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Cottage Residences: Or A Series Of Designs For Rural Cottages And Cottage Villas (1852)

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Report copyright infringementby Andrew Jackson Downing (Author)Cottage Residences: Or A Series Of Designs For Rural Cottages And Cottage Villas is a book written by Andrew Jackson Downing and published in 1852. The book contains a series of designs for rural cottages and cottage villas, along with practical advice on their construction and landscaping. The book is divided into three parts. The first part provides an overview of the principles of cottage architecture, including the importance ...

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Report copyright infringementby Alice Morse Earle (Author)Step back in time and explore the charming world of early American gardens with Alice Morse Earle's "Old-Time Gardens, Newly Set Forth." This meticulously prepared edition offers a fascinating glimpse into the landscape gardening traditions and horticultural practices of the colonial era. Discover the design principles, popular plants, and unique features that defined these historical gardens. Earle's work provides a rich tapestry of g...

How to Grow Peyote: A Guide to Growing Peyote at Home

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Report copyright infringementby Hortus Trope (Author)"How to Grow Peyote" is an engaging, entry-level guide for anyone curious about the art of cultivating Lophophora williamsii. Designed with the beginner in mind, this handbook demystifies the growth process, offering clear, step-by-step instructions for every stage of the plant's unique life cycle. From learning the perfect soil blend and seed-sowing techniques to navigating delicate watering cycles, this guide covers the essentials with cl...

The Witch's Botanical Apothecary: Herbs, Spells and the Magic of Plants

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Report copyright infringementby Bea St Clair (Author), Pocket Book Company (Editor)This is your invitation. Step into the hidden world of The Witch's Botanical Apothecary, where every plant whispers a secret, and every root is a thread in the tapestry of ancient magic. This is no ordinary guide to herbs. Unlock the mysteries of nature and trace the shadowed footsteps of witches who have woven enchantments, healed with murmured incantations, and conjured wonders from moonlit gardens through th...

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Report copyright infringementby Rebecca McConnell (Author)Dahlia InspirationsLife Lessons from the Dahlia GardenWritten & Photographed by Rebecca McConnell Dahlias bring beauty and wonder to our gardens, and to our lives. They offer us endless inspiration and opportunities to learn and grow. With their resilience, generosity and diversity, dahlias hold quiet wisdom for those willing to take time to observe and reflect.This book is a collection of simple but empowering inspirations derived...

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Flower Magic: The Secret Language of Flowers

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Report copyright infringementby Anastasia Mostacci (Author), Giada Ungredda (Illustrator)Discover the Magical Language of Flowers Flowers have a language all their own. They speak to us through colors, shapes, and their confident opening to the world. The magic of flowers is everywhere, generous and undeniable, and it reminds us at every moment of the splendor of the natural world. Where words often fail, flowers speak of beauty, emotion, desire, grief, and love. Flower Magic is a brilliantl...

The Generosity of Plants: Shared Wisdom from the Community of Herb Lovers

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Report copyright infringementby Rosemary Gladstar (Author)Renowned herbalist Rosemary Gladstar presents a beautiful keepsake collection of teachings, reflections, and insights on the plant world and herbal healing, featuring diverse voices from the community of herbal teachers and practitioners. A beloved teacher and leader in the herbal healing world for more than 50 years, Rosemary Gladstar has curated this collection to explore key themes in herbalism, including: The sacred teachings of ...

Enchanted Plants: A Treasury of Botanical Folklore and Magic

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Report copyright infringementby Varla A. Ventura (Author)"Guided by fairy folk and Ventura's own botanical wisdom, this book is an enchanting walk on the path of green magic and folklore." --Coby Michael, author of The Poison Path Herbal From fairy tales to your garden, Enchanted Plants is an illustrated treasure trove of the lore and magic in the kingdom of plants. Take a walk through mystical, magical, and folkloric gardens and discover the plants and flowers that have captured our heart...

Floriagraphy Birth Month Flowers: Coffee table book

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Report copyright infringementby Nicole Summers (Author)Floriagraphy Birth Month Flowers is the ultimate guide to understanding the hidden meanings, medicinal benefits, and culinary uses of flowers tied to your birth month. This beautifully illustrated book uncovers the symbolism, ancient myths, and healing properties of each flower, diving deep into their historical significance and Victorian-era language of flowers.Inside, you'll find: Birth Flower Meanings: Learn the cultural and emotiona...

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Report copyright infringementby Arata Isozaki (Contribution by), Yoshiharu Matsumura (Photographer), Manfred Speidel (Contribution by)A captivating and comprehensively illustrated study of the seventeenth-century Katsura Imperial Villa in Kyoto, JapanAn outstanding example of Japanese architecture, Katsura has inspired countless architects from Bruno Taut and Le Corbusier to Tadao Ando and Kenzo Tange, and is often considered a precursor of Modernist tendencies.Now available in a new format, ...

Getting My Hands Dirty: A Memoir of Resilience and Transformation from the Gridiron to the Garden

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Report copyright infringementby Chuck Hutchison (Author)Tracing a journey of commitment, challenge, and growth, a former professional football player reflects on his time at Ohio State under the tutelage of Coach Woody Hayes, his years in the NFL, and his unexpected decision to become an expert gardener.Chuck Hutchison knows the meaning of hard work-it's rooted in every chapter of his life story. Born into humble beginnings in rural Ohio, he found football in his youth, which opened doors for...

The Accidental Garden: Gardens, Wilderness, and the Space in Between

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Report copyright infringementby Richard Mabey (Author)One of Britain's greatest nature writers blends horticulture with philosophy in this intimate memoir about gardening, rewilding, and a path forward amid climate change. What is a garden? Is it an arena for the display of human mastery or might it be something less determined, more generous? These are questions that Richard Mabey, arguably England's greatest nature writer, considers in his new book, The Accidental Garden. From the pressing ...

Saving Our Skins: Building a Vineyard Dream in France

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Report copyright infringementby Caro Feely (Author)'Earnest and winning... sincere and passionate' The New York TimesCan you build your dream life? Or will it break you?'We have to get to the next level, or we have to get out, ' I said.'To make the farm viable we have to have more vines and more accommodation, ' replied Sean. Both would take investment we didn't have.Getting to the next level and overcoming challenges that include bureaucracy, renovation delays, and unseasonal frost, will tak...

The Garden at the End of Time: Getting by in the Age of Climate Change

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Report copyright infringementby John Hanson Mitchell (Author) John Hanson Mitchell has long written about his garden outside of Boston, and about the plants and animals with whom he shares this land. In 2022, the United Nations and others started reporting the true severity of the climate crisis as the Earth passed a point of no return. All across the globe it was the worst year on record for climate-related disasters, including extinctions, deadly floods, massive fires, and dramatic droughts...

Harvesting History: While Farming the Flats

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Report copyright infringementby Muriel A. Murch (Author)A poetic tribute to both the land and the bonds formed through shared values of preservation and creativity.Blending the themes of family, farming, and filmmaking, Harvesting History follows Muriel Murch's journey from Los Angeles to West Marin, where she and her husband, filmmaker Walter Murch, settle on a farm. Here, their life intertwines with a changing community, organic farming, and the Bay Area's burgeoning independent film scene,...

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Report copyright infringementby Paul Plotkin (Author)Who knew a garden could be so smart?Rabbi Plotkin is approaching middle age. His children are self-sufficient teens, and his large congregation is running efficiently and effectively. He should be happy and satisfied at where he is in life, yet he knows something is missing.He used to wake up to anxiety and long to-do lists. Now he wakes up concerned about his zucchinis. The change baffles him until he realizes he has a need to nurture, and...

The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise

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Report copyright infringementby Olivia Laing (Author)In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore an eighteenth-century walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual plants. The work brought to light a crucial question for our age: Who gets to live in paradise, and how can we share it while there's still time? Moving between real and imagined gardens, from Milton's Paradise Lost to John Clare's enclosure elegies, from a wartime sanctuary in Italy to a grotesque aristocratic pleasure ground...

To Boldly Grow: Finding Joy, Adventure, and Dinner in Your Own Backyard

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Report copyright infringementby Tamar Haspel (Author)A love-letter to the unexpected delights (and occasional despair) of so-called "first-hand food"--meals we grow, forage, fish, or even hunt from the world around us. To Boldly Grow is "part memoir, part how-to guide and wholly delightful" (Washington Post). When intrepid eater and self-described "crappy gardener" Tamar Haspel and her husband move from Manhattan to two wooded Cape Cod acres, they decide to adopt a more active approach to th...

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Ron Finley: The Gangsta Gardener: Breath(e), Toward Climate and Social Justice

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Report copyright infringementby Ron Finley (Artist), Glenn Kaino (Foreword by), Mika Yoshitake (Foreword by)The first book on beloved Los Angeles community organizer and urban gardener Ron Finley, known as the "Gangsta Gardener"Published with Hammer Museum. Ron Finley is a visionary designer, horticulturalist and artist, who has changed the perception of concrete spaces using only a seed and a shovel. Known as the "Gangsta Gardener," Finley's transformative work in South Central Los Angeles h...

Garden Journey: Stories, Sketches and Recipes

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Report copyright infringementby Terrie Shaw (Author)Blending art, nature, and homegrown flavor, Garden Journey by Terrie Shaw is a heartwarming celebration of the seasons through delicate sketches, personal stories, and garden-to-table recipes that nourish both body and soul.Step into the tranquil world of Garden Journey: Stories, Sketches, and Recipes, where artistry, nature, and the joy of good food unite.In this beautifully illustrated book, Terrie Shaw invites you on a stroll through her...

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Report copyright infringementby Giovanni Aloi (Editor in Chief)Gardens are autobiographical territories- relentlessly co-authored by constantly evolving communities of gardeners, some equipped with spades, others with claws and some more endowed with long roots. In collaboration with the soil, this process of coauthoring results in open ended narratives that emerge and dissolve, leaving behind traces of minerals and decomposing matter.It might not be inappropriate to state that today, gardens...

Japanese Gardens: Tranquility, Simplicity, Harmony

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Report copyright infringementby Geeta Mehta (Author), Kimie Tada (Author)This book celebrates the exquisite beauty of more than 20 quintessential Japanese gardens, big and small, urban and rural, traditional and contemporary. Each Japanese garden seeks to invoke and imitate nature, and this expert author-and-photographer team excels at capturing, and explaining for the reader, the essential elements and techniques that distinguish Japanese gardens from those in other countries. The featured g...

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Wild Harmony: Urban Gardens by Bart & Pieter

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Report copyright infringementby Bart Haverkamp (Author), Pieter Croes (Author)This photographic overview of the beautifully wild gardens by the Belgium-based 'green guerillas' Bart Haverkamp and Pieter Croes will inspire gardeners everywhere to let nature take the lead. Green is the new black according to Belgium-based garden architects Bart Haverkamp and Pieter Croes. It's been more than 30 years now since they turned their love for nature into a business. During this time, they've completed...

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Report copyright infringementby Gertrude Jekyll (Author)Discover the enduring principles of garden design with Gertrude Jekyll's classic, "Colour in the flower garden." A foundational text in horticulture and landscape architecture, this book delves into the art of creating harmonious and visually stunning flower gardens. Jekyll, a renowned garden designer, masterfully explores the use of color theory in shaping outdoor spaces. This timeless guide offers invaluable insights into plant selecti...

The English Home From Charles I. to George IV.

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Report copyright infringementby J. Alfred (John Alfred) Gotch (Author)Explore the evolution of the quintessential "English Home" in this meticulously researched and beautifully detailed volume by John Alfred Gotch. "The English Home from Charles I to George IV: Its Architecture, Decoration and Garden Design" offers a fascinating journey through the changing styles and tastes that shaped domestic life in England during this pivotal period. From grand architectural designs to the subtle nuances...

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Report copyright infringementby Gertrude Jekyll (Author)"Wood and Garden: Notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a working amateur" by Gertrude Jekyll offers an intimate glimpse into the world of English flower gardening and garden design. A seminal work in horticulture, this book combines practical advice with thoughtful observations on plants and their place in the landscape. Jekyll, a renowned figure in garden writing, shares her expertise and personal experiences as a dedicated am...

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Report copyright infringementby Gina Wouters (Editor), Jerome Singerman (Editor), Witold Rybczynski (Text by (Art/Photo Books))A celebration of Planting Fields, one of the few surviving estates of the Gold Coast of Long Island in New YorkPlanting Fields is an English Country House transported to the North Shore of Long Island, about 48 kilometres/30 miles east of Manhattan. Once home to William R. Coe, chairman of Johnson & Higgins, and his wife, Mai, an heir to the Standard Oil fortune, ...

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My Garden: A Year of Design and Experimentation

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Report copyright infringementby Jacqueline Van Der Kloet (Author)A month-by-month tour of the renowned naturalistic garden designer Jacqueline van der Kloet's home garden--a visual feast of perennials, trees, grasses, shrubs, and bulbs that have inspired a generation of gardeners and designers. From a pioneer of the New Perennial movement, My Garden showcases the practice and process behind Jaqueline van der Kloet's leading-edge, naturalistic planting experimentations, rooted in her site of...

Observations On Modern Gardening, And Laying Out Pleasure Grounds, Parks, Farms, Ridings, Etc. (1801)

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Report copyright infringementby Thomas Whately (Author)Observations On Modern Gardening, And Laying Out Pleasure Grounds, Parks, Farms, Ridings, Etc. is a book written by Thomas Whately and originally published in 1801. The book is a comprehensive guide to the principles of modern gardening, and provides detailed advice on how to lay out and design various types of outdoor spaces, including pleasure grounds, parks, farms, and ridings. The book is divided into several sections, each of which c...

Landscaping with Stone, Third Edition: Create Patios, Walkways, Walls, and Other Landscape Features

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Report copyright infringementby Pat Sagui (Author), Mark Wolfe (Editor)Updated with new projects, tables, and sections detailing commonly used landscape sand, gravel, and stone materials, Landscaping with Stone, Third Edition, is a complete and accessible guide to landscape design and outdoor projects for the home and garden. Discover xeriscape landscaping ideas, stone garden tips, water-wise gardening tips, and much more! Featuring a framework for stone landscaping ideas and designs - inclu...

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Report copyright infringementby Crystal Tai (Author)Suzhou, a city near Shanghai, is widely known for having gorgeous gardens, which exemplify incredibly ingenious ways of green landscaping, time-tested and timeless. Whether you are going to Suzhou in the near future or not, captivating color photos of classical gardens in this book will take your breath away. Better yet, this book will help you understand their enigmatic beauty. This is an informative and intriguing book about all the most f...