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Gardeners of today take for granted the many varieties of geraniums, narcissi, marigolds, roses, and other beloved flowers for their gardens. Few give any thought at all to how this incredible abund……続きを見る

Dubbed the Bulb Hunter in a 2006 New York Times feature story, Chris Wiesinger took his passion for bulbs to vacant lots, abandoned houses, cemeteries, and construction sites throughout the South in……続きを見る

Peeling off sheets of skin from a sunburned back. Visiting five nurseries and spending $1,000 in an afternoon. Raising 200 monarch butterflies. Feeding grasshoppers to a spider. Hearing the wings of……続きを見る

A collection containing: Five Acres and Independence: a practical guide to the selection and management of the small farm by Maurice G. Kains The Farm That Won't Wear Out by Cyril G. Hopkins People ……続きを見る

What happens when a lifelong gardener finally realizes that he must collaborate with Mother Nature rather than work against her in order to achieve his dream of creating the perfect garden? In this ……続きを見る

'The master. Puts all other modern tree-writers in the shade' John Lewis-Stempel, author of Meadowland Thomas Pakenham is an indefatigable champion of trees. In The Company of Trees he recounts his ……続きを見る

To go-to guide for women who want to be part of the farming revolution. Women are leading the new farming revolution in America. Much of the impetus to move back to the land, raise our own food, and……続きを見る

Their Paths Are Peace tells the story of the creation of The Cleveland Cultural Gardens, a unique collection of landscaped, themed gardens each representing a different ethnic group/organization in ……続きを見る

Come See the Garden That Is Your Life When Zen teacher Karen Maezen Miller and her family land in a house with a hundred-year-old Japanese garden, she uses the paradise in her backyard to glean the ……続きを見る

The Telegraph has long enjoyed the closest association with gardeners. Indeed, as the newspaper of choice for the counties and the shires, it revels in the glory and variety of Britain’s horticultur……続きを見る

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 p……続きを見る

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Jeder, der einen Garten sein Eigen nennt, geht sie ein: Beziehungen mit Pflanzen. Bei einigen ist es sofort die heiße Liebe, bei anderen eine dauerhafte Partnerschaft. Immer aber sind es die gemeins……続きを見る

A Gift of Friendship … If you’ve ever wrestled with the realities of growing older, fallen into a funk after a health scare or struggled to grow your own vegetables, Susan Troccolo’s The Beet Goes O……続きを見る

God's Whisper Manifesto describes the 10 principles that make up the ideal community that I'd like to form here on this small farm in the mountains of central Virginia. Here, we will love people fir……続きを見る

Filosoof, bekend van The School of Life, laat aan de hand van beroemde filosofen zien hoe denken en tuinieren diep met elkaar verweven zijn. Met ‘Filosoferen in de tuin’ geeft publieksfilosoof Damon……続きを見る

Through this collection of delightful essays and beautiful illustrations, long-time contributor to Country Living Gardner Sharon Lovejoy shares the boundless joys of a country garden. Lovejoy has ch……続きを見る

"Querbeet" - das ist eine Garant für vielseitiges, fundiertes Gartenwissen, in abwechslungsreichen Beiträgen verpackt. Das Begleitbuch zur bekannten Gartensendung des Bayerischen Rundfunks präsentie……続きを見る

Tell about Night Flowers presents previously unpublished letters by Eudora Welty, selected and annotated by scholar Julia Eichelberger. Welty published many of her best-known works in the 1940s: A C……続きを見る

Container gardening is an extremely delightful hobby that is going to make you joyous and content. Nature has bestowed man with some of the most wonderful gifts, and if you nurture them with care, y……続きを見る

This book is both a horticultural chronicle charting the gardening year through the eyes and garden of the author and a call to arms to protect our gardens and wider environment from those who would……続きを見る

Want great tasting veggies from your own garden but cringe at the thought of doing all that back-breaking work of maintaining your garden? or If you're currently gardening with chemicals and have de……続きを見る

In these three bestselling memoirs, Alan tells his own story from Ilkley Moor to Pebble Mill and to the final realising of his dream of becoming TV's favourite gardener. Along the way, the cast of c……続きを見る

“You can read Michael Perry’s Coop as an outrageously funny comedy about a semi-hapless neophyte navigating the pitfalls (and pratfalls) of the farming life. Please do, in fact. But scratch a little……続きを見る

“Richard Horan has brought us a welcome view of America to defy the prevailing political and financial nastiness. This is a timely and important book.” ーTed Morgan, author of Wilderness at Dawn “A ……続きを見る

"Seeds reads like the best of a roundtable discussion amongst John Muir, Bill Bryson, and David Sedaris. From the fields of Gettysburg to the home of Kerouac, Horan takes an unlikely premise and wea……続きを見る

Mindfulness in the Garden offers simple mindfulness verses (gathas) composed to connect the mind and body and to bring the reader/gardener’s awareness to the details of the present moment as they wo……続きを見る

Over the past 50 years, the subject of garden history has been firmly established as an academic discipline. While many have explored what was created in gardens throughout history, the reasons as t……続きを見る

There's no reason to be scared of bugs! They can be cute if you look some of them too closely. But a child will learn to appreciate them even better if he/she learns about all the good things that t……続きを見る

Why should you learn about the ant family? Well, because of the lessons they teach you about family, teamwork and ecological importance. The facts that you need to know about these colonies are pres……続きを見る