Bøger udgivet af St. Lynn's Press

Homegrown botanical dyes are in, and they’re part of today’s shift toward natural and organic living.  And you don’t have to have a degree in chemistry do create your own natural dyes. It just takes a garden plot and a kitchen. A Garden to Dye For shows how super-simple it is to plant and grow a dyer’s garden and create beautiful dyes. Many of these plants may already be in our cutting, cottage or food gardens, ready for double duty.

Heaven Is a Garden is about creating havens for the senses. Drawing on ancient traditions of "e;sacred space,"e; Jan Johnsen identifies the key natural elements of a garden that can give us feelings of renewal and inspiration. She shows us how we can introduce these calming, inspiring elements into our own gardens. The chapters explore "e;the power of place"e; and the surprising role that water, trees, shapes, color and sound play in transforming our state of mind. This richly illustrated guide invites us to bring more serenity into our lives.

Good Mushroom Bad Mushroom is a friendly, authoritative field guide to the challenges and delights of hunting and eating wild mushrooms - how to ID the edible ones and avoid the toxic ones. Mushroom expert John Plischke considers 50 of the most interesting and noteworthy mushrooms out there, with full-color photos throughout and generous helpings of mushroom recipes. An attractive gift book for beginners and old-timers alike - adults as well as curious kids - Good Mushroom Bad Mushroom features heavy matte-laminated pages and concealed-wire binding for handy use outside.

The Garden Writers Association has recognized Taming Wildflowers with a Silver Award of Achievement Wildflowers are the jewels of spring and summer everywhere. Families drive miles to witness their beauty in wild landscapes. Now, gardeners are discovering that they can easily and successfully cultivate these hardy native wonders right at home, for year-after-year enjoyment. Wildflower farmer and floral designer Miriam Goldberger believes that wildflowers belong as an essential part of North American gardens. Taming Wildflowers is the ultimate DIY book on wildflower gardening: part wildflower history (¿How Wildflowers Changed the World¿), part upbeat, informative how-to, and a little basic plant science, and an easy primer on designing with these wild and wondrous blooms. Her richly photographed book shows gardeners how wildflowers enhance the beauty and environmental health of their gardens by attracting birds, butterflies and other important pollinators; the simple steps in seed propagation (¿Making Babies¿); cutting garden must-haves (natives and non-natives); integrating wildflowers into the vegetable garden; harvesting fresh and everlasting wildflowers; drying; using floral design secrets to create long-lasting arrangements; and how to design a wildflower wedding. Features more than 60 of Miriam¿s favorite wildflowers and 300 full-color photos.

The Inspired Gardener is an exuberant, design-driven gift book with multiple typefaces, full-color photos and line drawings, featuring 55+ inspirational, serious and humorous quotes ranging from Aristotle to Alice Walker. Strong visual appeal. Hardcover, printed on heavy stock recycled paper.

Sales Hook42 million households are growing food at home, and half of these backyard gardens are smaller than 8x12 feet.

Word-of-mouth may be a great way to learn about some products, but word-of-mouth gardening tips can be a very bad idea. The age-old practice of passing along gardening tips and tricks is no guarantee you will get a good result...it might even do the opposite.  In her new book, garden expert C. L. Fornari looks at 71 common garden practices and uncovers the truth behind the lore.  Do marigolds keep the bugs out of the veggie patch? Will rusty nails turn hydrangeas blue? With humor and affection, she goes back in time to sort out the good, the bad and the just plain silly...and tells us why. COFFEE FOR ROSES combines gardening history and expert advice into one useful, time- and money-saving package. The author’s award-winning full color photography is throughout.

Using the same format as the popular field guide to garden insects "Good Bug Bad Bug, Good Weed Bad Weed" is a friendly, authoritative guide to the uninvited plants in any yard. Weed expert Gift considers 50 of the most interesting and noteworthy weeds.

Think of this book as your herb-seasoning master class, filled with simple secrets for capturing the power of flavor from your herb garden. Herbs are easy to grow anywhere, indoors or out, but do you know which ones do what in your foods and beverages¿or how flavors play off of each other? This book shows you how to become an herbal tastemaster, whether yoüre a home cook or a gourmet foodie. It all starts in the garden with fresh-picked herbs. Let dedicated herb lover Sue Goetz guide you into the delicious world of 20 essential, flavor-rich herbs and the pleasures they offer. With over 100 kitchen-tested herb recipes and full-color photographs throughout, yoüll discover how to: grow and harvest the best flavor cultivars for culinary usepreserve and packagecomplement herbal flavors with spices, edible flowers, garlic, citrus, and other botanicalsprepare easy recipes for mixes, salts, rubs, pestos, oils, vinegars, butters, sugars, dressings, teas, herb-infused beverages¿and much more!

The monarch butterfly is in serious danger. More than 90% of its population has been lost in recent years due to pesticides and other human activity. This book will show readers simple ways to help save one of nature's most beautiful creatures.

A Gardener’s Notebook is designed to become a family heirloom – its pages filled with the story of your life in the garden. It is a story you will write, about dreams and hard work, setbacks and victories. Whether it’s a tiny patch or grand acreage, it’s yours and you love it (most of the time!). No doubt, friends, dogs and family will make appearances in your journal too, and that’s as it should be. When organic gardeners Doug Oster and Jessica Walliser wrote their book, Grow Organic, they hoped to also create a companion book, a garden journal that conveyed the same helpful, neighborly spirit. And so, here it is, A Gardener’s Notebook, with occasional appearances by Doug and Jess, dropping off some tips and stories of their own – like making your own ‘’compost tea,’’ planting veggie seeds that thrive, keeping the bad bugs away and inviting the good bugs in.But most of all, it’s about simply enjoying life in your garden.

Foliage comes in a mind-boggling variety of color, shape and growth habit. But which ones complement each other and work best for the many garden situations people have? Fine Foliage gives the home gardener 60+ examples of plant combinations that work for every purpose, whether in sun or shade, path or meadow, porch or poolside. Each plant combination is introduced with an on-site photograph and ¿Why This Works¿ text, accompanied by individual close-up photos and quick-tip info about care, site, soil, zone and season ¿ a complete ¿recipe¿ that even a beginner gardener can follow. Fine Foliage brings elegant, expert design and style to the garden and patio. Full color photographs throughout. Includes an index. Fine Foliage was named one of Amazon¿s ¿Best of the Year¿ garden books for 2013. The Garden Writers Association has recognized Fine Foliage with a 2014 Silver Award of Achievement The Garden Writers Association has also recognized Fine Foliage with a 2014 Gold Award of Achievement

Almost everyone does it: puts a little something on the windowsill to watch it ripen, root, or just sit there looking pretty. But the windowsill can serve as a stage for more intentional arrangements ¿ a personal, free-wheeling kind of art¿a catalyst for creativity. Author Nancy Ross Hugo demonstrates how to use the windowsill as a platform for small, simple displays that celebrate the seasons and reflect the personal style of their creators. Her fresh approach uses bottles, jars and other small vases to showcase arrangements of locally collected leaves, seedpods, flowers, fruits and twigs. In Windowsill Art the reader will learn how to find and display materials, why some containers work better than others, how to combine materials ¿ and simple techniques to enhance creative possibilities. Beautiful full-color photographs throughout.

This handy pocket guide is the only foraging field guide designed as an educational tool for Boy and Girl Scouts and their 4.7 million members and 1.9 million volunteer leaders, as well for as the general public. The author is an award-winning Scouting educator and widely acclaimed forager.

KEY SELLING POINTS¿ About three-quarters of households age 55 or older participated in some form of garden activity in 2010 (National Gardening Association).¿ Gardening is a predictor of prolonged good health and high life satisfaction in older adults (Kansas City University study, 2007). ¿ Low maintenance and drought tolerant plants are at the top of garden trends lists for 2014.

Now fully updated, "Good Bug Bad Bug" is an indispensable field guide for quickly and easily identifying the most common invasive and beneficial insects in the garden. Forty-one bugs are presented in full color on laminated card stock, with concealed wire binding.

ONCE UPON A TIME, veggie gardens lived in the backyard, isolated from the rest of the landscape. That's so yesterday! Welcome to a whole new world of food gardening ¿ right up front, sharing space with your ornamental plants for year-round, knockout beauty and function...in a way that even homeowner's associations (HOAs) would approve.Brie Arthur's The Foodscape Revolution is filled with valuable tips and how-to's, including which landscape plants play well with their edible companions, which edibles can replace favorite ornamentals and be just as beautiful ¿ and how to harvest, preserve and make the most of your bounty.

AUDIENCE. People, especially gardeners, who have had a cancer diagnosis or are undergoing treatment.. Family members and friends of cancer patients.. People in the cancer support and therapeutic gardening worlds, including physicians, physical therapists, psychologists, Master Gardeners, Susan G. Komen, etc. AUTHOR BIO Jenny Peterson is an Austin, Texas-based landscape designer and Master Gardener specializing in xeriscaping and small urban spaces. She is also a cancer survivor who found hope and healing in her garden, even during the darkest days of chemo and radiation. In the process, she made deep connections with the cancer support community, including physicians, nutritionists, bodywork practitioners, psychologists and spiritual counselors.

GARDEN HEARTS celebrates that most iconic of images, the ancient symbol of love. During professional tours of public and private gardens, the author/photographer has captured heart shapes in unusual settings. Reflecting the author's quirky, witty reputation, the book presents over 60 of his most striking images - found in plants, garden designs and features, and folk art - matching them with inspirational quotes and personal anecdotes. This gift book has great visual appeal, with strong, playful graphic elements, including line drawings and multiple typefaces.