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The Garden Journal - Linda Vater - Bog - Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc - Plusbog.dk

The Garden Journal - Linda Vater - Bog - Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc - Plusbog.dk

Chronicle life in your garden with this elegant 5-year journal full of tracking tools, planning space, gardening guidance, and inspiration. Compiled by garden personality Linda Vater , The Garden Journal is an essential record-keeping tool for every gardener, no matter what you grow. From daily happenings and garden successes to plant lists, variety names, and seasonal to-dos, you’ll be able to stay organized and keep a carefully curated record of current activities and future tasks . This gorgeous, heirloom-quality journal acts as a logbook and guide through 5 years of your garden’s life. Keeping track of success and failures, wishes and wants, has never been more beautiful! The special lay-flat binding allows the book to stay open on a table or potting bench, making it easy to write in without having to hold the pages open. Sprinkled with season-by-season guidance , inspirational words of wisdom , and growing tips from Linda, this tastefully illustrated journal is bursting with dozens of useful charts and tables to track everything from planting dates to weather events, right along with all of the other pertinent details you need to make the most of your passion for the garden. An interior cover pocket for keeping plant tags or seed packets and a ribbon page marker further serve to help you stay organized and on task . Included in this indispensable garden planner: - Inventory charts for plants, seeds, and tools - Garden planning and design pages with plenty of room for sketching - A year-at-a-glance calendar for essential notes - Tracking pages for pest controls, soil test results, and harvest yields - Places to record planting dates, bloom times, and personal reminders - Pages for noting garden measurements and dimensions, bulb-planting locations, and other tough-to-remember info - Budget planning pages to organize garden purchases and expenses - Daily weather and activity logs for 5 years The Garden Journal is sure to become a treasured garden companion . With time and curation, it will hold not just precious information, but also personal thoughts and missives about all the pains and pleasures of a life spent in the garden.

DKK 211.00
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The Vintage Farmhouse Garden - Rhonda Kaiser - Bog - Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc - Plusbog.dk

The Vintage Farmhouse Garden - Rhonda Kaiser - Bog - Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc - Plusbog.dk

With the insight and inspiration found in The Vintage Farmhouse Garden , you’ll create a gorgeous, vintage-inspired outdoor space, overflowing with style and charm. Garden and design influencer Rhonda Kaiser (@southernhomeandfarm) partners vintage-inspired design with the farmhouse aesthetic to make your outdoor space as beautiful and welcoming as possible. Whether it’s by creating a stunning tablescape, arranging a welcoming front porch, designing a peaceful outdoor garden oasis, or displaying a collection of seasonal plants and vintage accessories, Rhonda helps you bring all the classic comforts of a farm home into your garden , no matter where you live. Inside, you’ll find inspiration on how to: - Turn your farmhouse garden vision into reality - Select and plant vibrant fruits, flowers, and shrubs for your farmhouse garden - Include vintage finds in your garden design - Shape a welcoming space, from your front porch to your back gate - Incorporate and decorate outbuildings like greenhouses and toolsheds to make them as beautiful as they are useful - Add pollinator-friendly plants to your garden - Celebrate the seasons by inviting and entertaining others in your space - Plus, favorite recipes using fresh flavors from the garden Discover the joys of curating a collection of vintage accessories and showcasing it as part of a well-designed farmhouse garden, overflowing with a colorful collection of edible and ornamental plants. Welcome to The Vintage Farmhouse Garden .

DKK 211.00
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The Elegant and Edible Garden - Linda Vater - Bog - Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc - Plusbog.dk

The Elegant and Edible Garden - Linda Vater - Bog - Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc - Plusbog.dk

Discover how to partner ornamental plants with edible ones for a garden that offers both storybook appeal and a plethora of culinary delights. *Winner of the GardenComm 2023 Laurel Media Awards Silver Award in the Book Publisher/Producer General Readership Category* Stylish and celebratory, The Elegant and Edible Garden takes food growing to a higher plane. Host of The Potager Blog (@potagerblog) , author and garden stylist Linda Vater, shares her vision for creating a garden space where food and flowers grow side by side . Known as a potager , these gardens are formal in their framework yet flexible and personal in their edible yields. A potager garden is both lovely to look at and productive. Doubling as an outdoor living area, it is also the perfect place to entertain family and friends.Inside you’ll learn: - How to grow flowers, fruits, veggies, and herbs together en masse - The function of symmetry in a potager garden - Ways to create visual harmony and match the style of the garden to its surroundings - Tips for blending your family’s needs and lifestyle into the garden - Advice on how to utilize focal points and garden ornaments in your garden’s layout - The importance of rhythm, repetition, and harmony in potager design - How to position garden structures with practicality and purpose in mind - Where to put your potager for not just convenience but also to create a destination - Best practices for growing your beautiful new garden organically Create a garden that rejoices in seasonality while still allowing your style and personality to shine . The Elegant and Edible Garden is a vision of the very best things a garden can offer: food, beauty, connection, and a place to breathe.

DKK 211.00
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The Vegetable Garden Pest Handbook - Susan Mulvihill - Bog - Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc - Plusbog.dk

The Vegetable Garden Pest Handbook - Susan Mulvihill - Bog - Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc - Plusbog.dk

In The Vegetable Garden Pest Handbook, you’ll find the simple, straightforward resources and tools you need to identify common pests of edible gardens and manage them without the use of synthetic chemical pesticides. Climate change and newly introduced insect pests are changing the world of gardening. Pests that once produced a single generation per year are now producing two or even three, and accidentally imported pest insects have no natural predators to keep them in check. These leaf-munching critters can cause significant damage in short order, reducing your yields and costing you time and money , especially if your garden is out of balance or your plants are stressed and vulnerable. Whether you’re a new or seasoned gardener, author and garden pro Susan Mulvihill shows you how to handle pest issues by growing healthier plants , properly identifying the culprit , and nurturing the overall ecosystem of the garden . With easy-to-use charts, you’ll learn how to identify common vegetable garden pests based on both the damage they cause and their physical appearance. DIY pest-control projects , coupled with up-to-date info on the best natural products , physical pest-control tricks , and tips for managing pests with the use of traps and barriers , all lead to a garden where beneficial insects and pollinators are preserved while pest populations are kept in check. Learn how to: - Get rid of squash bugs with minimal effort - Screen out root maggots - Keep cutworms at bay - Nurture the good bugs that help control tomato hornworms - Tackle an infestation of mites, thrips, or whiteflies - Send cucumber beetles packing - Limit cabbage worms with a simple, inexpensive trick - Learn about the best earth-friendly product controls for home vegetable gardeners Identifying and controlling common vegetable garden pests has never been a favorite task of gardeners, but with Susan’s help, positive results are easier than you think!

DKK 242.00
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Garden Alchemy - Stephanie Rose - Bog - Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc - Plusbog.dk

Garden Alchemy - Stephanie Rose - Bog - Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc - Plusbog.dk

Garden Alchemy is a hands-on guide for do-it-yourself gardeners who want to turn their garden into gold using natural recipes and herbal concoctions (while saving both time and money!). This gardening recipe and project book is packed with over 80 ideas to naturally beautify your garden , using organic methods that regenerate your soil and revitalize your plants . By following the processes that are closest to nature, it brings the gardener in sync with the garden, allowing plants to thrive with less effort and less cost. Recipes for mixing your own potting soils and homemade organic fertilizers give you the freedom to choose what ingredients make their way into your garden. Step-by-step instructions for building a compost pile , concocting soil tests , and constructing inexpensive DIY seed-starting equipment are accompanied by gorgeous, full-color, step-by-step photography. You'll also find recipes for natural pest deterrents and traps, garden teas, and growth-boosting foliar sprays to help your garden grow strong all season long. Garden Alchemy starts with home experiments to help you get to know your soil and customize recipes for your individual needs. The rest of the chapters share how to decipher and combine natural ingredients to make the best quality amendments and elixirs . Detailed descriptions of earth-based materials demystify common ingredients, such as mycorrhizae, biochar, and greensand, and help you learn how to fix common garden problems with minimal effort . The simple method of making use of what you have available supports plants better than brand-name products. Dozens of recipes and projects include: - Homemade seed bombs, disks, and tapes - Granular and liquid natural fertilizer recipes - DIY rooting hormone - Herbal anti-fungal spray - Plant propagation instructions - Soil care recipes to adjust the pH and manage fertility - 13 specialty potting mixes - 7 clever traps for common garden pests Written by Stephanie Rose, the creative gardener, permaculturist, and herbalist behind the popular website Garden Therapy, this fun and beautifully illustrated book is packed with great ideas and inspiration for DIY gardeners who want to embrace their creativity and have more control of the garden's care .

DKK 182.00
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Your Natural Garden - Kelly D. Norris - Bog - Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc - Plusbog.dk

Your Natural Garden - Kelly D. Norris - Bog - Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc - Plusbog.dk

A valuable and artfully crafted guide to tending a naturalistic garden. From plantsman Kelly Norris, author of New Naturalism , comes a much-needed handbook to maintaining today’s natural gardens . Naturalistic plantings, overflowing with biodiverse communities of plants, are filling front and backyards around the globe with colorful blooms, easy-care plants, and wildlife habitat. But caring for a naturalistic garden is vastly different than caring for a traditional home landscape of carefully manicured plants separated by mulch and regularly primped and pruned. In Y our Natural Garden , tending your garden properly means understanding its connection to the greater natural world and using garden care methods that mimic nature instead of controlling it .Page by page, you’re guided through all the seasons of a naturalistic garden’s life and the tasks and to-dos that come with each of them. Including how to: - Encourage and establish complexity in a new garden - Promote growth and variation by letting your plants self propagate - Determine when and what to edit, and when it’s best to let chaos rein - Decide if and when weeding is necessary - Foster the insects and other animals that rely on your plants - Understand succession in the naturalistic garden and why it’s important - Know when it’s time to cut back your garden and how to do it right Verdant photographs accompany the text throughout, offering examples of well-tended naturalistic plantings and the tasks that are needed to properly care for them.

DKK 202.00
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The Layered Edible Garden - Christina Chung - Bog - Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc - Plusbog.dk

The Layered Edible Garden - Christina Chung - Bog - Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc - Plusbog.dk

Design, plant, and tend a self-sustaining, high-yielding food garden that saves space by growing plants the way nature intended—in layers. Say goodbye to long, straight rows of vegetable plants lined up and waiting for attacks from pests and diseases, and say hello to an interplanted polyculture paradise , filled with layers of edible plants that outcompete weeds, share resources, and grow beautifully together .In The Layered Edible Garden , author and food gardening pro Christina Chung of @fluent.garden introduces a modern approach to home food gardening that follows nature’s lead by growing plants in mixed communities, instead of in agriculture-centric monocultures.By intentionally including edible plants from 8 different layers (trees, sub-canopy trees, shrubs, vines, perennials, annuals, ground covers, and edible roots) in your home garden, you’ll be building a mini “food forest” that will produce food for years to come and require less work and fewer resources . With the insight found in The Layered Edible Garden , you’ll: - Learn how to transform your home’s landscape into an edible plant community - Meet dozens of plants in each of the 8 layers - Discover the many perks of growing perennial food crops that return to the garden year after year - Find design and planting advice to make your layered edible garden as attractive as it is productive - Be introduced to intensive planting strategies to organize plant layers in a functional and beautiful way - Acquire info on how to establish new planting areas and how to utilize the existing garden features already present Whether you have sun or shade, a large growing space or a small one, planting many layers of food plants together results in a diverse, low-maintenance edible garden , filled with plants that help support each other. The future of growing food is multi-layered.

DKK 211.00
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Kitchen Garden Living - Bailey Van Tassel - Bog - Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc - Plusbog.dk

Kitchen Garden Living - Bailey Van Tassel - Bog - Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc - Plusbog.dk

Build a wholesome life focused on the seasonality of the food you grow with this chic and savvy guide to creating, tending, and sharing the goodness of a kitchen garden. While kitchen gardening brings freshness and flavor to your dinner plate, it’s no longer just about growing food. Kitchen gardening is also a lifestyle choice . It’s a unique way to show the world your commitment to the health of your family and your planet, reduce your food miles, and take control of what you feed your family. A one-of-a-kind kitchen garden is also an opportunity to show off your personal style and create a peaceful escape from the busyness of today’s world . It’s a chance to disconnect from the hustle and reconnect to what matters most —food, family, and your connection to the natural world. In Kitchen Garden Living , author and Kitchen Garden Society founder Bailey Van Tassel guides you through the process of establishing a kitchen garden of your own, helping you with all of the necessary steps to get your new garden started and holding your hand all the way through to the harvest and beyond. Organized by chapters titled Plan, Grow, Tend, Make, Gather, Connect, and Inspire, the projects and lessons found here are designed to help you succeed , no matter the size or location of your kitchen garden.Includes inspiration for: - Finding your preferred garden style - Designing and laying out the beds - Living and eating seasonally - Caring for the garden while also caring for yourself - Preparing and preserving the harvest - Getting family involved - And so much more With this inspiring and supportive book as your guide, bring value to your family and your community in ways you never thought possible.

DKK 211.00
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Kitchen Garden Revival - Nicole Johnsey Burke - Bog - Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc - Plusbog.dk

Kitchen Garden Revival - Nicole Johnsey Burke - Bog - Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc - Plusbog.dk

Elevate your backyard veggie patch into a work of sophisticated and stylish art. Kitchen Garden Revival guides you through every aspect of kitchen gardening, from design to harvesting. Author Nicole Johnsey Burke, founder of Rooted Garden , one of the leading US culinary landscape companies, and Gardenary , an online kitchen gardening education and resource company, leads the way with expert advice .Participating in the grow-your-own movement is important to both reduce your food miles and control what makes it onto your family’s table. If you’ve hesitated to take part because installing and caring for a traditional vegetable garden doesn’t seem to suit your life or your sense of style, Kitchen Garden Revival is here to show you there’s a better, more beautiful way to grow food .Instead of row after row of cabbage and pepper plants plunked into a patch of dirt in the middle of the yard, kitchen gardens are attractive, highly tailored food gardens consisting of easy-to-maintain raised planting beds laid out in an organized geometric pattern. Offering both four seasons of ornamental interest and plenty of fresh, homegrown fruits, vegetables, and herbs, kitchen gardens are the way to grow your own food in a fashionable, modern, and practical way.Kitchen gardens were once popular features of the European and early American landscape, but they fell out of favor when our agrarian roots were displaced by industrialization. With this accessible and inspirational guide , Nicole aims to return the kitchen garden to its rightful place just outside of every back door. Learn the art of kitchen gardening as you discover: - What characteristics all kitchen gardens have in common - How to design and install gorgeous kitchen garden beds using metal, wood, or stone - Why raised beds mean reduced maintenance - What crops are best for your kitchen garden - A planting, tending, and harvesting plan developed by a pro - Season-by-season growing guides It’s time to join the Kitchen Garden Revival and start growing your own delicious, organic food.

DKK 211.00
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Containers in the Garden - Claus Dalby - Bog - Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc - Plusbog.dk

Containers in the Garden - Claus Dalby - Bog - Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc - Plusbog.dk

Beauty, charm, and simplicity are the hallmarks of the Scandinavian planting techniques featured in Containers in the Garden . *Winner of the GardenComm 2023 Laurel Media Awards Gold Award in the Book Publisher/Producer General Readership Category* Celebrity gardener and Danish floral designer Claus Dalby shares his signature container gardening style in this gorgeously illustrated book . His distinctive use of a single plant species in each pot, with dozens of planted pots collected together, creates elegant and eye-catching garden displays. Partnered with an abundance of textures and often a monochromatic color palette, Claus’s container gardens change with the seasons. By combining flower and foliage colors with beautiful pottery and layered displays, the results are nothing short of extraordinary.In Containers in the Garden, the English-language version of his top-selling Danish gardening book, Claus shares his best-kept secrets so that you, too, can create the container garden of your dreams . Season by season and color by color, you’ll learn how to plant, organize, tend, and share your potted plantings . Whether your display is on the front steps or the back patio, the simple yet bold design methods found here create unique garden features that are a joy to behold.The breathtaking photography found within, coupled with Claus’s descriptive and personal text, features: - Early season container plantings of tulips, primroses, narcissus, and other spring-flowering beauties - Lush summer pots, overflowing with dahlias, roses, hydrangea, and foxgloves - Colorful and textural foliage-only containers to add structure and interest to the collection - Unusual container plants such as spikemosses, wintergreen, oxalises, and even edible plants - Tropical beauties bring a summer explosion, including cannas, Brugmansia , and hibiscus - Autumnal fireworks of bronze, gold, and rust round out the seasonal display Step inside Claus Dalby’s Danish garden, and find ideas and inspiration for bringing a bit of lykke and hygge to your home with Containers in the Garden .

DKK 211.00
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The Urban Garden - Kathy Jentz - Bog - Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc - Plusbog.dk

The Urban Garden - Kathy Jentz - Bog - Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc - Plusbog.dk

In The Urban Garden you’ll find dozens of inspiring and creative ways to grow flowers, shrubs, vegetables, herbs, and other plants in small spaces and with a limited budget. Whether you want to grow on a balcony, rooftop, front stoop, or a tiny urban patio, turn your growing dreams into reality and build a gorgeous and unique garden that showcases your personal style while still being functional and productive . With the ingenious ideas and resourceful tactics found here, you’ll be maximizing yields and beauty from every square inch of your space, while also making a lush outdoor living area you’ll crave spending time in. Take inspiration from urban gardeners around the world and learn to: - Install planting pockets on fences and walls - Grow a rooftop garden in lightweight grow bags - Tips for designing small spaces that feel BIG - Build a salad table for growing lettuce and greens - Utilize garden structures and plants for decorative screening - Support pollinators by creating a small-scale habitat - Design a pet-friendly urban yard - Employ climbing plants and vines to add privacy and reduce noise - Plant in layers to maximize yields and add beauty Whether you’re growing edible plants or beautiful flowers, the 101 amazing growing ideas found in The Urban Garden will turn your tiny urban yard into a treasure trove of green you’ll be proud to share with family and friends.

DKK 180.00
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The Pollinator Victory Garden - Kim Eierman - Bog - Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc - Plusbog.dk

The Pollinator Victory Garden - Kim Eierman - Bog - Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc - Plusbog.dk

Give pollinators a fighting chance! Transform your landscape into a breathtaking pollinator paradise with the practical solutions in this New York Times –featured guide. The passion and urgency that inspired WWI and WWII Victory Gardens is needed today to meet another threat to our food supply and our environment—the steep decline of pollinators. In The Pollinator Victory Garden , environmental horticulturalist, landscape designer, and New York Botanical Garden and Brooklyn Botanic Garden teacher Kim Eierman offers accessible, actionable information and tips for winning the war against the demise of these essential animals. Pollinators are critical to our food supply and responsible for the pollination of the vast majority of all flowering plants on our planet. Pollinators include not just bees , but many different types of animals, including insects and mammals. Beetles , bats , birds , butterflies , moths , flies , and wasps can be pollinators. But, many pollinators are in trouble , and the reality is that most of our landscapes have little to offer them . Our residential and commercial landscapes are filled with vast green pollinator deserts, better known as lawns. These monotonous green expanses are ecological wastelands for bees and other pollinators. With The Pollinator Victory Garden , learn how to transition your landscape into a pollinator haven by creating a habitat that includes pollinator nutrition, larval host plants for butterflies and moths, and areas for egg laying, nesting, sheltering, overwintering, resting, and warming. Perfect for beginner to intermediate gardeners, this guide offers a wealth of information to support pollinators while improving the environment around you : - The importance of pollinators and the specific threats to their survival - How to provide food for pollinators using native perennials, trees, and shrubs that bloom in succession - Detailed profiles of the major pollinator types and how to attract and support each one - Tips for creating and growing a Pollinator Victory Garden, including site assessment, planning, and planting goals - Project ideas like pollinator islands, enriched landscape edges, revamped foundation plantings, meadowscapes, and other pollinator-friendly lawn alternatives - A Pollinator Victory Garden checklist to help you plan and implement the steps needed to have a thriving pollinator garden - Plant lists of native tree and shrub species organized by pollinator type and bloom time The time is right for a new gardening movement. Every yard, community garden, rooftop, porch, patio, commercial, and municipal landscape can help to win the war against pollinator decline with The Pollinator Victory Garden .

DKK 182.00
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The Regenerative Garden - Stephanie Rose - Bog - Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc - Plusbog.dk

The Regenerative Garden - Stephanie Rose - Bog - Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc - Plusbog.dk

Discover how to work with nature, instead of against it, by employing permaculture techniques to create a garden that is not just more beautiful and productive, but also more resilient. While the word permaculture might sound intimidating, the principals behind it are not. The main goal of permaculture is to turn your space into a functioning ecosystem that’s less reliant on external resources and better able to sustain itself through many seasons of growth and change as it resists pests, diseases, and climate extremes. Whatever the size of your space, from a tiny patio garden to a big backyard, and whether you grow food, flowers, shrubs, trees, or a combination of all, The Regenerative Garden is here to help you become a better, more eco-conscious gardener . Through 80 DIY projects , author Stephanie Rose of the popular website Garden Therapy introduces you to basic backyard permaculture concepts in an easy-to-follow , logical way. Each of the six chapters represents a living element of the garden , capable of playing a valuable role in its constant regeneration, including soil, water, plants, climate, ethics, and community. As you check these projects off your to-do list, you’ll find you’ve reduced your long-term work load , conserved water and other resources , turned your yard into a habitat for wildlife , and learned to grow perennial foods in creative ways . The 80 featured projects include step-by-step instructions on how to: - Employ intensive planting to reduce weeding and watering chores - Use living mulches to amend the soil - Build self-watering planters and wicking beds to reduce water use - Install a rain garden to catch runoff - Plant a wildlife hedge to support creatures and create a windbreak and noise buffer - Compost projects and systems to repurpose waste on-site - Make a butterfly migration station to support pollinators of all sorts A healthy, organic, regenerative garden is a perfect example of a self-sustaining ecosystem ; everything works in tandem, is intricately connected, and comes full circle to create its own never-ending cycle of life.

DKK 182.00
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The Cottage Garden - Claus Dalby - Bog - Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc - Plusbog.dk

The Cottage Garden - Claus Dalby - Bog - Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc - Plusbog.dk

Through over 700 exquisite photographs and evocative text written by Danish gardening celebrity Claus Dalby, explore the history and development of the beloved cottage garden design style. In the pages of The Cottage Garden , you’ll first draw inspiration from the stories and landscapes of generations of famous cottage gardeners , including Gertrude Jekyll, Vita Sackville-West, William Robinson, Margery Fish, and Tasha Tudor. Then, meet modern cottage gardeners from around the globe who combine billowing masses of flowers such as poppies, delphinium, lupines, foxgloves, peonies, roses, lilies, and many more to create dreamy landscapes infused with the romance and wildness of cottage-style gardening.You’ll find no formal lines, rigid rules, or perfect spacing in the cottage garden. Instead, the form is organic and purposefully unstructured . Plants self-sow here and there, bulbs pop up and spread unrestricted, and everything appears casual; though as you’ll come to learn through Dalby’s words, it is all done with great intent.Overflowing with textures and colors, the cottage gardens featured throughout this book in hundreds of full-color photographs are found in places as diverse as Germany, Sweden, Denmark, England, and the United States. The accompanying text is derived from Dalby’s personal visits to these gardens, along with his intimate interviews with the resident gardeners .Dalby provides useful details about the design, development, and continued evolution of cottage gardens. He shares the stories of these breathtaking modern cottage gardens in a way that allows you to glean inspiration you can use to create a cottage garden of your own, whether large or small. The gardens profiled in these pages exhibit the essential foundational elements and principals of well-designed cottage gardens. Whether home is in the countryside or a suburban subdivision, the profiled gardens will serve as both muse and motivation for the creation of a classic backyard cottage garden in your own space . This gorgeous tome is sure to become the bible of this much-adored classic garden design style. Also by Claus Dalby: Containers in the Garden

DKK 271.00
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A Woman's Garden - Tanya Anderson - Bog - Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc - Plusbog.dk

A Woman's Garden - Tanya Anderson - Bog - Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc - Plusbog.dk

Led by beautiful photography, take an inspirational tour around the garden for helpful growing advice and step-by-step instructions for creating over 35 projects, edibles, and art from your garden. In A Woman’s Garden, the creative force behind LovelyGreens.com, Tanya Anderson, shares the great variety of ways you can use the power of plants for home and health. Gardens grow more than just pretty flowers. They grow well-being and a deeper connection with nature . Gardens can also produce plant material for creating homemade skincare , natural dyes , artisan crafts , delicious foods and beverages , and medicines —homegrown ways to create a wholesome lifestyle. Making things with your hands and heart , and then sharing the fruits of your labors with friends and family, is both satisfying and soul-stirring. Learn how to grow dozens of plants and then transform them into gorgeous items to nurture yourself or gift to others . - Visit the kitchen garden where you will find tips for growing your own produce and learn how to make a strawberry planter from a pallet. - Embrace the joys of edible flowers —learn to make floral ice cubes and food featuring flowers, both savory and sweet. - Enjoy the flavors and scents of culinary herbs , which you will learn to use to enhance cooking oils, drinks, and pasta. - Grow and harvest plants and flowers to make skin care products such as herbal bath fizzies, lavender and alkanet soap, and more. - Grow plants for herbal medicine , including chamomile for calming tea and calendula for healing minor cuts and scrapes. - Cultivate an array of plants with uses around the home , including rosemary and citrus kitchen-cleaning spray and lavender for scenting linens. - Brighten your world with plants for dyeing wool and cloth —learn methods for extracting color from a rainbow of different plants, including goldenrod, onions, and butterfly pea flower. - Make a garden that overflows with creativity by crafting garden makes such as fossil imprint stepping-stones, papier-mache leaf lanterns, and pressed flower candles. In addition to a wealth of hands-on projects , you’ll take a trip around the globe and visit the gardens of 8 women , including Deanna Talerico from Homestead and Chill, Ashlie Thomas from The Mocha Gardener, Melissa Will from The Empress of Dirt, Rekha Mistry from Rekha’s Garden and Kitchen, Giovanna Becker from Herbstead, in addition to several others. Find inspiration, healing, health, and happiness right outside your own backdoor with A Woman's Garden .

DKK 182.00
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Drawing Class: Flowers and Friends in the Garden - Heegyum Kim - Bog - Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc - Plusbog.dk

Drawing Class: Flowers and Friends in the Garden - Heegyum Kim - Bog - Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc - Plusbog.dk

Learn to draw flowers, critters, and things from the garden—it’s easy with 60 step-by-step lessons + video tutorials via QR codes. Written and illustrated by award-winning illustrator Heegyum Kim, Drawing Class: Flowers and Friends in the Garden makes drawing flowers and more from the garden fun and accessible for all skill levels. With simple, step-by-step lessons, this book teaches you how to draw flowers, animals, birds, and other charming garden elements using basic shapes. Each lesson includes a QR code linking to a video tutorial, so you can follow along and perfect your techniques.From delicate petals and vibrant blooms to hopping bunnies and chirping sparrows, Drawing Class: Flowers and Friends in the Garden helps you capture the beauty of nature with confidence. With Heegyum’s whimsical and approachable style, this book transforms drawing into an enjoyable and relaxing experience for beginners and experienced artists alike.Inside, you’ll find: - 60 fun, step-by-step drawing lessons: Learn to draw a wide variety of flowers, plus animals, birds, and other garden favorites. - Video tutorials for every project: Access helpful videos via QR codes to enhance your learning. - Tips for adding vibrant details: Use colored pencils to bring life and personality to your creations. - Whimsical, garden-themed inspiration: Put together what you’ve learned to create scenes filled with flowers, buzzing bees, friendly critters, and charming details. Perfect for anyone who wants to explore their creative side or unwind with a mindful activity, Drawing Class: Flowers and Friends in the Garden is a must-have addition to your art book collection. Whether you’re sketching for fun or developing your skills, this book will help you create stunning artwork inspired by the beauty of the garden. Combining easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions with engaging video tutorials, the Drawing Class series is designed to engage and inspire budding artists of all ages. Discover even more delightful drawing subjects with Heegyum Kim in Drawing Class: Animals .

DKK 141.00
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The Water-Smart Garden - Noelle Johnson - Bog - Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc - Plusbog.dk

The Water-Smart Garden - Noelle Johnson - Bog - Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc - Plusbog.dk

Have you ever faced water-use restrictions and worried about how you can still grow a beautiful, productive landscape? Let The Water-Smart Garden show you how! As freshwater shortages increasingly strike regions around the globe, it’s more important than ever to employ water-conserving practices in the garden. Whether your landscape is filled with shrubs and perennials or fruits and vegetables, in The Water-Smart Garden , you’ll learn dozens of techniques to limit water use while growing a gorgeous and thriving garden. Not only will you learn how to make smart plant choices and improve the water-holding capacity of your soil , you’ll learn xeriscaping techniques, drought-tolerant growing tips , and plant care advice to make the most of low-water situations.Also includes information on: - Harvesting and redistributing rainwater in cisterns and rain barrels - Employing methods like ollas and drip irrigation to target water directly to plant roots - Being more water-efficient in the vegetable garden by using mulches and targeted irrigation - Planting containers that require less-frequent watering - Replacing a lawn with more drought-resilient plants - Building swales and berms to redirect water to where it’s needed Author and dry-gardening horticulturist Noelle Johnson of @az.plant.lady makes it easy to help save this precious resource and still have a resilient, attractive, and low-maintenance landscape.

DKK 211.00
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Attracting Beneficial Bugs to Your Garden, Revised and Updated Second Edition - Jessica Walliser - Bog - Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc - Plusbog.dk

Attracting Beneficial Bugs to Your Garden, Revised and Updated Second Edition - Jessica Walliser - Bog - Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc - Plusbog.dk

This revised and updated edition of Jessica Walliser’s award-winning Attracting Beneficial Bugs to Your Garden offers a valuable and science-backed plan for bringing balance back to the garden. With this indispensable gardening reference—now updated with new research, insights, and voices—learn how to create a healthy, balanced, and diverse garden capable of supporting a hard-working crew of beneficial pest-eating insects and eliminate the need for synthetic chemical pesticides . After a fascinating introduction to the predator and prey cycle and its importance to both wild ecosystems and home gardens, you’ll meet dozens of pest-munching beneficial insects (the predators) that feast on garden pests (their prey). From ladybugs and lacewings to parasitic wasps and syrphid flies, these good guys of the bug world keep the natural system of checks and balances in prime working order. They help limit pest damage and also serve a valuable role in the garden's food web. But, they won't call your garden home if you don't have the resources they need to survive . With a hearty population of beneficial insects present in your garden, you’ll say goodbye to common garden pests like aphids, cabbage worms, bean beetles, leafhoppers, and hornworms , without reaching for a spray can. To encourage these good guys to stick around and do their important work, you'll learn how to create a welcoming habitat and fill your garden with the best plants to support them. Inside you’ll find: - Bug profiles introducing dozens of beneficial insects and the down-and-dirty details on how they catch and eat their prey - Plant profiles featuring the best plants for supporting beneficials - Interviews with entomologists who focus their life's work on understanding the value of insects, including Doug Tallamy, Paula Shrewsbury, Leslie Allee, Dan Herms, and others - An inspiring look at how plants and insects intersect in the most incredible ways - Why gardening for bugs is just as important to the greater world as it is to your garden - Tips for creating insectary plantings and borders to support a broad range of beneficials The acclaimed first edition of Attracting Beneficial Bugs to Your Garden ushered in a new way to garden; one that appreciates and understands of the power of returning a natural balance to the garden . This revised and updated edition continues to herald and expands on that same important message.

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¡Verdura! – Living a Garden Life - Perla Sofia Curbelo Santiago - Bog - Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc - Plusbog.dk

¡Verdura! – Living a Garden Life - Perla Sofia Curbelo Santiago - Bog - Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc - Plusbog.dk

¡Verdura! – Living a Garden Life celebrates the power of adding more green to your life with 30 simple and budget-friendly gardening projects that promote well-being through plants. From Puerto Rican author and gardening celebrity , Perla Sofía Curbelo Santiago of Agrochic.com, a Spanish-language gardening lifestyle platform, comes this guide to forming a lifelong love of nature, plants, and gardening . Verdura means “greenery” in Spanish, but also refers to any edible plant from the garden. Throughout this book, verdura is used as both a description and an aspiration—it’s all about adding more verdura to your daily life! Perfect for beginners and expert gardeners alike, turning the practice of tending plants into a healthy lifestyle has never been easier. It takes many repetitions to form a habit, and the goal is to use the 30 projects found here to transform the initial spark of joy plants create into a healthy habit that enhances your life in many ways. Indoor and outdoor projects are included, many of which are perfect for small spaces and urban environments. In addition to offering plant-related wellness tips, personal stories of her own garden evolution, and advice on how tending plants can improve both physical and mental health, Perla offers clear step-by-step guidance on project creation. Some of the projects you’ll find inside include: - Creating a container planting that appeals to a 13-year-old version of yourself - Making a meditation garden or a private healing nook - Planting a barefoot garden - Performing a quick and easy garden makeover - Compiling a garden-tainment kit - Upcycling common discards to create a propagation station, a swinging planter, and a birdbath - Organizing your garden legacy using a basic guide Also included are alternative plant charts if you’re the kind of gardener who likes lots of plant choices, and section openers that offer a small glimpse of gardening life on the island of Puerto Rico. Green-up your life to reduce stress and add joy with help from ¡Verdura!

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Grow Your Own Mini Fruit Garden - Christy Wilhelmi - Bog - Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc - Plusbog.dk

Grow Your Own Mini Fruit Garden - Christy Wilhelmi - Bog - Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc - Plusbog.dk

Forget the farmer’s market. Grow your own delicious, organic apples, figs, peaches, plums, strawberries, blackberries, citrus fruits, and more with Grow Your Own Mini Fruit Garden . No green thumb required. Even beginners become successful fruit "farmers" with the techniques and advice offered by author Christy Wilhelmi, the force behind the popular gardening website, Gardenerd. Selecting the best small-scale fruit trees, bushes, vines, and plants for your climate, siting them properly, and pruning your compact trees for health and productivity are some of the many topics covered in the pages of this bible of small-space fruit growing . You’ll also discover how to: - Turn your urban, suburban, or rural garden into a fruit factory, no matter its size - Maximize production from edible container fruit gardens - Grow more food in less space - Limit your family’s synthetic pesticide consumption - Choose varieties with increased disease resistance - Select plants that grow well in your climate - Maintain your fruiting plants correctly to encourage years of prolific harvests With modern, dwarf varieties , and help from Grow Your Own Mini Fruit Garden , a healthy, high-yielding garden filled with fruit-producing plants is possible—even in the smallest of yards.

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The Climate Change Garden, UPDATED EDITION - Sally Morgan - Bog - Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc - Plusbog.dk

The Climate Change Garden, UPDATED EDITION - Sally Morgan - Bog - Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc - Plusbog.dk

In this global gardener’s guide to creating a resilient, climate-wise garden, learn how to adapt your garden to cope with volatile weather extremes and other effects of a rapidly changing climate. It’s no longer gardening as usual. Heat waves, droughts, flooding, violent storms…the long-predicted extremes of weather caused by climate change are now on our doorstep , and gardeners around the world are feeling the effects. Certain pests are staying active until much later in the season, many plants are blooming earlier, soils are eroding and degrading at a rapid pace, unpredictable rainfall is water-logging our gardens, and fiercer storms are uprooting trees and snapping branches. Not to mention the effects of prolonged drought in many parts of the world and the water rationing that comes with it. What’s a gardener to do?We need to learn how to protect the garden against climate extremes, exotic pests, invasive weeds, and more . The Climate Change Garden is the first book to reveal which types of gardens are better suited to deal with such extremes and which techniques, practices, and equipment can be put to good use in our gardens to help temper the issues. There’s no getting away from it; no matter where on the planet you live, the climate and weather patterns are changing fast, and our gardening practices need to catch up.With the aim of building a more durable, robust, and productive garden beneath the shadow of climate change, you’ll learn how to: - Adapt your plant selections, planting practices, and garden maintenance techniques for the new future - Select vegetable and fruit varieties that are more adaptable to weather extremes and more capable of resisting pests and diseases - Find ways to manage excess storm water runoff and minimize the heat island effect - Foster wildlife and discover the importance of creating a safe haven for these creatures in a changing world - Use season extenders like cold frames, high tunnels, and row covers to protect edible plants from weather events - Take measures to reduce your garden’s carbon footprint, including going no-till, building a green roof, and composting - Limit the risks from wind, frost, and snow by taking advantage of microclimates, planting wind breaks, and physically protecting plants - Plant more of the right trees for your future climate to help cool your home, slow the movement of water, and hold soil in place The Climate Change Garden is about working with the natural world to create a productive, low-maintenance, climate-savvy garden that’s capable of standing strong against the effects of a changing climate.

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