The Wildlife Garden

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A plan for creating a garden that is both alluring to beneficial native wildlife and aesthetically pleasing to the gardener

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Genre : Gardening
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Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
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File : 340 Pages
ISBN-13 : 1617035165


The Wild Garden

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"The Wild Garden: Our Groves and Gardens Made Beautiful by the Naturalisation of Hardy Exotic Plants" by W. Robinson is a horticultural masterpiece that advocates for a naturalistic approach to gardening. Robinson's book introduces readers to the concept of the wild garden, emphasizing the beauty of incorporating hardy exotic plants into cultivated landscapes. This work is a source of inspiration for garden enthusiasts seeking to create harmonious and ecologically diverse outdoor spaces.

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Genre : Design
Author : W. Robinson
Publisher : Good Press
Release : 2023-10-12
File : 237 Pages
ISBN-13 : EAN:8596547607618


The Wild Garden

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Author : Angus Wilson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Release : 2010
File : 154 Pages
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Rhs Companion To Wildlife Gardening

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Fully revised and updated by the author, this is the perennial and comprehensive guide to the art of wildlife gardening from the RHS, freshly illustrated and bursting with new ideas, ideas and projects. Gardening and wildlife make perfect partners. So many people are discovering that by choosing the right plants for nectar and fruit, providing some shelter and safety, a little extra food and water, and a nest box or two, any garden, balcony or backyard can be dramatically brought to life. This best-selling book was first published as How to Make a Wildlife Garden, and launched at the 1985 Chelsea Flower Show, making wildlife a mainstream issue for gardeners and the public. Now fully revised and updated by the author, this beautiful new freshly illustrated edition highlights the changes in garden wildlife over the past 35 years. Incorporating RHS research, updated best practice and addressing a multitude of controversial conservation issues, this stunning guide is also a celebration of the rich variety of wild plants and animals that can bring a beautiful garden to life. Packed full of practical advice from which plants to choose for bees, birds and butterflies, how to construct the ideal wildlife pond, where to position nesting boxes and how to enjoy wildlife in any size of outdoor space, this authoritative companion shows how wildlife gardening can make a stylish and enjoyable contribution to the environment, inspiring new gardeners while also delighting the very many owners of the best-selling original.

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Genre : Nature
Author : Chris Baines
Publisher : Frances Lincoln
Release : 2023-03-14
File : 274 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780711281295


The Wild Gardens Of Acadia

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Founded in 1961 at Sieur de Monts Spring in Maine's Acadia National Park, the Wild Gardens of Acadia display, preserve, propagate, and label native plants in areas simulating natural plant communities. The gardens, which originated from a competition in growing native plants sponsored by the Bar Harbor Garden Club, continue to be developed and maintained by volunteers in partnership with Friends of Acadia and Acadia National Park. Each of the gardens" 13 habitats, ranging from mountain to beach to bog to deciduous and coniferous woods, displays plants native to the park. Since the founding, countless park visitors have come to the gardens to identify plants they have seen on walks or hikes or to learn more about cultivating native plants. Many of the images in this book are drawn from the extensive photograph collection of the Wild Gardens of Acadia.

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Genre : Travel
Author : Anne M. Kozak
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Release : 2016-05-02
File : 175 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781439656198


New Wild Garden

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New Wild Garden combines new approaches to a more naturalistic design with the practical side of growing wildflowers and shows how to incorporate wildflowers, real meadows and a looser meadow-style planting into gardens and wild spaces. With serious concern into the decline of pollinators and habitats, meadows are currently the focus of enormous creativity. Gardeners, wildlife lovers, professional designers and seed manufacturers are all pushing the envelope of what can be grown, the pictorial effects that can be achieved, and the benefits that this provides for gardeners and wildlife. This book includes 15 step-by-step projects and an essential plant list, as well as offering inspiration to gardeners and an overview of the most influential movement in garden design over recent decades. In this book you can learn: * How to sow or plant meadow to suit your space * Planting plans for every plot size: from a container, small patch, allotment or an acre * How to grow and propagate more than 50 kinds of wildflowers * Understand and emulate the new natural style followed by designers * Meadow recipes for every soil, situation and wildlife habitat.

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Genre : Gardening
Author : Ian Hodgson
Publisher : Frances Lincoln
Release : 2021-04-20
File : 178 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780711260108


Rspb Gardening For Wildlife

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This new book busts the myths that wildlife gardens have to be ‘wild', or that you can only garden for wildlife in a ‘wildlife garden'. You can easily fit in wildlife gardening alongside everything else you want from your garden.

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Genre : Gardening
Author : Adrian Thomas
Publisher : A & C Black
Release : 2010-08
File : 23 Pages
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Nature And Ideology

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The essays in this volume explore the broad range of ideas about nature reflected in twentieth-century concepts of natural gardens and their ideological implications. They also investigate garden designers' use of earlier ideas of natural gardens and their relationship to the rich model that nature offers.

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Genre : Architecture
Author : Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn
Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks
Release : 1997
File : 296 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0884022463


The Wild Garden

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Genre : Exotic plants
Author : William Robinson
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Release : 1881
File : 222 Pages
ISBN-13 : OXFORD:N11455912


Practical Landscape Gardening

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Robert Cridland's 1922 work is a comprehensive source of information on all aspects of landscape gardening.

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Genre : Gardening
Author : Robert Cridland
Publisher : Applewood Books
Release : 2008-11
File : 286 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781429012980