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
The Small Edible Garden: Growing Organic Fruit and Vegetables at Home by Diana Anthony
$20.00 NZD
Category: Gardening general
Whatever the size of your garden, this book provides simple, practical advice on the most efficient way to use a limited space to grow healthy organic produce. Includes tips on planting, growing and caring for a wide variety of vegetables, herbs and fruit, including the best available varieties for each ...Show more
The Story of Gardening by Penelope Hobhouse
$50.00 NZD
Category: Gardening general
Discover the beauty of one of civilization's most ancient arts with this absorbing history of the garden. Describing the rich cultural and historical influences that have shaped today's designs this lavishly illustrated book is a showcase to the world's most exceptional gardens. From the cooling fountai ...Show more
The Subtropical Garden by Gil Hanly; Jacqueline Walker
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Garden | Reading Level: very good
Aimed at gardeners who are keen to try their hand with plants at the "warmer" end of the spectrum, this book offers a selection of palms, architectural plants, bamboos, flowering trees, climbers, shrubs, foliage plants, perennials, orchids, ferns and water plants.
The Succulent Garden by Yvonne Cave
$38.00 NZD
Category: Gardening
A highly illustrated introduction to the exciting possibilities of gardening with succelnet plants including; Descriptions & suitability Soil & Cultivation Maintenance, propagation, pest and disease Landscaping Ideas
The Sun King's Garden : Louis XIV, Andre Le Notre and the Creation of the Gardens of Versailles by Ian Thompson
$50.00 NZD
Category: Gardening general
Warmonger, womanizer and autocrat, Louis XIV, France's self-styled 'Sun King', was also history's most fanatical gardener. At Versailles, he created not only Europe's most lavish palace but the most extensive gardens the Western world has ever seen. Assisting Louis was a lowly born yet phenomenally tale ...Show more
The Thoughtful Gardener: An Intelligent Approach to Garden Design by Jinny Blom
$80.00 NZD
Category: Gardening general
'Jinny's genius is to marry a beautiful vision to an extraordinary empathy with the landscape into which that vision will fit, resulting in a pastoral harmony second to none' - Victoria, Lady Getty A prolific designer, Jinny Blom embraces a wide variety of styles, from formal walled gardens to contempor ...Show more
The Urban Farmer: How to Create a Productive Garden in Any Space by Justin Calverley
$45.00 NZD
Category: Gardening general
The guide for anyone who dreams of living the country life in the city by growing their own healthy, sustainable fruit and veg - and more! Producing our own fruit, vegetables, herbs, eggs and honey is perfectly possible in a suburban space, and this practical guide will help urban dwellers develop a mor ...Show more
The Weed Control Handbook by Denise Cleverley; Weedbusters (Organization) Staff (Contribution by)
$33.00 NZD
Category: NZ Garden
A weed is a plant growing where it's not wanted. Invasive weeds are an increasing problem in New Zealand with individual species variously affecting agriculture, health, recreational areas and industry. Many of the invasive weeds causing environmental damage start off as ornamental plants in gardens, an ...Show more
Treasures of Tane: Plants of Ngāi Tahu by Rob Tipa
$50.00 NZD
Category: NZ Garden
This book discusses traditional Maori uses of native plants of the South Island of New Zealand and traditions around them. The text describes the features and uses of each plant, listed alphabetically for quick reference. These stories of native plants of the South Island describe how Maori and European ...Show more
Ulf Nordfjell by Ulf Nordfjell
$97.00 NZD
Category: Gardening general
Awarded Best in Show at the 2009 Chelsea Flower Show for his dynamic blend of Swedish modernism and English romanticism, Ulf Nordfjell is one of the world's leading contemporary garden designers, and this is the first book in English about his work. A master when it comes to composing with perennials, g ...Show more
Uprooted: A Gardener Reflects on Beginning Again by PAGE DICKEY
$64.99 NZD
Category: Gardening general
The engaging story of leaving a beloved garden and creating a new, very different garden, by one of America's best-known and most accomplished garden writers. Page Dickey and her husband Bosco recently walked away from their celebrated garden at Duck Hill. After 34 years of cultivating, nurturing, and l ...Show more