75 years of Market Gardeners Limited by Colin C. East

$47.50 NZD

Category: Gardening

A Family Guide to Terrariums for Kids - Imagination-Inspiring Projects to Grow a World in Glass by Patricia Buzo

$32.99 NZD

Category: Gardening

Design, plant, and grow a world of your very own--inside a terrarium Including 15 unique, imagination-inspiring project plans, each accompanied by adorable, full-color photographs, kids and their grown-ups will discover how easy terrariums are to plant and grow. Kids love to create, imagine, and have f un. Nothing fulfills all three of those desires quite like designing and planting a terrarium. With the step-by-step project instructions found in A Family Guide toTerrariums for Kids, the results are beautiful, inspiring, and confidence-building. Making these little landscapes develops motor skills, spacial awareness, and provides a wealth of sensory input. The science behind the art is included with quick and simple lessons on ecosystem functions, the water cycle, and plant nutrition. But for kids, it's all about being active and building something cool Plus, when the project is complete, there's a piece of living art to share with family and friends or display on a bedroom shelf. With the terrarium plans found in A Family Guide to Terrariums for Kids, everyone in the family can tap their inner "science geek" to: Use multi-colored sand and succulents to craft a desert terrarium Plant, trim, and tend a terrarium bonsai tree Build a peat bog filled with carnivorous plants Make an aquatic terrarium, complete with a marimo moss ball "pet" Design a prehistoric garden of air plants Create a plant-filled habitat for a praying mantis Grow a Japanese garden with living rocks With information on selecting the best terrarium container, growing materials, decorative elements, tools, and plants, readers are primed for success that lasts long after the terrarium has been built. Terrariums combine imagination and creativity with a dash of hands-on science. And you get to play in the dirt What could be better than that? ...Show more

A New Zealand Gardener's Notebook by Barbara Matthews

$15.00 NZD

Category: Gardening

An Anthology of Garden Writing - The Lives and Works of Five Great Gardeners by Ursula Buchan

$32.50 NZD

Category: Gardening

BORDERS by DE BRAY LYS

$21.50 NZD

Category: Gardening

BORDERS by Lys de Bray, hardback. 1987 ISBN: 9780706365221 Title: BORDERS Author: DE BRAY LYS Year: 1987 Format: HARD BACK Price: $15.00

Beginner's guide to Bonsai: How to Create and Maintain Beautiful Miniature Trees and Shrubs, Shown in More Than 230 Step-by-step Photographs by NORMAN KEN

$15.00 NZD

Category: Gardening

How to create and maintain beautiful miniature trees and shrubs, shown in more than 230 step-by-step photographs. You can find out which plants are suitable for growing and training as bonsai specimens. It contains advice on the choice of tools and equipment, together with clear, practical instructions for using the best composts and soils for growing healthy trees. You can learn how to choose pots to suit different types of plant. It includes a glorious photographic gallery of bonsai trees. Bonsai is the art of producing miniature versions of trees and shrubs by growing them in small containers and pruning and restricting their root and branch growth. This practical guide explains which trees and shrubs are suitable, and describes the basic techniques such as pruning, defoliating, wiring and clipping. Photographic sequences show how to cultivate a variety of popular species, both indoor and outdoor, such as European olive, Kusumaki and Japanese maple. There are also advanced techniques to help the reader produce truly eye-catching bonsai displays. The book concludes with a photographic directory of the author's award-winning bonsai. ...Show more

Bonsai

$22.50 NZD

Category: Gardening

Classic NZ Town & Country Gardens by HANLY, Gil

$19.50 NZD

Category: Gardening

Softcover with owners name on inside front and rear cover. Good condition, small stain on rep. This work follows on from the successful "Town & Country Gardens", and covers 58 of New Zealand's finest gardens. A huge variety of styles are illustrated and the book is full of garden ideas for al l climates and tastes. The text is complimented by photographs from Gil Hanly. ...Show more

Colour in the Garden by Val Bourne

$29.99 NZD

Category: Gardening

A sumptuously colourful garden has the extraordinary power to lift the spirits no matter the time of year. Yet many people struggle to create their own colour combinations that are suitable to site and soil, and which take their gardens through the seasons. This new book provides inspiration and practic al advice for gardeners wishing to improve their plantings, both in appearance and in use. Val Bourne shows how varied and vibrant plantings can enhance the look of beds and borders, and how - with a little planning - they can be beautiful features for much longer than one season. Colour in the Garden is particularly useful for those with small gardens, where every inch of space must work hard for as long as possible. Written by a true plantswoman and experienced gardener, with an in-depth knowledge of plants and how they behave, as well as a strong and creative sense of colour, this guide will revolutionize the way we think about colour in our gardens and ensure that no gardener will ever feel at a loss again. ...Show more

Comfort Me with Apples by John Train

$49.99 NZD

Category: Gardening

There is a certain magic in apples. Perhaps it arises in part from the inviting, shiny shape. Inevitably, it is Eve's apple, Newton's apple, the golden apple, the apple of discord, the apple of the eye, and so on. Fruit trees create a glorious effect, but an apple tree is by far the most beautiful, and has a suggestive quality and fragrance all its own. This book illuminates the beauty and utility of this wonderful fruit. ...Show more

Common Ground: Garden Histories of Aotearoa by MATT MORRIS

$45.00 NZD

Category: Gardening

Common Ground: Garden histories of Aotearoa takes a loving look at gardens and garden practices in Aotearoa New Zealand over time. While a lot of gardening books focus on the grand plantings of wealthy citizens, Matt Morris explores the historical processes behind ‘humble gardens' – those created and ma intained by ordinary people. From the arrival of the earliest Polynesian settlers carrying precious seeds and cuttings, through early settler gardens to ‘Dig for Victory' efforts, he traces the collapse and renewal of home gardening culture, through the emergence of community initiatives to the recent concept of food sovereignty. Compost, Maori gardens, the suburban vege patch, the rise of soil toxin levels, the role of native plants and City Beautiful movements … Morris looks at the ways in which cultural meanings have been inscribed in the land through our gardening practices over time. What do our gardens say about us, and where we have been? Matt Morris digs deep in Common Ground. ...Show more

Companion Planting in New Zealand by Brenda Little

$27.99 NZD

Category: Gardening

In this age of increasing hostility towards chemical control of the food we eat, Companion Planting in New Zealand is the ideal guide to working with nature to produce cabbages that 'squeak with health' and beans that 'snap like a gunshot'. Every tip in this book has worked for somebody - why it worked may be a mystery, but the result of a healthy crop is the greatest reward for a gardener and this book shows how it can be achieved.Entertaining and often anecdotal, Brenda Little's notes are inspired by a wealth of experience and common sense. Companion Planting in New Zealand offers the reader a gardening system relying completely on observation of the natural ecosystem and a respect for the plants and animals living there, e.g. how parsley grows well with chives but away from mint and where a light spray of seaweed solution is useful in combating certain pests. ...Show more