Download or read book Ayrlies written by Beverley McConnell and published by . This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is the memoir of the creator's childhood inspirations that stirred the beginnings of a lifelong project, the making and development of Ayrlies garden"--Publisher information.
Download or read book Flourish New Zealand Women and Their Extraordinary Gardens written by Barb Rogers and published by Godwit. This book was released on 2018-10-29 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book celebrates the endeavours and achievements of women gardeners who are responsible for some of the most-admired gardens within New Zealand. Often starting as a home-based hobby, fitting around child care and other domestic tasks, the gardens developed by the women featured in this book have evolved into living works of art. Scattered from the far north to Stewart Island, these gardens have a few things in common. Each one has been developed by a woman responding to her own landscape and locale with energy and verve. Often an outlet for a creative urge, the gardens portray a wide cross-section of styles. The stories of the gardeners also share common bonds - hard work and a passion for the landscape - but also stories of combating isolation, loss and joining a sisterhood of gardeners.Some gardens are well known and justly celebrated both here and overseas- Bev McConnell?s Ayrlies in Auckland, and Margaret Barker?s garden at Larnach Castle in Dunedin. Others are undiscovered gardens worthy of wider attention. Gracious country rose gardens, inner city courtyards and edible gardens all feature.
Download or read book What Gardeners Grow written by Bloom and published by Frances Lincoln Children's Books. This book was released on 2023-04-18 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Find the right plant for the right place from an encyclopaedia of flowers, shrubs, herbs and more as chosen by the world’s best gardeners, designers and horticulturists.
Download or read book 150 Gardens You Need to Visit Before You Die written by Stefanie Waldek and published by . This book was released on 2022-01-28 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * The most beautiful gardens in the world in a useful and handsomely bound 'bucket list' book* 150 must-see gardens profiled by Stefanie Waldek, who writes for well-known magazines like Architectural Digest and Travel + Leisure* The latest addition to the successful '150' series (bars, restaurants, hotels, houses) - which have sold over 25,000 copies150 Gardens You Need to Visit before You Die profiles a selection of the most beautiful gardens in the world, renowned for their exceptional flora, imaginative designs, and inspiring locations. From Kew Gardens in London to the Singapore Botanical Gardens, and from Monet's garden at Giverny to the Zen garden of the Ryoan-ji Temple in Kyoto, this handsomely bound book captures in words and images the most notable features of these 150 glorious, not-to-be-missed gardens. An essential bucket list book for garden lovers!
Download or read book Around the World in 80 Gardens written by Monty Don and published by Orion. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'If I have learned only one thing from my travels around the world it is that no garden is an island. Context is everything.' Monty Don visits each continent in this landmark series on gardens of the world. We are introduced to the unique floating gardens of the Amazon and the colourful alpine flower meadows of Norway, modest domestic gardens in Havana and Bali, Monet's world-famous Giverny and the Dutch tour-de-force Het Loo, the formal magnificence of Renaissance Italian water gardens, the tropical planting traditions of Thailand, and the intriguing fusion of indigenous and colonial garden cultures in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. Each garden is placed in context, horticultural preconceptions are abandoned and Monty is constantly surprised by the unexpected locations where gardens thrive. A vivid account of travel, adventure, beauty and the pursuit of knowledge.
Download or read book Garden Tours written by Michele Hickman and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to 50 interesting New Zealand gardens to visit, accompanied by stunning photographs. A beautiful and well-researched guide to over 50 gardens throughout New Zealand that are open to the public. From New Zealand Garden Trust gardens of international significance to small personal favourites of the authors, this richly illustrated guidebook will delight gardening fans throughout the country. With comprehensive contact details and opening hours, readers can plan to visit these gardens in person, or simply enjoy reading about them from the comfort of their armchairs.
Download or read book The Constant Gardener written by Holly Kerr Forsyth and published by The Miegunyah Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering an enormous range of subjects, this essential guide to your garden describes how to cultivate and care for your favourite plants; how to grow fruit trees, lay a lawn or design a 'potager'. The Constant Gardener reveals the fascinating history of the rose, discusses pruning techniques, tells you how to create nutrient-rich compost, pave a path or lay a hedge. It is packed with handy hints, recipes and stories.
Download or read book Seeds of Empire written by Tom Brooking and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-28 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The traditional image of New Zealand is one of verdant landscapes with sheep grazing on lush green pastures. Yet this landscape is almost entirely an artificial creation. As Britain became increasingly reliant on its overseas territories for supplies of food and raw material, so all over the Empire indigenous plants were replaced with English grasses to provide the worked up products of pasture - meat, butter, cheese, wool, and hides. In New Zealand this process was carried to an extreme, with forest cleared and swamps drained. How, why and with what consequences did the transformation of New Zealand into these empires of grass occur? 'Seeds of Empire' provides both an exciting appraisal of New Zealand's environmental history and a long overdue exploration of the significance of grass in the processes of sowing empire.
Download or read book Outer Spaces written by Diarmuid Gavin and published by DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley). This book was released on 2003 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Resource added for the Landscape Horticulture Technician program 100014.
Download or read book In Pursuit of Plants written by P. S. Short and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Surinam F.W. Hostmann allowed vampire bats to suck his toes; in West Africa, William Grant Milne sold his clothes and travelled naked for 200 miles. These and other incidents are recorded in this compilation of accounts of the experiences of 19th- and 20th-century plant collectors.
Download or read book Garlic written by Penny Woodward and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Garlic has been close to people's hearts, minds and stomachs for a very long time. It's been used not only as a food and flavouring, but also for medicinal and spiri-tual purposes. Its garlicky flavour can be hot, spicy and pungent but also sweet and nutty, and the same cultivar may vary widely with soil and climate. This book shines a light on the mystery and mystique of garlic and heightens its enjoyment. - Guidelines for growing organic garlic around the country - Descriptions of more than 50 Australian cultivars - Profiles of a number of Australian growers and their garlics - Recipes for cooking, preserving and smoking... and making your own black garlic - Medicinal uses The Australian garlic book like no other: be patriotic, buy local garlic.Durable media campaign by author.
Download or read book A History of Gardening in New Zealand written by Bee Dawson and published by Godwit Pub.. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Englishman's home is his castle, but for the first European settlers who came to New Zealand, their first priority was to create a productive and, later, ornamental garden. Bee Dawson traces the development of gardening in New Zealand, from the Maori gardens of pre - and early contact times through the optimistic efforts of missionaries and the other early settlers, the magnificence and productivity of the Victorians and Edwardians and the Dig for Victory campaigns of the 1940s. Illustrated throughout with historic photographs, paintings and ephemera, Dawson's lively writing style brings to life the successes and failures and the sense of achivement felt by New Zealand gardeners through the years, as they coaxed plenty and beauty from a new earth. This book is both beautiful to look at and a delight to read.
Download or read book The Meaning Of Trees written by Robert Vennell and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history and use of New Zealand's native plants A guide and gift book in equal measure, this treasure of a book pays homage to New Zealand's native plant species. The Meaning of Trees tells the story of plants and people in Aotearoa New Zealand. Beautifully illustrated with botanical drawings, paintings and photographs, it shows us how a globally unique flora has been used for food, medicine, shelter, spirituality and science. From Jurassic giants to botanical oddballs - these are our wonderful native and endemic plants, in an exquisite hardback edition.
Download or read book 20 20 Smart Lists written by Shawn Holley and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2020-05-15 with total page 1115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book Delisted
Download or read book A Garden A Day written by Ruth Chivers and published by Batsford Books. This book was released on 2023-11-09 with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of gardens through the ages and across the globe in 366 daily entries, from the ancient hanging gardens of Babylon to a vegetable plot on the International Space Station. In this fascinating and beautifully illustrated collection, garden writer Ruth Chivers presents a garden for every day of the year. It's a sumptuous journey through garden history, design, horticulture, literary inspiration, folklore and poetry. From Sissinghurst to Versailles, from the medieval poem 'The Romance of the Rose' to the latest horticultural details of a rewilded garden, from imaginary gardens in literature to the real gardens that inspired Van Gogh and Orwell, here are absorbing garden stories for the whole year. Botanical paintings sit next to historic plans and the very best garden photography. The entries are annotated with intriguing facts and inspiring ideas, telling the stories of gardens past, present and even future. A true celebration of gardens, A Garden A Day is a beautiful and essential book for any gardener that brings home the wonder of these spaces to all of us.
Download or read book Handbook of Australian New Zealand Antarctic Birds written by Peter Jeffrey Higgins and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 1092 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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