Composting is the practical art of making healthier and more colorful gardens while reducing your dependence on polluting chemicals. The latest discoveries in organic, environmentally aware forms of gardening offer no-smell, no-cost ways to make nature's decomposition processes work for you. Make your own true "new miracle plant food" by mixing eggshells, grass cuttings, and banana skins, and other waste, and making insects work for you. The simple new approach features a show-and-tell guide to building a compost box, selecting the best ingredients, choosing the ideal accelerator, and distributing the compost to supply maximum nutrients to your plants, and ensure soil aeration, water retention, and drainage.

Compost

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Foster, Clare

Gardening & Landscape Design

Cassell

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Bounty Books

Octopus Publishing Group Ltd.

Growing flowers from seed is one of the easiest and cheapest ways to supplement your borders, bringing instant color to tired gardens. Many of these flowers are also ideal for cutting, so within a single growing season you can produce armfuls of beautiful blooms to cut and bring inside the house. Author Clare Foster and photographer Sabina Rüber have been experimenting with growing flowers from seed for several years. In this book they pass on that invaluable experience, explaining how and when to sow and grow a huge range of flowers from Aquilegia to Zinnia.

The Flower Garden: How to Grow Flowers from Seed

Rüber, Sabina

Laurence King Publishing

It is heartbreaking to learn that your loved one has experienced a miscarriage or molar or ectopic pregnancy. Be it a friend, child or your own partner, it can be hard to know what to say, or how best you can help. Should you mention the baby or avoid all topics that relate to children? How can you be there for your partner as they grieve, while dealing with your own emotions? What if you're pregnant and it's your best friend that has experienced a loss? What if you say the wrong thing? This accessible guide provides evidence-based advice on supporting someone after a miscarriage, ectopic or molar pregnancy. Clare Foster draws upon her personal experience and that of other women and partners, as well as extensive research, to provide you with the knowledge and practical advice you need to help your loved one. The National Director of the Miscarriage Association, Ruth Bender-Atik, has written a foreword.

How to Help Someone After a Miscarriage: A Practical Handbook (How to Help Someone With, 5)

Self-Help

Death & Grief

Welbeck Balance

Plants in a perennial garden must be as appealing throughout the entire year as they are in full flower. Certainly some plants provide enduring pleasure with their changing color and shape as the months pass, but others fail to pass the test. The ten perennials celebrated here--Rocky Mountain columbine, purple coneflower, Caucasian peony, glove thistle, bronze fennel, Lenten rose, pasque flower, cardoon, sea holly, and golden groundsel--were all selected for their innate and enduring beauty, a beauty that will carry through every season. Brilliant color photographs depict each crucial stage of their development, in bud, bloom, foliage, and seedhead, while the eloquent, informative text describes each plant in detail, providing its cultural and botanical history as well as complete growing information. The result? An album that will inspire a garden as exquisite in the fall and winter as it is during the height of the flowering season.

From Bud to Seed: Ten Great Perennials

Conran Octopus

Almost all flowers are lovely at the height of their bloom, but that flourishing state is only fleeting. What does the plant offer the rest of the time? What does it look like when its blooms are in bud, preparing to open, in full flower, starting to fade, as a seedhead or as foliage? Dazzling, sumptuous color photographs and evocative prose answer those questions for the California poppy, clary sage, candytuft, love-in-a-mist, and six more of the most continuously gorgeous flowering annuals and biennials around. Extraordinary close-ups picture every stage of each plant's development in full glory, while the text affords precise information on its development, dimensions of its flowers and foliage, and the conditions under which it thrives, as well as accounts of its cultural, historical, and possible folkloric significance. A delight to page through, this luminous, inspiring volume takes the guesswork out of gardening.

From Bud to Seed: Ten Great Annuals

Everybody knows that to garden successfully you need compost--and environmentally-aware gardeners realize that it's the most earth-friendly way to work. But not everyone knows just how easy it is to make. That's about to change, thanks to this guide by the editor of the highly-regarded magazine Gardens Illustrated. It demystifies the whole process, and demonstrates that compost doesn't have to come in bags from the store, smell like a farm yard, or even cost a penny. All it takes are some egg shells, grass cuttings, and old banana skins, plus a little help from mold, insects and nature, to improve soil naturally, cut down on weeds without chemicals, and get more from your flowers and vegetables.

Recently selected by gardening doyenne Beth Chatto as one of her top twenty gardening books of all time, this invaluable book demystifies the art of composting. House &amp; Garden gardens editor, Clare Foster, shows you how to build a compost box, select the best ingredients and put the resulting organic compost to the best use in your outdoor space. By taking some dead leaves, grass cutting and old banana skins and enlisting the help of bacteria, insects and nature, you can improve and enrich your soil, feed your plants and nourish your vegetables, restoring the natural balance of life in your garden

Compost: How to make and use organic compost to transform your garden

Mitchell Beazley

Flowers have long been a favorite subject among artists, and the development of many well-known horticultural varieties may be traced through their depiction on paper or canvas over the centuries. Painterly Plants explores this fascinating relationship between horticulture and art through 14 of the most exquisitely beautiful flowers that nature and hybridization can produce. Some are the subjects of history’s most famous botanical masterpieces, while others look as if they themselves have been daubed with paint. Each chapter focuses on an enduringly popular plant and its most spectacular varieties, providing a history including its artistic history with plenty of lively anecdotal information, and a key botanical illustration that is discussed in the text. In addition, gardens expert Clare Foster provides succinct practical information on cultivation and recommended varieties. The jewel-like colors and sculptural shapes of the flowers are captured in a series of superb close-up photographs by Sabina Rüber.

Painterly Plants

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Merrell Publishers

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Compost

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The Flower Garden: How to Grow Flowers from Seed

How to Help Someone After a Miscarriage: A Practical Handbook (How to Help Someone With, 5)

From Bud to Seed: Ten Great Perennials

From Bud to Seed: Ten Great Annuals

Compost

Compost: How to make and use organic compost to transform your garden

Painterly Plants