The Gardener's Year (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Karel Capek
$26.00 AUD
Category: Writing | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
The Gardener’s Year is a charming and light-hearted insight into the life of an amateur gardener. Structured loosely around what to plant, grow or cultivate each month, Karel Capek takes us on a rollicking journey through a year in his own small garden. Complete and unabridged. Part of the Macmillan Col ...Show more
Grounding - Finding Home in a Garden by Lulah Ellender
$28.00 AUD
Category: Writing
Lulah Ellender's garden in Sussex is an unruly but beloved place. It is also not permanently her own. When just a few weeks after losing her mother, Lulah is told that she and her family might have to leave the rented house that they have made their home, her immediate response is to freeze, to neglec ...Show more
Seed to Dust: A Gardener's Story by Marc Hamer
$35.00 AUD
Category: Writing
For the gardener in your life, or for anyone who loved Late Migrations and H is for Hawk A stunning meditation on gardening and the wisdom of plants, "that rare book that will appeal to nonfiction readers everywhere ... Candid, tender, thoughtful and absorbing." --Shelf Awareness (STARRED Review) Wit ...Show more
The History of the World in 100 Plants by Simon Barnes
$55.00 AUD
Category: Writing
From the author of The History of the World in 100 Animals, a BBC Radio Four Book of the Week, comes an inspirational new book that looks at the 100 plants that have had the greatest impact on humanity, stunningly illustrated throughout. As humans, we hold the planet in the palms of our hands. But we s ...Show more
Evergreen: The Botanical Life of a Plant Punk by Tim Entwisle
$40.00 AUD
Category: Writing
In this wildly rich memoir, a director at some of the world's finest botanic gardens - Sydney, Kew and Melbourne - suggests such places are a cure for the world's ills.Tim Entwisle believes these sanctuaries can address the key threats of our time, such as climate change and plant extinction, while simu ...Show more
How I Became a Tree by Sumana Roy
$41.95 AUD
Category: Writing
An exquisite, lovingly crafted meditation on plants, trees, and our place in the natural world, in the tradition of Robin Wall Kimmerer's Braiding Sweetgrass and Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek"I was tired of speed. I wanted to live tree time." So writes Sumana Roy at the start of How I Became a ...Show more
Pharmacopoeia - A Dungeness Notebook by Derek Jarman
$23.00 AUD
Category: Writing | Series: Vintage Classics
'I planted a dog rose. Then I found a curious piece of driftwood and used this, and one of the necklaces of holey stones on the wall, to stake the rose. The garden had begun. I saw it as a therapy and a pharmacopoeia.' In 1986 artist and filmmaker, Derek Jarman, bought Prospect Cottage, a Victorian fish ...Show more
Treepedia: A Brief Compendium of Arboreal Lore (Pedia A Brief Compendium) by Joan Maloof
$30.00 AUD
Category: Writing | Series: Pedia A Brief Compendium
A captivating A–Z treasury for the tree hugger in all of us Treepedia is an entertaining and fact-filled illustrated compendium of tree lore. Featuring nearly 100 entries — on topics ranging from tree ecology and conservation to the role of trees in religion, literature, art, and movies — this enticing ...Show more
In the Garden - Essays on nature and growing
$26.00 AUD
Category: Writing
An essay collection about gardening and our relationship to nature, following on from the success of At the Pond and In the Kitchen.
Thoughtful Gardening: Great Plants, Great Gardens, Great Gardeners by Robin Lane Fox
$23.00 AUD
Category: Writing
"Thoughtful Gardening" is based on Robin Lane Fox's own selection from his widely admired "FT" column, which he has rewritten and amplified with new chapters to take readers on a highly enjoyable journey through each season of the gardening year. It draws on his lifetime of practical gardening, includin ...Show more
Visualizing Nature - Essays on Truth, Spirit, and Philosophy by Stuart Kestenbaum (Editor)
$43.95 AUD
Category: Writing
Visualizing Nature brings together contemporary visionaries to share deeply personal essays on nature, ecology, sustainability, climate change, philosophy, and more. Compiled by editor and poet Stuart Kestenbaum, the contributors represent a wide range of backgrounds and experiences, each honoring natur ...Show more
The Gardener's Bed-book by Richardson Wright
$33.00 AUD
Category: Writing | Series: Modern Library Gardening S.
From the renowned editor of "House and Garden" magazine in the 1920s and 1930s comes an engaging and amusing collection of 365 short essays, one for each night of the year.