A journey to Nine Islands: Chicago Botanic Garden. Click here to buy
$35.00
Quarto, paperback, 96 pp., colour photographs. BRAND NEW.
Accompanied by charming and accessible text, the floral centerfolds of "Journey to Nine Islands" invite the reader to participate in the world of the Chicago Botanic Garden--one of the nation's most visited public gardens and a preeminent center for learning and plant science. This remarkable volume showcases these lush and extraordinary gardens with 96 pages of beautifully reproduced full-color photography--capturing images from Chicago Botanic Garden sites as diverse as the English Oak Meadow, the Rose Garden, the Prairie, and the exquisite Heritage Garden. The breathtaking images featured in this volume represent only a small portion of the stunning blooms on view year-round at the Botanic Garden--a magisterial landscape that changes with the seasons, welcoming plants like the late-blooming sawtooth sunflower in the early autumn and the panicle hydrangea in the heat of midsummer. A fascinating read for the weekend gardener, a thoughtful gift for your favorite flower lover, and beautiful, portable reference to the wonders of this urban oasis, "Journey to Nine Islands "is an impeccable companion to this national treasure.
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Berried treasure; shrubs for autumn and winter colour in your garden. Click here to buy
Kingdon-Ward, Frank.
$40.00
Octavo, 192 pp., illustrations, slightly chipped dustwrapper.
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Chicago Gardens: the early history. Click here to buy
Maloney, Cathy Jean.
$56.00
Quarto, dustwrapper, 464 pp., colour photographs, black and white photographs.
Once maligned as a swampy outpost, the fledgling city of Chicago brazenly adopted the motto Urbs in horto, or City in a Garden, in 1837. "Chicago Gardens" shows how this upstart town earned its sobriquet over the next century, from the first vegetable plots at Fort Dearborn to innovative garden designs at the 1933 World's Fair.Cathy Jean Maloney has spent decades researching the city's horticultural heritage, and here she reveals the unusual history of Chicago's first gardens. Challenged by the region's swamps, clay soil, harsh winters, and fierce winds, Chicago's pioneering horticulturalists, Maloney demonstrates, found imaginative uses for hardy prairie plants. This same creative spirit thrived in the city's local fruit and vegetable markets, encouraging the growth of what would become the nation's produce hub. The vast plains that surrounded Chicago, meanwhile, inspired early landscape architects, such as Frederick Law Olmsted, Jens Jensen, and O. C. Simonds, to new heights of grandeur.Maloney does not forget the backyard gardeners: immigrants who cultivated treasured seeds and pioneers who planted native wildflowers., Maloney's vibrant depictions of Chicagoans like "Bouquet Mary," a flower peddler who built a greenhouse empire, add charming anecdotal evidence to her argument - that Chicago's garden history rivals that of New York or London and ensures its status as a world-class capital of horticultural innovation.With exquisite archival photographs, prints, and postcards, as well as field guide descriptions of living legacy gardens for today's visitors, "Chicago Gardens" will delight green thumbs from all parts of the world.
Create a sunsmart, waterwise garden with Linda Ross. Click here to buy
Ross, Linda.
$30.00
Octavo, paperback, 160 pp., colour photographs.
Shows how to create ten gardens, designed along water-smart principles, inspiring readers to take the sun-smart waterwise challenge. This book includes information on tanks, and exotic plants. It also lists suppliers and nurseries., Ross shows how to create ten gorgeous gardens, all designed along water-smart principles, inspiring readers to take the sun- smart-waterwise challenge. It showcases 9 garden designs for the back yard, the courtyard and the bush garden, with information on tanks, exotic plants. It also lists suppliers and nurseries.
Desert plants: a curator's introduction to the Huntington Desert Garden. Click here to buy
Lyons, Gary.
$40.00
Small quarto, paperback, 128 pp., colour photographs.
This year the Huntington celebrates the centennial of its spectacular desert garden, one of the largest such collections of cacti and other succulents in the world. Visitors to the twelve-acre garden marvel at its more than 3,000 species, including the vivid blue and green Puya, a rare type of bromeliad; the Lithops, or "living stone," whose camouflaged leaves mimic the shape and color of rocks; and the dazzling red, orange, and yellow torch-like blooms of the winter-flowering aloe. In this beautifully illustrated volume, Lyons draws on decades of experience with these unusual specimens to explore the Huntington's desert garden. He tells of its early development, describes its principal collections, and gives instructions on the care and landscaping of desert gardens.
Encyclopaedia of Australian plants suitable for cultivation, volume eight. Click here to buy
Elliot, Rodger and David L. Jones.
$150.00
Quarto, dustwrapper, 467 pp., photographs, text illustrations.
This title is not held in stock but we are happy to supply on special order. Please contact us.
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Encyclopaedia of Australian Plants suitable for cultivation, volume four. Click here to buy
Elliot, Rodger and David L. Jones.
$150.00
Quarto, dustwrapper, 447 pp., photographs, text illustrations. BRAND NEW.
This title is not held in stock but we are happy to supply on special order. Please contact us.
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Encyclopaedia of Australian plants suitable for cultivation, volume six. Click here to buy
Elliot, Rodger and David L. Jones.
$150.00
Quarto, dustwrapper, 509 pp., photographs, text illustrations.
This title is not held in stock but we are happy to supply on special order. Please contact us.
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Encyclopaedia of Australian plants suitable for cultivation, volume two. Click here to buy
Elliot, Rodger and David L. Jones.
$150.00
Quarto, dustwrapper, 517 pp., photographs, text illustrations.
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Hillier plants, people and places: the plant lover's companion. Click here to buy
Brittain, Julia.
$25.00
Octavo, paperback, 192 pp., black and white photographs, line drawings.
Explores the background to garden plants and their names. Hundreds of stories spotlight the plant hunters, botanists, breeders and growers - as well as the countries, nurseries and gardens - that feature in the history of the plants we grow today. Illustrated throughout with archive pictures of plants and plantsmen.
Horticultural flora of south-eastern Australia, volume three: flowering plants, dicotyledons part two. Click here to buy
Spencer, Roger, editor.
$160.00
Quarto, dustwrapper, 688 pp., text illustrations, colour photographs. BRAND NEW.
The third of a four volume survey of all plants- native and exotic- that can be cultivated in New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia and parts of Queensland. It provides a means to identifying garden plants and gives detailed information on botany and cultivation. This volume covers 51 dicotyledon families including Rosaceae, Fabaceae, Proteaceae and Myrtaceae.
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More exceptional plants. Click here to buy
Ryan, Stephen.
$50.00
Octavo, dustwrapper, 208 pp., colour photographs.
Covers perennials, bulbs, climbers and grasses.
Remarkable trees of the world. Click here to buy
Pakenham, Thomas.
$70.00
Quarto, dustwrapper, 192 pp., striking colour photographs.
This title sees Thomas Pakenham in search of the oldest, most unusual and most impressive trees of the world. Following the extraordinary success of MEETINGS WITH REMARKABLE TREES, Thomas Pakenham broadens his search for remarkable specimens around the world. From North and South America to Europe, from Asia and South Africa and Madagascar to Australia and New Zealand, he presents us with trees of personality and presence: Dwarfs, Giants, Monuments, and Aliens - the lovingly tended midgets of Japan; the massive 'General Sherman' of Sierra Nevada; the Mexican Tule Bald Cypress; the enormous strangler from India now romping about the University of Palermo in Sicily; and the 4,700 year old 'Old Methusalehs', the bristlecone pines discovered in the White Mountains of California. From ancient yews and ginkos to colossal redwoods and fairytale baobabs, this book is the fruit of Thomas Pakenham's search for the most remarkable trees of the world. See also [stock id 24243] for small format.
Remarkable trees of the world. Click here to buy
Pakenham, Thomas.
$35.00
Large octavo, dustwrapper, 192 pp., colour photographs.
From North and South America to Europe, from Asia, South Africa and Madagascar to Australia and New Zealand, this book presents us with trees of personality and presence, such as, Dwarfs, Giants, Monuments, and Aliens - the lovingly tended midgets of Japan; the massive 'General Sherman' of Sierra Nevada; the Mexican Tule Bald Cypress; and more. Following the extraordinary success of "Meetings With Remarkable Trees", Thomas Pakenham broadens his search for remarkable specimens around the world. From North and South America to Europe, from Asia, South Africa and Madagascar to Australia and New Zealand, he presents us with trees of personality and presence: Dwarfs, Giants, Monuments, and Aliens - the lovingly tended midgets of Japan; the massive 'General Sherman' of Sierra Nevada; the Mexican Tule Bald Cypress; the enormous strangler from India now romping about the University of Palermo in Sicily; and the 4,700 year old 'Old Methusalehs', the bristlecone pines discovered in the White Mountains of California. From ancient yews and ginkos to colossal redwoods and fairytale baobabs, this book is the fruit of Thomas Pakenham's search for the most remarkable trees of the world. See also [stock id 24244] for large format.
The history of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Click here to buy
Desmond, Ray.
$120.00
Small quarto, dustwrapper, 476 pp., colour photographs, black and white photographs, maps. BRAND NEW.
This new edition is the definitive history of the world's greatest botanic gardens. Comprehensively revised, this stunning, richly illustrated reference takes in every aspect of Kew's history over two centuries - from its origin, pivotal roles in collecting, classifying and identifying the world?s plants, the commercial crops it gave to the British Empire, to being a world renowned institution at the cutting edge of plant science. Kew's heritage - the herbarium, art and architecture, from Kew Palace and Burton's great Palm House to the Princess of Wales Conservatory, state of the art laboratories and new Davies Alpine House - is illustrated and described, together with the events leading to its UNESCO World Heritage Site status in 2003. Lastly, it is a social history of the Gardens, and of the scientists, architects, designers and gardeners who have made Kew. Detailed appendices and bibliography have been updated and the two new chapters make this the authoritative reference.
The world of Kew. Click here to buy
Fry, Carolyn.
$55.00
Quarto, dustwrapper, 224 pp., colour illustrations.
Takes a look at the fascinating world of Kew Gardens, with a particular emphasis on its conservation work in Britain and abroad. This illustrated book covers almost all of Kews projects, from helping to solve crimes to developing plant remedies to fight HIV., Published to accompany the third series of A Year at Kew (which will be called A New Year At Kew) this autumn, this lavishly illustrated book takes a close look at the fascinating world of Kew Gardens, with a particular emphasis on its conservation work in Britain and abroad. The World of Kew covers all of Kews projects, from helping to solve crimes to developing plant remedies to fight HIV. Chapters are thematic, celebrating Kews past and future, and will feature many of the passionate characters from the series. As well as reintroducing endangered British species into the wild, Kew is developing a Millennium Seed Bank as part of a worldwide effort to safeguard 24,000 plant species against extinction, and working with botanic gardens and governments overseas to develop eco-tourism and businesses that use indigenous plants.