The Complete New Zealand Gardener

The Complete New Zealand Gardener
Author: Geoff Bryant
Publisher:
Total Pages: 312
Release: 1995
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 9781869532093

Two well-known gardening authors, pool their knowledge and experience as both home gardeners and commercial horticulturalists, to provide a New Zealand gardening guide to inform and inspire. The text is combined with colour photographs, clear diagrams and handy colour tables.

Complete New Zealand Gardener

Complete New Zealand Gardener
Author: Eion Scarrow
Publisher:
Total Pages: 312
Release: 1995-01-01
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 9781869535056

Whether starting from scratch with a new garden or redeveloping an existing one The Complete New Zealand Gardener will guide you through the major decisions you will need to make, and help you to create and look after your ultimate garden. Two well-known New Zealand gardening authors, pool their knowledge and experience as both home gardeners and commercial horticulturists to provide a New Zealand gardening guide to inform and inspire. The concise, authoritative text and fresh innovative design is combined with superb colour photographs, clear diagrams and handy colour tables. Short listed for the Montana Book Awards (1996).

Abundant Garden

Abundant Garden
Author: Niva Kay
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Total Pages: 311
Release: 2021-04-13
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 1761061437

Home gardening the natural way. Niva and Yotam Kay of Pakaraka Permaculture, on the Coromandel Peninsula of Aotearoa New Zealand, share their long experience of organic gardening in this comprehensive book on how to create and maintain a productive and regenerative vegetable garden. Taking care of the soil life and fertility provides plants with what they need to thrive. This is grounded in the latest scientific research on soil health, ecological and regenerative practices. Vegetable gardening, in this way, repeatedly demonstrates that every loved garden bed can produce high-yielding, resilient, nourishing and delicious vegetables year after year. The Abundant Garden has simple, reliable strategies and techniques to help maximise your ability to feed yourself and share the abundance with those around you. With information on growing a wide variety of vegetables, there are also helpful charts to help you plan and plant your garden year-round. In addition there are details on how to grow microgreens, and great recipes for ferments, preserves and pickles to stock the pantry with your garden's bounty.

Common Ground

Common Ground
Author: Matt Morris
Publisher:
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2021-01-31
Genre:
ISBN: 9781988592572

Common Ground: Garden histories of Aotearoa takes a loving look at gardens and garden practices in Aotearoa New Zealand over time.While a lot of gardening books focus on the grand plantings of wealthy citizens, Matt Morris explores the historical processes behind 'humble gardens' - those created and maintained by ordinary people. From the arrival of the earliest Polynesian settlers carrying precious seeds and cuttings, through early settler gardens to 'Dig for Victory' efforts, he traces the collapse and renewal of home gardening culture, through the emergence of community initiatives to the recent concept of food sovereignty. Compost, Maori gardens, the suburban vege patch, the rise of soil toxin levels, the role of native plants and City Beautiful movements ... Morris looks at the ways in which cultural meanings have been inscribed in the land through our gardening practices over time. What do our gardens say about us, and where we have been? Matt Morris digs deep in Common Ground.

GrowVeg

GrowVeg
Author: Benedict Vanheems
Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
Total Pages: 540
Release: 2021-03-02
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 1635862930

For anyone who has ever wanted to tend a little piece of ground but wasn’t sure where to begin, GrowVeg offers simple recipes for gardening projects that are both attainable and beautiful. Benedict Vanheems, editor of the popular website GrowVeg.com, guides aspiring green thumbs to success from the start, no matter what size gardening space you have. Get recommendations for veggie varieties for your first edible garden, plant a miniature orchard, and grow an edible archway, or keep your efforts contained by cultivating a rustic crate of herbs on a sunny balcony, a crop of carrots in a basket, or nutritious and delicious sprouts in a jar on the kitchen counter. The beginner-friendly instructions and step-by-step photography detail more than 30 approachable, small-scale gardening projects that will inspire and empower you to get growing! This publication conforms to the EPUB Accessibility specification at WCAG 2.0 Level AA.

Gardening in the South

Gardening in the South
Author: Mark Weathington
Publisher: Timber Press
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2017-05-03
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 1604695919

Expert advice for Southern gardeners A gardener’s plant choice and garden style are inextricably linked to the place they call home. In order to grow a flourishing garden, every gardener must know the specifics of their region’s climate, soil, and geography. Gardening in the South is comprehensive, enthusiastic, and accessible to gardeners of all levels. It features information on site and plant selection, soil preparation and maintenance, and basic design principles. Plant profiles highlight the region’s best perennials, annuals, trees, shrubs, and bulbs. Color photographs throughout show wonderful examples of southern garden style. Gardening in the South is for home gardeners in Virginia, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Louisiana.

Frensham

Frensham
Author: Juliet Nicholas
Publisher:
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2019-03-24
Genre:
ISBN: 9780995105324

In this lavishly illustrated book, Canterbury gardener, Margaret Long, tells the fascinating story of Frensham, considered one of New Zealand's finest gardens. As though we are right there with her, the reader is taken on a tour through the seasons, listening as we go to Margaret's thoughts and insights about why this plant was placed here or that tree there, what is behind her choices not just of plantings but also structures, materials, colours. This very personal and yet informative perspective on thirty years of gardening with passion makes for a delightful book to be treasured and shared. Highly acclaimed garden photographer, Juliet Nicholas, has lived with Frensham for an entire year, photographing its changes through the months and the seasons and providing a unique insight into the growth and development of these beautiful gardens, as well as capturing one of the most frequently written comments in Frenshams visitors' book: 'The garden is so peaceful'.

The Gardener's Encyclopaedia of New Zealand Native Plants

The Gardener's Encyclopaedia of New Zealand Native Plants
Author: Yvonne Cave
Publisher: Godwit
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2002-01-01
Genre: Botany
ISBN: 9781869620929

New Zealand's unique native flora includes many outstanding garden plants - from specimen trees to grasses and ground-covers. The Gardener's Encyclopaedia of New Zealand Native Plants brings together over 2000 species, hybrids and cultivars in a highly illustrated, user-friendly volume. Over 1000 colour photographs combine with detailed descriptions, cultivation and propagation information to make a comprehensive reference that will be welcomed by gardeners, horticulture professionals and conservationists. Valda Paddison, an experienced gardener writer and native plants enthusiast, is a major writer and chief consultant for Botanica's Trees and shrubs. Yvonne Cave, one of New Zealand's foremost plant photographers, is the author of The Succulent Garden and her photographs have illustrated many other books.