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By Irvine, Kath
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Gardening guru Kath Irvine's guide to everything you need to know to grow organic vegetables, fruit and herbs in your own garden, all through the year. In this practical step-by-step guide, gardening teacher Kath Irvine shares her wealth of knowledge from more than 20 years of he...lping Kiwi gardeners design, build, grow and maintain their own productive edible gardens. Kath's sage, hands-on, often humorous advice steps readers through everything they need to know to grow great produce at home, including garden design, tools and equipment, seasonal planting advice, soil fertility, seed-saving basics, managing pests and diseases, and how to incorporate organic and permaculture gardening methods into any home garden. While documenting a year on her own property, Kath shows how you can successfully produce bountiful crops throughout the seasons to provide a steady, daily harvest with minimal wastage. The book is illustrated with hundreds of stunning photographs and helpful hand-drawn illustrations that share clever design concepts and planting plans for gardens of all shapes and sizes. Kath is the perfect guide, and this easy-to-understand, comprehensive book is ideal for gardeners at any skill level, from beginners setting up a new garden from scratch, to intermediate trouble-shooters, to advanced green-thumbs seeking deeper knowledge.
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A celebration of the healing nature and delights of gardens, written by well-known garden writer Lynda Hallinan, beautifully photographed by Sally Tagg, and packaged in a stunning hardback.
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Magnificent gardens of different types from all around New Zealand, with entertaining stories on their origin, inspiration and development - all stunningly photographed. From lush regenerating native bush, through formal gardens and heritage fruit trees, to community gardens and ...a dry garden in Central Otago, there is a place here to inspire everyone. The stories of their inspirational founders and developers are told simply and informatively, and bring the gardens to life. Located from Butler Point, across the harbour from Mangonui in Aotearoa's far north, down to Central Otago and Southland, the varying terrains and climates affect which plants flourish, and the exchange of ideas between the gardeners keep things vibrant and ever-changing.Several of the gardens have been developed by siblings, partners or families, all drawing strength and ideas from each other. After reading this book you won't know which urge is stronger - to get outside and do some gardening, or plan a tour of inspirational gardens of New Zealand.
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By Lewis, Elien
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Homegrown Happiness is sustainable, low-maintenance, low-cost living at its best - providing easy-to-follow guidelines for creating a robust and healthy garden ecosystem, whatever your living situation or lifestyle. An advocate of the low-maintenance no-dig gardening method, Elie...n Lewis leads you through a year in your vegetable garden.
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Our bestselling practical gardening book fully revised and updated. This new edition of the ever popular Yates Garden Guide has been fully revised and updated to help today's gardeners tame big backyards, create stylish retreats, tend productive and decorative plantings, and get ...the most out of smaller spaces. With chapters on planning gardens, choosing decorative plants, growing trees, shrubs, fruit, vegetables and lawns, the new Yates Garden Guide provides details on more than 1000 popular exotic and native plants, advice on soils, climate, planting, feeding and maintaining gardens, and comprehensive problem-solving charts help you identify and deal with all kinds of pests and diseases. Popular sections on water-saving gardens, community gardens, keeping chooks, encouraging bees, growing native plants, kitchen gardens and keeping healthy indoor plants have been expanded and updated to cater for modern living arrangements, in apartments and smaller spaces, with increased awareness of the goodness of homegrown and environmentally friendly growing. Full of comprehensive, reliable and practical gardening advice for old hands and keen beginners, Yates Garden Guide is the essential companion for every gardener.
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Home gardening the natural way.
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Grow fruit successfully - all varieties, products and practices are science proven and have been fully evaluated to ensure you get the best results and satisfaction, at the same time maintaining a strong focus on sustainability. A guide for the enthusiast with space as well as ga...rdeners with limited space typical of today's small backyards.
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A top designer in dried floral welcomes you into her studio to learn the craft's potential. Today in floral design, dried flowers and botanicals give their fresh cousins a strong run for their long-held position as the classic material. Today, unrecognizable from the 1970s (when ...they were first trendy), dried flowers are a popular material for the most modern, contemporary creations in flower art. Antonia De Vere, a top designer in dried floral creations, here welcomes you into her studio to understand the potential you'll be able to enjoy when working with dried flowers. She shares how and why dried floral has become her career and her source of creative energy. In photos and text, De Vere shows you dozens of exciting ideas through her creations, which range from 10-foot-high restaurant installations to delicately shaped ikebana-inspired pieces to small sparks of pop art in bud vases. Learn how to select, dry, and assemble flowers and foliage. Then enjoy 18 step-by-step projects that bring De Vere's popular design style into your own home. This art's sustainability and zero-waste focus - damaged flowers that can't be sold for fresh bouquets can be used productively - is another reason forever flowers are perfect for today. AUTHOR: Antonia De Vere, a pioneer in the dried-floral revival, designs floral art from large to small and works with a range of commercial clients. Her works are especially prominent in the top eateries, vineyards, and boutiques of her native New Zealand. SELLING POINTS: A top designer in dried floral welcomes you into her studio to learn the craft's potential For home or any interior space, these 18 original projects let you create nonperishable floral beauty Taps a key design trend; dried-flower sales have increased over 100% in the past two years 350 colour illustrations
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The Plant Propagator's Bible offers all you need to know to propagate new plants from existing ones.
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Turn your outdoor space into a beautiful retreat (and bring some beauty indoors)
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