1.
Series:
The Leaf Supply Guide to Creating Your Indoor Jungle
Hardcover
Lauren Camilleri
9781925811254
$47.00
GARDENING
Oct 22, 2019
This book is a luxurious guide to creating the very densest of jungles in your living room. It’s time to finally turn that thumb green.With this stunningly photographed greenery guide, anyone can master the art of making your living room thrive. When done correctly, curating any decent houseplant can be just as effective as hanging a beautiful work of art. After all, our green companions are known to be beneficial for mental health and for general health (being oxygenators), as well as a key element of any well-balanced interior. Lauren and Sop...
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2.
Series:
Vegetables, Chickens & Bees
An Honest Guide to Growing Your Own Food Anywhere
Paperback
Carson Arthur
9780147530615
$29.95
GARDENING
Feb 26, 2019
From balconies to backyards, get set for gardening success--in any space!There is no better time to grow your own vegetables than now. Whatever space you have (backyard, front yard, balcony, patio, rooftop, window sill, kitchen counter, patch of grass) this book shows you how to grow your own garden-fresh vegetables, starting now. Included inside is everything the beginner gardener needs: • Gardening guides for every space: from patios to rooftops, and from container gardens to in-ground growing • Expert info on sunlight, soil, water and ...
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3.
Series: Stuff You Should Know
Stuff Every Gardener Should Know
Hardcover
Scott Meyer
9781594749568
$10.99
GARDENING
Mar 07, 2017
This handy little gift book is the perfect pocket guide to your garden! For the green thumb in your life, this delightful companion is blooming with fun facts and helpful ideas for everything from indoor seed-starting to tips for hassle-free roses. What’s the difference between heirlooms and hybrids? How can I stop weeds from invading my flowerbeds? And what’s the best way to attract helpful, beneficial insects? All these questions and more are answered for gardeners of all ages and experience. Topics include: • Tips for Hassle-Free Roses ...
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4.
Series:
Gardening for Bumblebees
A Practical Guide to Creating a Paradise for Pollinators
Hardcover
Dave Goulson
9781529110289
$35.99
NATURE
May 25, 2021
From the Sunday Times bestselling author of A Sting In The Tale comes this practical guide to creating a paradise for pollinators.There are twenty six different species of bumblebees to be found in the UK, of around 250 species worldwide. Bumblebees are among the most important of our insects; these superb pollinators ensure that wildflowers set seed and reappear each year, and that our vegetable and fruit crops give us bountiful harvests. With the decline in the populations of our wild bees, these beloved creatures need looking after more than...
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5.
Series:
Yayoi Kusama: Cosmic Nature
Hardcover
Mika Yoshitake
9780847868391
$55.00
ART
Jun 15, 2021
Experience the brilliant artist’s lifelong obsession with nature and immersion in gardens, a bedrock of her hugely influential work.Yayoi Kusama’s groundbreaking work has mesmerized audiences since her first exhibitions in New York in the 1960s. Known for working in a broad range of media—including painting, performance, sculpture, and installation—in recent decades she has risen to worldwide fame through the explosive popularity of her mesmerizing infinity mirror rooms and vibrant sculptural installations. Yet the critical importance of botani...
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6.
Series:
Edible Flowers
Hardcover
Monica Nelson
9781580935715
$45.00
NATURE
Oct 12, 2021
A beautiful and illuminating guide to the use and cultural history of edible flowers, featuring gorgeous original photography, simple recipes and preparation methods, and thoughtful essays on eating flowers by leading voicesThis stunning guide to edible flowers—conceived by Monica Nelson, the founding creative and photo director of the influential journal Wilder Quarterly, and Adrianna Glaviano, a noted food and lifestyle photographer—is packed with information and features lush original photography. Organizing more than 100 flowers alphabetica...
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7.
Series:
The Naturally Beautiful Garden
Designs That Engage with Wildlife and Nature
Hardcover
Kathryn Bradley-Hole
9780847870097
$75.00
GARDENING
Apr 13, 2021
More popular than ever, gardening is going green with increased interest in environmentally friendly methods.It seems that almost everyone who has access to outside space, however small or large, wants to make the most of it. Interest in growing plants in ecologically sensitive ways that support pollinators, butterflies, birds, and other wildlife is a very strong strand in the new consciousness of garden making. It goes hand in hand with organic principles that shun the use of short-term, quick-fix chemical solutions that have an overall damagi...
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8.
Series:
Grow Your Own Pet Plants
A Cute Guide to Choosing and Caring for Your Leafy Friends
Hardcover
Andrew Mikolajski
9781922417060
$19.95
GARDENING
Apr 13, 2021
This practical (and adorably illustrated) book offers tips on how to turn random garden cuttings into lifelong plant friends.Plants make great pets – they’re quiet, decorative, housetrained and (mostly) low-maintenance – and with this helpful guide, you’ll soon be the perfect plant parent! Grow Your Own Pet Plants has all the information you’ll need for green-thumbed success, from learning which plant to take home to how to help your leafy friend thrive in all conditions. Andrew Mikolajski provides helpful tips, from how to nurse and propagate ...
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9.
Series:
The Trees of North America
A Detailed Notes Card Set
Cards
Editors of Abbeville Press
9780789254580
$19.95
NON-CLASSIFIABLE
Apr 06, 2021
A boxed notecard set featuring beautiful close-ups of the leaves, fruit, and flowers of American trees—the latest addition to the Detailed Notes lineThe Detailed Notes are luxury notecards that feature a striking close-up of a great artwork on the front, and the entire artwork on the back. Each set is housed in a presentation-quality box.
This set, The Trees of North America, reproduces details of four exquisite hand-colored plates from François-André Michaux’s classic North American Sylva, by such masters of botanical art as Pierre-Joseph Redo...
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10.
Series:
The Trees of North America
Michaux and Redouté's American Masterpiece (Tiny Folio)
Hardcover
Gregory Long
9780789214027
$18.95
NATURE
Apr 06, 2021
A miniature volume of exquisite botanical prints—the perfect gift for tree lovers.
This Tiny Folio presents, in modern taxonomic order, all 277 of the hand-colored plates from François-André Michaux’s classic North American Sylva, as well as the supplemental volumes by Thomas Nuttall. These masterworks of nineteenth-century botanical illustration—by such artists as Pierre-Joseph Redouté and Pancrace Bessa—represent the leaves, fruit, and flowers of American trees with wonderful grace and clarity. Published in cooperation with the New York Bota...
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11.
Series:
Contemporary Gardens of the Hamptons
LaGuardia Design Group 1990-2020
Hardcover
Christopher LaGuardia
9781580935654
$65.00
GARDENING
Apr 27, 2021
First monograph to present the work of Laguardia Design Group, a highly regarded landscape architecture firm specializing in contemporary residential design in the Hamptons.With offices in Water Mill, LaGuardia Design Group is immersed in the fragile landscape of the Hamptons, both its woods and meadows and the dramatic shoreline along the Atlantic. Notable projects include the rebuilding of the dunescape surrounding a landmark Norman Jaffe house damaged by storms, collaborations with well-known contemporary architects, iand the setting for a d...
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12.
Series:
National Trust School of Gardening
Practical Advice From the Experts
Hardcover
Rebecca Bevan
9781911657156
$55.00
GARDENING
Apr 06, 2021
Easy-to-follow practical advice from the best gardeners in BritainThe National Trust looks after hundreds of beautiful gardens of every imaginable shape and size across Britain, from the grandest country estate to the smallest cottage garden. They also manage such internationally renowned gardens as Sissinghurst and Hindcote. National Trust garden staff receive countless questions from visitors about plants growing in the gardens and techniques that can be tried at home, and this in-depth guide will pass on their wisdom and provide all the answ...
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13.
Series:
From Field & Forest
An Artist’s Year in Paint And Pen
Hardcover
Anna Koska
9781911641766
$33.50
SCIENCE
Apr 06, 2021
Image and narrative text create a beautiful journey through the seasons.Highly respected illustrator Anna Koska is best known for her drawings of fish and fruit and is widely celebrated by food journalists and restaurateurs. In this mindful, artistic journal, Anna celebrates the natural world: the changing of the seasons, the blossoming of flowers, and the ripening of fruit. Working in watercolor, pen and ink, oils, and luscious egg tempera, Anna sources inspiration from the flora and fauna in the fields and forests surrounding her home in Suss...
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14.
Series:
Charlotte Moss Flowers
Hardcover
Charlotte Moss
9780847870141
$67.50
CRAFTS & HOBBIES
Apr 06, 2021
Renowned interior designer and tastemaker Charlotte Moss celebrates flowers and offers endless inspiration in their use as glorious additions to decorating, entertaining, and everyday living.Charlotte Moss encourages readers to bring the garden indoors—with ideas for arranging flowers, selecting containers, and placing blossoms around the house. An inviting cluster of blooms on a guest room’s bedside table, lavish floral displays for parties and holidays, single stems adding life to any corner of a room—Moss has been photographing her flower ar...
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15.
Series: New York Botanical Garden
Roses in Bloom Puzzle
A 1000-Piece Jigsaw Puzzle Featuring Rare Art from the New York Botanical Garden : Jigsaw Puzzles for Adults
Cards
The New York Botanical Garden
9781524759124
$25.99
GAMES & ACTIVITIES
Mar 30, 2021
A glorious 1000-piece jigsaw puzzle featuring botanical art of roses in bloom from the renowned archives of the New York Botanical Garden.This elegant, 1000-piece puzzle portrays a magnificent collection of roses, the flower world’s most iconic bloom. As you piece the puzzle together you will see fabled roses in hues of crimson, peach, lemon and ivory blossom under your hands.
16.
Series:
A Naturalist's Book of Wildflowers
Celebrating 85 Native Plants in North America
Paperback
Laura Martin
9781682685969
$29.95
NATURE
Mar 23, 2021
A charmingly illustrated keepsake and guide to native, wild plants of North America.In this exquisitely detailed naturalist’s handbook, Laura C. Martin provides profiles of 85 wild plants and flowers found across North America, each accompanied by lovingly illustrated and charming watercolor paintings. With dozens of notes, arrows, and details, each chapter encourages the reader to look at the plants as a naturalist would—opening up a whole new way of seeing nature. Martin gives details on where the plants can be found, how they grow, how to id...
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17.
Series:
The Garden Source
Inspirational Design Ideas for Gardens and Landscapes
Paperback
Andrea Jones
9780847870172
$60.00
GARDENING
Mar 09, 2021
This book is the visual resource for anyone looking for garden inspiration, showcasing image after aspirational image of garden designs and solutions.This fully updated and revised edition contains more than 800 full-color images by leading garden photographer Andrea Jones. Organized into a variety of topics and themes that address frequently encountered garden design questions and challenges, this expanded edition now covers thirty-two trending garden design topics, such as Containerism, Dutch Wave, Extreme Naturalism, New Nordic, Tropical Chi...
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18.
Series:
Floratopia
110 Flower Garden Ideas for Your Yard, Patio, or Balcony
Hardcover
Jan Johnsen
9781682685983
$40.00
GARDENING
Feb 16, 2021
Create a floral haven with help from a celebrated garden designer and flower lover.Jan Johnsen’s latest book, Floratopia: 110 Flower Garden Ideas for Your Yard, Patio, or Balcony showcases beautiful flower varieties and offers illustrated design ideas that will have you seeing the potential for colorful flowers, both annual and perennial, in all kinds of outdoor spaces, large or small. Essential advice—such as “Hot Weather Flower Garden Tips,” “Tiny Space, Tiny Garden,” and “Tips for Layering with Flowers”—is accompanied by lush photos and info...
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19.
Series: Lift-the-Flap
Let's Go to the Garden! With Dr. Seuss's Lorax
Board book
Todd Tarpley
9780593308370
$10.99
JUVENILE NONFICTION
Age (years) to 3
Feb 09, 2021
Join the Lorax and learn all about gardens in this board book for Dr. Seuss’s youngest fans—perfect for encouraging a love of nature!The Lorax shares his love of animals and plants and need to “speak for the trees” in this sturdy board book about he role gardens play in helping the Earth. Written in rhymed verse and with flaps to lift that uncover simple facts about the creatures and plants found in gardens, it’s both a fun read and an educational tool for toddlers and preschoolers.Series Overview: Nurture a love of the natural world—with Dr. S...
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20.
Series:
Hummelo
A Journey Through a Plantsman's Life
Paperback
Piet Oudolf
9781580935708
$55.00
GARDENING
Mar 09, 2021
An intimate look at the personal garden of the Dutch landscape designer renowned for his plantings at the High Line in New York City, and Lurie Garden at Chicago’s Millennium Park. Hummelo—near the village of the same name in Gelderland in the eastern Netherlands—is visited by thousands of gardeners seeking inspiration each year. It is Piet Oudolf’s home, his personal garden laboratory, a former nursery run by his wife Anja, and the place where he first tested new designs and created the new varieties of perennials that are now widely availabl...
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21.
Series: New York Botanical Garden
Roses
100 Postcards from the Archives of The New York Botanical Garden
Cards
The New York Botanical Garden
9781524759117
$27.00
GARDENING
Feb 09, 2021
This gorgeous box of postcards features 100 different roses from The New York Botanical Garden’s extensive archives.This elegant, 100-postcard box features beautiful illustrations of roses, the flower world’s most iconic bloom. These vividly colored postcards are perfect for greeting cards, thank you notes, or wall decor, while the box, also printed with magnificent full-color art, can be used as a keepsake when empty.
22.
Series: What's Inside
What's Inside A Flower?
And Other Questions About Science & Nature
Hardcover
Rachel Ignotofsky
9780593176474
$23.99
JUVENILE NONFICTION
Age (years) from 4 - 7
Feb 02, 2021
From the creator of the New York Times bestseller Women in Science, comes a new nonfiction picture book series ready to grow young scientists by nurturing their curiosity about the natural world—starting with what’s inside a flower.Budding backyard scientists can start exploring their world with this stunning introduction to these flowery show-stoppers—from seeds to roots to blooms. Learning how flowers grow gives kids beautiful building blocks of science and inquiry.In the launch of a new nonfiction picture book series, Rachel Ignotofsky’s dis...
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23.
Series:
The Comic Book Guide to Growing Food
Step-by-Step Vegetable Gardening for Everyone
Paperback
Joseph Tychonievich
9781984857262
$25.99
GARDENING
Feb 02, 2021
The first graphic novel guide to growing a successful vegetable garden, from planning, prepping, and planting, to troubleshooting, care, and harvesting.Like having your own personal gardening mentor at your side, The Comic Book Guide to Growing Food is the story of Mia, an eager young professional who wants to grow her own vegetables but doesn’t know where to start, and George, her retired neighbor who loves gardening and walks her through each step of the process. Throughout the book, “cheat sheets” sum up George’s key facts and techniques, pr...
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24.
Series:
Striking Succulent Gardens
Plants and Plans for Designing Your Low-Maintenance Landscape [A Gardening Book]
Paperback
Gabriel Frank
9780399580987
$25.99
GARDENING
Jan 26, 2021
Design a succulent garden of your own, with inspiration, advice, and instructional step-by-step projects for container gardens, small-space gardens, mixed gardens, and more.You can’t help but be mesmerized by the eye-catching geometric forms and jewel-toned colors of succulents. But how do you grow these beauties in your own garden? One of the only books dedicated to succulent garden design, Striking Succulent Gardens is a stylish, modern gardening book for beginners and enthusiasts alike.Known for his colorful approach and bold use of varied t...
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25.
Series:
Welcome Flower Child
The Magic of Your Birth Flower
Hardcover
Brigette Barrager
9781984830395
$23.99
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 3 - 7
Jan 05, 2021
A beautiful gift book that reveals the meaning of birth flowers for babies born each month of the year.Every child is a different kind of flower, and all together, make this world a beautiful garden.Welcome to this celebration of nature and babies from New York Times bestselling illustrator of Uni the Unicorn, Brigette Barrager. A gorgeous gift book reveals the qualities of babies born in each month of the year, and the accompanying flower that blooms in each birth month. This text is sweet, and soft, and everyone who opens it can find the spec...
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26.
Series:
Bloom & Thrive
Essential Healing Herbs and Flowers (Now Age series)
Hardcover
Brigit Anna McNeill
9781529107289
$19.99
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT
Nov 24, 2020
Worried about a big meeting? Can’t sleep? Low on energy? Discover the powerful herbs and flowers that can help you to live your best life. Learn which herbs and flowers will aid calm, happiness, boost energy and how you can work simple natural remedies into your daily routine. This is a down-to-earth, expert introduction to the life-changing powers of nature’s potent remedies from forager, herbalist and wild plant medicine teacher Brigit Anna McNeill.
27.
Series:
The Big Sticker Book of Blooms
Paperback
Yuval Zommer
9780500652299
$19.95
JUVENILE NONFICTION
Nov 10, 2020
Packed with drawing activities, games, and over 250
stickers, this fact-filled sticker
book provides hours of entertainment and learning.Drawing from Yuval Zommer’s wildly popular, fact-filled The Big Book of Blooms, this jam-packed sticker activity book brings the plant world alive in a creative way. Taking fascinating facts as their starting point, activities invite children to draw, color, and play games with plants, insects, and birds from around the world, inspiring children’s interest in nature as they play.
Zommer’s rich illustrations il...
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28.
Series:
Plantopedia
The Definitive Guide to Houseplants
Hardcover
Lauren Camilleri
9781925811773
$55.00
GARDENING
Oct 27, 2020
This is the definitive text for potting, maintaining, and loving your houseplants.Houseplants have the power to transform any room. With their lush foliage and structural beauty, they help create indoor oases that bring a sense of tranquility to our busy lives. Fostering a connection to plants has many positive implications for us and our environment by strengthening our relationship with the natural world.In Plantopedia, Lauren Camilleri and Sophia Kaplan from Leaf Supply present the definitive guide to keeping happy, healthy houseplants in an...
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29.
Series:
American Gardens
Hardcover
Monty Don
9783791386751
$66.00
GARDENING
Oct 27, 2020
Monty Don, Britain’s treasured horticulturalist, and renowned photographer Derry Moore explore iconic and little-known gardens throughout America.For years, Britain’s much-loved gardener Monty Don has been leading us down all kinds of garden paths to show us why green spaces are vital to our wellbeing and culture. Now, he travels across America with celebrated photographer Derry Moore to trace the fascinating histories of outdoor spaces which epitomize or redefine the American garden. In the book, which complements the BBC television series, th...
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30.
Series:
Maria Sibylla Merian
22 Pull-Out Posters
Paperback
Prestel Publishing
9783791386003
$39.95
ART
Sep 01, 2020
A must-have for botanical art enthusiasts and Maria Sibylla Merian fans, this gorgeous collection of frameable reproductions is blooming with color and meticulous detail.More than three centuries after Maria Sibylla Merian established herself as a scientific trailblazer—and after more than two centuries of obscurity—the work of this pioneering naturalist and artist is being rediscovered. Merian’s work, The New Book of Flowers, raised the artistic standards of natural history illustration. Published in 1675, the book employed impeccable botanic ...
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31.
Series:
The Big Book of Blooms
Hardcover
Yuval Zommer
9780500651995
$25.95
JUVENILE NONFICTION
Age (years) from 4 - 8
May 05, 2020
The next installment in the popular Big Book series is a fascinating introduction to some of the most magnificent and surprising flowering plants from around the world.In The Big Book of Blooms, the next installment in the wildly successful Big Book series, Yuval Zommer’s charming illustrations bring to life some of the most colorful, flamboyant, and unusual flowers from across the globe.
In the opening pages, readers will learn all about botany, including how to recognize different types of flowers. Subsequent pages illustrate the various habi...
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32.
Series:
Flower Power
The Magic of Nature's Healers
Hardcover
Christine Paxmann
9783791373997
$25.95
JUVENILE NONFICTION
Age (years) from 8 - 12
Apr 14, 2020
Take on a magical journey through the world of healing flowers in this children’s book by renowned artist Olaf Hajek.Olaf Hajek’s fantastical and mesmerizing art is familiar to many adults. Now young readers can enjoy his work while learning about the fascinating health benefits of flowers they encounter every day. Hajek’s paintings spring to life, populated by insects, birds, fruit, and fairytales that illustrate the drama of the natural world. Accompanying each painting are engaging texts that explore various cultural and medicinal aspects of...
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33.
Series:
Outdoor Design
Projects and Plans for a Stylish Garden
Hardcover
Matt Keightley
9780789338181
$24.98
GARDENING
Apr 14, 2020
Inspired solutions for all types of outdoor spaces - from urban and suburban to country - in a highly curated collection of 35 designsAward-winning designer Matt Keightley presents gardens created either by him or by other leading contemporary designers that provide the inspiration to transform any outdoor space. Each case study discusses the goal or inspiration for the design and includes a detailed plan, a design checklist, and information on the materials and plants used complete with a wealth of gorgeous photographs.The book is divided int...
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34.
Series:
Britain's Trees
A Treasury of Traditions, Superstitions, Remedies and Folklore
Hardcover
Jo Woolf
9781911358862
$26.95
NATURE
Apr 07, 2020
A guide to identifying Britain’s trees and to the rich folklore and traditions connected with them.From hawthorn to holly and from beech to blackthorn, each of Britain’s forty or so native trees are illustrated and a text weaves together the fascinating natural history, folklore, traditions, and remedies connected with them. Particularly famous and significant trees around the country are included too, some dating back thousands of years. As well as a fascinating book to dip into, the illustrations allow the book to double as an identification ...
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35.
Series:
The Five Minute Garden
Hardcover
Laetitia Maklouf
9781911358916
$19.95
GARDENING
Apr 07, 2020
Breaking the work needed to keep a garden in perfect shape into daily five-minute chunks, this approach can yield amazing results.Laetitia Maklouf is a garden writer and busy mother of three who has realized that the secret of gardening without becoming overwhelmed is to do something small every day. This book is packed with five-minute things over the gardening year which you can pick and choose at random when you have five minutes to spare. These little bursts of activity are set beneath different headings: “Spruce”, “Chop”, “Nurture”, “Fuss”...
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36.
Series:
A Garden for All Seasons
Marjorie Merriweather Post's Hillwood
Hardcover
Kate Markert
9780847867882
$67.50
GARDENING
Apr 07, 2020
Enter the garden paradise of Marjorie Merriweather Post’s Washington, D.C., estate in this first book on the history and design of the remarkable grounds.A Garden for All Seasons captures Marjorie Post’s garden landscape, set on twenty-five acres in Washington, D.C. Working with prominent landscape architects Umberto Innocenti, Richard Webel, and Perry Wheeler, Post envisioned a setting with a diverse and fascinating array of trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants, offering something to see in every season.Thirteen acres of formal gardens extend ...
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37.
Series:
My Wild Garden
Notes from a Writer's Eden
Hardcover
Meir Shalev
9780805243512
$40.00
GARDENING
Mar 31, 2020
A colorfully illustrated round of the season in the garden of the best-selling novelist, memoirist, and champion putterer with a wheelbarrow On the perimeter of Israel’s Jezreel Valley, with the Carmel mountains rising up in the west, Meir Shalev has a beloved garden, “neither neatly organized nor well kept,” as he cheerfully explains. Often covered in mud and scrapes, Shalev cultivates both nomadic plants and “house dwellers,” using his own quirky techniques. He extolls the virtues of the lemon tree, rescues a precious variety of purple sna...
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38.
Series:
Cottage Gardens
A Celebration of Britain's Most Beautiful Cottage Gardens, with Advice on Making Your Own
Hardcover
Claire Masset
9781911358923
$26.95
GARDENING
Mar 24, 2020
The cottage garden’s abundant, informal style is rooted in Victorian dreams of a perfect country life, but has found new expressions from the Arts and Crafts movement to the present day. This book showcases many cottage gardens both famous and obscure, including writer Thomas Hardy’s cottage in Dorset; the flower-filled cottage garden created at Sissinghurst, Kent, by Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson; Beatrix Potter’s Cumbrian home, Hill Top, and the picturesque Alfriston Clergy House in East Sussex. Practical advice on creating your own...
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39.
Series:
Flowers
Paperback
Gail Gibbons
9780823445370
$11.99
JUVENILE NONFICTION
Age (years) from 4 - 8
Mar 24, 2020
Explore a lush garden of plant life…. from your bookshelf! Packed with science concepts, this picture book will tell you everything you need to know about flowers.With her signature combination of clearly-labeled diagrams, infographics, and accessible language, Gail Gibbons introduces the basics and life cycle of flowers. Sweet-smelling violets, delicate roses, vibrant tulips—and many more—come alive on the profusely illustrated pages. Including information on common regional species, flowers’ habitable ranges, basic flower care and cultivati...
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40.
Series:
The Garden Source
Inspirational Design Ideas for Gardens and Landscapes
Paperback
Andrea Jones
9780789338242
$24.98
GARDENING
Mar 17, 2020
This is a must-have for anyone looking for garden design ideas. Hundreds of full-color images are cleverly arranged to offer thousands of possible design solutions and inspirations for any type of garden. The book includes gardens from all over the world and features projects by the best contemporary designers at work today, including Topher Delaney, James van Sweden, Piet Oudolf, Rick Darke, Sean Hogan, and many others. Alongside never-before-seen private gardens, the book also includes celebrated public spaces such as Manhattan’s High Line—a ...
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41.
Series:
Perfect Lawns
A Practical Guide
Hardcover
Simon Akeroyd
9781911358725
$13.50
GARDENING
Mar 03, 2020
Learn how to keep your lawn in perfect condition all year round with this handy little guidebook from an experienced National Trust head gardener.This beautifully illustrated and practical guide is packed with invaluable advice on all aspects of lawn design, creation, and maintenance. The author discusses which types of mowers work best for different lawns, when and how to water and feed, and how to bring a neglected lawn back to life, as well as offering creative ideas for decorative elements.
42.
Series:
Perfect Pots
A Practical Guide
Hardcover
Simon Akeroyd
9781911358701
$13.50
GARDENING
Mar 03, 2020
Learn how to create the perfect container garden with this handy little guidebook from an experienced National Trust head gardener.Packed with nifty tips and advice for gardening in containers, even in small spaces, to ensure stunning floral displays and abundant fruit and vegetable crops. Beautifully illustrated throughout, this practical guide contains everything you need to create an exquisite display of pots in your garden.
43.
Series:
Perfect Pruning
A Practical Guide
Hardcover
Simon Akeroyd
9781911358718
$13.50
GARDENING
Mar 03, 2020
Get to grips with pruning in your garden with this handy little guidebook from an experienced National Trust head gardener.With useful, easy-to-follow advice on pruning all the plants that need it, including shrubs, climbers, and fruit trees, the author discusses the best equipment for pruning, from simple secateurs and loppers to pruning saws and powerful chainsaws. Beautifully illustrated throughout, this practical guide contains all the advice you need to keep on top of your pruning and make your garden even more beautiful.
44.
Series:
The Pocket Book of Backyard Experiments
Discover the Laboratory in Your Garden
Paperback
Helen Pilcher
9780789338037
$29.95
SCIENCE
Mar 03, 2020
A handy, charmingly designed book filled with more than eighty experiments for the whole family—discover, learn, and enjoy a better understanding of basic garden science.From testing garden soil to making a homemade battery out of a potato, this book reveals the hidden science at work in the garden and around the house.The book is divided into four sections, each focusing on one area: biology, soil science, botany, and “kitchen sink” chemistry. Each experiment is straightforward and easy, involving no more than common household items. Learn how...
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45.
Series:
Small Garden Style
A Design Guide for Outdoor Rooms and Containers
Hardcover
Isa Hendry Eaton
9780399582851
$29.00
GARDENING
Feb 04, 2020
A stylishly photographed guide to creating lush, layered, dramatic little gardens no matter the size of your available space—an urban patio, a tiny backyard, or even just a pot by your door.Petite gardens align with the movement to live smaller and create a life with less stuff and more room for living. But a more eco-friendly and efficient space doesn’t have to sacrifice style. In Small Garden Style, garden designer Isa Hendry Eaton and lifestyle writer Jennifer Blaise Kramer show you how to use good design to create a joyful, elegant, and exc...
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46.
Series:
The Little Book of Bonsai
An Easy Guide to Caring for Your Bonsai Tree
Hardcover
Jonas Dupuich
9780399582592
$19.99
GARDENING
Jan 28, 2020
This charming, beautifully photographed beginner’s guide from a trusted bonsai expert covers all the basics to keep your bonsai alive and happy.Jonas Dupuich, founder of the #1 bonsai blog in the U.S., shares his passion and expert advice with anyone looking to learn more about bonsai in this modern, entry-level guide to an ancient art.Filled with photos of stunning, inspiring trees, The Little Book of Bonsai provides simple, clear, effective guidance on bonsai care, including wiring, watering, pruning, pests, disease, tools, repotting, fertili...
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47.
Series:
An ABC of Flowers
Board book
Jutta Hilpuesch
9780593114100
$11.99
JUVENILE NONFICTION
Age (years) to 3
Jan 14, 2020
Step into the garden and learn your ABC’s, now with a smaller trim and sturdy board book pages for the littlest learners!From asters and daisies to roses and sunflowers, An ABC of Flowers is a colorful feast for the eyes that will have little hands eager to grab. Filled with gorgeous photo illustrations, bold colors, and clever line art featuring a miniature-sized girl named Amelie, toddlers will laugh and be mezmerized by the book’s vibrant pages.Perfect for the youngest readers learning their ABC’s!
48.
Series:
Botanical Illustration from Life
A visual guide to observing, drawing and painting plants
Paperback
Isik Guner
9781782218067
$29.95
ART
Nov 05, 2019
A visual guide to beautiful botanic watercolour painting from life for artists.Botanical artists hold a unique status: they can record plants and show them to the world, unlocking science for people outside that world, enabling them to be seduced by the most beautiful images, drawn and painted by very skilled hands. In this beautiful book, award-winning botanical artist, Işık Güner, shares with you her experiences of looking at wild species from around the world, how she does her research, and how she composes her illustrations from l...
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49.
Series:
Designing a Garden
Monk's Garden at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Hardcover
Michael Van Valkenburgh
9781580935524
$54.00
GARDENING
Oct 15, 2019
The intimate Monk’s Garden at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston embodies the design principles that inform the work of noted landscape architect Michael Van Valkenburgh.In Designing a Garden, Van Valkenburgh presents the design of the Monk’s Garden at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, an intimate, walled garden that Laurie Olin has described as “a masterpiece, and not a minor one.” The book documents the evolution of the garden’s design, which is based on the concept of meandering paths through a dreamlike woodland to create a co...
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50.
Series:
Lucian Freud Herbarium
Hardcover
Giovanni Aloi
9783791385334
$79.00
ART
Oct 15, 2019
As intimate and meticulous as his revered portraits, Lucian Freud’s magnificent paintings and drawings of plant life are gathered for the first time in book form.Lucian Freud’s portraits are known for their spectacular detail and unflinching gaze. Although Freud brought the same qualities to his paintings and drawings of plants, flowers, and landscapes, these are largely unknown. This elegant book shows how working with plants emboldened Freud to experiment with style and composition. Reproduced in sumptuous plates that allow readers to indulge...
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51.
Series:
Succulents at Home
Choosing, Growing, and Decorating with the Easiest Houseplants Ever
Paperback
John Tullock
9781682683842
$28.95
NATURE
Oct 08, 2019
Grow happy, healthy succulents
Succulents have become some of the most popular houseplants, and with good reason: they’re easy to grow…most of the time. But what happens when a plant outgrows its pot? Did you know succulents can get sunburned? How do you turn one plant into more plants?
In Succulents at Home, expert gardener John Tullock addresses these questions and many more. Here, readers will learn to make the most of their plants from the how and why of soil and container choice to step-by-step instructions for repotting, propagating new s...
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52.
Series:
English Gardens
From the Archives of Country Life Magazine
Hardcover
Kathryn Bradley-Hole
9780847865796
$115.00
GARDENING
Oct 01, 2019
This is the definitive and most authoritative book ever published on the glories of English gardening—historically and horticulturally, a tour de force.An unprecedented in-depth look at the English garden by one of Britain’s foremost garden writers and authorities, this book showcases the enduring appeal of the English garden whose verdant lawns and borders of colorful plants are the inspiration for garden lovers worldwide. Kathryn Bradley-Hole—the longtime garden columnist for Country Life—takes a fresh look at more than seventy gardens from a...
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53.
Series:
Joseph Banks' Florilegium
Botanical Treasures from Cook's First Voyage
Hardcover
Mel Gooding
9780500022870
$60.00
NATURE
Sep 10, 2019
A compact edition
of Joseph Banks’
extraordinary botanical
engravings of flora
discovered on Captain
Cook’s first voyage.Joseph Banks accompanied Captain Cook on his first voyage around the world from 1768 to 1771. A gifted and wealthy young naturalist, Banks collected exotic flora from Madeira, Brazil, Tierra del Fuego, the Society Islands, New Zealand, Australia, and Java, bringing back over 1,300 species that had never been seen or studied by Europeans. On his return, Banks commissioned over 700 engravings. Known collectively as Banks’ Flori...
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54.
Series:
When Plants Dream
Ayahuasca, Amazonian Shamanism and the Global Psychedelic Renaissance
Hardcover
Daniel Pinchbeck
9781786780799
$26.95
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT
Sep 10, 2019
Ayahuasca is a powerful tool for transformation, that more and more Westerners are flocking to drink in a quest for greater self-knowledge, healing and reconnection with the natural world. This formerly esoteric, little-known brew is now a growth industry. But why?Ayahuasca is a psychoactive brew that has a long history of ritual use among indigenous groups of the Upper Amazon. Made from the ayahuasca vine and the leaves of a shrub, it is associated with healing in collective ceremonies and in more intimate contexts, generally under the directi...
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55.
Series:
Flora Magnifica
The Art of Flowers in Four Seasons
Hardcover
Makoto Azuma
9780500545003
$66.00
DESIGN
Sep 10, 2019
A tour de force, showcasing flowers in lush images that highlight the riotous colors and exuberant nature of their subject.This sumptuous book is more than a reference work or a collection of beautiful flowers. It is the product of a longstanding symbiotic collaboration between renowned flower artist Makoto Azuma and botanical photographer Shunsuke Shiinoki. Working together, they have selected hundreds of plant species and arranged them in striking combinations that could never exist in the natural world, creating a unique, fantastical floral ...
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56.
Series:
The Green Florilegium
Hardcover
Hanne Kolind Poulsen
9783791358581
$79.00
ART
Sep 03, 2019
This elegant book features exquisite reproductions of a rare 17th-century album of floral illustrations.Very little is known about The Green Florilegium. Neither signed nor dated, it is generally attributed to the German painter Hans Simon Holtzbecker and originates from the library at Gottorf Castle in Schleswig, on the border of Germany and Denmark. The album now resides at the Statens Museum for Kunst in Copenhagen. Recently the book was painstakingly restored, allowing the delicate illustrations to come to new life in their original colors....
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57.
Series:
Moss
From Forest to Garden: A Guide to the Hidden World of Moss
Hardcover
Ulrica Nordstrom
9781682684832
$29.95
NATURE
Sep 03, 2019
Discover the secrets of moss
Unassuming yet beautiful, moss has been used for centuries in gardens, medicine, and handicrafts around the world. It is most often associated with damp, shady spaces, but can be found in the most unexpected and far-flung places in the world, from deserts to Antarctica. Moss is Swedish writer and plant artist Ulrica Nordström’s celebration of this humble plant.
Nordström introduces readers to the key varieties of moss and where they can be found, and tours some of the most beautiful moss gardens in Oregon, Sweden, a...
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