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ABORIGINAL PEOPLE & THEIR PLANTS
[Philip A Clarke]
This book will provide an overview of indigenous relationships to plants in Aboriginal Australia. The impetus for the book is largely drawn from the establishment of the new permanent Australian Aboriginal Cultures Gallery at the South Australian Museum, which presently receives over 700,000 visitors per year. The book contains themes that the author has been researching for twenty years. The book is unique, spanning the gap between botany and indigenous studies. It differs from other 'bushtucker' overviews by treating the study of plants as a window upon which to delve into Aboriginal culture. There are four main sections. Part 1 gives insights into Aboriginal culture through looking at the roles of plants in language, ritual and religion. Part 2 demonstrates how Aboriginal people were actively involved in managing their environment. Part 3 focuses upon the importance of particular species of plant to make food, drink, medicine, narcotics and tools. Part 4 looks at the future of Aboriginal plant use.
{
192pp,
210x285mm,
May 2007;
PB,
£16.12,
1877058513:9781877058516
, Rosenberg Publishing Pty Ltd
} |
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ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL CONTAINERS
: The ABCs of Creative Container Gardens
[Sue Amatangelo]
With a patio, porch, or windowsill, any budding gardener can bring the outdoors in using this guide to growing in containers. Arrangements begin simply, with one type of plant in a decorative container. The projects move on to combinations of two plants, then on to more complex pots involving three or more plants. Design principles including color, texture, height, and depth are considered, and ideas for themed containers are included for holidays and other festive occasions. Species range from the tried-and-true garden varieties, such as impatiens and petunias, to newer plants on the market, such as a striking red ornamental millet. Some of the arrangements are even meant to go from container to garden plot. The planter plans include detailed photographs, diagrams, and instructions on getting the very best results from container gardening, for lasting natural beauty in any space.
{
275pp,
260x210mm,
April 2007;
HB,
£20.99,
1883052467:9781883052461
, IPG (Ball Publishing)
} |
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AUSTRALIAN PLANTS
: For Gardens in the Sun
[Rodger Elliot]
The Australian plants selected for this book have much to offer gardeners for cultivation in temperate and warm temperate regions where there is plenty of sunshine and a high probability of extended dry periods. In most cases these plants will also perform well in cool temperate and subtropical regions throughout the world. There is basic information on growing plants in containers, pruning and shaping of plants, watering which is such a hot topic at present with climate change and global warming on everybody's lips, fertilising, mulching, propagation, pests and diseases. Under the various headings of Groundcovers, Tufting Plants, Climbers and Ramblers, Shrubs -- small to tall and Trees over 100 very choice plants are presented. Cultivation and propagation information is provided or each entry. A highlight for each section is utilising plants in possible designs for 'Picture Making'. In the 'Picture Making' segments only plants covered in this book are included in the suggested designs. The Quick Reference Plant Selection Guide is there to help to choose plants for specific areas and requirements.
{
160pp,
210x285mm,
August 2008;
PB,
£13.00,
1877058696:9781877058691
, Rosenberg Publishing Pty Ltd
} |
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CITRUS
: A Guide to Organic Management, Propagation, Pruning, Pest Control & Harvesting
[Allen Gilbert]
Follows in the footsteps of Allen's other popular texts on organically growing apples, nuts and tomatoes.
{
168pp,
155x230mm,
May 2007;
PB,
£15.99,
1864471034:9781864471038
, Hyland House Publishing
} |
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COMPLETE POOL MANUAL FOR HOMEOWNERS & PROFESSIONALS
: A Step-by-Step Maintenance Guide
[Dan Hardy]
Dan Hardy has used every available resource in his 20-year career as a pool professional to add to his store of knowledge about making and keeping water safe. An untiring and dedicated 'Pool Doctor', he has become the 'go to' man for owners of some of the world's largest, most ornate, and expensive private swimming pools -- including that of award-winning actor Mr John Travolta and his wife, Kelly Preston. Dan started working on pools as a boy in his dad's firm. Not content with doing routine maintenance, he began learning all he could about chemicals, mechanics, and safety. In this book he may just be a lifesaver to pool owners who want to save money on maintenance but need to know how to handle poisons safely. Pool maintenance business owners will want to have this book on hand as an easy guide to repairing filtration and pumps and dealing with serious pool problems. And anyone who wishes to have such a career could have no better mentor than Dan Hardy.
{
288pp,
155x230mm,
January 2007;
PB,
£33.50,
1601380224:9781601380227
, Atlantic Publishing Group Inc
} |
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COUNTRY GARDEN
: Creating a Garden in Rural Australia
[Fiona Ogilvie]
Gardening is about discovering the plants that grow best for you, and creating a setting in which to put them together in the best possible way. The author is well-known for her weekly gardening column in 'The Land'. This book is about the author’s search for the best plants for gardening in the New South Wales Central Tablelands, with long, dry summers and regular droughts, and the garden she has been making there since 1988. This is a book for those who enjoy reading the story of a garden and who: live in a sunny climate with dry summers and regular droughts garden on acid soil with rainfall of 500mm per annum or less are interested in designing and maintaining a garden in a dry, sunny climate.
{
128pp,
210x285mm,
May 2007;
PB,
£11.99,
187705853X:9781877058530
, Rosenberg Publishing Pty Ltd
} |
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CUTTING PROPAGATION
: A Guide to Propagating & Producing Floriculture Crops
[John M Dole & James L Gibson]
The latest techniques for propagating crops with terminal, stem, and leaf/stem cuttings are the focus of this horticulture handbook. Fifty-eight major floriculture crop species along with hundreds of other minor crop species are detailed according to the best way to propagate and grow each one. Plants are organised by their type, such as bedding, field cuts, foliage, and perennials. An introduction to the floriculture cutting propagation industry addresses establishing and managing a young-plants service, creating the correct conditions for a cutting harvest and propagation, and shipping unrooted, callus, and rooted cuttings and plugs. Nutrient, watering, and pest control information is also provided to help horticulturists to keep their crops healthy and strong.
{
385pp,
180x260mm,
August 2006;
HB,
£54.50,
1883052483:9781883052485
, IPG (Ball Publishing)
} |
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EDIBLE WATER GARDENS
: Growing Water-Plants for Food & Profit
[Nick Romanowski]
This book is the first complete guide to what is known of the uses, cultivation and worldwide availability of edible and other commercially important aquatic plants other than seaweeds, which already have an extensive literature of their own. Whether you are a backyard grower or a botanist, a student of horticulture, or of aquaculture, or of agriculture, you will find many ways to make use of the rich lode of information brought together in this book.
{
147pp,
190x260mm,
September 2007;
HB,
£29.50,
1864471026:9781864471021
, Hyland House
} |
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EREMOPHILA & ALLIED GENERA
: A Monograph of the Myoporaceae
[R J Chinnock]
This book is the result of thirty years research by Dr R J (Bob) Chinnock, the world authority in the family Myoporaceae, in which he has produced a new classification of the family resulting in the delimitation of 3 new genera, 94 new species and 37 new subspecies, and a revised infrageneric classification of the genera Eremophila and Myoporum. Treatment of species includes a detailed description as well as analytical drawings, notes on distribution, ecology, conservation status and relationships.
{
672pp,
210x285mm,
April 2007;
HB,
£39.99,
1877058165:9781877058165
, Rosenberg Publishing Pty Ltd
} |
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FOOD SECURITY FOR THE FAINT OF HEART
[Robin Wheeler]
This is a book of strategies, and lifestyle shifts for householders wanting a well rounded view of what food security means and how to get closer to obtaining it. Includes earthquake preparedness, networking, stockpiling, and buying on a budget.
{
178pp,
140x215mm,
April 2008;
PB,
£11.50,
0865716242:9780865716247
, New Society Publishers
} |
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GREAT LANDSCAPE EVERGREENS
[Vincent A Simeone]
This accessible guide identifies the best evergreens for landscaping purposes, including how they can be used to best effect as borders, hedges, living fences, privacy screens, or to block unsightly views. Detailed entries for over 80 species -- from conifers and broadleaf evergreens to deciduous and semi-evergreen shrubs -- describe each plant's size, shape, colour, flower (if applicable), light and soil requirements, and hardiness zones while colour photographs show each evergreen integrated into the landscape to help gardeners, homeowners, and landscape designers select the perfect evergreen for the right spot and use.
REVIEW: "Specifically, this volume answers one of the most challenging and common questions each of us has in making a garden: how to block out unwanted views, whether merely the compost heap or a whole roadside boundary." -- Margaret Roach, editorial director, Martha Stewart Living"
{
146pp,
210x210mm,
September 2008;
HB,
£20.99,
1883052637:9781883052638
, IPG (Ball Publishing)
} |
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GREEN CITY
: People, Nature, & Urban Places
[Mary Soderstrom]
Examining eleven cities worldwide and concentrating on the intersection of nature and society in the urban environment, this book offers insight into how people have tried and often failed to connect with nature throughout history while retaining a strong optimism for the future. Giving examples for each city, the author weighs the consequences of introducing nature to urban areas and provides recommendations on creating green space in the city.
{
244pp,
145x215mm,
September 2006;
PB,
£14.99,
1550652079:9781550652079
, IPG (Véhicule Press)
} |
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GUERILLA GARDENING
: A Manualfesto
[David Tracey]
The term "guerrilla" may bring to mind a small band of armed soldiers, moving in the dead of night on a stealth mission. In the case of guerrilla gardening, the soldiers are planters, the weapons are shovels, and the mission is to transform an abandoned lot into a thing of beauty. Once an environmentalist's non-violent direct action for inner-city renewal, this approach to urban beautification is spreading to all types of people in cities around the world. These modern-day Johnny Appleseeds perform random acts of gardening, often without the property owner's prior knowledge or permission. Typical targets are vacant lots, railway land, underused public squares, and back alleys. The concept is simple, whimsical and has the cheeky appeal of being a not-quite-legal call to action. Dig in some soil, plant a few seeds, or mend a sagging fence -- one good deed inspiring another, with win-win results all around. "Guerrilla Gardening" outlines the power-to-the-people campaign for greening our cities. Tips for effective involvement include: finding plants and seeds cheap (or free); handling city officials; getting the dirt on soil; planting to bring back the birds; knowing when to ask permission and when to seek forgiveness. Social activists, city dwellers and long-time gardeners will delight in this fast-paced and funny call to arms.
{
230pp,
190x230mm,
April 2007;
PB,
£13.50,
0865715831:9780865715837
, New Society Publishers
} |
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HANDY HOUSEHOLD TIPS
: Do You Know the Secret of Running a Household Efficiently?
[Vijaya Kumar]
Are you tired of doing household chores? Then this book can be of immense help. It presents a plethora of handy tips on cleaning, washing, gardening, and tailoring to expedite your work and make it easier. It is a collection of various easy and safe household tips to make your home clean and beautiful and to relieve the drudgery usually associated with household tasks.
{
86pp,
140x215mm,
October 2005;
PB,
£3.99,
1845575318:9781845575311
, Sterling Publishers PVT Ltd (New Dawn Press)
} |
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HILLSIDE OF ROSES
: 3rd Edition
Once again Susan Irvine's delight in her garden and her plants transports the reader to her garden. Her fans will not be disappointed and she will gain many new friends through this book. This revised edition of the original 1994 publication features integrated colour throughout and includes an expanded section on the Australian roses of Alister Clark.
{
162pp,
170x245mm,
July 2008;
PB,
£17.99,
1864470879:9781864470871
, Hyland House
} |
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HOME CONCEPTS EXTENSIONS & CONVERSIONS BOOK
[Lisa Davies Byrne & Paul Molloy]
Book & DVD. The latest addition to the Home Concepts Series is designed for those homeowners that want to improve, not move. Packed with innovative designs and floorplans for every extension option, the book offers ideas and information on how to do it right, with style and in keeping with planning and building regulations. Designs by eight respected UK and Irish designers feature throughout as detailed before and after views of both exteriors and interiors. The accompanying DVD brings these designs to life with interior panoramics and transitional animations.
{
181pp,
230x230mm,
September 2007;
PB,
£17.99,
0955014522:9780955014529
, Shoreline Press
} |
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HYDROPONICS
: Indoor Horticulture
[Jeffrey Winterborne]
This book offers the most modern, advanced, and accessible information available to date on indoor gardening. This book reveals the esoteric secrets that are practised and used by the most experienced, seasoned and successful hydroponic cultivators. In straightforward, easy-to-understand, plain language, the book explains step-by-step and chapter-by-chapter, every currently known method and technique for producing super-sized yields and outrageous harvests. Do you want to grow like a pro? This book will show you how!
{
258pp,
150x210mm,
December 2005;
PB,
£25.00,
0955011205:9780955011207
, Pukka Press
} |
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INTERIOR DIVINE
: Walking You Through the Transformation of Your Home
[Jayne M Pelosi]
Brings a fresh and novel approach to interior decorating. It identifies simple, stunning ways to improve your home, and thus enhance your life. Step-by-step, author Jayne Pelosi helps readers overcome the chronic areas where people get stuck in the design process, such as how to become inspired to decorate, how to select coordinating fabrics, or how to decide where to put colour in a space. It is written in a practical and straightforward style laced with humour and a warm spiritual perspective. You'll feel like you're talking to a dear friend, or better yet, a Design Coach! Interior Divine is not a style-based manual; Jayne does not advocate one style over another, perhaps because she loves them all! Rather, throughout the book, Jayne encourages you to become acquainted with your design personality and to learn how to honour it in the design of your interiors. Replete with beautiful photography and helpful charts, Interior Divine is sure to become a staple in your interior design library.
{
179pp,
170x230mm,
February 2006;
PB,
£20.99,
0975481088:9780975481080
, AtlasBooks (Acanthus Publishing )
} |
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NATURE-FRIENDLY GARDEN
: Creating a Backyard Haven for Plants, Wildlife & People
[Marlene A Condon]
Many people approach gardening as a constant struggle with the outside world. They're perpetually at war with nature, investing in weed killers and fighting off deer and birds, all in an effort to preserve their garden as a pristine patch of earth. Marlene A Condon proposes a radically different method: What if, instead of battling the natural world, we invite it into our backyards? The result is the nature-friendly garden, which attracts and meets the needs of common creatures -- rabbits, toads, insects, squirrels, owls, and so on -- while maintaining a thriving, varied landscape of flowers and plants. And as this thought-provoking guide demonstrates, coexisting with nature doesn't mean turning your yard into a bramble-infested wilderness. The sustainable, low-impact garden described in these pages is a model of environmental balance, fostering species diversity while keeping wildlife damage and invasive plant growth at an acceptable minimum. Best of all, it offers a privileged look at the workings of nature, and its advice on observing wildlife is sure to open up a new and fascinating world for even the most experienced gardener.
{
152pp,
155x230mm,
April 2006;
PB,
£16.99,
0811732614:9780811732611
, Stackpole Books
} |
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NEW PLANTS FROM OLD
: Simple, Natural, No-Cost Plant Propagation: 2nd Edition
[Jackie French]
Why buy your garden, when you can grow it at no cost? Why limit your creativity to your nursery's range, when there's much more to choose from all around you? Why spend on patented seeds and expensive seedlings, when nature's bounty can be yours for free? Written for Australian and New Zealand gardeners, "New Plants from Old" will tell you, in a clear, non-technical way, the secret of: striking cuttings; cross-pollinating; layering; hybridising; grafting; seed-collecting; budding; germinating; dividing.
{
116pp,
155x230mm,
September 2007;
PB,
£11.99,
0947214569:9780947214562
, Aird Books Pty Ltd
} |
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NUTRIENT DEFICIENCIES IN BEDDING PLANTS
: A Pictorial Guide for Identification & Correction
[James L Gibson, Dharmalingam S Pitchay, Amy L Williams-Rhodes & Brian E Whipker]
With information on 25 popular seed and cutting-propagated bedding plant species, this fully illustrated study based on research conducted at North Carolina State University explains the causes of nutrient deficiencies and provides diagnostic techniques for each one as well as corrective procedures and proactive measures to help growers avoid plant nutrient problems altogether. With a chapter devoted to each crop -- including impatiens, begonia, pepper, tomato, and basil -- this guide features colour photographs showing the progressive stages of deficiency for 11 nutrients essential for healthy plant growth. With this resource, growers will be able to diagnose deficiencies at various stages so that problems may be treated early and growers will be able to minimise crop damage and maximise a crop's economic value.
{
369pp,
155x230mm,
September 2008;
HB,
£58.50,
1883052610:9781883052614
, IPG (Ball Publishing)
} |
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PAINTED GARDEN ART
: Anyone Can Do
[Lin Wellford]
No need to have a green thumb to enjoy colourful and attractive outdoor spaces. This book uses common cast cement landscaping elements like scalloped borders, stepping stones, and retaining wall blocks, as well as natural river rocks, to create an amazing array of innovative designs. Author Lin Wellford takes readers step by step through the process of making a realistic "Faux Fish Pond" and a strikingly lifelike "Iguana Rock", plus fanciful projects for flower and butterfly stepping stones, "Fishy Flower Beds" and a life-size "Garden Gator". Full size patterns along with clear and complete instructions and over 200 hundred colour photos ensure that anyone can succeed in making these attractive pieces to enhance their gardens and paths.
{
112pp,
215x280mm,
April 2007;
PB,
£19.50,
0977706516:9780977706518
, R&D (ArtStone Press)
} |
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PERENNIAL SOLUTIONS
: A Grower's Guide to Perennial Production
[Paul Pilon]
Applying up-to-date technical and cultural information to the everyday production of perennial crops, this guide is specifically devoted to producing perennials under greenhouse and nursery conditions. The back-to-basics approach gives growers an understanding of the principles behind production practices, enhancing their ability to consistently provide high-quality perennials to the marketplace. A guide to propagation and growing plants to maturity with chapters on media, water quality, fertilisation, insect and disease management, weed control, plant-growth regulators, forced blooming, herb production, and marketing, and production schedules for over 100 of today's most popular perennial species provide growers with everything they need to succeed.
{
546pp,
185x260mm,
August 2006;
HB,
£54.50,
1883052475:9781883052478
, IPG (Ball Publishing)
} |
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PESTS & DISASES OF HERBACEOUS PERENNIALS
: The Biological Approach: 2nd Edition
[Stanton Gill, Raymond A Cloyd, James R Baker, David L Clement & Ethel Dutky]
This book is designed to help herbaceous perennial growers, IPM scouts, and experienced plant handlers correctly identify problems in greenhouses, nurseries, and landscapes and control them before major damage is caused. Focusing on a TPM/IPM approach, the authors present cultural and biological solutions to be as environmentally friendly as possible while still growing high-quality perennials. This second edition improves upon the original. Included are: Over 550 photos and illustrations of insect and mite pests and damage caused by pests and diseases; Biological controls chapter reflects the latest products and beneficial organisms for today's crops; Updated insect and mite descriptions, including up-to-date control measures; New disease reports from the U.S. and international markets.
{
422pp,
155x230mm,
October 2006;
HB,
£54.50,
1883052505:9781883052508
, IPG (Ball Publishing)
} |
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SPIRITUALITY OF GARDENING
[Donna Sinclair]
This is a celebration of the beauty of our gardens and of the deep lessons and meanings they whisper to us as we spend time with them. For Sinclair, gardening is about much more than planting bulbs and thinning perennials; it is about more than weeding beds and maintaining walkways, more than sculpting shrubs and trimming trees -- though it can involve all of these things. Gardening is a deeply spiritual experience and practice. Like all spiritual practice, it is ultimately about connection. It is about balance and harmony, about memory and hope, about healing and acceptance, and even, in this increasingly paved-over world, about revolution. Lavishly illustrated with stunning, full-colour photographs, Sinclair's expansive and beautifully crafted vision honours the blessings of sunlight, earth, water and air found in our own gardens, and, in so doing, awakens us to a deep love and compassion for planet earth, the original garden paradise -- a precious gift from the source of all love and beauty.
{
160pp,
215x230mm,
October 2005;
PB,
£26.99,
1896836747:9781896836744
, Wood Lake Publishing (Northstone)
} |
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TEA ROSES
: Old Roses for Warm Gardens
[Lynne Chapman, Noelene Drage, Di Durston, Jenny Jones, Hillary Merrifield & Billy West]
Teas -- once almost forgotten -- are now being acclaimed as superb roses for warm gardens. Bred for a century or so from 1820, they were descended mainly from Chinese garden hybrids introduced into Europe in the early nineteenth century. Teas brought characteristics that had not been seen before in European roses. These included an intriguing multi-layered fragrance; a new range of colours; a higher-centred flower shape; gently nodding heads; and a bushy, twiggy growth habit. Even more importantly, the Teas whose ancestors came from temperate to subtropical areas of China bloomed almost continuously in favourable conditions and did not need a dormant period. The authors aim to bring together the observations and knowledge they have accumulated about the Teas and to tell something of their past history. Full details are given of roses currently being sold as Teas in Australia, as well as some Tea-like found roses. Descriptions are first-hand and not just a repetition of what has been said before. They authors grow most of the Teas known in Australia, and these are a large proportion of those commercially available elsewhere. Consequently, the information given about them will be relevant wherever these roses are grown.
{
240pp,
210x285mm,
June 2008;
HB,
£29.00,
187705867X:9781877058677
, Rosenberg Publishing Pty Ltd
} |
 |
WILDERNESS GARDEN
: Beyond Organic Gardening: 2nd Revised Edition
[Jackie French]
There’s no need to water your garden! Or weed, prune, spray or dig it! In her decades of watching the bush and the animals around her, and of experimenting with hundreds of new growing strategies, Jackie has learnt to grow things by letting the plants -- and nature -- do most of the work for her. And, with "The Wilderness Garden", you can learn to do that too!
{
226pp,
170x245mm,
July 2008;
PB,
£14.99,
0947214577:9780947214579
, Hyland House Publishers
} |
 |
YARD & GARDEN MAKEOVERS
: Your Guide to Creating a Beautiful, Logical Landscape
[George Kay, Brian Kay & Jennifer Derryberry Mann]
George and Brian Kay, two dedicated landscape designers and architects, look at multiple aspects of creating an individual landscape that not only reflects the interests of the inhabitants but also provides beauty. Through their years of experience, the Kays look at how a yard is used, what the homeowners enjoy, the feel of the home and neighbourhood to determine a landscape plan that combines form and function. Equally important is the use of natural elements as part of construction, enforcing the unique look of each landscape. The Kays walk readers around the house, discussing what's appropriate for a front yard garden, making liveable areas in the backyard, and attractive and functional walkways and entrances to the home and garage. Key to the book are the before and after shots of the authors' past projects. These makeover images show how a drab but serviceable landscape can be beautifully and logically improved to reflect the owners and add zest and value to the property.
{
162pp,
205x260mm,
September 2008;
HB,
£33.50,
1883052645:9781883052645
, IPG (Ball Publishing)
} |
