The Garden Beyond
Herbert Jenkins, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. 316 pages. Gardening on the highlands of Kenya. First Edition. Very good in a good dust jacket, with a large chip at the top of the spine, affecting most of the title.
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Flower Confidential: The Good, the Bad and the Beautiful
Algonquin, March 2008. Trade Paperback. A behind-the-scenes look at the global flower trade. This book started right here in Humboldt at Sun Valley Floral Farms. Other local highlights include lily breeder Leslie Woodriff and Heuer’s Florist. A fascinating journey around the world and behind the scenes in the business of.....
Earthly Paradises: Ancient Gardens in History and Archaeology
Oxford University Press, October 2003. Hardcover. In this beautifully illustrated book, Maureen Carroll examines the most recent evidence of the existence of ancient gardens, the horticultural practices used to plant and maintain them, and the many forms and functions they assumed. Surveying the ancient Near East, Egypt, Greece, Italy, and.....
The Wild Braid: A Poet Reflects on a Century in the Garden
W. W. Norton & Company, April 2007. Trade Paperback. Throughout his life (1905-2006) Stanley Kunitz created poetry and tended gardens. This book is the distillation of conversations, none previously published, that took place between 2002 and 2004. Beginning with the garden, that work of the imagination, the explorations journey through.....
A Countrywoman's Year
Little Brown & Co, October 1991. Hardcover.
The Biggle Garden Book: Vegetables, Small Fruits and Flowers for Pleasure and Profit
Skyhorse, February 2014. Hardcover. When The Biggle Garden Book was first published in 1908, most people were in the habit of raising their own food and flowers. Jacob Biggle felt that a gardener's success had to do with willpower and passion rather than acreage. "The man, woman or youngster who.....
The Gardener's Bed-Book: Short and Long Pieces to Be Read in Bed by Those Who Love Green Growing Things (Modern Library Gardening)
Modern Library, April 2003. Trade Paperback. First published in 1929, The Gardener's Bed-Book is a much beloved gardening classic by the renowned editor of House & Garden magazine in the 1920s and '30s. Each of its 365 perfectly sized little essays is meant to be read in bed at night.....
The $64 Tomato: How One Man Nearly Lost His Sanity, Spent a Fortune, and Endured an Existential Crisis in the Quest for the Perfect Garden
Algonquin Books, March 2007. Trade Paperback. Bill Alexander had no idea that his simple dream of having a vegetable garden and small orchard in his backyard would lead him into life-and-death battles with groundhogs, webworms, weeds, and weather; midnight expeditions in the dead of winter to dig up fresh thyme;.....
Cutting Back: My Apprenticeship in the Gardens of Kyoto
Timber Press, May 2017. Hardcover. "An unusual and entertaining memoir." --New York Times Book Review At thirty-five, Leslie Buck made an impulsive decision to put her personal life on hold to pursue her passion. Leaving behind a full life of friends, love, and professional security, she became the first American.....
My Garden Book
Farrar Straus & Giroux, November 1999. Hardcover. Jamaica Kincaid's first garden in Vermont was a plot in the middle of her front lawn. There, to the consternation of more experienced friends, she planted only seeds of the flowers she liked best. In My Garden (Book): she gathers all she loves.....
Herbs and the Earth (Pocket Paragon)
David R Godine, February 2002. Trade Paperback. Lavender, basil, hyssop, balm, sage, rue -- the thinking gardener's guide to herbs. Writer/naturalist Henry Beston, a founding father of the environmental movement, believed that a strong connection to nature is essential. "It is only when we are aware of the earth and.....
The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
Ballantine Books, January 2000. Trade Paperback. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK A modern classic of personal journalism, The Orchid Thief is Susan Orlean's wickedly funny, elegant, and captivating tale of an amazing obsession. Determined to clone an endangered flower--the rare ghost orchid Polyrrhiza lindenii--a.....
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