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In this global gardener’s guide to creating a resilient, climate-wise garden, learn how to adapt your garden to cope with volatile weather extremes and other effects of a rapidly changing climate. It’s no longer gardening as usual. Heat waves, droughts, flooding, violent storms…the...

Take charge of your family’s food security by learning how to grow your own fruits, vegetables, and herbs—and right along with them, you’ll nurture your own inner strength, too. Food insecurity affects millions of people worldwide. Without access to well-stocked stores or nutritious, fresh...

Growing up in an ex-mining town in Nottinghamshire, Arthur Parkinson never wanted a dog, or a cat, or a pony - just hens. As a kid, he was known as 'chicken boy', a taunt Arthur now proudly reclaims with his crested coterie that includes countless hens, from Sheila the white Silkie to Clarissa the champagne-coloured Buff Cochin. A personal and humorous memoir of Arthur's life amongst his hens, this is an invitation to discover the joy that is only possible in the company of these intriguing creatures.

Haben Sie gewusst, dass Blumen sprechen können? Naja, nicht wirklich. Aber viele Blumen haben eine Bedeutung. Die rote Rose zum Beispiel. Sie steht für die Liebe. Die Hyazinthe ist die Blume der Treue, wenn sie zur Hochzeit geschenkt wird. Und bei Vergissmeinnicht sagt der Name ja schon alles. Traut sich ein Verehrer nicht, seiner Angebeteten zu sagen, dass er in sie verliebt ist, dann könnte er ihr einfach Rosen schenken. Dann weiß sie gleich, was er ihr mitteilen will, und er muss es nicht direkt aussprechen. Der Verehrer hat seine Liebe also durch die Blume gestanden.

From the bestselling author of Practical Magic comes an essential guide to cultivating magical self-sufficiency and enchanted resilience through spell work, gardening, herbal remedies, and more. Whether we live on a farm or in a high rise, we can always create a life that is entwined with the...

Quando ci siano fuori ad attenderci un orto o un giardino, non si vorrebbe far altro. È la pace. Un senso di pienezza. Quella beatitudine che fa assaporare il vento, le nuvole nel cielo azzurro, il pendio di una collina, uno scroscio di pioggia. Quasi si ha pudore di riconoscersi appagati per così poco. Più facile sfoggiare tutto quello che ci hanno condizionato a desiderare ma non è mai servito a renderci felici. Cedendo a un desiderio che aveva da sempre, quello di vivere in campagna, l'autrice si trasferisce in un podere. Dove si scopre analfabeta.

This is your down-to-earth, complete manual for achieving great gardening results with your own rich, organic soil. How do you recognize healthy soil? How much can your existing soil be improved? What are the best amendments to use for your soil? Let Building Soil answer your questions and be...

あなたが「家庭菜園」をする理由は、何ですか？トマト、ピーマン、キュウリ。これらの定番野菜を作ることは、全く否定しません。でも、ちょっとだけ待ってください！どうせなら、「家庭菜園でしか

“McDowell’s gorgeous book opens an ivy-covered door to new information about one of the world’s most famous authors.”—Angelica Shirley Carpenter, editor of In the GardenNew York Times bestselling author Marta McDowell has revealed the way that plants have stirred some of our most...

“Uprooted reveals how a late-life uprooting changed Dickey as a gardener.” —The Wall Street Journal When Page Dickey moved away from her celebrated garden at Duck Hill, she left a landscape she had spent thirty-four years making, nurturing, and loving. She found her next chapter in...

“Reynolds gives us a much-needed reason for hope. The gardener, the conservationist, the city planner, and the nature lover will all be inspired for this wonderful book shows how thousands of even small wildlife friendly gardens can provide habitat for embattled wildlife around the world.”...

Join the No Dig revolution to boost your soil's vitality and grow more veg with less effort. Transform a weedy plot into a thriving vegetable garden by following simple steps achieved in a few hours and with plants in the ground from day one. The crucial factor is understanding that not only is...

Turn the outdoor space you may not own into one that makes you feel at home. A gardening book unlike any other, RHS How to Garden When You Rent brings together projects, inspiration, and handy know-how specifically tailored to people who rent. With chapters designed around lease lengths, readers...

David Deardorff and Kathryn Wadsworth present 100 home projects designed to inspire and empower anyone who wants to help save our native flora and fauna in the face of habitat loss and climate change. This book focuses on saving creatures and plants that are especially vulnerable but that can be successfully helped by our efforts, such as bees, frogs, butterflies, birds, trees, and wildflowers. 

Cultivating herbs for medical use is an ancient and powerful practice—ginger to boost your immune system, basil to ease your morning sickness, garlic to soothe your child’s cough—all these are there in your own kitchen closet. Plus, you can have 71 more science-backed ailments and their remedies in your backyard at your fingertips. But that’s just the beginning…your body’s natural wisdom is just waiting to be unlocked. But our modern, harsh chemicals can block that potential from ever being realized.

Join Joe Sugg, our favourite YouTube star, on a journey to discover the healing powers of nature in a noisy digital world. Having grown-up in the rise of the digital age and as one of the UKs biggest TV and online stars, Joe knows better than anyone how it feels to be overwhelmed by the world wide web and its endless stream of content. Experiencing feelings of anxiety and burnout, Joe has come up with his very own creative and practical ways to let nature in, that are accessible no matter where in the world you live, from the city to the seaside.

The Flower Farm is the follow up to The Winter Cottage - featuring your favourite characters, a beautiful Highland setting, and a gorgeously romantic will-they-won't-they tale of love and friendship from bestselling author Rachael Lucas. Beth Fraser has spent the last few years growing her...

Gibt es ein glückliches Leben ohne Garten? Für Marc Hamer sicher nicht! Monat für Monat und in leuchtenden Momentaufnahmen erzählt er von seiner Arbeit als Gärtner auf dem britischen Anwesen der alten Lady Miss Cashmere. Anschaulich und literarisch-philosophisch beschreibt er die kleinen und großen Wunder der Natur, zwischen Rosen und Magnolien, Käfern, Würmern und Bienen. Dabei kombiniert er Achtsamkeit und Wissen über die Natur mit der Freude am Gärtnern. So blickt er mit poetischer Weisheit und einer lebensbejahenden Haltung auf den ewigen Kreislauf vom Werden und Vergehen.

Unearthed is the story of how Claire Ratinon found belonging through falling in love with growing plants. For years, her troubled relationship with the land of her birth left her feeling unwanted, but reconnecting with nature allowed her finally to put down roots. Like many diasporic people of colour, Claire grew up feeling cut off from the natural world. She lived in cities, and stuck with the belief that success and status could fill the space where belonging was absent. Through learning the practise of growing food, she unpicked her beliefs about who she ought to be.

'An amazing read! I galloped through it' Lady Antonia Fraser 'Lawrence has done an excellent job of recreating this eccentric gardening guru's life' The Times 'My pick for gardening book of the year is this page-turning life story of Ellen Willmott' The Sunday Times 'Sandra Lawrence tells her...