Gardening

The name Yates has been synonymous with successful gardening in New Zealand for well over a hundred years, and since its publication in 1990, the Yates Garden Problem Solver has been a popular guide for gardeners with problems. Divided into four colour-coded sections for easy reference, the book covers a wide variety of disorders affecting flowers, fruit, vegetables and trees.

A classic manual of practical permaculture brings us up to date with our need to measure, monitor and reduce our ecological footprint. Contains extra chapters on seedsaving, pest management and rural water usage.

Guided by a rediscovered spirit of self-sufficiency, a renewed sense of thrift, and a deepened commitment to the natural environment, legions of people are finding satisfaction in vegetable gardening. As gardeners spend more time in their gardens, they look for ways to make their gardens more productive, their garden chores easier, and their outdoor spaces more enjoyable. Now, with just a little time and a handful of tools, gardeners can create handsome, handcrafted items for their gardens at a fraction of the cost of buying retail... read more

Of all flowers, roses exude a special mystique and romantic beauty. Often a rose will bear a person's name, for the breeding of roses is an art, and like all artists, the raisers of roses enjoy dedicating their creations to people they love or admire.

An Illustrated A-Z of the World's Most Popular Culinary and Medicinal Plants.

Highly successful author and innovative designer Stafford Cliff has visited hundreds of gardens in the course of his travels over the last forty years all over the world, taking photographs and making notes. With his designer's eye and experience, he has created a revelatory work - a unique sourcebook of the very best ideas providing choices and inspiration for every single garden dilemma and possibility, from colour and planting to hard surfaces and features.For every new choice a gardener wishes to make, for every change they wis... read more

With their distinctive fronds and straight trunks, palms make a bold statement, while cycads are regarded by many as the dinosaurs of the plant world. As well as being economically useful in many tropical countries, palms and cycads add an exotic appeal that looks good in almost any setting. There is a wide range of species to choose from - whether you are looking to add a tropical accent to your garden or want to invest in an easy-care houseplant. "Palms and Cycads" provides comprehensive information on care and cultivation, as we... read more

As sustainability and organic living become increasingly popular, so does a desire to live a more self-sufficient lifestyle. This timely book will help you to achieve self-sufficiency and make beekeeping a reality. Beekeeping is about management, control and learning to understand the honeybee. It can also become a very enjoyable and sociable pastime - visiting others' hives and picking up vital hints and tips is all part of the fun - and farming and eating honey that your own bees have produced is a pure delight. Joanna Ryde cover... read more

This beautifully illustrated book charts the role of the garden from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the end of the nineteenth century. In this age of discovery, when the world was being explored as never before, gardening took on new dimensions. Gardens had long been associated with Paradise and while this notion persisted, the Renaissance belief in direct observation of nature offered an alternative way of thinking and cleared the way for the scientific approach of the Enlightenment. Whatever people's fundamental belief... read more

The way we view our outside space, whether roof terrace, balcony or garden, has changed dramatically in the last 20 years. Today we realise the potential of exterior domestic spaces as outdoor rooms, a fact that has led to an unprecedented growth in design products for outdoor settings. Leading designers like Marcel Wanders, Philippe Starck and Ross Lovegrove have created furniture and lighting ranges specifically for the outside. Their work successfully challenges traditional garden design, developing the use of new materials and ... read more

A comprehensive, authoritative handbook on herbs, how to use them as ground covers (even as lawn), for borders, in containers or in a formal knot garden.

A companion volume to "The Small Edible Garden". Knowing what to do when is crucial for gardeners wanting healthy home produce. Whether it is sowing, planting, feeding, or pruning, harvesting or storing, the keys to successful vegetable and fruit growing are to carry out tasks correctly and at the wrong time. Creating an edible garden doesn't take a lot of money and effort. Once you have space for growing, you can get started with some basic tools and seedlings or seeds. You can grow edibles in an extensive raised garden, or simply... read more

: A brand new addition to the growing range of Palmers gardening handbooks for beginner gardeners, aimed at de-mystifying and simplifying many aspects of growing fruit trees in the home garden. An introductory section provides information on best locations and soils, routine maintenance, pests, diseases, pruning and propagation. The comprehensive A-Z guide gives straightforward advice on the best varieties of each type of fruit to choose for your particular conditions, including problems to look out for, when to prune and when to ... read more

What's small, able to be grown on your windowsill and is bursting with flavour and goodness? Microgreens! The new superfood that everyone can grow.

This handbook de-mystifies and simplifies many aspects of rose growing - from sites and soils, routine maintenance, pests, diseases, pruning and propagation to choosing the rose which is right for you from the extensive range of varieties available today, including cultivars suggested by top New Zealand and Australian rose growers and breeders. Reissued, with new cover and includes updated cultivars to reflex new varieties currently available.

As life gets busier and backyards get smaller, it is a challenge to grow food and live more sustainably. Janet Luke shows that it can be done. She calls it Gurbing or Green Urban Living - a way of working with nature to create a productive urban garden. There are no hard and fast rules, and it might just be a worm-farm on an apartment balcony or some herbs in pots but the basic principles are the same. This book evokes some of the methods used in traditional Kiwi backyards, with modern concepts like recycling, organics and using wa... read more

If you grow your own food you will be aware of that terrible word - glut; the mountain of food you've worked hard to produce, that you either give away, or let rot where it stands. The job's not done when the harvest is gathered in. You have to make this bounty last all year through - until next year's crop replaces it. This book represents the next stage for the fruit and vegetable gardener. It explains how to store food in the traditional way, and then goes one step further and shows how you can grow your food in a way that will ... read more

Thousands of gardeners across Australia admire the Paul Bangay look. His gardens are balanced, with a careful use of space, proportion and above all, the right plant in the right location. In one garden precise pleached hedging meets billowing beds of perennials; in another, a rustic climber scrambles wildly up a trellis beside a formal rose garden; in still another, the planting is restrained to two kinds of natives only, as the landscape tumbles towards the sea. Paul Bangay's Guide to Plants offers an insight into how Paul choose... read more

"Since 1999, I have collected pictures of plants. It has become a kind of photographic herbarium. The inspiration comes from Carl Linnaeus's writings about the reproduction of plants and I have tried to approach the subject with the same curiosity and eagerness as he clearly had. Linnaeus was free and poetic in both his speech and his text. He compared the sexuality of plants and humans as a pedagogic tool and he certainly was not shy. My aim has been to make pictures as Linnaeus himself would have done if he had access to our time... read more