Название: Gardener's Guide to Gardening on a Gradient: Designing and Establishing Sloping Gardens
Автор: Carol Smith
Издательство: The Crowood Press Ltd
ISBN: 0719840686
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 160
Размер: 36,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

Gardening on a Gradient: Designing and Establishing Sloping Gardens is a complete guide to tackling one of a garden designer's biggest challenges. Whatever the size or the gradient, creating a garden on a sloping site presents lots of conflicting possibilities and potentially expensive choices.

Название: Succulents Made Easy: A Beginner's Guide (Featuring 200 Varieties)
Автор: Yoshinobu Kondo
Издательство: Tuttle Publishing
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 44 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Raising healthy and beautiful succulents has never been easier! This essential beginner's guide provides a complete introduction to growing and combining succulents in ways that are healthy for the plants and pleasing to the eye. It also gives an overview of the most popular succulent and cacti varieties. Succulent specialists Tokiiro (Yoshinobu Kondo) explains how the plants' appearances shift with the seasons, and give advice about how to combine them creatively to take full advantage of their seasonal changes in shapes and colors.

Название: Ирисы
Автор: Пирогов Ю.К.
Издательство: Фитон +
Год: 2013
Страниц: 32
Формат: pdf (ClearScan+оглавление)/djvu
Размер: 14.1 Мб; 2.6 Мб
Серия: Дизайн сада
ISBN : 978-5-906171-42-9
Качество: хорoшее
Язык: русский
Прелесть ирисов в широчайшей гамме окрасок их очаровательных, с приятным ароматом цветков. В этой книге вы найдете описания и портреты наиболее интересных сортов бородатых и сибирских ирисов, появившихся в последние годы. Вы узнаете об особенностях посадки, способах размножения, тонкостях ухода и об использовании разных ирисов в дизайне сада. Календарь работ поможет вам правильно и в срок ухаживать за ирисами.

Название: The Frugal Homesteader: Living the Good Life on Less
Автор: John Moody
Издательство: New Society Publishers
Год: 2018
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 20 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Build your homesteading dreams with all the affordable DIY innovations, tips, and stories you need to successfully launch you on a path to self-sufficiency. Raise and grow your own food, connect with nature, and consume less while producing more! The Frugal Homesteader is a fun, inspirational, and educational guide filled with a lifetime of learning that comes along with becoming a homesteader. Following dozens of successful families who have been motivated to make do, make new, and make more while saving money and living off the land. Whether you're just starting out and looking for new, sustainable, and affordable ideas, approaches, and techniques, or you're a small-scale farmer in regenerative agriculture, The Frugal Homesteader is the DIY manual to help you succeed.

Название: Pretty Tough Plants: 135 Resilient, Water-Smart Choices for a Beautiful Garden
Автор: Plant Select
Издательство: Timber Press
Год: 2017
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 69 Мб
Язык: английский / English

There’s a growing demand for dependably hardy plants that require less maintenance and less water, but look no less beautiful in the garden. Plant Select—the leading purveyor of plants designed to thrive in difficult climates—meets this need by promoting plants that allow gardeners everywhere to have stunning, environmentally-friendly gardens that use fewer resources. Pretty Tough Plants highlights 135 of Plant Select’s top plant picks. Each profile features a color photograph and specific details about the plant’s size, best features, and bloom season, along with cultural needs, landscape features, and design ideas. The plant list includes perennials and annuals, groundcovers, grasses, shrubs, and trees. A chart at the end of the book makes it easy to choose the right plants for specific conditions and needs.

Название: The Making of Place: Modern and Contemporary Gardens
Автор: John Dixon Hunt
Издательство: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1780235208
Год: 2016
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 288
Размер: 57,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

Gardening is rich in tradition, and many gardens are explicitly designed to refer to or honor the past. But garden design is also rich in innovation, and in The Making of Place John Dixon Hunt explores the wide varieties of approaches, aesthetics, and achievements in garden design throughout the world today.

Название: Farm + Land's Back to the Land: A Modern Guide to Outdoor Life
Автор: Freddie Pikovsky, Nicole Caldwell
Издательство: Chronicle Books
Год: 2019
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 46 Мб
Язык: английский / English

FARM + LAND'S Back to the Land: A Modern Guide to Outdoor Life is a collection of stories about slow living, sustainability, and the value of doing things with your own two hands. This gorgeous book features remarkable narratives, essential how-tos, and hundreds of breathtaking photographs from people who have embraced lives of adventure in wild places. With gorgeous photography, engaging stories, practical tips, and useful illustrations, this book offers an escape into a world of simple pleasures, contentment, and a rural way of life.

Название: Blooms & Dreams: Cultivating Wellness, Generosity & a Connection to the Land
Автор: Misha Gillingham
Издательство: Gibbs Smith
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 69 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Luxury travel writer and influencer Misha Gillingham left the hustle and bustle of Los Angeles for a quaint island in the Pacific Northwest so she could get back in touch with what matters most. With the help of stunning photography, she shows how you, too, can cultivate a life of wellness, generosity, and connection to the land. Misha Gillingham is a luxury travel writer turned farm girl whose story has won over the hearts of fans worldwide. In Blooms & Dreams, Misha shares not only what brought her to Evergreen Acres, a farm on Bainbridge Island in the Pacific Northwest, but also all of the wisdom she has gleaned over the years as she and her family put down roots.

Название: The Kew Gardener's Guide to Growing Herbs: The art of science to grow your own herbs
Автор: Holly Farrell
Издательство: Frances Lincoln
Год: 2019
Формат: PDF
Размер: 38 Мб
Язык: английский / English

The new Kew guide to planting and cultivating herbs features 12 easy and inspiring projects as well as detailed information on 80 of the most important species to grow, all accompanied by Kew's beautiful botanical illustrations. Herbs provide flavours and scents unlike any other, and the 80 hand-picked herbs in this book are a living trove of fresh flavours for any cook, with power to transform the simplest dish. Find out how to grow herbs in beds, pots, borders and windowboxes, how to plant, and how to propagate and harvest your herbs, as the kew experts equip you with all you need to create a flourishing herb garden of your very own. Following this, 80 of the most important and exciting herbs are identified, illustrated and their uses explained. This is accompanied by 12 projects which show how to develop a herb garden at the next level and use herbs in the most interesting and creative ways, from planting a herb roof to making herbal oils.

Название: The Self-Sufficiency Handbook: A Complete Guide to Greener Living
Автор: Alan Bridgewater, Gill Bridgewater
Издательство: Skyhorse
Год: 2011
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 16 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Anyone considering a shift to a greener way of living must get this inspirational and practical guide. With easy-to-read layouts and simple text, it runs the full ecological gamut, from geothermal heating to crop rotation to soap making. The Bridgewaters, well-regarded garden writers, help readers answer questions such as how much land they really require, whether or not to depend entirely on natural forms of energy, and which farm animals will best meet their needs. There’s practical information on building an insulated flue-pipe chimney, identifying edible wild plants, and composting with worms. In addition to recipes for jams, rhubarb wine, and other delicious foods, three A-Z sections offer planting and harvesting instructions for vegetables and salad crops, fruits, and herbs.