Author: Robert John ThorntonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Conversations on Gardening
Author: Robert John ThorntonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Conversations on Gardening: with Incidental Notes on Natural History
Author: Asa GrayPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 338560026X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1838.
Conversations on gardening, by the author of the Elements of botany
Author: ConversationsWriting the Garden
Author: Elizabeth Barlow RogersPublisher: David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN: 1567924611
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Gardening, more than most outdoor activities, has always attracted a cult of devotedly literate practitioners; people who like to dig, it would appear, also like to write. And many of them write exceedingly well. In this thoughtful, personal, and embracing consideration of garden writing, garden historian Elizabeth Barlow Rogers selects and discusses the best of these writers. She makes her case by picking delightful examples that span two centuries, arranging the writers by what they did and how they saw themselves: nurserymen, foragers, conversationalists, philosophers, humorists, etc. Her discussions and appreciations of these diverse personalities are enhanced and supported by informed appraisals of their talents, obsessions, and idiosyncrasies, and by extensive extracts from their writings. Rogers provides historical background, anecdotal material, and insight into how these garden writers worked. And wherever appropriate, she illustrates her story with images from their books, so you can not only read what they wrote but also see what they were describing. Since gardens are by their very nature ephemeral, these visual clues from the pages of their books, many reproduced in color, are as close as we will come to the originals. What makes Writing the Garden such a joy to read is that it is not simply a collection of extracts, but real discussions and examinations of the personalities who made their mark on how we design, how we plant, and how we think about what is for many one of life's lasting pleasures. Starting with "Women in the Garden" (Jane Loudon, Frana-ces Garnet Wolseley, and Gertrude Jekyll) and concluding with "Philosophers in the Garden" (Henry David Thoa-reau, Michael Pollan, and Allen Lacy), this is a book that encompasses the full sweep of the best garden writing in the English language. Writing the Garden is co-published by the New York Society Library and the Foundation for Landscape Studies in association with David R. Godine, Publisher.
Conversations on Gardening. With incidental remarks on natural history. By the author of the Elements of Botany
Author: CONVERSATIONS.Teachings of the Garden
Author: Makoto AkasakaPublisher: Schlebrugge Editor
ISBN: 9783903172272
Category : Gardeners
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"An eleventh-century Japanese gardening manual was the origin of Carola Platzek's studies which explore the history of Japanese gardens. The essence of the Sakuteiki prevails today: the precise observation of nature in order to design a garden according to its surroundings. The Viennese cultural researcher and art historian converses with gardeners, garden historians, academics and researchers, as well as Buddhist and Shintō priests; to illuminate how they work with traditional and modern concepts which inform garden arrangement and design in Japan. The book introduces the reader to these fascinating concepts and their interconnections, which include: orientational principles such as the theories of harmony and spatial consciousness; the five elements and the four cardinal points; aesthetic paradigms as formulated in the Way of Tea, or in the genre of the Eight Views; and waka and haiku poetry"--
Glorious Shade
Author: Jenny Rose CareyPublisher: Timber Press
ISBN: 1604698063
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
“A practical guide to maintaining a shade garden with a useful calendar of seasonal tasks, plant directory and inspiring design ideas.” —Gardens Illustrated Shade is one of the most common garden concerns homeowner’s have, but with the right plant knowledge, you can learn to embrace shade as an opportunity instead of an obstacle. In Glorious Shade, Jenny Rose Carey celebrates the benefits of shade and shows you how to make the most of it. This information-rich, hardworking guide is packed with everything you need to successfully garden in the shadiest corners of a yard. You'll learn how to determine what type of shade you have and how to choose the right plants for the space. The book also shares design and maintenance tips that are key to growing a successful shade garden. Stunning color photographs offer design inspiration and reveal the beauty of shade-loving plants.
Conversations on Gardening
Author: Asa GrayPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780267131426
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Excerpt from Conversations on Gardening: With Incidental Notes on Natural History The best preface to this little work will be an account of what has been attempted in it. The utility of exciting in the minds of young persons a fondness for gardening is universally admitted. That there are several excellent works intended for this purpose is undeniable, but the author thinks that, generally speaking, they are too technical, and likely, from the practical difficulty of their instructions, and from the time and expense required to effect what they propose, to discourage rather than to aid the attempts of the young gardener. A child who would gladly garden, and raise flowers by his own skill and labour, is mortified at reading a description of beautiful plants which he cannot hope to succeed in rearing, for want of the hot-bed, stove, forcing-house, &c., required for their culture. But, all the useful part of the occupation, as a rational and inno cent recreation, tending to form habits of industry, order, and observation, may be attained in a garden, where nothing but the more common and hardier plants are cultivated. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Conversations on Gardening
Author: Asa GrayPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781330437346
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Excerpt from Conversations on Gardening: With Incidental Notes on Natural History The best preface to this little work will be an account of what has been attempted in it. The utility of exciting in the minds of young persons a fondness for gardening is universally admitted. That there are several excellent works intended for this purpose is undeniable, but the author thinks that, generally speaking, they are too technical, and likely, from the practical difficulty of their instructions, and from the time and expense required to effect what they propose, to discourage rather than to aid the attempts of the young gardener. A child who would gladly garden, and raise flowers by his own skill and labour, is mortified at reading a description of beautiful plants which he cannot hope to succeed in rearing, for want of the hot-bed, stove, forcing-house, &c., required for their culture. But, all the useful part of the occupation, as a rational and innocent recreation, tending to form habits of industry, order, and observation, may be attained in a garden, where nothing but the more common and hardier plants are cultivated. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Backyard Parables
Author: Margaret RoachPublisher: Grand Central Publishing
ISBN: 1455518239
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Margaret Roach has been harvesting thirty years of backyard parables-deceptively simple, instructive stories from a life spent digging ever deeper-and has distilled them in this memoir along with her best tips for garden making, discouraging all manner of animal and insect opponents, at-home pickling, and more. After ruminating on the bigger picture in her memoir And I Shall Have Some Peace There, Margaret Roach has returned to the garden, insisting as ever that we must garden with both our head and heart, or as she expresses it, with "horticultural how-to and woo-woo." In The Backyard Parables, Roach uses her fundamental understanding of the natural world, philosophy, and life to explore the ways that gardening saved and instructed her, and meditates on the science and spirituality of nature, reminding her readers and herself to keep on digging.