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  • 向植物學習

    -生之道-

    by Kung Linliu ...
    作者: 林劉恭看著植物綠油油的一片,盎然生意,不禁心中也十分舒坦,植物的成長,似乎只要陽光、空氣和水,定時的澆水,流通的空氣,以及充足的陽光,植物就不斷地發出新芽、 長出新葉, 枝幹與日具壯。植物不會說話,也不會哭,你不知道它缺了甚麼營養素,或得了什麼病蟲害,或缺了水,不過,植物會顯現症狀,缺水了,葉子萎縮,有了寄生蟲,也會有蟲洞或是蟲蟲便便,得了某種菌害,也會顯現病症;健康的植物,枝幹挺拔,葉片綠油油,顯出盎然生意,欣欣向榮迎著陽光。種菜的農夫,蔬菜以滿足回饋; 種水果的果農,果實以甜蜜回饋;種花草的花農,花兒以芬芳回饋;公寓裡陽台的植物,以快樂回饋吾人,陽台的陽光有限,植物似乎有了選擇性,有些植物長不大,有些活不久,有些開不了花,有些結不了果,有些結了果長不大;但生命有其選擇與堅韌,有些植物長得大,有些活得好,有些開了花,有些結了果,有些結了果也長得大。生之道是生命之道,也是生存之道 ... Read more

    $5.50 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • もの申さぬ肉たちとの戯れ

    by 砂虫 隼 ...
    「私の部屋はジャングルだった」。月下美人、雫石、グリーンネックレス、セダム。「多肉」とよばれる可愛らしいが気難しい緑たちとのおつきあい。食漫画シリーズ「もぐもぐ」の砂虫隼が綴る「園芸」エッセイ漫画。2014年5月に「乱痴気事虫所」より発行の自費出版誌。(本文25ページ) ... Read more

    $0.82 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Цветники и клумбы

    Для многих садоводов, особенно начинающих, создание цветников и клумб кажется сложной и невыполнимой задачей. Мы поможем вам! Сочная, яркая, разнообразная окраска, продолжительное цветение, нежный аромат — вот что делает цветы незаменимым элементом в оформлении участка. Характеристики цветочных растений, правила посадки, создание композиции и уход — обо всем этом рассказывается в данной книге. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Étonnantes histoires de légumes et de fines herbes

    Saviez-vous que les tomates étaient des lianes tropicales dont les fruits n’ont pas toujours été rouges? Que les choux poussaient en buisson? Que les haricots étaient jadis toxiques? Explorer l’histoire des plantes que nous mangeons révèle leurs étonnantes évolutions. Puisque leur environnement d’origine se situe en bonne partie sous les latitudes tropicales, on comprend que nos légumes et nos ... Read more

    $18.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Étonnantes histoires de fruits

    Explorer l’origine des fruits, c’est entreprendre un périple passionnant à travers les siècles et les continents. Du Japon à l’île d’Orléans, l’auteur nous accompagne dans les dédales de l’histoire d’une trentaine d’espèces. Il nous présente des fruits parfois très populaires comme les pommes et les poires, parfois moins connus comme l’argouse, la camarine et le pimbina. Une grande aventure rendue ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • ¿Nunca miraste un león a los ojos?

    by Alisa Lein ...
    ¿Te animás a pisar el hielo? Así empieza el libro. Una pregunta infantil que es una invitación y una advertencia: cuidado, parece querer decirnos, estamos por entrar a un territorio peligroso. Si asumimos el riesgo, de ahí en más, cada página, cada párrafo, cada frase va a ser un desafío para los personajes y para los lectores. ... Read more

    $7.00 USD

  • Zen in the Garden

    the Japanese art of peaceful gardening

    by Miki Sakamoto ...
    Translated by Catherine Venner ...
    Spring, summer, autumn, and winter: wherever you are, the seasons come and go, bringing changes both welcome and unexpected.Japanese by birth, but transplanted to Europe in adulthood, Miki Sakamoto has spent a lifetime tending her garden and reflecting on its mysteries. Why do primulas bloom in snow? Do the trees really ‘talk’ to one another? What are the blackbirds saying today? And is there a ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Zen Gardening

    The Zen gardens of Japan are places in which to meditate. They can be anything from a landscaped garden, complete with waterfalls, to a bed of raked pebbles. This ancient way of gardening goes back to the Zen Buddhist priest-gardeners of the thirteenth century. Based on abstract compositions, relying on simplicity and suggestion, their gardens were designed to liberate the imagination, while ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Your Indoor Herb Garden

    Growing and Harvesting Herbs at Home

    by DJ Herda ...
    Series series Homegrown City Life
    The complete how-to guide for growing herbs indoors for health, vitality, and culinary zest.Learn how to grow herbs for health, for taste, and for life with Your Indoor Herb Garden, a comprehensive guide to growing herbs indoors. Featuring all the tips and guidance you’ll need to grow and harvest organic culinary and medicinal herbs right in your own home. Coverage includes:Techniques for ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • You Should Have Been Here Last Week

    Sharp Cuttings from a Garden Writer

    A career spent traveling the world looking at gardens, and meeting their sometimes eccentric custodians, has resulted in a fund of unlikely experiences and encounters. There was, for example, that alligator-infested American garden, or the time our hero set up his tent in the woods at Great Dixter in a thunderstorm, only to find he was not where he thought he was. On a more serious note, the book ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • You Bet Your Garden Guide to Growing Great Tomatoes, Second Edition

    How to Grow Great-Tasting Tomatoes in Any Backyard, Garden, or Container

    by Mike McGrath ...
    Whether you have a backyard or only a terrace, you bet you can grow beautiful heirloom tomatoes! From the host of PBS’s You Bet Your Garden, Mike McGrath will teach you everything you need to know about choosing tomato varieties, germination, planting, maintenance, pest control, and so much more. Understand the benefits of growing your own tomatoes and learn expert tips and techniques to doing so! ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Writing the Garden

    A Literary Conversation Across Two Centuries

    "This book accompanies the exhibition "Writing the Garden" organized in 2011 by the New York Society Library." ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Women and the Collaborative Art of Gardens

    From Antiquity to the Present

    Series series Routledge Environmental Literature, Culture and Media
    Women and the Collaborative Art of Gardens explores the garden and its agency in the history of the built and natural environments, as evidenced in landscape architecture, literature, art, archaeology, history, photography, and film.Throughout the book, each chapter centers the act of collaboration, from garden clubs of the early twentieth century as powerful models of women’s leadership, to the ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Woman-Powered Farm: Manual for a Self-Sufficient Lifestyle from Homestead to Field

    To go-to guide for women who want to be part of the farming revolution.Women are leading the new farming revolution in America. Much of the impetus to move back to the land, raise our own food, and connect with our agricultural past is being driven by women. They raise sheep for wool, harvest honey from their beehives, grow food for their families and sell their goods at farmers' markets. What ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Wochenendhaus

    Ein Ort

    by Sarah Khan ...
    Mehr Zeit im Grünen, auf dem Lande: Sarah Khan nimmt uns mit in diese Sehnsucht. Sie erzählt herrlich süffisant vom Suchen und Finden und Renovieren. Im und am Wochenendhaus. Wie überhaupt das richtige Domizil finden? Wie mit den Alteingesessenen klarkommen, konkret: Wessis vs. Ossis, Unkrautliebe vs. korrekte Blumenrabatte, Sonntagsmäher vs. Sonntagsruhe? Und warum verbringt man mehr Zeit in ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Wo die Seele aufblüht

    Warum ein Garten glücklich macht

    "Willst du ein Leben lang glücklich sein, so lege dir einen Garten an", sagt ein Sprichwort. An einem Freitag im April erfüllt sich die Autorin diesen Traum und erwirbt ein kleines Stück Natur, das sie von nun an mit Leben füllt. Ein Jahr lang begleiten wir sie auf diesem Weg. Wir erfahren, wie die Komposttherapie funktioniert, welches Credo die Nacktschnecke singt oder wie sich Moosgraffiti ... Read more

    $16.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Wild Edens

    The Times Best Gardening Books of 2022Ornamental plants are the cornerstone of our gardens and we are spoiled for choice with literally tens of thousands of hardy beauties from which to select. But we take them absolutely for granted, not for a moment realising that every plant has a fascinating tale to tell. Wild Edens sets the record straight.With global coverage, each of the nine richly ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Wiener Parkgeschichten

    Von Gärtnern, Kaisern und Grünoasen

    Streifzüge durch Wiens Grünoasen Wo wurde Österreichs erster Blindengarten errichtet? Was haben englische Gärtner mit dem ältesten Fußballverein Wiens zu tun? Welcher Park entstand auf einer Müllhalde und wo konnte man neben Wasser auch Milch trinken? Christian Hlavac entführt mit "Wiener Parkgeschichten" in die Geschichte und Gegenwart zahlreicher Grünanlagen – ein kurzweiliger Ideengeber für ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Why We Garden

    The art, science, philosophy and joy of gardening

    by Claire Masset ...
    Explore the mystery of what makes us love gardening, via history, science, art and philosophy.Whether you seek sanctuary in your potting shed, find paradise amongst your patio plants or enjoy the simple solace of your hands in the soil, there is beauty, peace and happiness to be found for every gardener in this thoughtful and entertaining collection.Both a hymn to gardening and a call to action, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • What We Sow

    On the Personal, Ecological, and Cultural Significance of Seeds

    An insightful, personal, and timely exploration into the wonderful world of seeds.In What We Sow, Jennifer Jewell brings readers on an insightful, year-long journey exploring the outsize impact one of nature's smallest manifestations—the simple seed. She examines our skewed notions where "organic" seeds are grown and sourced, reveals how giant multinational agribusiness has refined and patented ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Wenn es Winter wird in meinem Garten ...

    Series series Thorbeckes Kleine Schätze
    "Gerade dann, wenn der Herbst alle seine bunten Farben über das Land und den verlassenen Weinberggarten, hoch über der Stadt, ausgeschüttet hat, zieht mit leisen Schritten, wie ein Dieb in der Nacht, der Winter ein und hinterlässt seine ersten Spuren. Bereift und frostig versteckt er sie, noch ganz verstohlen, unter dem zusammengewehten Laub zu seinen Füßen. Staunend nimmt er wahr, wie ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Watershed

    by Susan Day ...
    As deaths mount during the coronavirus pandemic a retired history teacher reflects on the much greater personal impact of the death of her sister 12 years before. Through the lens of lockdown, Pam Dearly looks back on her and her sister Pauline's childhood, and how their family was affected by the Canvey Island flood of 1953. When they both settle in Sheffield they begin to lead very different ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Was mir blüht

    Series series Gartenbücher - Garten-Geschenkbücher (CP983)
    Mit Was mir blüht liegt nun ein zweiter Band der Geschichten rund um den Garten von Paula Almqvist vor.Ob sie über Geschmackswüsten schreibt, über ewige Gärtner, über Modeblumen und Männerparadiese (Schuppen!), über Gartengeräte de luxe oder den Gartler als Partyschreck: »Kaum jemand schreibt so unterhaltsam über Gartenglück und -leid wie Paula Almqvist« heißt es in einer Rezension bei Blooms.In ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • War Gardens

    A Journey Through Conflict in Search of Calm

    by Lalage Snow ...
    'A remarkable book . . . It's a powerful testament to the healing balm of gardening and the resilience of the human spirit in the direst of circumstances.' Financial Times'Not a happy book and yet it's magically heartening. It makes a gardener question his or her values.' The Times'This extraordinary book...warm and engaging...like a photograph magicked to life.' Spectator... ... Read more

    $4.99 USD $3.99 USD