If you live in the city but want to be close to nature . . . If you call the countryside home but have no time to step outside . . . If you are confined to an office fifty hours a week . . . If your home needs the soothing touch of the natural world . . . In The New Terrarium, Tovah Martin, one of America’s favorite gardeners, introduces you to the whimsical yet practical world of gardens under glass—a no-fuss way to bring snippets of nature indoors. Wherever you are, in whatever little time you have, terrariums are the perfect tool for nature lovers and gardeners everywhere. With gorgeous photography, The New Terrarium reveals how this classic garden tool has been reimagined in a modern way. When encased in glass, plants thrive with almost no help from outside their little enclosed world, so you can host a plant almost anywhere—in your apartment where the air is dry or in your cubicle where there’s little natural light. Tucked inside something crystal and contained, the bounty of the forest or treasures from the beach or the meadow can merge seamlessly into your home or office environment. It’s amazing how some frothy fern fronds or colorful blossoms can transform a room by giving it a burst of vibrant green life. With clear, simple step-by-step instructions and photographs to inspire and guide you along the way, Martin shares her years of experience growing and tending terrariums and shows how terrariums can enrich your life, including: • different venues for cultivating your terrarium • plants that flourish in these gardens under glass • ideas and designs for creating your first terrarium • how to care for and maintain the environment you’ve made Martin has designed a unique range of imaginative terrarium projects, including ones that are suitable for children, enliven the seasons, incorporate plant propagation, and show off a nature collection. Whether you are a gardener or city-dwelling nature lover, The New Terrarium is the perfect way to spark your creativity, while helping you to bring your favorite plants into your home and giving them a place to thrive. When nature is out of arm’s reach and you crave a little greenery, The New Terrarium can show you how to bring all the benefits of the outdoors close to you.

The New Terrarium: Creating Beautiful Displays for Plants and Nature

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

MARTIN, TOVAH

Gardening & Landscape Design

Clarkson/Potter

A guide to aromatic indoor plants lists them month-by-month, according to their season of bloom, describes the history and care of each plant, and offers advice on the selection of appropriate plants

The Essence of Paradise: Fragrant Plants for Indoor Gardens

Little,Brown & Co

Tasha Tudor's poignant art has fascinated adults and children for decades. Her nineteenth-century New England lifestyle is legendary. Gardeners are especially intrigued by the profusion of antique flowers -- spectacular poppies, six-foot foxgloves, and intoxicating peonies -- in the cottage gardens surrounding her hand-hewn house. Until now we've only caught glimpses of Tasha Tudor's landscape. In this gorgeous book, two of her friends, the garden writer Tovah Martin and the photographer Richard Brown, take us into the magical garden and then behind the scenes. As we revel in the bedlam of Johnny-jump-ups and cinnamon pinks, the intricacy of the formal peony garden, and the volumptuousness of her heirloom roses, we also learn Tasha's gardening secrets. How does she coax forth her finicky camellia blossoms in the dead of a Vermont winter? How does she train that fantastic topiary to model for her artwork? How can she keep her crown imperials from tumbling in the winds? Tasha's garden reflects a wealth of family lore, perfected through the years and years of working the soil. We may be dazzled by the beauty of the garden, but we come away from this book with practical ideas about improving our own plots of land. "Paradise on earth" is how Tasha describes her garden, and along with the flowers and the vegetables that provide her food, her paradise is filled with an enchanting menagerie -- corgies, Nubian goats, cats, chickens, fantail doves, and forty or more exotic finches, cockatiels, canaries, nightingales, and parrots, which inhabit her collection of antique cages. Tasha's beautiful watercolors and her enchanting anecdotes color this sublimely beautiful book.

Tasha Tudor's Garden

Arts & Photography

Houghton/Mifflin

Tasha Tudor's Heirloom Crafts

Takes an illustrated look inside the cottage of the beloved children's book illustrator, Tasha Tudor, as she uses traditional tools and techniques to make a variety of nineteenth-century items, including candles, baskets, soap, cheese, and marionettes.

Brown, Richard W.

Crafts & Hobbies

Learn how to brighten any window with colorful, attractive window boxes.

Window Boxes: How to Plant and Maintain Beautiful Compact Flowerbeds (Taylor's Weekend Gardening Guides)

Houghton, Mifflin Co.

Indoor gardening, after years of neglect, is now the subject of renewed interest. For the first time White Flower Farm is selling house plants, and Martha Stewart is featuring them on her television show. This book goes far beyond the collection of pots on a windowsill to show the many plants you can choose and the many ways you can use them to create an indoor garden. From basic how-to growing information to theme gardens, from ornamental containers to designs for topiaries, this is the one indoor plant book every reader will want to have.

Indoor Gardens: A Complete How-To-Guide to Selecting, Planting, and Caring for the Best Plants for Every Indoor Landscape (Taylor's Weekend Gardening Guides)

Houghton, mifflin, harcourt

The authors of Tasha Tudor's Garden turn their attention to garden whimsy, describing the birdhouses, scarecrows, topiary animals, gates, fences, and other beloved objects that make a garden more than just a collection of fauna.

Garden Whimsy

For generations, a love of flowers, an understanding of nature, and a knowledge of the secrets of plants has passed seamlessly from mother to daughter to granddaughter. In its deliciously entertaining text and through its beautiful photographs, A TIME TO BLOSSOM captures the essence of childhood. Whether she is climbing an apple tree, squirming through a proper tea-party visit with an elderly neighbor, dashing to hang a May basket on a friend's door, or sitting crowded and cranky on a Sunday ride with the family, Tovah Martin's childhood memories will captivate the reader. With Richard Brown's glorious photography, A TIME TO BLOSSOM reminds us of the authors' earlier book, TASHA TUDOR'S GARDEN. The text is frank, impish, nostalgic, but never cloying or sentimental. It is a recollection of childhood with all the mischief, the mystery, and the innocence intact. And for readers who want to enjoy their own mother and daughter flower projects, A TIME TO BLOSSOM is filled with practical instructions: How to make a hollyhock doll; weave a garland; press pansies, bake a scented geranium cake, force bulbs, dry flowers, make rose potpourri, grow a giant amaryllis, and much much more.

A Time to Blossom

Brown, Richard D.

An experienced horticulturalist explains how to pick the perfect houseplants for the light you have available, showing how to gauge the light intensity in your exposures, discussing and evaluating each exposure, and recommending appropriate plants.

Well-Clad Windowsills: Houseplants for Four Exposures

Macmillan General* Reference

Features entries that include a brief description of each flower's history, its place in legend and folklore, and guidelines on cultivation and pest control

Heirloom Flowers: Vintage Flowers for Modern Gardens

Fireside

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