic Paula Pryke: Timeless Floral Design
Artist/Author: Pryke, Paula, Photography - Kevin SummersOUT OF PRINT. ONE COPY ONLY. Paula Pryke runs a successful flower business which has a reputation for innovative floral designs. She has been described as “the most brilliant florist in London”. Paula runs a flower school in London and is the author of numerous best-selling books on the subject.
This Classic ‘bible’ to Paula Pryke’s artistic style features more than 80 arrangements and instructions on how to recreate them for the novice. The arrangements are divided into two styles – Classic and Contemporary. Comprehensive information on techniques is also included together with a gallery of Paula’s favourite flowers, accompanied by advice on how they are best used, plus practical information on care and vase life.
Using florist bouquets, cut garden flowers, and even vegetables and other items, Paula’s easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions allows anyone to create ingenious compositions that will add colour and style to the home.
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The Curious Gardener: A Year in the Garden
Artist/Author: Anna PavordNOW OUT OF PRINT. In The Curious Gardener, Anna Pavord brings together in 12 chapters – one from each month of the year – 72 pieces on all aspects of gardening.From what to do in each month and how to get the best from flowers, plants, herbs, fruit and vegetables, through reflections on the weather, soil, the English landscape and favourite old gardening clothes, to office greenery, spring in New York, waterfalls, Derek Jarman and garden design, Anna Pavord always has something interesting to say and says it with great style and candour.The perfect book to guide you through the gardening year and, on days when the weather keeps the most courageous gardener indoors, the perfect book to curl up with beside the fire.$40.00$20.00 Add to cart -
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RSPB Gardening for Wildlife: A Complete Guide to Nature-friendly Gardening
Artist/Author: Adrian ThomasGardening for wildlife is hugely enjoyable. There is something uplifting about having butterflies in your flowerbeds, frogs in your water feature and birds in your bushes – and knowing that they’re here because of you. But if you want a ‘nice’ garden too, don’t worry! This new book busts the myths that wildlife gardens have to be ‘wild’, or that you can only garden for wildlife in a ‘wildlife garden’. You can easily fit in wildlife gardening alongside everything else you want from your garden. The secret is understanding the ‘home needs’ of your guests. Tap into their needs and you can create a five-star hotel for birds, bees, butterflies and more. As well as looking at a host of different species,
there are sections to help you create entire habitats, such as woodland and meadow gardens, and a catalogue of over 300 of the very best garden flowers, shrubs and trees for wildlife. So no matter how large or small your garden, whether it is formal or a family football pitch, there are all sorts of things you can do. If you love wildlife and want to encourage more, this inspirational book will help
you sow the seeds and reap the rewards.$50.00$20.00 Add to cart -
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RHS The Garden Anthology: Celebrating the best Garden writing from the Royal Horticultural Society
Artist/Author: Buchan, Ursula (Editor)ONE COPY ONLY. An anthology of the best garden writing from the pages of The Garden, the magazine of the Royal Horticultural Society.
As well as revealing key moment from a time of intense change, this anthology paints a rich and intriguing picture of what gardening means today. The writers tell of plant-hunting and new gardening practices, fashion and growing food, whilst shedding light on the inner landscape of the thoughtful gardener.
Collected and curated by Ursula Buchan, herself an anthologist, The Garden Anthology presents a narrative of thoughts and opinions for keen gardeners to help navigate the gardening year, and comprises the best writing from more than the last 100 years.
This book includes short essays, opinions, thoughts and excerpts from 80 garden writers and designers including James Wong, Sir Roy Strong, Helen Dillon, Anna Pavord, E A Bowles, Gertrude Jekyll, John Brookes, Tim Richardson, Joy Larkcom, Hugh Johnson, Nigel Slater, Lia Leendertz, Ursula Buchan, Nigel Colborne and Mary Keen under the universally appealing subjects of: the kitchen garden; wildlife and wildflowers; gardens; garden design; the environment; plants; people; seasons and the weather.
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RHS Encyclopedia of Planting Combinations: Over 4000 Achievable Planting Schemes.
Artist/Author: Tony Lord, Andrew LawsonONE COPY ONLY. RHS Encyclopedia of Planting Combinations is the essential reference book for anyone wanting to combine plants according to shape, colour, texture, or form. This visionary planting guide features an A-Z of more than 1,000 great garden plants. Each plant is photographed in glorious partnership with one, two or three ideal companions, creating more than 4,000 of the most imaginative and visually effective combinations possible. With a practical introduction and analyses of what makes a successful combination, the authors show how to recreate combinations shown and invent new combinations of your own. With chapters on bulbs, climbers, perennials, shrubs, trees, roses, and annuals, this book has become the essential reference book for all those who wish to combine plants according to colour, shape, texture, and form in every corner of their gardens.
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Rhododendrons in the Landscape
Artist/Author: Sonja NelsonONE COPY THEN OUT OF PRINT. Rhododendrons and azaleas are among the most popular of garden shrubs because of their wonderful variety of colors, textures, shapes, and sizes. Selecting the best species or hybrids for various garden situations can present a real challenge to the gardener. Sonja Nelson, editor of the Journal American Rhododendron Society, offers practical and inspiring guidance on how best to use rhododendrons, starting with a brief explanation of basic design principles that serve as guidelines for creating many different kinds of gardens. She discusses woodland and alpine rock gardens, small gardens, and elements such as island beds, containers, hedges, and water features in which rhododendrons can be effectively used. In addition to suggesting and encouraging the use of suitable companion plants, she provides 19 tables listing species and cultivars most appropriate for specific garden situations. Including many inspiring photographs, the book will enable any gardener or landscaper to display these spectacular plants in harmonious surroundings.
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Reflections from a Garden
Artist/Author: Rory Stuart, Susan HillWhat are gardens for and how do we first come to them? What makes a good garden? What do they do for us?
Gardens can be places of relaxation and refuge, stimulation and solace. Reflections from a Garden is about all of these, but the authors also attempt to break the mould, reflecting on drama, time, senses and other concepts in the garden.
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Private Edens: Beautiful Country Gardens
Artist/Author: Staub, Jack (Author), Rob Cardillo (Photography)Private country paradises boasting remarkable plant palettes and combinations.
Garden design expert Jack Staub presents more than twenty beautiful and sumptuous private country gardens in Virginia, New York, Connecticut, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Massachusetts. From a romantic garden with cottagey plantings that pays homage to the best of English garden vernacular to a splendid Eden of Maryland countryside meets Himalayan serenity, these garden paradises stand alone on their own terms but offer us examples of what we can all achieve with a modicum of respect, partnership and imagination.
A passionate edible gardener and locavore advocate, Jack Staub is the author of the celebrated “75” series of edible gardening books, which includes 75 Exciting Vegetables for Your Garden, 75 Remarkable Fruits for Your Garden, and 75 Exceptional Herbs for Your Garden. With his partner, the renowned landscape designer Renny Reynolds, he is the owner of historic Hortulus Farm in Wrightstown, Pennsylvania.
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Personal Landscapes
Artist/Author: Malitz, JeromeONE COPY THEN NOT AVAILABLE. This is a book on garden design that manages to be both philosophical and personal. As well as philosophical guidance, Professor Malitz provides specific techniques for drawing up garden plans as guides for visualising an imagined garden in different seasons and stages of growth.
If you are planning a new garden or interested in re-examining an existing garden , you will find this book valuable and stimulating.
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Irish Gardens
Artist/Author: Olda FitzGerald (Author), Stephen Robson (Photography)OUT OF PRINT, 1 COPY ONLY. Celebrating the Irish garden, this title tells the stories and reveals the secrets of 20 gardens many of which are newly planted or recently restored. A personal friend of many of the owners, Olda Fitzgerald paints an informed and intimate portrait of these gardens and the people who created and maintain them. Each garden is explored, its design and planting analysed and its layout illustrated by a detailed plan. A comprehensive visitor’s guide gives addresses and opening times of the various gardens.
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Grounds for Pleasure: Four Centuries of the American Garden
Artist/Author: Otis, DeniseONE COPY ONLY THEN NOT BEING RESTOCKED. From the United States’ oldest landscaped gardens, such as Middleton Place in South Carolina, to such 20th-century masterpieces as Thomas Church’s Donnell Garden in Sonoma, this volume presents gardens of historical importance and beauty. Archival images, drawings based on archaeological excavations and old maps, and photographs provide a view of the private garden in America from pre-Columbian times to the 21st century.
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Gardens: Their Hidden Life: Unnoticed Plants and Unseen Animals
Artist/Author: Spedding, Colin.Gardens are an opportunity to see an ecosystem at work, yet we are often oblivious of the sheer richness of experience that our gardens can provide. In small gardens, most visiting wildlife will be in the form of birds and butterflies; in more substantial gardens, residents may include larger mammals that are mainly nocturnal, and few gardeners looking in their gardens after dark, these can be easily missed. This book explores the garden’s hidden world of life amid the grass, behind the bushes, in the trees and under stones and fallen branches and will convert a stroll around your garden from a conversation with familiar friends (the plants chosen and planted) to a voyage of discovery that includes invertebrates and larger animals as well. Focusing on British gardens, this book is broad and inclusive in its approach and should appeal to naturalists and gardeners of all ages and areas.
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