Gardening and landscape design
Growing EremophilaRussell Wait, with Christine Huf, Cathy Powers and Jenny West Eremophila is a g...
Growing EremophilaRussell Wait, with Christine Huf, Cathy Powers and Jenny West Eremophila is a genus of Australian plants with more than 300 species. Many are stunningly beautiful but have not readily been available to gardeners until recently. This book is a comprehensive guide to the current Eremophila in cultivation. Russell Wait has travelled extensively throughout Australia observing Eremophila in their natural habitat. He has applied his knowledge to the cultivation of eremophila in ga...
$99.95
Paul Bangay's Guide to PlantsPaul Bangay Tenth anniversary edition featuring two new chapters and...
Paul Bangay's Guide to PlantsPaul Bangay Tenth anniversary edition featuring two new chapters and almost 30 new plants. Gardens designed by Paul Bangay are renowned for their elegant proportions, careful use of materials and inspired choice of plants. In one garden, precise box hedging will frame billowing beds of perennials; while in another, olive trees emerge from an undergrowth of rosemary against a dramatic coastal landscape. In a Paul Bangay garden, you can be sure that every plant has ...
$59.95
Illustrated Plant GlossaryEnid Mayfield The 'Illustrated Plant Glossary' is a comprehensive gloss...
Illustrated Plant GlossaryEnid Mayfield The 'Illustrated Plant Glossary' is a comprehensive glossary of over 4000 terms related to plant sciences, featuring superb colour illustrations to aid comprehension of many of the plant terms. The topics covered in this glossary include anatomy, angiosperms, bryophytes, chemistry, cytology, ferns and fern allies, family-specific terms, flowers; fruit, genetics; grasses, rushes and sedges, gymnosperms, habit and growth, habitat and ecology, indumentum, ...
$69.95
Spirit of the GardenTrisha Dixon Gardens can be formal or wild, serene or ostentatious, native or...
Spirit of the GardenTrisha Dixon Gardens can be formal or wild, serene or ostentatious, native or exotic, colourful or monochrome - according to Trisha Dixon, if we like a person, we will probably like their garden. In a series of written reflections, interwoven with her evocative, painterly photographs, Trisha explores the relationship that exists between ourselves, our gardens and the natural landscape. Beyond the design and the plants, there is the feel of the garden, which captures the he...
$65.00
Around the World in 80 TreesJonathan Drori Bestselling author and environmentalist Jonathan Drori...
Around the World in 80 TreesJonathan Drori Bestselling author and environmentalist Jonathan Drori follows in the footsteps of Phileas Fogg as he tells the stories of 80 magnificent trees from all over the globe. In 'Around the World in 80 Trees', Jonathan Drori uses plant science to illuminate how trees play a role in every part of human life, from the romantic to the regrettable. From the trees of Britain, to India's sacred banyan tree, they offer us sanctuary and inspiration - not to mentio...
$32.95
The Bee Friendly Garden: Easy ways to help the bees and make your garden growDoug Purdie A grower...
The Bee Friendly Garden: Easy ways to help the bees and make your garden growDoug Purdie A grower's handbook to attracting bees and other beneficial insects. Bees are our most important pollinators and they are in decline the world over. They love to live in urban environments, where it's a short flight path from one type of plant to the next. But conventional gardens that favour lawns and pesticides over flowers and edible plants are scaring the good bugs away. 'The Bee Friendly Garden' is a...
$39.95
Around the World in 80 PlantsJonathan Drori, illustrated by Lucille Clerc An inspirational and be...
Around the World in 80 PlantsJonathan Drori, illustrated by Lucille Clerc An inspirational and beautifully illustrated book that tells the stories of 80 plants from around the globe. In his follow-up to the bestselling 'Around the World in 80 Trees', Jonathan Drori takes another trip across the globe, bringing to life the science of plants by revealing how their worlds are intricately entwined with our own history, culture and folklore. From the seemingly familiar tomato and dandelion to the ...
$45.00
Native: Art and Design with Australian Native PlantsKate Herd and Jela Ivankovic-Waters Explore t...
Native: Art and Design with Australian Native PlantsKate Herd and Jela Ivankovic-Waters Explore the versatility and captivating beauty of Australian native plants beyond the familiar 'bush garden' aesthetic. Australia has long been known as home to the towering gum and the gnarly banksia. Australian natives are as emblematic as they are adaptable but Native takes an old subject (Australian natives) and gives it a complete makeover. This book surveys the ways native trees, shrubs, flowers and ...
$39.95
Name that Flower: The Identification of Flowering Plants: 3rd EditionIan Clarke and Helen Lee Nam...
Name that Flower: The Identification of Flowering Plants: 3rd EditionIan Clarke and Helen Lee Name That Flower is a valued source of clear and concise information on identifying flowering plants from around the world, both cultivated and in the wild. This edition is updated to align with current systems of plant classification that incorporate advances in molecular DNA analysis. It includes more than 130 detailed line drawings, 64 colour pages and information on 46 plant families. The illustr...
$39.95
The 'Botanical Field Guide' offers in symbol and keyword format a substantial overview of the pla...
The 'Botanical Field Guide' offers in symbol and keyword format a substantial overview of the plant world. Plants express life. They sustain the environment and feed humans and animals alike. For the conscious observer the plant becomes more than the sum of its parts. The plant can be experienced as an unfolding event that moves through the seasons from seed to leaf to flower to fruit and to seed again. Make this comprehensive and robust guide your steady companion, wherever you live, in city...
$12.00
Costa's World: Gardening for the soil, the soul and the suburbsCosta Georgiadis The long-awaited ...
Costa's World: Gardening for the soil, the soul and the suburbsCosta Georgiadis The long-awaited book from the beloved host of ABC TV's Gardening Australia. Bringing together all of Costa's gardening and sustainability knowledge, this is a book for the whole family that reflects Costa's philosophy and quirky sense of fun. 'Costa's World' is a generous, joyous, fully illustrated gardening book that celebrates the life-changing joy of chooks; kids in the garden; big ideas for small spaces; Cost...
$45.00
Hakeas: A Field and Garden Guide
Hakeas: A Field and Garden GuideIvan Holliday 'Hakeas: A Field and Garden Guide' is the first ful...
Hakeas: A Field and Garden GuideIvan Holliday 'Hakeas: A Field and Garden Guide' is the first fully comrehensive book on this plant group. Most Hakeas are shrubs. Many bear beautiful flower spikes, followed by large, unusual fruits which are popular in dried flower arrangements. It features all 148 species and 15 sub-species known. It is an important contribution to our knowledge of native plants. For botanists who have, to date, had no reference for this group, the book will prove invaluable...
$34.95