Japanese Gardens: a journey by Monty Don, Derry Moore
$85.00 AUD
Category: New Gardening
The complement to the forthcoming BBC2 series, Japanese Gardens, beautifully produced in full colour and with over 200 photographs. Written by Monty Don with photographs by Derry Moore, the duo behind the highly-acclaimed Paradise Gardens. Traditional Japanese gardens combine aesthetics with ethics, be ...Show more
Outside the Magic Square: A Handbook for Food Security by Lolo Houbein
$45.00 AUD
Category: New Gardening | Reading Level: good
lt has never been more important to embrace sustainability. ln the next four decades, we will need as much food as during the last 500 years. Outside the Magic Square considers issues of food security and offers solutions at the street, neighbourhood and global levels. Mixing gardening advice and food p ...Show more
Native Plants of the Sydney Region: From Newcastle to Nowra and west to the Dividing Range by Alan Fairley, Philip Moore
$59.99 AUD
Category: New Gardening | Series: Newcastle to Nowra & West to Dividing Range
A completely revised new edition of this classic handbook of native plants found from Newcastle to Nowra. With 1,400 color photographs and its authoritative text, this is a magnificent reference for anyone who loves the Australian bush.In a handy portable format, "Native Plants of the Sydney Region" is ...Show more
Bonsai with Australian Native Plants by Dorothy and Vita Koreshoff
$24.99 AUD
Category: New Gardening
"You too can grow Bonsai", which describes in depth, the many aspects necessary for the successful use of Australian native plants for Bonsai.
Flora Australiensis : A Description of the Plants of the Australian Territory by George Bentham and Ferdinand Von Mueller
$94.95 AUD
Category: New Gardening
George Bentham (1800-84) was one of Britain's most influential botanists, whose own collection of plant specimens numbered more than 100,000. Although he donated his herbarium to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in 1854, he continued to make significant contributions to the field, including this exhaustiv ...Show more
Autumn Gardens by Ethne Clarke
$49.95 AUD
Category: New Gardening
This text opens up a range of planting and design opportunities for the enthusiastic gardener to undertake in the autumn. It explores how to get the best from the season's fruits and leaf colour, looks at individual plants that excel at that time, and considers the garden's underlying framework.
The Concise Australian Flora by Leonard Cronan
$75.00 AUD
Category: New Gardening
Stands alone as the finest and most extensively illustrated guide to the Australian flora ever produced. More than 1000 species, from delicate blooms to rainforest plants featured. Hardback with DJ, good copy.
Grounded: How soil shapes the games we play, the lives we make and the graves we lie in by Alisa Bryce
$34.99 AUD
Category: New Gardening
An Aussie scientist digs up some dirt about the history and science of soilLife on land could not exist without soil. Almost everything we need can be traced to the soil- food, fibre, medicines - even oxygen produced by plants. What would we be without it? Certainly not a planet worthy of the name Earth ...Show more
The History of the World in 100 Plants by Simon Barnes
$55.00 AUD
Category: New Gardening
From the author of The History of the World in 100 Animals, a BBC Radio Four Book of the Week, comes an inspirational new book that looks at the 100 plants that have had the greatest impact on humanity, stunningly illustrated throughout. As humans, we hold the planet in the palms of our hands. But we s ...Show more
Hamptons Gardens 2nd hand in slipcase by Jack deLashmet
$280.00 AUD
Category: New Gardening
The Hamptons are known as a glamorous playground of the rich and famous, but since its earliest days as a sleepy summer colony, the area has also been at the epicenter of American garden design, boasting a vast collection of lushly innovative, private landscapes--and a staggering assemblage of creative ...Show more
Death Of Grass, The
$19.99 AUD
Category: New Gardening | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
At first the virus wiping out grass and crops is of little concern to John Custance. It has decimated Asia, causing mass starvation and riots, but Europe is safe and a counter-virus is expected any day. Except, it turns out, the governments have been lying to their people. When the deadly disease hits B ...Show more
Cape Arid by Philippa Nikulinsky & Alex Nikulinsky
$65.00 AUD
Category: New Gardening
Husband-and-wife team Philippa and Alex Nikulinsky travel into isolated outback regions, often staying for months at a time, to paint the Australian bush. Cape Arid National Park is a fascinating and remote area on the far south-eastern coast of Western Australia. Braving howling winds, grit, sleet, 43- ...Show more