The Wilderness Garden by Jackie French
$24.95 AUD
Category: Gardening
There's no need to water your garden! Or weed, prune, spray or dig it! In her decades of watching the bush and the animals around her, and of experimenting with hundreds of new growing strategies, Jackie has learnt to grow things by letting the plants - and nature - do most of the work for her. And, wit ...Show more
Organic Control of Common Weeds - Rev.Ed by Jackie French
$19.95 AUD
Category: Gardening
Nowadays, in conventional gardening and farming, weed 'control' means herbicides: chemicals have replaced good management for fertility and for pest, disease and weed control. We hate weeds. 'Weed' is the ultimate insult. But weeds can also be seen as soil repairers, an essential part of any farm or gar ...Show more
Natural Control of Garden Pests by Jackie French
$21.95 AUD
Category: Gardening
Covers techiques for natural pest control of flower and vegetable gardens, orchards and small farms. Includes sections on companion planting, birds and other pest predators, descriptions of Australia's common pests, and the creation and use of organic pesticides and fungicides.
Nest Boxes for Wildlife: A Practical Guide by Alan Franks; Stacey Franks; Ric Nattrass (Foreword by)
$24.95 AUD
Category: Gardening
Much of Australia's wildlife will not survive without hollows for nesting. This complete, practical guide features extensive plans for your garden or bush block.
Gardens of Eden: Among the World's Most Beautiful Gardens by Holly Kerr Forsyth
$59.99 AUD
Category: Gardening
Gardens of Eden brings together more than fifty of the world's most beautiful gardens. Spanning time and continents, it visits the glorious paradise gardens of ancient Persia, the restrained gardens of Italy and the Buddhist-inspired landscapes of China and Japan. Illustrated by more than 500 photograph ...Show more
The Constant Gardener by Holly Kerr Forsyth
$49.95 AUD
Category: Gardening
The garden has been a constant companion in Holly Kerr Forsyth's life, providing pleasure, a refuge and, occasionally, aching muscles. In this beautiful guide to creating, enjoying and maintaining the garden, Holly shares her years of practical gardening experience and the insights gained through photog ...Show more
Clearings : Six Colonial Gardeners by PAUL FOX
$39.95 AUD
Category: Gardening | Series: Melbourne University Press Masterworks S.
The stories of six colonial Australian gardeners and their transformation of the Australian landscape are told in this revealing look at 19th-century botany, horticulture, and plant collecting. Original writings, illustrations, and photographs from this time period help to reveal the progress of the gar ...Show more
Small Urban Gardens by Evergreen
$34.95 AUD
Category: Gardening
Whatever the importance of a garden, it will always be a place for relaxation, communal gatherings or sensual pleasures. The contemporary gardens collected in this book are a cross-section of current trends, notable not only for their use of new materials and construction techniques, but above all for t ...Show more
GORDON FORD THE NATURAL AUSTRALIAN GARDE by FORD GORDON FORD GWEN
$49.95 AUD
Category: Gardening
For too long Australians have been dominated by European gardening trends. Gordon Ford, like no other landscape designer before him, mastered the natural Australian style. Gordon Ford was early influenced by the English natural style landscape school of the eighteenth century. But his great skill has be ...Show more
The Royal Horticultural Society Treasury of Trees by Selected by Charles Elliott
$35.00 AUD
Category: Gardening
The latest in "Frances Lincoln's" series of "RHS Treasuries", this charming anthology brings together a wealth of poetry and prose from a broad range of writers, from the Roman natural historian Pliny and the Chinese poet Po Chu-I, to Sir Walter Scott and Robert Fortune, to twentieth-century poets such ...Show more