Natures Garden

Pea pods, cucumbers, and strawberries provide plenty of opportunities for counting in the garden! Follow Dad, Grandma, and other family members as they pick and count.

In this inspiring manifesto, an internationally renowned ecologist makes a clear case for why protecting nature is our best health insurance, and why it makes economic sense.

The popular and highly respected horse trainer Mark Rashid brings together Western and Eastern philosophies to demonstrate a seamless new incarnation of horse training. After years of helping "difficult" horses, Mark Rashid understands how to build the foundation of a horse's training and resolve any problems encountered along the way.

Douglas W. Tallamy's first book, Bringing Nature Home, awakened thousands of individuals to an urgent situation: wildlife populations are in decline because the native plants they depend on are fast disappearing. His solution? Plant more natives. In this new book, Tallamy takes the next step and outlines his vision for a grassroots approach to conservation.

Gardens make great habitats for many types of animals. Water, protection and food are the benefits for animals living in a garden, and in return they keep the soil healthy, eat pesky insects, and help pollinate the flowers.

A paradigm shift is roiling the environmental world. For decades people have unquestioningly accepted the idea that our goal is to preserve nature in its pristine, pre-human state. But many scientists have come to see this as an outdated dream that thwarts bold new plans to save the environment and prevents us from having a fuller relationship with nature. Humans have changed the landscapes they inhabit since prehistory, and climate change means even the remotest places now bear the fingerprints of humanity.

What kind of insect protects itself with bright colors, warning insect eaters to stay way–a ladybug! Learn about insects and animals that live together in a garden. Interacting together, these living organisms have a lot in common! Some can help a garden grow strong and others can cause a lot of trouble. Raccoons like to eat the seeds and berries while spiders help by eating the pesky insects.

Click loves flowers! If he could have anything he wanted in his garden, he would choose flowers with a variety of different seeds, bulbs, leaves, and stems so he could enjoy all sorts of pretty colors and interesting plants! Did you know that orange blossoms turn into fruit, or that a pussy willow’s flowers are called a catkin? Follow along with Click and learn all sorts of cool flower stuff!

Learn about the physical characteristics, life cycle, and behavior of earthworms.

Animals are part of our world and contribute to our environment in different ways; even reptiles like Sammy the snake! Sammy lives in the garden near Merry and her family. Sammy takes care of the pests that eat their garden tomatoes.

Click the mouse learns all about plants from his garden flower, Rose.

Learn about many types of gardens.

Flowers may look pretty, but some can be downright deadly! In England, you can explore the Poison Garden—a place where flowers are known for their beauty on the outside and poison on the inside! In this story, you'll be able to learn about and see these flowers safely without interacting with them.

Learn about growing a garden.

Learn about garden tools and how they are used.

Have you ever heard of a bug hotel? There are some insects that help plants by spreading pollen and improving the soil, but they don’t always show up in every garden. To help encourage them to move in, some gardeners build little houses for them!

When Uno arrives in the forest one beautiful day, there are many fascinating and extraordinary animals there to greet him. And one entirely unexceptional Snortlepig. Uno loves the forest so much, he decides to live there. But, in time, a little village grows up around his house. Then a town, then a city... and soon Uno realises that the animals and plants have begun to disappear...

Beyond the garden wall lies a wealth of cultivated plants, each with a unique tale to tell. In The Grove, award-winning writer and head gardener Ben Dark reveals the remarkable secrets of 20 commonly found species—including the rose, wisteria, buddleja, box and the tulip—encountered in the front gardens of one London street over the course of year.

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was born on the 16th October 1854 in Dublin Ireland. His only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray was published in 1890 and he then moved on to writing for the stage with Salome in 1891. His society comedies produced enormous hits and turned him into one of the most successful writers of late Victorian London. He died destitute in Paris at the age of forty-six sipping champagne a friend had brought with the line ‘Alas I am dying beyond my means’.

Der Mann, der mit den Vögeln sprach. Der Comer See in der Lombardei, eingebettet in eine imposante Gebirgslandschaft und umgeben von Palmen, Olivenbäumen und malerischen Küstenstädtchen. Seit Jahren ein touristischer Hotspot. In diesem pittoresken Szenario spielt der packende Gesellschaftsroman, in dem es um die Bedrohung der Bergwelt durch Klimawandel und menschliche Ignoranz geht. Auf einem Steilhang des Monte Croce di Muggio hoch über dem Comer See wird ein Mann angetroffen, der offenbar mit den Vögeln redet. Kurz darauf stürzt dieser Hang in die Tiefe.