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Dandelion salad, delicious wild mushrooms, fruits and berries--you'll be surprised at what is growing in nearby fields, woods, and shores. Healthy, fresh, and free ingredients can be found in your own backyard, bringing you back to nature and traditional roots. A Guide to Wild Food Foraging is a compact and comprehensive directory of more than 100 profiles of wild plants, herbs, fruits, nuts, mushrooms, seaweeds, and shellfish. Each profile provides you with tips on identification, seasonality, location, and what and when to harvest. It also includes how to safely harvest your foraged treasures while being mindful of maintaining the habitat, how to prepare your bounty, and how to incorporate them into delicious recipes. With this book, you can add flavor to any meal for free. A Guide to Wild Food Foraging includes: Over 100 detailed plant profiles for wild plants, herbs, fruits, nuts, mushrooms, seaweeds, and shellfish. Full color, high-quality photographs, and illustrations to help you properly identify each nutritious and natural piece of food. Useful information for foraging beginners, such as the foraging code, tips for plant conservation, and questions of legality.Tips on freezing herbs and which plants have medicinal value.Recipes, preparation suggestions, and more
Foraging for wild food is growing more and more popular as people become increasingly interested in eating not only organic but also local fresh food - for free.
Creating bonsai, an ancient art form that encourages meditation and contemplation, can be an intimidating art to start because of its intricate and precise nature. But David Squire's new book, Complete Starter Guide to Bonsai for Beginners, is a gentle but complete beginner's guide to the craft. Starting with the definition of what a real bonsai is, the author discusses the spirit and aesthetics of creating bonsai then continues with the materials needed, how to prune, pinch, water, feed and display your piece. The book also includes a chapter on indoor bonsai and outdoor bonsai, then concludes with a beautiful gallery of bonsai trees. Feel calmer and more focused by learning how to raise bonsai trees.
All kinds of garden plants - shrubs, climbers, roses, hedges and trees - need pruning to improve their shape and condition, and to encourage more flowers and fruits. Whether you are starting with a new garden, maintaining established plants or trying to renovate a neglected garden, this book will prove invaluable time and again. A concise, easy-to-use reference guide Written by a gardening expert Understand pruning philosophy quickly and easily Packed with practical, step-by-step instructions Includes a useful A-Z of plants and how to prune them Advice on how to tackle neglected gardens Special sections on arches, tunnels and topiary
Home Gardener's Orchids is the essential guide to choosing and growing orchids successfully in any climate. Orchids have a reputation for being hard to grow, but this comprehensive manual will lead gardeners straight to the best variety to cultivate in their climate, and provide all the necessary information to make their flowers flourish. Dozens of dazzling photographs showcase many of these exotic blooms, while detailed sections discuss how to raise them indoors and in growing cases, as well as in greenhouses, and give plenty of advice on watering, misting, composts, heating and cooling, repotting, and dealing with pests and diseases. This remarkable illustrated A-to-Z features important tips for every orchid, and includes notes on whether it's easy to grow and where to grow it, what temperature it needs, and much more.
Home Gardener's Garden Pests & Diseases is the essential guide to identifying, targeting, and banishing common pests and diseases from the garden. All gardeners know the disappointment of finding their flowers nibbled, or their prized produce riddled with rust. Armed with this essential guide, you can stop the destruction. Get acquainted with all the common pests and diseases that afflict ornamentals, vegetables, fruits, and houseplants, and learn the best ways to deal with them. The effective options include both biological controls-increasingly popular in the gardening world-as well as the better-known organic and chemical methods. At-a-glance checklists explain which ailments generally afflict various plant types, from roses and rock-garden plants to soft fruits and vegetables.
A beautiful gift book filled with charming illustrations, it will take you through the facts and folklore of gardening, its history and curiosities.
This delightfully illustrated book is a homage to bees, revealing many facets of their lives. It gives valuable tips on how to attract bees to your garden.
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