This explains how to make the best use of the trees, shrubs, conifers and herbaceous perennials and bulbs that come into their own in winter. It aims to show the gardener how to create a winter prospect as exciting as the traditional summer displays. Horticultural advice is given together with illustrations. It deals with creating effects; use of trees and larger conifers, shrubs and climbers, heaths and smaller conifers, perennials of consequence and choosing the best bulbs. Also included is a list of gardens to visit and a full plant index.

The Winter Garden (Wisley Handbook)

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Pearson, Robert

Gardening & Landscape Design

UNKNO

This book shows the reader how to make a real garden in even the smallest space be it patio or backyard, or just a wall or fence. It shows how to maximize colour, shape and texture from a minimum of plants. The plants covered include conifers and trees, roses, shrubs, bulbs, perennials, annuals and biennials, raised beds, pots and containers, even vegetables and fruit.

Gardening in a Small Space (Wisley Handbook)

The third in a series, this book shows that, however small the available space, every garden offers an almost unlimited choice of satisfying plant associations - provided the plants are carefully chosen and every part of the garden, including walls, fences, steps and patios, is fully exploited. Container plants, so convenient for quick 'spot' colour, climbers to add height and texture to even the smallest space, and bulbs for trouble-free seasonal colour, all have their special role. This new book is four of the Wisley Handbooks collected into a single volume to provide a comprehensive, colourful gardener's reference book in a convenient format: "Gardening in a Small Space", "Climbing and Wall Plants", "Growing Dwarf Bulbs" and "Gardening in Ornamental Containers".

Courtyard and Terrace Gardens (Wisley Gardening Companion)

Elliott, Jack

Preston, George

Waite, Ray

Octovo, 1995, PP.192, This Edition Combines Heaths And Heathers By Knight 1972 And Dwarf And Slow Growing Conifers By Bond And Randall 1987 And Winter Garden By Pearson 1989

Heathers, Conifers and the Winter Garden (Wisley Gardening Companions)

Knight, Frank

Bond, John

Randall, Lyn

Ordnance Survey Guide to Gardens of Britain

Travel

Europe

Littlehampton Book Services Ltd.

City planner, developer, community builder, and realtor, Kansas Citian Jesse Clyde Nichols (1880-1949) was one of America's most influential entrepreneurs in twentieth-century land development. Adapting the railroad and streetcar suburb to the automobile age, Nichols helped to shape not only his hometown but also the nation. He pioneered the development of both permanently stable (upper middle-class) residential neighborhoods and (in 1923) of the automobile-oriented shopping center, which became the prototype for the postwar shopping mall. As early as 1940, he also initiated mass-produced, mass-market suburban developments. Attesting to his enduring legacy in Kansas City are the Country Club District, a model community of beautiful homes; the Country Club Plaza, a seventy-year-old mecca for shoppers; and a host of well-preserved suburban communities south of the downtown. In addition to his impact on living spaces, Nichols contributed to the social, cultural, and economic life of Kansas City. The Pearsons make clear that he was the driving force behind the Liberty Memorial, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, the Kansas City University (now the University of Missouri at Kansas City) and the Midwest Research Institute. Active in public service both locally and nationally during the last third of his life, Nichols helped to bring industry to the Plains states and was the man most responsible for making the Missouri River navigable. The authorized story of the man and his company is based on family papers, company records, and archival sources. In addition the authors have drawn on interviews with the Nichols family, company associates and officials, and civic leaders in Kansas City and elsewhere. Lavishly illustrated, the chronicle provides the reader with an insider's view of J. C. Nichols's life, his legacy, and his family.

The J. C. Nichols Chronicle: The Authorized Story of the Man and His Company, 1880-1994

Biographies & Memoirs

Pearson, Brad

Arts & Literature

University Press of Kansas

Electronic Security Systems is a book written to help the security professional understand the various electronic security functional components and the ways these components interconnect. Providing a holistic approach to solving security issues, this book discusses such topics as integrating electronic functions, developing a system, component philosophy, possible long-term issues, and the culture within a corporation. The book uses a corporate environment as its example; however, the basic issues can be applied to virtually any environment. For a security professional to be effective, he or she needs to understand the electronics as they are integrated into a total security system. Electronic Security Systems allows the professional to do just that, and is an invaluable addition to any security library.

Electronic Security Systems: A Manager's Guide to Evaluating and Selecting System Solutions

Business & Money

Management & Leadership

Butterworth-Heinemann

Patio Gardening

Roger Lascelles

Gold Run is the true story of arguably one of the greatest gold snatches in history. It is a tale of immense bravery, endurance and great leadership of loyal Norwegians, plus a little good fortune and help from the British against intrigue and overwhelming odds. The German invasion of Norway on the night of April 8th/9th 1940 almost took Norway completely unawares; had it not been for the defiance of one small coastal battery, the Norwegian Royal Family, Government, and nearly 50 tons of gold bullion would have had no chance to escape. In desperate haste the Royal Family fled Oslo by rail, dodging bombs and strafing, eventually reaching the port of Molde which was subsequently devastated by fire bombing. The gold with extraordinary ingenuity was moved by road, rail and fishing boat, hotly pursued by the Germans. Its weight and the need for total secrecy created unique transportation problems. After several instances of near disaster, the Norwegians managed to get the gold to the coast where the Royal Navy came to the rescue. Such was the difficulty of extricating the bullion, it was not possible to load it in one cargo, and it was taken off in three Royal Navy Cruisers, HMS Enterprise, Galatea and Glasgow, from different locations. The ships were attacked in port, then constantly harassed and bombed by the Luftwaffe as they made their way back to the UK. The loss of the bullion was a blow to the Germans. They had gained a country, but lost a King, a government and huge amount of bullion that would have financed their war machine. That loss is directly attributed to a visionary bank chief, a Colonel, a hastily assembled body of Norwegians and the ships and men of the Royal Navy, ever resourceful, brave and loyal to their respective countries. This is their story. Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 1 The Sinking of the Blücher April 8–9th 2 The Flight &amp; Fight Begins April 9th 3 The Bank and the Bullion 4 Flight to Lillehammer April 9–10th 5 Allied Help Arrives 6 Move the Bullion 7 Åndalsnes 8 HMS Galatea 9 The Road to Molde April 24th–29th 10 Molde – Capital of Norway 11 A Daring Rescue April 29th 12 D/S Driva April 30th 13 The Road From Molde 14 Welcome Arrivals 15 HMS Enterprise 16 The ‘Sealed Cargo’ Arrives in the UK 17 Pimpernel Gold 18 Atlantic Sailings 19 The Issue of Gold Appendix: Per Prag’s Diary Map Routes of the Gold Transport Notes Bibliography Index

Gold Run: The Rescue of Norway’s Gold Bullion from the Nazis, 1940

History

Americas

Casemate

Gold Run: The Rescue of Norway’s Gold Bullion from the Nazis, April 1940

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