Author: Suzanne SladePublisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1404851593
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 14
Book Description
Follows the life cycle of an apple tree.
From Seed to Apple Tree
Author: Suzanne SladePublisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1404851593
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 14
Book Description
Follows the life cycle of an apple tree.
From Cone to Pine Tree
Author: Emma Carlson-BernePublisher: LernerClassroom
ISBN: 1512456225
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Presents a step-by-step look at how pinecones turn into full-grown pine trees.
Inanimate Life
Author: George M. BriggsPublisher:
ISBN: 9781942341826
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Pine Tree
Author: Avery HurtPublisher: Bearport Publishing
ISBN: 1642804339
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
A giant pine tree grows in a park. It was once a small seed in a pinecone. So how did the tree get so big? Beginning readers will discover how a seed turns into a huge pine tree in this basic introduction to plant development. Each 24-page book features controlled text with age-appropriate vocabulary and simple sentence construction. The clear text, fresh design, and colorful, eye-catching photos are sure to capture the interest of emergent readers.
Pick a Pine Tree
Author: Patricia TohtPublisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 153624564X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
A magical new edition of the festive story, with a full page pop-up tree perfect for gifting at Christmas time. This midi edition of Patricia Toht and Jarvis’s irresistible Christmas gift book all begins with . . . picking a pine tree! After getting the tree home, it’s time for the rituals of decorating—digging out boxes jam-packed with ornaments and tree trimmings, stringing tinsel, and, at long last, turning on those twinkling lights. Joyously drawn and rhythmically written, this celebration of family, friends, and the holiday season is as merry as the tradition it depicts.
From Seed to Pine Tree
Author: Suzanne SladePublisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1404851623
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 14
Book Description
Follows the life cycle of a pine tree.
A Way to Garden
Author: Margaret RoachPublisher: Timber Press
ISBN: 1604698772
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
“A Way to Garden prods us toward that ineffable place where we feel we belong; it’s a guide to living both in and out of the garden.” —The New York Times Book Review For Margaret Roach, gardening is more than a hobby, it’s a calling. Her unique approach, which she calls “horticultural how-to and woo-woo,” is a blend of vital information you need to memorize and intuitive steps you must simply feel and surrender to. In A Way to Garden, Roach imparts decades of garden wisdom on seasonal gardening, ornamental plants, vegetable gardening, design, gardening for wildlife, organic practices, and much more. She also challenges gardeners to think beyond their garden borders and to consider the ways gardening can enrich the world. Brimming with beautiful photographs of Roach’s own garden, A Way to Garden is practical, inspiring, and a must-have for every passionate gardener.
Made for Each Other
Author: Ronald M. LannerPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198024975
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Some trees and birds are made for each other. Take, for example, the whitebark pine, a timberline tree that graces the moraines and ridgetops of the northern Rockies and the Sierra Nevada-Cascades system. This lovely five-needled pine, long-lived and rugged though it is, cannot reproduce without the help of Clark's nutcracker. And the nutcracker, though it captures insects in the summer and steals a bit of carrion, cannot raise its young in these alpine habitats without feeding them the nutritious seeds of the whitebark pine. Between them, these dwellers of the high mountains provide for each others' posterity, which leads biologists to label their relationship symbiotic, or mutualistic. But there is more to it than that, because in playing out their roles these partners change the landscape. The environment they create provides life's necessities to many other plants and animals. Working in concert, Clark's nutcracker and the whitebark pine build ecosystems. In Made for Each Other: A Symbiosis of Birds and Pines, Ronald M. Lanner details for the first time this fascinating relationship between pine trees and Corvids (nutcrackers and jays), showing how mutualism can drive not only each others' evolution, but affect the ecology of many other members of the surrounding ecosystem as well. Lanner explains that many of the world's pines have seeds not adapted to wind dispersal. Fortunately, their seeds are harvested from the cone and scattered over many miles by seed-eating jays and nutcrackers who bury millions of seeds in the soil as a winter food source. Remarkably, these "pine nut" dependent birds can find their caches even through deep snow. Seeds left in the soil germinate, perpetuating the pines and guarantee future seeds for future birds. Moreover, the newly "planted" whitebark pine groves encourage further tree growth, such as Engelmann spruce, and eventually the patches of open-grown woodland coalesce, forming a continuous forest. Large forest stands offer cover for large animals like bear, elk, and moose, and provide territories for Red Squirrels. These squirrels also depend on pine seeds as a food source, storing large quantities of seeds on the ground, piled up against fallen logs or stumps, or buried in the forest litter. In the fall both black and grizzly bears are preparing to hibernate and must increase their stores of body fat. The seeds of whitebark pine are large and very rich, containing sixty to seventy percent fat, and are an ideal food for this purpose. The large seed reserves created by the squirrels become a feasting ground for these bears. Meanwhile, the sun-loving trees shaded out by the maturing decay offer housing for cavity-nesters like woodpeckers and nuthatches, as well as a breeding ground for fungi which are eagerly devoured by mule deer and red squirrels in search of protein. Eventually, when the forest is ignited in one of the thunderstorms so common and so violent in the high country, an open area is created, attracting nutcrackers in need of a new cache site, and the cycle begins again. Focusing on the Rocky Mountains and the American Southwest, and ranging as far afield as the Alps, Finland, Siberia, and China, this beautifully illustrated and gracefully written work illuminates the phenomenon of co-evolution.
Trees of Stanford and Environs
Author: Ronald Newbold BracewellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Trees
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
The Everything Seed
Author: Carole MartignaccoPublisher: Tricycle Press
ISBN: 9781582461618
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
A myth of the origins of life explains poetically to the youngest child where we, and the world around us, originated, from a single seed cradled and nourished in the rich soil of space.