The Digger's Club Guide to Gardening Success by Clive Blazey

$12.00 AUD

Category: Home and Garden

      A practical gardening book giving information to create a successful Australian garden. It looks at climate, types of gardens, garden harmony and colour, trees, shrubs, flower and vegetable gardens. A list of plants suitable for all the gardens and climate conditions described is includ ed. Includes 680 colour photos. ...Show more

Burke's Backyard Overseas : Travels with Don Burke by Don Burke

$7.95 AUD

Category: Home and Garden

Oxford Companion To Aust Gardens by AITKEN/LOOKER (eds)

$34.95 AUD

Category: Home and Garden

Onward and Upward in the Garden by Katharine S. White; E. B. White (Editor, Introduction by); Jamaica Kincaid (Afterword by)

$9.95 AUD

Category: Home and Garden

In 1925, Harold Ross hired Katharine Sergeant Angell as a manuscript reader for The New Yorker. Within months she became the magazine's first fiction editor, discovering and championing the work of Vladimir Nabokov, John Updike, James Thurber, Marianne Moore, and her husband-to-be, E. B. White, among ot hers. After years of cultivating fiction, she set her sights on a new genre- garden writing. On March 1, 1958, The New Yorkerran a column entitled oOnward and Upward in the Garden,o a critical review of garden catalogs, in which White extolled the writings of oseedmen and nurserymen,o those unsung authors who produced her ofavorite reading matter.o Thirteen more columns followed, exploring the history and literature of gardens, flower arranging, herbalists, and developments in gardening. Two years after her death in 1977, E. B. White collected and published the series, with a fond introduction. The result is this sharp-eyed appreciation of the green world of growing things, of the aesthetic pleasures of gardens and garden writing, and of the dreams that gardens inspire. ...Show more

Woodcraft by Sally Walton; Stewart Walton

$6.95 AUD

Category: Home and Garden | Series: New Crafts Collection

This text introduces a variety of decorative wood techniques, as well as ideas for simple furniture with basic construction methods. Essential information for selecting and preparing wood is included, the equipment needed and the basic techniques.'

Narcissus by John W. Blanchard; Alpine Garden Society Staff (Contribution by)

$12.00 AUD

Category: Home and Garden

Life in the English Country House - A Social and Architectural History by Mark Girouard

$12.00 AUD

Category: Home and Garden

This best-selling book is a beautifully illustrated history of the English country house from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century. In it, renowned architectural historian Mark Girouard presents a rare and revealing glimpse of the English upper classes--their public and personal lives, their servant s, and their homes. "A deeply important book, one of the most interesting contributions to architectural history."--J. H. Plumb, The New York Review of Books "A survey of country houses through the past five centuries, from a broad range of materials: family archives, literature, plans and photographs.... The book itself is a physical artifact of surpassing beauty which could fit on the grandest table in the houses it describes."--David Hackett Fischer, The New Republic "Informative, balanced, knowledgeable, and witty."--The New Yorker "This enthralling and immensely informative book...tells with wit, scholarship, and lucidity how the country house evolved to meet the needs and reflect the social attitudes of the times."--Philip Ziegler, The Times "One of those very useful and very enjoyable books that the learned can seldom write, and the entertaining seldom achieve--clear, detailed, and witty."--Angus Wilson, The Observer Winner of the 1978 Duff Cooper Memorial Prize and the W. H. Smith & Son Annual Literary Award for 1979. ...Show more

Restoring Old Australian Houses & Buildings - An Architectural Guide by Howard Tanner; Philip Sutton Cox

$12.00 AUD

Category: Home and Garden

Popular Flowering Plants

$14.95 AUD

Category: Home and Garden

Popular Orchids

$14.95 AUD

Category: Home and Garden

Atlas of Plant Life

$6.95 AUD

Category: Home and Garden

Australia's Prehistoric Plants (Mary E. White)

$6.95 AUD

Category: Home and Garden