The Planthunter: Truth, Beauty, Chaos and Plants by Georgina Reid Georgina Reid and Daniel
$65.00 NZD
Category: Gardening general | Reading Level: 6 Gardening
A celebration of the exceptional and ordinary ways people engage with the world around them through plants. In gardens we find shelter, nurture and respite from the noise and rush of everyday life. To garden is a wonderful thing but you don't have to have a large plot of land or immense knowledge to rea ...Show more
The Reluctant Gardener by Joanna Smith
$20.00 NZD
Category: Gardening general
An increasing number of home-owners are looking for low-effort ways of cultivating a great garden, and this little book is packed with tips for the lazy gardener who still wants to impress the neighbours. With hints on how to cut down on time spent weeding and watering, and how to get plants to look aft ...Show more
The Road to Le Tholonet: A French Garden Journey by Monty Don
$30.00 NZD
Category: Gardening general
This is not a book about French Gardens. It is the story of a man travelling round France visiting a few selected French gardens on the way. Owners, intrigues, affairs, marriages, feuds, thwarted ambitions and desires, the largely unnamed ordinary gardeners, wars, plots and natural disasters run through ...Show more
The Rose by Brent Elliott
$65.00 NZD
Category: Gardening general
This remarkable book reveals the history of the rose through the tale of 40 of the most popular and interesting species and hybrids. Arranged chronologically in the order in which a particular rose arrived in European gardens, the book also covers the history of the layout of rose gardens, discusses the ...Show more
The Rose: An Illustrated History by Jennifer Potter
$75.00 NZD
Category: Gardening general
The rose. No other flower has come close to capturing the western imagination in quite the same way. Tulip fever may have flared fiercely and suddenly in seventeenth-century Europe. The Madonna lily may match the white rose for its symbolic purity. But no other flower fascinates like this mysterious flo ...Show more
The Royal Horticultural Society Gardener's Five Year Record Book by Royal Horticultural Society
$33.00 NZD
Category: Gardening general
With space to record your garden's developing pleasures over five years, this record book is the perfect gift for any gardener. "The Gardener's Five Year Record Book" provides a central store for all the horticultural notes you will ever need to make, dispensing with those scraps of paper that all garde ...Show more
The Secret Gardeners: Britain's Creatives Reveal Their Private Sanctuaries by Victoria Summerley; Hugo Rittson Thomas (Illustrator); Tamsin Westhorpe
$70.00 NZD
Category: Gardening general
The Secret Gardeners is a captivating photographic portrait of the private gardening passions of 25 of the UKs foremost artists, designers, actors, producers, composers, playwrights, sculptors and fashion designers. Accompanying meaty essays explaining the owners inspiration and passion are photographs ...Show more
The Secret Language of Flowers by Samantha Gray
$24.99 NZD
Category: Gardening general
This beautifully-illustrated gift book reveals the hidden meanings of over 50 popular flowers. Did you know the type of flowers you give can speak volumes? 'The Secret Language of Flowers' is a fascinating insight into the Victorian tradition of using flowers to convey secret messages, in a society wher ...Show more
The Secret Language of Flowers by Samantha Gray
$24.99 NZD
Category: Gardening general
Did you know that the type of flowers you give can speak volumes? The Secret Language of Flowers is a fascinating insight into the Victorian tradition of using flowers to convey secret messages in a society where feelings often had to be suppressed. Samantha Gray reveals how over 50 blooms acquired thei ...Show more
The Self-Sufficiency Handbook by Alan Bridgewater
$35.00 NZD
Category: Gardening general
As consumers become ever eco-conscious, many people nurture a dream of living a 'self-sufficient' lifestyle. "The Self-Sufficiency Handbook" provides an introduction to the possibilities and methods involved in setting up the different aspects of a greener way of living. Authors Alan and Gill Bridgewate ...Show more
The Self-sustaining Garden: The Guide to Matrix Planting by Peter Thompson
$20.00 NZD
Category: Gardening general
The harder gardeners work, the more the problems seem to multiply. However, if we allow them to, plants can do much of the hard work we have been taught is an essential part of gardening. Originally published in 1997, this new, updated edition explores the theme of combining plants successfully into sel ...Show more