Nature, recreation and sports / Gardening

Fairy Garden Handbook

by Liza Gardner Walsh

The popularity of fairies and fairy houses has soared, as has the growing movement to get children interested in outdoor activities such as gardening. This new how-to book for parents and kids combines the best...

The Drunken Botanist

by Amy Stewart

Sake began with a grain of rice. Scotch emerged from barley, tequila from agave, rum from sugarcane, bourbon from corn. Thirsty yet?  In The Drunken Botanist, Amy Stewart explores the dizzying array of herbs,...

Wild Flowers: Nature's own to garden grown

by Carol Klein

Wild flowers are a great passion for Carol, and for the TV show this year she's travelling the length and breadth of the country to find the most exquisite flora occurring naturally in our woodlands, hedgerows,...

A Slow Passion: Snails, My Garden and Me

by Ruth Brooks

When BBC Radio 4's Material World programme announced a search for the UK's top amateur scientist, little did anyone expect that the winning experiment would comprise one of our humblest garden pests. Ruth Brooks...

The Plum and Its Cultivation with Information on Soils, Tree Forms, Planting, Pruning, Diseases and Pests, and Varieties - An Article

by N. B. Bagenal

This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before. The content has been carefully selected for its interest and relevance to a modern audience.

Plants - Ferns, Palms and Cycads

by William Watson

A guide to ferns, palms an cycads that will prove of much interest to the modern gardener. Illustrated with black and white photographs. This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before....

Commercial Mushroom Growing

by M. H. Pinkerton

This illustrated guide to commercial mushroom growing is informative to anyone thinking of growing mushrooms on a commercial scale. It contains all of the scientific knowledge and information needed for the...

The Gardener's Year - Illustrated by Josef Capek

by Karel Capek

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern...

The Farmer's Wife Guide To Growing A Great Garden And Eating From It, Too!: Storing, Freezing, and Cooking Your Own Vegetables

by Barbara Doyen

A delightfully original package, this book gives advice on growing your favorite vegetables, and then provides ample instructions on how to prepare or preserve the results.

Gardeners' World Top Tips

by Louise Hampden

Top Tips is a charming accompaniment to the daytime Gardeners' World strand that collects the most fascinating and useful hints and tips from 40 years of Gardeners' World, to help you make the very best of your...

My New Mediterranean Cookbook: Eat Better, Live Longer by Following the Mediterranean Diet

by Jeannette Seaver

Enter a magical, miniature, enchanted fairy land of your own creation! Fairy gardens are enjoying an astonishing surge in popularity and now you can begin making your own enchanting miniature landscapes, complete...

The Garden Club of America: One Hundred Years of a Growing Legacy

by William Seale

How women changed the American landscape from planting war victory gardens to saving the redwoods, beautifying the highway to creating horticultural standards.

In 1904, Elizabeth Price Martin founded the Garden...

There Is a Garden in the Mind: A Memoir of Alan Chadwick and the Organic Movement in California

by Paul A. Lee

There Is a Garden in the Mind presents an engaging look at the work and life of pioneering organic gardener Alan Chadwick and his profound influence on the organic farming movement. In this wide-ranging and...

City Farmer: Adventures in Urban Food Growing

by Lorraine Johnson

City Farmer celebrates the new ways that urban dwellers across North America are reimagining cities as places of food production. From homeowners planting their front yards with vegetables to guerilla gardeners...

Square Foot Gardening Answer Book: New Information from the Creator of Square Foot Gardening - the Revolutionary Method Used by 2 Milli

by Mel Bartholomew

 Square Foot Gardening Answer Book is for all of the world's square foot gardeners. The book shows you ways to get more from your gardening efforts. Using proven techniques, appliances and approaches, this...

All New Square Foot Gardening, Second Edition: The Revolutionary Way to Grow More In Less Space

by Mel Bartholomew

Rapidly increasing in popularity, square foot gardening is the most practical, foolproof way to grow a home garden. That explains why author and gardening innovator Mel Bartholomew has sold more than two million...

The Budding Gardener

by Mary Rein

Curious kids will delight in the fifty fun-filled gardening activities in The Budding Gardener! The Budding Gardener offers great ways for parents and their budding gardeners, ages three to six, to create memories...

Simple Pleasures of the Garden: Stories, Recipes & Crafts from the Abundant Earth

by Susannah Seton

Simple Pleasures of the Garden is a treasure chest of tips, how-to's, stories, and trade secrets gathered together in one beautiful book. Organized by season, the hundreds of suggestions and recipes present...

Every Garden Is a Story: Stories, Crafts, and Comforts

by Susannah Seton

Susannah Seton reminds us in Every Garden Is a Story that reader and gardener alike have much to learn from their gardens. The poignant and touching stories -- from her father's quest for a seven-headed sweet...

Touring Texas Gardens

by Jessie Gunn Stephens

This guide includes the best times to visit, how to get there, what to expect in bloom, what birds and butterflys you'll see, how to arrange group tours, and children's activites.