 |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
(click to enlarge)
|
Discovering Fruit and Nuts : A comprehensive guide to the cultivation, uses and health benefits of over 300 food-producing plants
|
order quantity
|
|
|
| NZ$ 90.00 each |
| Hardback |
| Author: Susanna Lyle |
| Published by: David Bateman Ltd |
|
This is an easy-to-read, comprehensive guide to fruit and nut plants that explores old favourites, as well as many little-known yet exciting food-producing plants. It contains an A-to-Z guide to more than 220 species and lists of the most popular cultivars in different countries, as well as a general introduction to various aspects of horticulture and plant nutrition. At the back of the book is a table of plants for different garden situations for useful ready-reference. This incredibly thorough an extensively researched book contains everything a gardener needs to know and much that a commercial producer would find valuable in terms of choice of varieties and marketing of the harvest. It provides an inspiration for people to grow and try new foods. More than 220 species; history, description, propagation, harvesting times and methods, cultivation and location needs, pruning, popular varieties, uses of the crop are described, with
... more
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
(click to enlarge)
|
New Country Garden
|
order quantity
|
|
|
| NZ$ 25.00 each |
| Paperback |
| Author: Elspeth Thompson |
| Published by: Ryland Peters & Small |
|
There has been a quiet revolution in country gardens, with country dwellers creating exciting new outside spaces. Plants remain at the heart of these gardens, but are used in strikingly new ways - with a wild mix of height, scale and colour. Traditional cottage garden flowers meet bold, architectural plants; evergreens come in new, graphic shapes; colours are stronger. The book explores the themes that characterize the new country garden. In "A Plant Lover's Paradise", the cottage garden has been given a bold new look, while "New Formal Gardens" are elegantly modern. "Family Gardens" are spaces where children's play harmonizes with adults' relaxation, and in "Wildlife Gardens", grasses and wildflowers flourish beautifully. The book includes the Elements of these gardens: designing space, garden features, water, and perfect plants.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
(click to enlarge)
|
Etienne Raoul and Canterbury Botany 1840-1996
|
order quantity
|
|
|
| NZ$ 35.00 each |
| Paperback |
| Author: Colin J. Burrows |
| Published by: Manuka Press |
|
The chapters in this book are based on papers given at a symposium, held in Christchurch, New Zealand on 23rd November 1996, to mark the 150th anniversary of publication of the book Choix de plantes de la Nouvelle-Zélande ("A selection of New Zealand plants"). Its author, Etienne Fiacre Louis Raoul, was a French naval doctor stationed at Akaroa, Banks Peninsula in 1840–43. His was the first account of Canterbury botany and it is valuable to botanists today because it includes the original descriptions and the first illustrations of many native New Zealand plants.
Although this book focusses on botany, it covers a great deal more. In particular it deals with the considerable French contact with, and activity in, the New Zealand region during the early to middle 19th Century. Each chapter has been written by scholars eminent in their fields of study. They show, in informative and interesting ways, how the work of Raoul and other
... more
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
