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Название: The Essential Urban Farmer
Автор: Novella Carpenter, Willow Rosenthal
Издательство: Penguin Books
Год: 2011
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 10 Мб
Язык: английский / English

The "how-to" guide for a new generation of farmers from the author of Farm City and a leading urban garden educator. In this indispensable guide, Farm City author Novella Carpenter and Willow Rosenthal share their experience as successful urban farmers and provide practical blueprints-complete with rich visual material-for novice and experienced growers looking to bring the principles of ethical food to the city streets. The Essential Urban Farmer guides readers from day one to market day, advising on how to find the perfect site, design a landscape, and cultivate crops. For anyone who has ever grown herbs on windowsills, or tomatoes on fire escapes, this is an invaluable volume with the potential to change our menus, our health, and our cities forever.

Название: The Vegetable Gardener's Guide to Permaculture: Creating an Edible Ecosystem
Автор: Christopher Shein, Julie Thompson
Издательство: Timber Press
Год: 2013
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 46 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Once a fringe topic, permaculture is moving to the mainstream as gardeners who are ready to take their organic gardening to the next level are discovering the wisdom of a simple system that emphasizes the idea that by taking care of the earth, the earth takes care of you. This book teaches gardeners of every skill -- with any size space -- how to live in harmony with both nature and neighbours to produce and share an abundant food supply with minimal effort. Permaculture teacher Christopher Shein highlights everything you need to know to start living off the land lightly, including how to create rich, healthy, and low-cost soil, blend a functional food garden and decorative landscape, share the bounty with others, and much more. This inspiring, easy-to-follow, information-packed, practical guide will help you transform your garden into a resource that feeds you for years to come.

Название: The Gardener's Botanical: An Encyclopedia of Latin Plant Names - with More than 5,000 Entries
Автор: Ross Bayton
Издательство: Mitchell Beazley
Год: 2019
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 45 Мб
Язык: английский / English

The definitive illustrated reference guide to plant binomials for both gardeners and botanists, RHS Gardener's Botanical is an ideal companion for use in the garden or when selecting new plants. It contains more than 5,000 plant names and an easy-to-use 16-page alphabetical index of common names, with a definition and pronunciation guide for each. Includes features such as 'Genus Spotlight', which provides further details on important genera, and more than 350 beautiful botanical illustrations. An invaluable illustrated guide for gardeners and botanists.

Название: Wild orchids across North America: a botanical travelogue
Автор: Philip E. Keenan
Издательство: Timber Press
Год: 1998
Формат: epub
Страниц: 351
Размер: 10,4 МБ
Язык: English

Appealing to conservationists, travelers, orchid lovers, and naturalists alike, the author takes his readers on an incredible journey to pursue the 145 temperate American orchid species in their native habitats. This chatty account of his field trips in Canada and the U.S. is intended both to document many of our native species and to inspire others to respectfully explore the wealth of orchids. Includes 170 superb color photographs.

Название: An Illustrated Survey of Orchid Genera
Автор: Tom Sheehan, Marion R. Sheehan
Издательство: Timber Press, Incorporated
Год: 1995
Формат: epub
Страниц: 805
Размер: 13,9 МБ
Язык: English

More than 150 orchid genera are described, each accompanied by a superb Marion Sheehan illustration that shows a representative species; all display the same structures in similar views so that the reader can easily compare the variations among genera. In 1995, the authors received the American Orchid Society's Gold Medal of Achievement.

Название: Echeveria cultivars
Автор: Schulz L., Kapitany A.
Издательство: Schultz Publishing
Год: 2005
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 216
Размер: 39,6 МБ
Язык: English

This book is aimed at collectors and gardeners alike and is currently recognized as the world's best book on echeverias. Covering an outstanding selection, with hundreds of large photographs showing plants under different growing conditions. Enjoy the photos, identify some of your unknowns and lust for some of the new hybrids soon to be available. Almost every aspect of growing and caring for these much loved plants are included.

Название: Japanese Gardens
Автор: Guenther Nitschke
Издательство: Taschen
Год: 2003
Формат: PDF, DJVU
Страниц: 240,240
Размер: 41,3 МБ
Язык: English

The Japanese garden, like all gardens, is more than mere nature; it is nature crafted by man. It needs the hands of the designer to give it meaning. The Japanese garden belongs to the realm of architecture; at its best, it is nature as art. The phases of its history document the constant redefinition of man's position within and towards nature. Its changing forms respond both to socio-economic developments and to religious and philosophical trends, and thereby reflect the spiritual climate in which its architecture was conceived.

Название: Cacti: Biology and Uses
Автор: Park S. Nobel
Издательство: University of California Press
Год: 2002
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 291
Размер: 10,1 МБ
Язык: English

The Cactaceae family, with about sixteen hundred species, is cultivated worldwide for fruits, forage, fodder, and even as a vegetable. Cacti are recognized for their attractive flowers, special stem shapes, and ability to tolerate drought. Because of their efficient use of water and other adaptations, biological and agronomic interest in cacti has soared. These fascinating plants also have much to teach us about biodiversity and conservation. Yet a current, synthetic, wide-ranging reference on cacti has not been available until now.

Название: Easy Organic Gardening and Moon Planting
Автор: Lyn Bagnall
Издательство: Scribe Publications
Год: 2012
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 766
Размер: 10,4 МБ
Язык: English

An essential resource for all Australian and New Zealand gardeners who care about their family's health and the environmentOrganic gardening leaves your patch of earth in a better condition than when you found it by working with nature rather than against it. A practicable and better alternative to chemical-dependent and environmentally unsustainable cultivation practices, organic gardening prevents soil damage, and results in more nutritious food, and fewer contaminated waterways and poison-resistant pests.

Название: Plant Exploration for Longwood Gardens
Автор: Tomasz Anisko
Издательство: Timber Press, Incorporated
Год: 2006
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 335
Размер: 22,1 МБ
Язык: English

Longwood Gardens of Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, enjoys a long and distinguished tradition of plant exploration and introduction, dating back to the foundation of its arboretum in 1798. Since the 1950s, 50 such plant-hunting expeditions have taken place on six continents and in some 50 countries. These quests are the subject of Plant Exploration for Longwood Gardens, which tells the stories of the people who participated in what were often arduous but always stimulating adventures and the plants they brought back.