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Adnyamathanha and Beyond: Useful Plants of an Ancient Land
Artist/Author: Bonney, Neville$42.00 Add to cartThe history and other features of the area have been written about in books and other publications. Yet a colourful, rarely mentioned chapter still visible today, are the trees, shrubs, herbs and grasses that grace the slopes and valley floors of the Ranges. These plants have provided the people of the land, the Adnyamathanha, with plentiful food, medicine, craft and hardware supplies for thousands of years.
With the help of the Adnyamathanha people, the story of the plants is told in this book. Many of the stories are interwoven in the Muda (Dreaming), and today, the plants are still growing and are indeed harvested for traditional tribal use as well as sustenance. Adnyamathanha and beyond – useful plants of an ancient land fills a gap in previous works written about the Flinders Ranges.
This book is complete with botanical descriptions and illustrations of many plants, as well as photographs depicting the unique landscapes of the region. Importantly, the book also features language and cultural input by the local Adnyamathanha people.
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Sheoaks: Wind Harps from Desert to the Sea
Artist/Author: Bonney, Neville$45.00 Add to cartThis is a rare treat for lovers of our bushland, native trees and native plant ecology as well as being a text book
about Sheoak timber for fuel, art, craft and its role in the landscape today as well as in the past. -
The Wondrous World of Weeds
Artist/Author: Collins, Pat$30.00 Add to cartWhat in the world is a weed? The dictionary will tell you it is a plant out of place. In The Wonderous World of Weeds you will discover that the perceived weeds that
grow around us hold special significance and wonderful medicinal values.This comprehensive and practical guide features 100 common world-wide wees and more than 300 close-up images to help identify weeds as well as a full description, list of common names, environmental impact, uses and medicinal value for each plant. It covers a full range of weeds from those annoying plants that pop up in the garden to majestic trees.
We have plants growing all around us that have so much culinary and holistic potential and can be used as teas, decoctions, poultices, compresses, ointments, creams along with syrups and lozenges. Their medicinal uses can help relieve itches, get rid of cold sores, or help with coughs and colds, etc. Not many people realise that are plants growing all around us that we don’t realise have so much potential.
Weeds also have culinary uses and there are recipes included. They are also good companions in the garden for vegetables, fruit trees, and flowers, and can tell you about the quality of your soil. For example, weeds are good indicators of an acid soil; soil lacking in humus or high in nitrogen; etc.
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Secret Gardens
Artist/Author: Cantwell, Matthew$60.00 Add to cartFrom pint-sized gardens to rambling grounds, Secret Gardens is a visual feast of contemporary residential landscaping, offering a rich resource of inspiration to readers, regardless of the size of their own patch of potential paradise. This book tells a story in pictures, with luscious photography of 24 of Secret Gardens’ favourite projects. Each garden is accompanied by descriptions in which Secret Gardens director Matthew Cantwell tells the story of each project, explains how their dramatic transformation was achieved and reveals a few tricks of the trade in the process. The gardens are grouped into three sections, based on the size of each project: Compact, Room to Move, and Free Reign.
About the Author: Matthew Cantwell is a multi-award winning garden designer, considered within the industry to be one of Australia’s best. Qualifications Associate Diploma of Applied Science (Landscaping) Winner of many design awards from AILDM (Australian Institute of Landscape Designers and Managers) including 3 times winner of The Alan Correy Award. Other awards from LNA for construction and horticulture.
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Marine Plants of Tasmania
Artist/Author: Scott, Fiona J.$60.00 Add to cartThis book provides an introduction to the marine seaweeds and seagrasses of Tasmania, the island state of Australia.
Readers will discover the beauty and diversity of marine plants through descriptions of over 160 species, each illustrated by means of colour photographs and provided with a summary of features helpful for species identification. High magnification images are also included for many species.
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Eucalypts: A Celebration (Hardcover)
Artist/Author: Wrigley, John and Murray Fagg$60.00 Add to cartA comprehensive study of Australia’s most recognisable trees. It looks at Eucalypts and their place in art and history as well as an in depth examination of their evolution, biology and classification. Eucalypts are a familiar part of our landscape and an integral part of the Australian identity. We have farmed them and used them to build houses, furniture, roads and bridges since the beginning of white settlement. We have been inspired by them, painted them, made films about them, written books about them and of course Aboriginal Australians have long made musical instruments from them. Though a small number are found as native plants in several other countries, Eucalypts are a very Australian tree. This book celebrates their diversity, their beauty and the role they play in our history, culture and economy. It looks at their evolution, biology, horticulture and ecology, together with their classification and the botanists involved. Through historic and contemporary images, it examines the many ways in which they have served Aboriginal, colonial and contemporary Australians in both practical and aesthetic ways. This book is also available in softcover. Price $40.00.
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Woodland Flora: A Field Guide for the Southern Tablelands (NSW & ACT)
Artist/Author: Sharp, Sarah, Rainer Rehwinkel, Dave Mallinson, David Eddy$25.00 Add to cartWoodland Flora covers 444 plant species found in woodlands in the Southern Tablelands of NSW and the ACT. It provides an easy-to-use identification guide to the majority of plant species encountered in woodlands in this area including those species that occur in other habitats and in other regions and interstate. Written in plain English, Woodland Flora has been produced with the highest professional integrity, with all descriptions having been check against herbarium specimens and the authors’ own extensive knowledge of the Southern Tablelands.
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Australian Sub-tropical Fungi
$30.00 Add to cartA field guide to some of the interesting and unusual fungi of the Australian subtropics.
The guide covers 115 species, with illustrations and descriptions of each. Many of the species covered appear for the first time in a field guide.
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Pilbara Seed Atlas and Field Guide
Artist/Author: Edited by: Erickson,Todd, Russell Barrett, David Merritt, Kingsley Dixon$80.00 Add to cartIdentifies plant species and provides guidance on seed-based conservation and restoration for 103 taxa in the Pilbara and Australian Arid Zone.
The Pilbara region in Australia’s arid northwest is rich in flora that is suited to extreme temperatures and boom and bust cycles of moisture availability. It is also a region important for its natural resources. In places where mining activities have finished and the land is under management for ecological restoration, there is increasing demand for information about native plant communities and the biology of their seeds.
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Planting Dreams: Shaping Australian Gardens
Artist/Author: Aitken, Richard.$50.00 Add to cartPlanting Dreams celebrates the artistry and imagination that have shaped Australian gardens. Internationally renowned garden historian Richard Aitken explores the environmental and social influences that have helped produce our unique gardening culture – from Indigenous land management and the earliest European garden at Farm Cove, to the potted plants and besser block screens of mid-twentieth century modernist design and beyond. Drawing on the unparalleled collections of the State Library of New South Wales, Planting Dreams showcases Australian garden making in all its richness and diversity through a stunning and intriguing mix of paintings, sketches, photographs, and prints, from popular culture to high art.
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Australian Garden Rescue: Restoring a Damaged Garden
Artist/Author: Horsfall, Mary$40.00 Add to cartHow to rescue your garden if it has been damaged by natural phenomena, pest attacks or prolonged neglect.
Whether you have a garden suffering from lack of attention, damaged from weather events or suffering pest attacks, Australian Garden Rescue will guide you through practical solutions, helpful tips and preventative tactics to minimise future harm.
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Mosses of dry forests in south eastern Australia.
Artist/Author: Read, Cassia and Bernard Slattery.$15.00 Add to cartA guide for students and absolute beginners, technically accurate, but free of technical language, this is an attempt to present a little known part of the plant kingdom to a new audience. Dozens of species described, most with multiple illustrations. The guide contains an introduction explaining the life cycle of mosses and their importance in the ecosystem; tips on how to approach identification; detailed descriptions of common, striking species; and appendices carefully distinguishing mosses from liverworts and lichens. Underpinning its publication is the belief that mosses are, before anything else, beautiful: a lot of joy is to be had in exploring this minute dimension of the natural world. This is a community project of the Friends of the Box-Ironbark Forests generously supported by The Norman Wettenhall Foundation. A number of photographs have been replaced in this revised edition.
