Download or read book Gnomes and Gardens written by Nigel Suckling and published by Pavilion Books, Limited. This book was released on 2000 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at all aspects of gnome life, their origins and fashions, their pastimes, opinions and culinary tastes. It examines urban gnomes, suburban, bucolic and wild ones.
Download or read book Gnome and Garden written by Marcus Mennes and published by Quirk Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Garden Gnomes written by Twigs Way and published by Shire Publications. This book was released on 2009-09-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the intriguing story of garden gnomes and how they have come to reside in the flowerbeds of gardens across Britain. Originating in Europe, gnomes made the leap across the channel in the nineteenth century, where they were welcomed warmly by wealthy Brits who saw them as the must-have garden accessory. But the fortunes of the humble gnome were not to last, and they soon found themselves sneered at by serious gardeners. Turned away from fashionable gardens, the little gnomes found a friend in many a working class gardener, who adopted them in increasing numbers, and in a variety of humorous poses. Today, gnomes are as popular with the masses as ever, and this entertaining illustrated history will appeal to those who love, and hate, these small bearded characters.
Download or read book How to Survive a Garden Gnome Attack written by Chuck Sambuchino and published by Random House. This book was released on 2014-06-05 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There’s a new threat in town – and it’s only twelve inches tall. How to Survive a Garden Gnome Attack is the only comprehensive survival guide that will help you prevent, prepare for, and ward off an imminent home invasion by the common garden gnome. Once thought of as harmless garden decorations, evidence is mounting that these smiling lawn statues are poised and ready to wreck havoc. The danger is real. And it’s here. Class 1 gnome-slayer and gnome defence expert Chuck Sambuchino has developed a proven system – Assess, Protect, Defend, Apply – for safeguarding property, possessions, and loved ones. Strategies include step-by-step instructions for gnome-proofing the average dwelling, recognising and interpreting the signs of a gathering horde and – in the event that a secured perimeter is breached – confronting and combating the attackers at close range.
Download or read book The Hermit in the Garden written by Gordon Campbell and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-03-28 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing its distant origins to the villa of the Roman emperor Hadrian in the second century AD, the eccentric phenomenon of the ornamental hermit enjoyed its heyday in the England of the eighteenth century It was at this time that it became highly fashionable for owners of country estates to commission architectural follies for their landscape gardens. These follies often included hermitages, many of which still survive, often in a ruined state. Landowners peopled their hermitages either with imaginary hermits or with real hermits - in some cases the landowner even became his own hermit. Those who took employment as garden hermits were typically required to refrain from cutting their hair or washing, and some were dressed as druids. Unlike the hermits of the Middle Ages, these were wholly secular hermits, products of the eighteenth century fondness for 'pleasing melancholy'. Although the fashion for them had fizzled out by the end of the eighteenth century, they had left their indelible mark on both the literature as well as the gardens of the period. And, as Gordon Campbell shows, they live on in the art, literature, and drama of our own day - as well as in the figure of the modern-day garden gnome. This engaging and generously illustrated book takes the reader on a journey that is at once illuminating and whimsical, both through the history of the ornamental hermit and also around the sites of many of the surviving hermitages themselves, which remain scattered throughout England, Scotland, and Ireland. And for the real enthusiast, there is even a comprehensive checklist, enabling avid hermitage-hunters to locate their prey.
Download or read book Good Night Garden Gnome written by Jamichael Henterly and published by Dial. This book was released on 2001 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Depicts a gnome at work and play in his garden.
Download or read book Gnomes written by Wil Huygen and published by . This book was released on 2023-09-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A newly reissued edition of the beloved illustrated survey of gnome life, history, and lore, which has sold astronomically since its original publication in 1977 Did you know that gnome couples always have twin children? Or that a gnome is seven times as strong as a human? Do you want to hear some gossip from the gnome who knew Rembrandt? Dutch artist Rien Poortvliet's charming illustrations and physician Wil Huygen's detailed observations of the gnomes' habits, anatomy, and lifestyle are a delight for readers of all ages. Children will adore the gnome family's underground home and the constant interaction with animals; adults will appreciate the tongue-in-cheek scientific data. Gnomebody is immune to the gnomes' tremendous appeal--and a whole new generation is waiting to love them for the first time!
Download or read book Gnomes and Gardens written by Alan Melville and published by David & Charles. This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Day in the Garden written by Su Kim and published by Xist Publishing. This book was released on 2019-09-15 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join a little garden gnome for a day of fun A Day in the Garden is a gentle book celebrating flowers, tea parties, and good friends. Delicate illustrations are paired with a simple story sure to charm little readers. This picture book is ideal for fairy lovers and little children who would rather be out in the garden than cooped up inside.
Download or read book Gnomeland written by Margaret Egleton and published by Firefly Books Limited. This book was released on 2008 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A well-illustrated celebration of garden gnomes that looks at their place in the world and popular culture, their makers and collectors, gnome art, modern variations as well as their travel adventures and disappearances.
Download or read book Planting Design for Dry Gardens written by Olivier Filippi and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in French as Alternatives au gazon in 2011.
Download or read book Gnomes and Gardens written by Nigel Suckling and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Zendoodle Coloring Presents Gnomes in the Neighborhood written by Denyse Klette and published by Castle Point Books. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gorgeous new book of whimsical creatures to color First she changed the way we looked at fairies, then mermaids, and now illustrator Denyse Klette turns her talented eye (and pen) to gnomes with a brand-new book of 62 gloriously detailed illustrations to color. Gnomes in the garden, celebrating the changing seasons, and exploring their whimsical world light up the pages of this spectacular coloring book.
Download or read book No No Gnome written by Ashlyn Anstee and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-02-09 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! and No, David! comes a tale about a very small gnome who has some very big ideas about the school garden. Gnome cannot wait to help his friends harvest the school garden! But his eagerness and excitement get him into trouble, leaving them all saying, “No, no, Gnome!” The author/illustrator of Are We There, Yeti? delivers a sweet new picture book starring a loveable little hero who has a whole lot of energy...and heart.
Download or read book Gardens at the Frontier written by James Beattie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-12-18 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gardens at the Frontier addresses broad issues of interest to architectural historians, environmental historians, garden writers, geographers, and other scholars. It uses different disciplinary perspectives to explore garden history’s thematic, geographical, and methodological frontiers through a focus on gardens as sites of cultural contact. The contributors address the extent to which gardens inhibit or further cultural contact; the cultural translation of garden concepts, practices and plants from one place to another; the role of non-written sources in cultural transfer; and which disciplines study gardens and designed landscapes, and how and why their approaches vary. Chapters cover a range of designed landscapes and locations, periods and approaches: medieval Japanese roji (tea gardens); a seventeenth-century garden of southern China; post-war Australian ‘natural gardens’; iconic twentieth-century American modernist gardens; ‘international’ willow-pattern design; geology and designed landscapes; gnomes; and landscape authorship of a public garden. Each chapter examines transfers of cultural ideas and their physical denouement. This book was originally published as a special issue of Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes.
Download or read book Gnomes and Gardens written by Mary McMahon and published by . This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Suburban Gardens written by Twigs Way and published by Britain's Heritage. This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The suburban garden has introduced millions to the hobby of gardening, and here, for the first time, is the story of Britain's most numerous, and most beloved, type of garden.
