Author: DuneCraft Publisher: Courier Dover Publications ISBN: 0486793869 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 36
Book Description
Explore the exotic plant life featured in the grow-it-yourself kits manufactured by DuneCraft. Full-page images to color and fascinating captions profile the moonflower, fly trap, money plant, and many others.
Author: Misilla dela Llana Publisher: ISBN: 076037273X Category : Gardening Languages : en Pages : 194
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Four-Season Food Gardening shows you how to grow edible plants year-round by using season extenders like cold frames and by planting the best perennial vegetables and fruits side by side with your tomatoes and peppers.
Author: Tovah Martin Publisher: Clarkson Potter ISBN: 0307407314 Category : Gardening Languages : en Pages : 178
Book Description
If you live in the city but want to be close to nature . . . If you call the countryside home but have no time to step outside . . . If you are confined to an office fifty hours a week . . . If your home needs the soothing touch of the natural world . . . In The New Terrarium, Tovah Martin, one of America’s favorite gardeners, introduces you to the whimsical yet practical world of gardens under glass—a no-fuss way to bring snippets of nature indoors. Wherever you are, in whatever little time you have, terrariums are the perfect tool for nature lovers and gardeners everywhere. With gorgeous photography, The New Terrarium reveals how this classic garden tool has been reimagined in a modern way. When encased in glass, plants thrive with almost no help from outside their little enclosed world, so you can host a plant almost anywhere—in your apartment where the air is dry or in your cubicle where there’s little natural light. Tucked inside something crystal and contained, the bounty of the forest or treasures from the beach or the meadow can merge seamlessly into your home or office environment. It’s amazing how some frothy fern fronds or colorful blossoms can transform a room by giving it a burst of vibrant green life. With clear, simple step-by-step instructions and photographs to inspire and guide you along the way, Martin shares her years of experience growing and tending terrariums and shows how terrariums can enrich your life, including: • different venues for cultivating your terrarium • plants that flourish in these gardens under glass • ideas and designs for creating your first terrarium • how to care for and maintain the environment you’ve made Martin has designed a unique range of imaginative terrarium projects, including ones that are suitable for children, enliven the seasons, incorporate plant propagation, and show off a nature collection. Whether you are a gardener or city-dwelling nature lover, The New Terrarium is the perfect way to spark your creativity, while helping you to bring your favorite plants into your home and giving them a place to thrive. When nature is out of arm’s reach and you crave a little greenery, The New Terrarium can show you how to bring all the benefits of the outdoors close to you.
Author: Susan Wise Bauer Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 0393253635 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 619
Book Description
Is your child getting lost in the system, becoming bored, losing his or her natural eagerness to learn? If so, it may be time to take charge of your child’s education—by doing it yourself. The Well-Trained Mind will instruct you, step by step, on how to give your child an academically rigorous, comprehensive education from preschool through high school—one that will train him or her to read, to think, to understand, to be well-rounded and curious about learning. Veteran home educators Susan Wise Bauer and Jessie Wise outline the classical pattern of education called the trivium, which organizes learning around the maturing capacity of the child’s mind and comprises three stages: the elementary school “grammar stage,” when the building blocks of information are absorbed through memorization and rules; the middle school “logic stage,” in which the student begins to think more analytically; and the high-school “rhetoric stage,” where the student learns to write and speak with force and originality. Using this theory as your model, you’ll be able to instruct your child—whether full-time or as a supplement to classroom education—in all levels of reading, writing, history, geography, mathematics, science, foreign languages, rhetoric, logic, art, and music, regardless of your own aptitude in those subjects. Thousands of parents and teachers have already used the detailed book lists and methods described in The Well-Trained Mind to create a truly superior education for the children in their care. This extensively revised fourth edition contains completely updated curricula and book lists, links to an entirely new set of online resources, new material on teaching children with learning challenges, cutting-edge math and sciences recommendations, answers to common questions about home education, and advice on practical matters such as standardized testing, working with your local school board, designing a high-school program, preparing transcripts, and applying to colleges. You do have control over what and how your child learns. The Well-Trained Mind will give you the tools you’ll need to teach your child with confidence and success.
Author: R Sitch Publisher: Hardie Grant Publishing ISBN: 1742731295 Category : Humor Languages : en Pages : 180
Book Description
The funniest book about travel you will ever read: a travel guide to the fictional European republic 'Molvania', birthplace of the polka and whooping cough. The text and design draw on the standard travel guide format and include: background information on the destination, including cultural details, useful phrases, holidays, and calendar of events; accommodation and restaurant listings; activities and excursions; as well as text break-outs, colour photos and maps throughout.
Author: Clarence Hawkes Publisher: CreateSpace ISBN: 9781518815805 Category : Languages : en Pages : 72
Book Description
At the time when our story begins, Shaggycoat was a two-year-old beaver, fleeing with his grandfather from he knew not what. They had been so happy in the woodland lake, which was their home before the terrible intrusion, that the whole matter seemed more like a hideous dream than a reality.
Author: Douglas W. Darnowski Publisher: Rosenberg Publishing ISBN: Category : Gardening Languages : en Pages : 100
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Triggerplants are not only found in Australia, but they reach their greatest diversity there. A few species have ranges which extend to India, China, or Japan, with several more in Papua New Guinea, but of the nearly two hundred identified species, the great majority are found in Australia. Triggerplants may be carnivorous after all, but that has to do with the glistening hairs below the flowers. Triggerplants grow in the same poor soils favoured by carnivorous plants, poor soils in which carnivorous plants have an advantage in that they can obtain nitrogen from their prey. In fact, when you find a triggerplant, there is usually a known carnivorous plant nearby. And, interestingly enough, triggerplants have similar glandular hairs, stalked and secreting a glue-like mucilage, which trap insects just like the hairs of sundews and rainbow plants. It might be argued: what is the point for the triggerplant to trap insects which are catching its pollen, but triggerplants cleverly trap insects much too small to help them with pollination. This is the first comprehensive book on triggerplants. There is a chapter on triggerplants in the garden and landscape which includes how to grow them and how to obtain them (eg: seed sources).
Author: Robert Anson Heinlein Publisher: Baen Books ISBN: 9780743488440 Category : Aphorisms and apothegms Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
In an illustrated, hand-lettered edition of maxims, Lazarus Long, the oldest living member of the human race, shares his wit and wisdom culled from his twenty-four-century odyssey through space and time.
Author: DuneCraft
Author: Misilla dela Llana
Author: Tovah Martin
Author: Susan Wise Bauer
Author: R Sitch
Author: Clarence Hawkes
Author: Mem Fox
Author: Douglas W. Darnowski
Author: Robert Anson Heinlein
Author: Clarence Hawkes