Orchids' Allure: Intimate Portraits
Arleen Olson Photography, July 2023. Trade Paperback. A new copy.
Gardening Literature
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The Secret Life of Plants
Harper Paperbacks, March 1989. Trade Paperback. A new copy. "Once in a while you find a book that stuns you. Its scope leaves you breathless. This is such a book." -- John White, San Francisco Chronicle Explore the inner world of plants and its fascinating relation to mankind, as uncovered.....
The Bad Tempered Gardener
Frances Lincoln Limited, 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. 168 pages. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Seeing gardening as a serious and even outrageous art form has placed Anne Wareham well outside of what usually passes for discussion of gardens. Impatient with received ideas, eager.....
Gardening for Love: The Market Bulletins
Duke University Press, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. 238 pages. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Elizabeth Lawrence occupies a secure place in the pantheon of twentieth-century gardening writers that includes Gertrude Jekyll and Vita Sackville-West of Great Britain and Katherine S. White of the United States. Her books.....
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.....
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.....
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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