The : A Century of an Ancient Scottish Family in Photographs Lindsays of Balcarres by Beth Chatto
$149.95 AUD
Category: House & Home
The Lindsays of Balcarres began with the rediscovery of some dusty photograph albums at the home of the author's late father in Fife. The wealth of images within, unexplored for over eighty years, provided the perfect way to present the fascinating untold stories of the people who had been brought up th ...Show more
Beth Chatto's Green Tapestry Revisited: A Guide to a Sustainably Planted Garden by Beth Chatto
$79.95 AUD
Category: House & Home
First published in 1989, Beth Chatto's Green Tapestry described in words and photographs how Beth Chatto created her now world-famous gardens, and the thinking that lay behind them. Beth Chatto's Green Tapestry Revisited brings the story up to date. Given the current issues about climate change, Beth's ...Show more
The: An Anthology of Scented Garden Writing Star Nosed Mole by Isabel Bannerman
$49.95 AUD
Category: House & Home
After publishing Scent Magic, an acclaimed memoir of plants, gardens and scent, Isabel Bannerman couldn't leave the subject alone. 'I came across the star-nosed mole, an adorable and preposterous creature with a highly specialized sensory-motor organ, while writing about the riches of the soil kingdom . ...Show more
Great British Gardeners: From the Early Plantsmen to Chelsea Medal Winners by Vanessa Berridge
$39.95 AUD
Category: House & Home
The British have always been a nation of gardeners. Our gardening history began even before the Romans, who brought Mediterranean plants which still flourish across Britain. Gardening grew in the sixteenth century and a distinctively British style became a major export in the eighteenth century. Today, ...Show more
Head Gardeners by Edwards Ambra
$49.95 AUD
Category: House & Home
Ambra Edwards and Charlie Hopkinson explore, in words and pictures, the lives, visions and achievements of 16 very different head gardeners. Includes two new additions to the book--the head gardeners at Abbotsbury in Dorset and Charleston in Sussex, and updates on the careers of the gardeners featured i ...Show more
The Apprehensive Gardener by Griselda Ker
$49.95 AUD
Category: House & Home
Griselda Kerr has drawn on over 20 years of gardening knowledge and experience to create the book that she wishes she had had access to when, as a complete beginner, she started to revive the "dismal looking" plants in her garden--an indispensable, practical guide to how and when to look after more than ...Show more
Tokachi Millennium Forest: Pioneering a New Way of Gardening with Nature by Dan Pearson
$99.95 AUD
Category: House & Home
Twenty years ago, Dan Pearson was invited to make a garden at the 240- hectare Tokachi Millennium Forest in Hokkaido, Japan. Part of the intention was to entice city dwellers to reconnect with nature and improve land that had been lost to intensive agriculture, and this was achieved along with much more ...Show more
On Psyche's Lawn: The Gardens at Plaz Metaxu by Alasdair Forbes
$124.95 AUD
Category: House & Home
Alasdair Forbes has been developing his innovative and beautiful garden, Plaz Metaxu, in Devon, for the past thirty years. The thirty-two acre garden has been internationally acclaimed both as an unusually ambitious contemporary example of the making of place and for its poetic and psychological insight ...Show more
Potted History: How Houseplants Took Over Our Homes by Catherine Horwood
$29.95 AUD
Category: House & Home
There is no shortage of books on how to look after houseplants but no one has shown us how and when and why these plants came to be in our homes. Catherine Horwood's combination of social history, plant history and the history of interior design explains why, as Flanders and Swann sung in the 1950s, th ...Show more
Common Ground by Matt Morris
$49.95 AUD
Category: House & Home | Reading Level: very good
Common Ground: Garden histories of Aotearoa takes a loving look at gardens and garden practices in Aotearoa New Zealand over time. While a lot of gardening books focus on the grand plantings of wealthy citizens, Matt Morris explores the historical processes behind humble gardens' those created and ma ...Show more
Pots for All Seasons by Tom Harris
$59.95 AUD
Category: House & Home
Pots for All Seasons (Hardback, None ed.) By Harris, Tom RRP: $54.99 $54.99 Delayed Release In Pots for all Seasons, gardening guru Bob Purnell offers ideas for a wide range of fresh and unusual container plantings, and shows you exactly how to create them, how to combine pots to make a container garden ...Show more
The Garden of Vegan by Cleve West
$59.95 AUD
Category: House & Home
There was a time when garden designer Cleve West thought making a garden was a frivolous pursuit for the privileged. Two things changed his mind: designing a garden for a hospital and adopting a vegan lifestyle. Cleve's transition to veganism was a profound and varied learning experience. He learned mor ...Show more