Seasons: A Journey Through the New Zealand Garden by Jack Hobbs
55.00 NZD
Category: Gardening
SEASONS - a journey through the garden showcases a startling array of plants and their ever-changing forms and colours. Photographer Sally Tagg spent three years capturing seasonal displays of flowers and plants at Auckland's Botanic Gardens. The result is a stunning collection of photographs that celeb ...Show more
Beginner's Guide to Earthworm Farming by Mary Murphy
26.00 NZD
Category: Gardening
If you are concerned about the health of our planet then turn your attention to what lies under your feet. In the soil below are creatures at work that play a pivotal role in producing the food we eat and impacting the quality of our food crops. Earthworms were described by Darwin as the most important ...Show more
Garden : Garden designs to enhance your life by Tony Murrell (photos Karen Ellis)
45.00 NZD
Category: Gardening
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Pruning by Anon
25.00 NZD
Category: Gardening
Pruning is an essential part of forming and maintaining healthy and attractive plants, but it is probably an area of gardening that most of us feel least confident about.This book contains simple and straightforward information on how to prune shrubs, trees, hedges, climbers and roses, as well as an int ...Show more
English Journeys: Let Us Now Praise Famous Gardens by Vita Sackville-West
11.95 NZD
Category: Gardening | Series: English Journeys
In this unique gardening chronicle Vita Sackville-West weaves together simple, honest accounts of her horticultural experiences throughout the year with exquisite writing and poetic description. Whether singing the praises of sweet-briar, cyclamen, Indian pinks and the Strawberry grape, or giving practi ...Show more
English Journeys: The Beauties of a Cottage Garden by Gertrude Jekyll
11.95 NZD
Category: Gardening | Series: English Journeys
This is a celebration of the beauties and possibilities of Heliotrope and Honeysuckle, Auricula, Snapdragon, Spanish Iris and Corydalis, and all the other plants that enliven and exalt the gardens of England. Gertrude Jekyll gives good advice on how to make a garden a place of repose and pleasure. Writi ...Show more
Wildwood: A Journey Through Trees by Roger Deakin
29.00 NZD
Category: Gardening | Reading Level: very good
Roger Deakin's "Wildwood" is a much loved classic of nature writing. "Wildwood" is about the element wood, as it exists in nature, in our souls, in our culture and our lives. From the walnut tree at his Suffolk home, Roger Deakin embarks upon a quest that takes him through Britain, across Europe, to Cen ...Show more
Lavender: the New Zealand Gardener's Guide by Virginia McNaughton
39.95 NZD
Category: Gardening
The first comprehensive study to enable the reader to decipher the intricacies of lavender identification. Over 200 lavender species and cultivars are described in detail, including a specific chapter on New Zealand. Other chapters detail cultivation, propagation, pests and diseases, classification, bot ...Show more
Real Gardening by Stephen Lacey
39.95 NZD
Category: Gardening
This is a guide to the art of gardening which explores in a lively, accessible way the whole process of transforming a bare plot into a series of stunning seasonal pictures.
Essential Lavender: Growing Lavender in New Zealand by McNaughton, Virginia
33.00 NZD
Category: Gardening
This guide describes over forty species and varieties and includes notes on propagation and cultivation, companion planting and design, recipes for oils, soaps and pot-pourris and lavender wreaths and tussie mussies.
My Garden (Book) by Jamaica Kincaid
26.95 NZD
Category: Gardening | Reading Level: good
Kincaid gathers all that she loves about gardening and examines it generously, passionately and with sharp, idiosyncratic discrimination. She also examines the implications of the English formal garden in colonised countries
The Angel Tree by Alex Dingwall-Main
27.99 NZD
29.99 (6% off)
Category: Gardening
From the bestselling author of The Luberon Garden comes a second horticultural adventure that takes the author through France, Spain, Greece and Italy in search of an ancient olive tree