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Covers topics on successful production of organic vegetable crops. Introduces the concept, importance, and scope of organic farming, highlighting best practices, do's and don'ts, as well as its export opportunities and challenges. Also covers organic vegetable production, including methods for enhancing soil fertility, and more.

This stunningly illustrated monograph immerses readers in Campion Hruby Landscape Architects' enduring and meaningful gardens and reveals the careful thought and intention that goes into the firm's garden design process.

A beautifully illustrated guide to the plants of Christmas and the holiday season, Decking the Halls makes for a perfect gift and is sure to delight the home decorator, dedicated gardener, and curious plant-lover alike.Seasoned gardeners with twelve books under their belts, Janet Melrose and Sheryl Normandeau bring their passion and expertise to the trees, shrubs, vines, fruits, and herbs of the holiday season in this gorgeously illustrated guide. Opening with the stories and traditions behind the most iconic Christmas plants, indoor and out, the delicate illustrations and well-researched tales tap into the joy and wonder of Christmas. Plants are central to adorning our homes with holiday cheer and filling our kitchens with the scents of the season, and Janet and Sheryl walk readers through the many ways you can bring in the greens: from Christmas tree selection and care, to trying your hand at wreaths, garlands, and arrangements with helpful how-to illustrations, to the aromatics that enliven the traditional culinary delights of the holidays.A perfect holiday gift or stocking stuffer, this luxurious hardcover illustrated book is a pleasure to hold. From seasonal forest plants to kitchen herbs, from tiny berries to towering trees, Decking the Halls shines a light on the uplifting greenery that helps us weather the darkest months of the year.

Make the most of your organic garden--with this playful yet wonderfully detailed guide! Manga artist and passionate home gardener Hideki Yoda illustrates the joy and simplicity of raising vegetables in your own small home garden. He covers everything from creating the rows and preparing the soils to building the trellises and keeping the pests and weeds away without the use of any chemicals. Hundreds of detailed step-by-step color photos and drawings throughout the book explain the techniques and guide you through each step. This book is loaded with great advice on: What to grow, when to plant it, and how to get startedWhat seedlings to purchase and how to make good compostHomemade organic fertilizers and chemical-free ways to keep pests and diseases at bayCompanion planting and natural weed control techniquesHow to use your limited garden spaces more efficientlyAnd so much more!>The perfect book for beginners who like a playful, illustrated approach to information!

These stunning posters from Chris Wormells bestselling Planetarium are perfect for pinning on your walls.This large-format poster book lets you decorate your walls with images from the bestselling Planetarium. Featuring a universe of incredible images, from small, icy moons to enormous swirling galaxies, this is a stunning collection of prints.The posters are double-sided and perforated for easy removal, with the reverse showing a black-and-white, annotated version of the full-colour illustration.The groundbreaking Welcome to the Museum series presents a virtual museum for visitors of all ages, and has sold more than 2 million copies worldwide. The galleries are open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, boasting an unrivalled collection of wonders from around the world.

Discover the eerie beauty of the goth garden! As interest in gothic gardening continues to grow, this fully illustrated encyclopedia of plants is an essential tool to help readers understand what a goth garden really is by diving into the history, mythology, and lore of 50 of the darkest plants around.

Fifty residential gardens realised by renowned landscape architects and garden designers from all over the world.

Delving into the dynamic and adaptable nature of ethical language and terminology in design, The Adaptive Nature of Design Ethics Discourse argues that it is intrinsically flexible-what can be described as chameleonic.

Gardening during times of crisis can have significant benefits to individuals and populations in terms of health, wellbeing, social and economic outcomes. In this book crisis gardening is explored to better define, describe and provide recommendations about this activity globally.

Gardening during times of crisis can have significant benefits to individuals and populations in terms of health, wellbeing, social and economic outcomes. In this book crisis gardening is explored to better define, describe and provide recommendations about this activity globally.

The first ever survey of the evolution of the Japanese garden, dating from 1900 to the present day. A major survey and the first book of its kind, The Modern Japanese Garden is set to become the definitive book on the subject. Featuring gardens from Tokyo, Kyoto and Fujisawa to Osaka, Okayama, Fukuoka and beyond, this impressive overview includes major analysis of key works of interest through detailed garden profiles; insights into some of the most renowned Japanese garden designers across history; and a thoughtful exploration of the essential themes and developments in Japanese garden design. The Modern Japanese Garden investigates the relationship between nature and modernity. Roughly divided between pre- and post-1945 Japanese garden design, it examines post-war shifts in attitudes towards the contemporary garden as they move from status symbols and expressions of influence to spaces of healing and mediation. A short history of the Japanese garden, from pre-Shinto stone arrangements to the last years of the nineteenth century, sits alongside analysis of the contemporary gardens of Japan's corporate buildings, museums, hotels and public spaces. Garden profiles offer a comprehensive overview of the most iconic and influential gardens in Japan, and include a mix of landscape- and smaller-scale gardens, many just recently completed. Interspersed throughout are short interludes, covering everything from the ancient garden of Ryoan-ji in Kyoto to the aesthetic lexicon of Japanese garden design, while essays from a number of high-profile contributors meditate on particular themes. Intended for both professional and general readers with an interest in landscape design and Japan's contemporary lifestyle, this is the definitive sourcebook on the subject.

What do our gardens say about us?Monty Don has spent many years travelling the world, from America to Japan, from Italy and the Adriatic to Spain and the Mediterranean, getting under the skin of a country through its gardens and gardening traditions. In British Gardens, he finally brings his focus to home, journeying from the northern tip of Scotland to the Cornish coast, seeking to understand what our gardens tell us about ourselves as a nation. Encompassing historical gardens and public parks, mountains and seascapes, urban gardens and rural nurseries, glasshouses and community plots, each encounter is another link in a larger story of British identity: marks of ingenuity, eccentricity, and adaptation to changing environments. From Northumbria's Alnwick Gardens and Beatrix Potter's Lake District farmhouse to the rewilded walled garden on the Knepp Estate and the story of Britain's first garden gnome, Monty's account brings in an astonishing range of British experience. Accompanied by a landmark five-part series on BBC2, and illustrated by stunning photography from Monty's long-time collaborator Derry Moore, British Gardens is a definitive, and uniquely British, account of a nation like no other.

Cultural upheavals have brought enormous change to the world of art. This sweeping history, covering more than 200 years, puts recent changes in a revealing new context. Here's the how and the why of changing perspectives that make and break reputations, often reversing who is considered a master one day and who is unknown the next. Each generation of experts believes their own taste is the last word, confident in their opinions about the art that was the best of their time. As the author writes, "People are inclined to view past changes in taste as unique misjudgments that will not happen again; they are incredulous that Botticelli was forgotten and Vermeer overlooked until the late 19th century. They cannot imagine how foolish people were to reject the paintings of Van Gogh or of Picasso and the Cubists, or how angry the Armory Show made many art lovers. How unthinking, how stupid, they think, not realizing that the pattern has been repeated again and again in the past and will be in the future. We now recognize that the process is a continual one. Each past canon was established for good reason; there are no mistakes, there is only history. Many of the favored artists of any period including our own will drop from favor, something that art dealers never tell their clients, or museum curators their boards." Today, museums, critical judgments, and collectors have gone through a dramatic shift. There has been an emergence of new aesthetic standards based on identity, race, justice, and an embrace of diversity. Words such as "masterpiece" have been all but banished in the artworld. One of America's most respected museum curators and art scholars, Theodore E. Stebbins, is uniquely able to put recent shifts in the canon within the context of a regular, generational shift in taste that tells us much about the value that is placed on art--including who decides what matters and what does not--and art's unpredictable future. Profusely illustrated throughout, fascinating, controversial, deeply informed, Rethinking American Art is for any art lover who wants a greater understanding of the constant process of change.