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9781877058936
The Women Behind the Roses: An Introduction to Alister Clark's Women Rose-namesakes 1915-1952
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NZ$ 80.00 each
Hardback
Author:
Tilley & Andrew Govanstone
Published by:
Rosenberg Publishing
Alister Clark, Australias most prodigious rosarian, bred roses to establish new, improved, hardier varieties that would flourish in the Australian climate, and grow better in Australian soils. He aimed to produce roses that would extend their flowering beyond a season: ideally to bear blossoms all year round. This book is a celebration of the sixtyfive women to whom the late Alister Clark, chose to dedicate Glenara Seedling roses. There is story behind each rose. The authors are noted for their detective work in finding lost Alister Clark roses. With the thread of Alister Clarks forty-year rose-breeding program linking the women together, the book presents biographical sketches of each woman rose name-sake, and provides contemporary rose-growers notes on each womans rose.
Hardback 288pp h240mm x w180mm
Publising March 2010.
ISBN / ISSN:
9781845335328
Bulb
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NZ$ 70.00 each
Hardback
Author:
Anna Pavord
Published by:
Mitchell Beazley
A personal selection and authoritative guide to the most beautiful bulbs on the earth.
The publication of Anna Pavord's guide to her favorite bulbs, corms, and tubers is an event to be celebrated. Here, the world famous author of "The Tulip," selects 540 favorite bulbs, more bulbs than and gardener could grow in a lifetime.
Easy-to-grow, generally inexpensive and highly accessible, bulbs are readily available from many outlets. From acis, anemones and arums to zantedeschia, zephyranthes, and zigadenus, this alphabetical collection provides inspiration, insight, anecdote, and helpful advice. Special photography reveals the glory of each bulb, explaining flowering size, height, planting depth and requires soil and climatic conditions.
This gorgeous book, a complete deluxe package, will appeal to gardeners as the world's most authoritative and affordable reference work on bulbs.
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ISBN / ISSN:
9780007258901
Red Undies and Dutchman's Trousers : Naughty plants for every occasion
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NZ$ 25.00 each
Hardback
Author:
Sacha Langton-Gilks
Published by:
Harper Collins
"Amorphophallus: As a good whoretoculturalist, I think the more phallus the merrier with regard to this very generously endowed genus of tuberous perennials, grown for their large, dramatic spathes. They only produce tiny flowers, but then nobody's perfect." In this hilarious approach to the world of gardening, 'whoretoculturalist' Sacha Langton-Gilks exposes the hidden meanings behind plant nomenclature, with a nod (and a wink) to all things naughty in the garden. Discover the right conditions to attain momentous results from your often neglected Clitoria. Learn the self seeding abilities of your Sisyrinchium (E.K. Balls). If you seek the perfect tool for retribution, refer to 'Plants to give People you Hate' and bestow a gift of Mother-in-Law's Tongue (Sanseviera trifasciata) on your worst enemy. Cleverly illustrated and packed with over the top planting tips, this book is set to become the rollicking best friend to every seasoned ...
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9780747530084
The English Flower Garden
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NZ$ 40.00 each
Hardback
Author:
William Robinson
Published by:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
William Robinson has been described as "one of the greatest gardeners of all time". A widely read and influential gardening book, this work went through 15 editions in the author's lifetime, plus many reprints to satisfy the huge demand. Robinson's great contribution to garden design lay in his loathing of the formal bedding arrangements so loved by the Victorians, and his belief that hardy plants should replace annuals. His influence was so remarkable that the informality he preached is still the predominant fashion today. Indeed, the word "Robinsonian" has entered the language to describe the natural-informal and even the "wild" garden that were his favourite themes.
320pp
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9781405341776
RHS Pests and Diseases : The definitive guide to prevention and treatment
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NZ$ 55.00 each
Hardback
Author:
Pippa Greenwood & Andrew Halstead
Published by:
Dorling Kindersley
Tackle pests and diseases fast with the new edition of this handy gardener's guide. This title lets you learn to identify, treat and prevent plant pests and diseases with the help of the experts at the RHS. A detailed A-Z plant listing explains common plant problems so you know what to look out for in your garden. This title lets you explore more than 300 close-up photos showing symptoms and causes of ailments, helping you to identify and treat problems fast. It includes suggestions for organic, biological and chemical controls to keep you one step ahead of pests and diseases. Keep your plants in perfect condition all year round.
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9780747538332
The English Flower Garden
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NZ$ 26.00 each
Paperback
Author:
William Robinson
Published by:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
William Robinson has been described as "one of the greatest gardeners of all time". Indeed, the word "Robinsonian" has entered the language to describe the natural-informal and even the "wild" garden that were his favourite themes.
286pp
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9781740336987
Vegie Patch : How to Grow Your Own Food
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NZ$ 55.00 each
Paperback
Author:
Alan Buckingham
Published by:
Dorling Kindersley Australia
For tasty, delicious fruit and veg that hasn't travelled half way around the world, you can't beat home-grown produce from your own vegie patch. Here's how to ensure your plot provides fresh, healthy food all year round. Easy-to-follow advice on what to do in your vegie patch and how to do it. Pick up time-saving tips and techniques on everything from pruning to dealing with pests. There's clear guidance on when to sow, plant, and harvest for excellent results. Completely and authoritatively adapted for Australian conditions and Australian gardens.
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9781859749166
La Mortella : An Italian garden paradise
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NZ$ 60.00 each
Hardback
Author:
Susana Walton (photography 185974916X)
Published by:
New Holland (UK)
Out of print.
This illustrated guide to La Mortella, an Italian garden created by Lady Walton, details a creation over 45 years in the making. Royalties from the sale of the book go to the William Walton Trust, of which HRH The Prince of Wales is Patron.
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ISBN / ISSN:
9781741960396
The Lawn
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NZ$ 35.00 each
Hardback
Author:
Peter Macinnis
Published by:
Pier 9 (Australia)
"The Lawn: A Social History" explores the strange coming-together of means, opportunity and motive in the middle of the nineteenth century, and the lasting social changes that followed when the lawn emerged as the dominant feature of the modern built environment. After the lawn, leisure time would never be the same again. This book explains, in fascinating detail, how the lawn mower was the key enabling technology that let grass dominate the environment. And how, the enabling technology that in turn allowed suburbs to exist was commuter transport - as only suburbs gave enough space between and around the houses for lawns to fit. The author goes on to explain how mowers and suburbs would not have been enough to drive the lawn craze if people had not firmly believed that ownership of a lawn was proof that the owner was a person of status and wealth. "The Lawn: A Social History" takes the reader on a compelling journey that explains the ...
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ISBN / ISSN:
9780747592976
On Guerrilla Gardening : A Handbook for Gardening without Boundaries
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NZ$ 30.00 each
Paperback
Author:
Richard Reynolds
Published by:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
On Guerrilla Gardening is an activist's call to arms to all citizens - green-fingered, green-thinking or curious - to join the revolution of guerrilla gardening: transforming public space into oases of colour and life. The enemy: neglect, apathy and the disintegration of community spirit. The arsenal: daring, a packet of seeds and a passionate commitment to social change. When Richard Reynolds first embarked on guerrilla gardening, growing flowers by moonlight outside his tower block, he had no idea it was part of a growing global movement committed to cultivating the potential in the land regardless of all obstacles. Charting the battles fought across thirty different countries and the revolutionary history of this subculture, On Guerrilla Gardening is an inspirational take on gardening in the 21st century.
Review: 'Reynolds is quickly becoming both a subculture celebrity and a public intellectual, challenging ideas about what it ...
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ISBN / ISSN:
9781847373076
From Seed to Plate : Growing to eat Italian style
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NZ$ 55.00 each
Hardback
Author:
Paolo Arrigo
Published by:
Simon & Schuster
The best way to get fresh, tasty ingredients is to grow your own. Italians have known this for centuries, and no Italian house, apartment, school or office is complete unless it has a little bit of space in which to grow tomatoes, herbs, salad leaves and whatever else can be crammed in. From Seed to Plate covers that very Italian tradition of growing to cook, using recipes handed down from cook to cook, often through generations. Paolo Arrigo shares his family's practical traditions and 'passione' for food, guiding readers on the best varieties to grow, offering growing tips and explaining how all the resulting delicious produce should be best prepared, cooked and preserved. Including recipes from Paolo's own family, delicatessens, favourite restaurants and chefs such as Georgio Locatelli, Antony Worrall Thompson, Rose Prince, Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall and many more, this is a book that persuades us to look at food in a different way ...
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ISBN / ISSN:
9780099502371
The Brother Gardeners: Botany, Empire and the Birth of an Obsession
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NZ$ 30.00 each
Paperback
Author:
Andrea Wulf
Published by:
Windmill Press
One January morning in 1734, cloth merchant Peter Collinson hurried down to the docks at London's Custom House to collect cargo just arrived from John Bartram in the American colonies. But it was not bales of cotton that awaited him, but plants and seeds. Over the next forty years, Bartram would send hundreds of American species to England, where Collinson was one of a handful of men who would foster a national obsession and change the gardens of Britain forever:
Philip Miller, author of the bestselling
Gardeners Dictionary
; the Swede Carl Linnaeus, whose standardised botanical nomenclature popularised botany; and, the botanist-adventurer Joseph Banks and his colleague Daniel Solander who both explored the strange flora of Tahiti and Australia on Captain Cook's Endeavour.
This is the story of these men - friends, rivals, enemies, united by a passion for plants. Set against the backdrop of the emerging empire and the ...
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ISBN / ISSN:
9781870673532
The Rose
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NZ$ 135.00 each
Hardback
Author:
David Austin
Published by:
Scala
David Austin has an international following as a rose grower with an intimate knowledge of his chosen flower. In this wide-ranging book, he examines the historical development of the rose and discusses its place in the garden scene. He then selects and describes the best and most beautiful roses for today's gardens in chapters on Old Roses, Hybrid Teas and Floribundas, Small Roses, Species Roses, Shrub Roses, Climbing Roses and Rambling Roses.The English Roses that he has developed over fifty years of painstaking hybridisation are discussed in an especially highly illustrated and updated chapter that includes the best roses bred by David Austin up to the present day. The English Roses, which combine the charm, form of flower and gorgeous fragrance of the Old Roses with the disease resistance and the free and continuous flowering of Modern Roses, have influenced the way roses are used in gardens worldwide. Chapters on roses in the ...
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ISBN / ISSN:
9780731813407
Jekka's Complete Herb Book (revised edition 2007)
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NZ$ 38.00 each
Paperback
Author:
Jekka McVicar
Published by:
Simon & Schuster Australia
Presents a spread-by-spread reference work to over 150 herbs, from the most common such as mint to the more exotic such as lemongrass. provides much detail about the botanical & culinary aspects and also recipes
First published 1994; this revised edition 2007.
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ISBN / ISSN:
9780007240548
Sissinghurst : A family, a place and its past
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NZ$ 60.00 each
Hardback
Author:
Adam Nicolson
Published by:
Harper Collins
A fascinating account from award-winning author, Adam Nicolson, on the history of Nicolson's own national treasure, his family home: Sissinghurst. Sissinghurst is world famous as a place of calm and beauty, a garden slipped into the ruins of a rose-pink Elizabethan palace. But is it entirely what its creators intended? Has its success over the last thirty years come at a price? Is Sissinghurst everything it could be? The story of this piece of land, an estate in the Weald of Kent, is told here for the first time from the very beginning. Adam Nicolson, who now lives there, has uncovered remarkable new findings about its history as a medieval manor and great sixteenth-century house, from the days of its decline as an eighteenth-century prison to a flourishing Victorian farm and on to the creation, by his grandparents Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson, of a garden in a weed-strewn wreck. Alongside his recovery of the past, Adam ...
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