Category: Gardens
This book describes native bees generally and provides a complete guide to keeping Australian native stingless bees. It is richly illustrated with over 500 photos, drawings and charts to increase accessibility and aid learning. It is written by an expert who has spent his lifetime intimately engaged wit ...Show more
Category: Gardens
Step into the world of our least admired botanical companions. Peel back the layers of prejudice and discover the finer side of the plants we call weeds. An astonishing number are either edible or medicinal, and have deep and sometimes bizarre connections to human history.With chapters on:* Appreciating ...Show more
Category: Gardens
For two decades readers around the world have been fascinated by Brian Capon's crystal-clear descriptions of how plants work. What happens inside a seed after it is planted? How do plants use each other - and animals - to survive? How do they reproduce, and how do they transform nutrients into growth? B ...Show more
Category: Gardens
Revel in the richness and diversity of these inner-city community gardens. Includes:* many fascinating and unusual edible plants * simple, home-style recipes using the vegetables and herbs gathered from these gardens* tips for successful gardening, like pine needles for strawberries and chicken manure t ...Show more
Category: Gardens
Emily Green lives in a perfectly lovely house, in a perfectly lovely street where people are always busy and bustling, hurried and hustling. One day Emily Green decides she wants to bring the outside into her home. She catches a glimpse of something green on the pavement, and visits the library to learn ...Show more
Category: Gardens
An inspirational and practical how-to guide for people keen to attract fauna into their garden: for their own enjoyment and as a contribution to the health and sustainability of the environment. In a world where suburban nature is declining and diversity is shrinking, Habitat is a practical g ...Show more
Category: Gardens
This book from garden designer and writer Holly Farrell shows how to grow a variety of miniature gardens from scratch, using inexpensive, everyday equipment and materials. Projects include: one-pot gardens, terrariums, wildlife gardens, water gardens, herb gardens and vertical gardens. Heavily illustrat ...Show more
Category: Gardens
Paul Bangay is renowned for the expansive and elegant gardens with classical lines and symmetrical plantings that he has created in Australia and all over the world. Yet gardens on this grand scale are not accessible to everyone. With more of us living in apartments, townhouses and terraces, our gardens ...Show more
Category: Gardens | Reading Level: General Adult
It sounds too good to be true. You can save money and the world, inoculate yourself against many of the ills of modern life, and enjoy everything more on both the sensual and profound levels? Preposterous Yet here is a toolkit to help you do just that. A tweak here, a twiddle there; every strategy in T ...Show more
Category: Gardens
THIS GUIDE introduces 68 delicious vegetables that can easily be grown to provide fresh and nutritious food from the home garden at little cost. Knowing what to grow, where and when will make the garden more productive and enjoyable. All the important information is provided in a format that even a novi ...Show more
Category: Gardens
Will guide you along the path to urban sustainability. Learn how to choose the right species to plant, the right time of year to plant food, how to prepare your courtyard, balcony or even nature strip so you can enjoy the buzz of growing your own food. 'City Permaculture' is packed with real life inform ...Show more
Category: Gardens
Features more than 500 species of the Brisbane area's most familiar wild plants with over 1100 colour photographs along with brief easy to read descriptions of plants and their habitats.
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