The Deckchair Gardener

Author : Anne Wareham
Publisher : Michael O'Mara Books
ISBN 13 : 178243643X
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Deckchair Gardener written by Anne Wareham and published by Michael O'Mara Books. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Guide to What Not to Do in Your Garden. Gardening is widely regarded as one of life's great joys. However, you might not feel that way if you pay too much attention to the experts: every garden magazine and newspaper relentlessly publishes hectoring instructions telling you what you must do in your garden this week or this month, to the point where your garden can become a source of constant stress or wasted energy. Rather than add to the pile of suggested drudgery, this book is instead dedicated to relieving you of pointless and unnecessary garden work, and suggesting easy and pleasant ways to look after your little patch of paradise.

Author : Patterson Webster
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0228013577
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Autobiography of a Garden written by Patterson Webster and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2022-07-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autobiography of a Garden follows Patterson Webster’s twenty-five-year journey as she transforms a beautiful but conventional country property into a 750-acre landscape that challenges what a garden is, or can be. A unique, personal memoir, this book details how a neophyte gardener moved from copying the ideas of other people to learning from them, and finally to striking out on her own. Combining traditions from French and English eighteenth-century gardens with contemporary perspectives, Webster communicates concepts and ideas that underpin the garden’s design, sharing a process that evolved over seasons and years. She explores the meaning of creating a garden and the meaning that a garden can create, linking ideas about aging and the passage of time to the reality of growth and death in the landscape and thinking through how art in a garden can reframe questions of memory and our relationship to nature. Using the history of the property as a framework, Webster considers the impact made by those who lived on the land before her: the Abenaki, the early settlers, the cottagers, the farmers, the US southerners who came to Quebec to avoid the summer heat, and the northerners who defeated them in the Civil War. With engaging personal anecdotes, she describes the thinking behind each part of the garden and the examples that guided her, the mishaps and successes she encountered, and her plans for the future. Beautifully photographed and full of inspirational ways of thinking about gardens and gardening, Autobiography of a Garden blends history, horticulture, and art, encouraging readers to make their own surroundings more beautiful and more meaningful.

Author : Monty Don
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1471114597
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Road to Le Tholonet written by Monty Don and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-04-25 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is not a book about French Gardens. It is the story of a man travelling round France visiting a few selected French gardens on the way. Owners, intrigues, affairs, marriages, feuds, thwarted ambitions and desires, the largely unnamed ordinary gardeners, wars, plots and natural disasters run through every garden older than a generation or two and fill every corner of the grander historical ones. Families marry. Gardeners are poached. Political allegiances forged and shattered. The human trail crosses from garden to garden. They sit in their surrounding landscape, not as isolated islands but attached umbilically to it, sharing the geology, the weather, food, climate, local folklore, accent and cultural identity. Wines must be drunk and food tasted. Recipes found and compared. The perfect tarte-tartin pursued. None of these things can be ignored or separated from the shape and size of parterre, fountain, herbaceous border or pottager. So this is a book filled with stories and information, some of it about French gardens and gardening, but most of it about what makes France unlike anywhere else. From historical gardens like Versailles,Vaux le Vicomte and Courances to the kitchen gardens of the Michelin chef Alain Passard. There will be grand potagers like Villandry and La Prieure D'Orsan and allotments and back gardens spotted on the way. Monty also celebrates the obvious French associations of food and wine and finds gardens dedicated to vegetables, herbs and fruit. It is a book that any visitor to France, whether gardeners or not, will want to read both as a guide and an inspiration. It is a portal to get under the French cultural skin and to understand the country, in all its huge variety and disparity, a little better.

Author : Greg Bailey
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1499001126
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Harry Dwight and the Quest for Mayoralty written by Greg Bailey and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-05-05 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This tells the story of Harry Dwight, resident of a fictional town named Rollingdale, set somewhere in the Australian countryside, but close to a large city. Harry makes his living by selling water in a time of extended drought, helped by his close friend, Leo the Lump. One of his customers is Mayor Zwoke, prominent local politician and owner of a pie factory. He requires a regular supply of water, but when it is revealed that he is cheating Harry, Harry takes steps to disrupt the mayor’s garden party by hiring a bunch of porcupines to undercut the lawn where the party is held. The resulting disaster is a huge embarrassment for the mayor who is in quest for higher office. When he finds out that Dwight caused the mess, he instigates a virtual feud between the two. As the feud develops Harry decides to run for council in order to combat the mayor politically. Much of the book then details the manoeuvrings of the various sides, the campaigns they run and how the mayor humiliates Harry, only finally to be defeated when Harry wins a seat on council. I am not sure where it could be placed generically. It is certainly not a political thriller. Rather, it depicts slapstick comedy within the development of a series of political themes.

Author : Noël Kingsbury
Publisher : White Lion Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780711216082
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Perennial Garden written by Noël Kingsbury and published by White Lion Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advocates a new way of using perennials that works with rather than against nature.

Author : Richard Stirzaker
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN 13 : 0643102035
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Out of the Scientist's Garden written by Richard Stirzaker and published by CSIRO PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2010-01-27 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Out of the Scientist's Garden is written for anyone who wants to understand food and water a little better - for those growing vegetables in a garden, food in a subsistence plot or crops on vast irrigated plains. It is also for anyone who has never grown anything before but has wondered how we will feed a growing population in a world of shrinking resources. Although a practicing scientist in the field of water and agriculture, the author has written, in story form accessible to a wide audience, about the drama of how the world feeds itself. The book starts in his own fruit and vegetable garden, exploring the 'how and why' questions about the way things grow, before moving on to stories about soil, rivers, aquifers and irrigation. The book closes with a brief history of agriculture, how the world feeds itself today and how to think through some of the big conundrums of modern food production.

Author : Emily Kenny
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0861542088
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Extraordinary Adventures of Alice Tonks written by Emily Kenny and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-02-14 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Has heart, soul and so much spirit.” Lindsay Galvin, author of Darwin’s Dragons “Disappearing animals, twists and turns, and an amazing autistic protagonist.” Rashmi Sirdeshpande, author of Dosh “Exciting, deftly plotted and full of surprises.” Sinéad O'Hart, author of The Eye of the North Alice Tonks would love to make friends at boarding school. And, being autistic, she just wants people to accept her for who she is. But after a rather strange encounter with a talking seagull on her first day, she suddenly has a new challenge and a lot of questions. Animals are going missing and Alice can’t solve the mystery alone. With new friends behind her, can Alice harness her magic powers and become the hero she never imagined? A story about finding your voice, friendship and unlikely heroes, for fans of A Kind of Spark

Author : Anna Pavord
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1408810069
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Curious Gardener written by Anna Pavord and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-09-05 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wonderful book about the gardening year with practical advice by the top garden writer and best-selling author of The Tulip

Author : Toby Buckland
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448140617
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gardeners' World Practical Gardening Handbook written by Toby Buckland and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-06-30 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this brilliant official companion to Gardeners' World, lead presenter Toby Buckland offers a complete guide to making you a better gardener. Toby sees the garden as connected to the kitchen, the compost heap and the world beyond. He encourages us to turn gardening into an adventure rather than a list of chores. It becomes a workshop to fashion an apple press from skip-scavenged timber, or a warm greenhouse sanctuary. Borders aren't just for weeding, they're for strawberries by the punnet-load. Piles of golden leaves along the roadside aren't just the soggy debris of autumn but the potential for soil-enriching leaf mould. Opening our eyes to these connections helps us appreciate the joy of gardening, and this book teaches you the craft. However big or small your plot, whether you are starting from scratch or looking for new ideas to refresh an established scheme, the Practical Gardening Handbook will show you how to bring your garden alive.

Author : Lynne Hapgood
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719059704
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Margins of Desire written by Lynne Hapgood and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2005-05-06 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who said that the suburbs are boring? The suburban trick is to look ordinary and be extraordinary, as Lynne Hapgood's absorbing discussion of the suburbs in fiction from 1880-1925 reveals.