The Rose: An Illustrated History by Jennifer Potter
$59.99 AUD
Category: Gardens
The rose. No other flower has come close to capturing the western imagination in quite the same way. Tulip fever may have flared fiercely and suddenly in seventeenth-century Europe. The Madonna lily may match the white rose for its symbolic purity. But no other flower fascinates like this mysterious flo ...Show more
Little Book of Trees by The National Library of Australia
$15.95 AUD
Category: Gardens | Series: Little Book
Trees can invoke strong emotions - love and sorrow, wonder at their grandness and great age, anger against their destruction, pleasure in their beauty and appreciation for their wood. Trees tell us about our history: the tree that was used as a prison, the Dig Tree marked by explorers Burke and Wills, t ...Show more
Passion for Place by Halliday Alison And Hambrett Joanne
$59.95 AUD
Category: Gardens
Cradled within the Blue Mountains World Heritage Area west of Sydney are the cool-climate gardens and 'hill stations' of Mount Wilson, Mount Tomah and Mount Irvine.
Rural Australian Gardens by Myles Baldwin
$89.95 AUD
Category: Gardens
Like many of us, landscape designer Myles Baldwin dreams of living in the country one day. For Rural Australian Gardens, he travels from subtropical and temperate to alpine and arid regions around the country to find the best and most unusual gardens. From newly established gardens to those that have ev ...Show more
Eucalypts: A Celebration by John Wrigley
$65.00 AUD
Category: Gardens
'The tallest and most stately trees I ever saw in any nobleman's ground in England cannot excel in beauty those which nature presented to our view.' First fleet surgeon Arthur Bowes Eucalypts are a familiar part of our landscape and an integral part of the Australian identity. We have farmed them and us ...Show more
Native Plants of the Sydney Region: From Newcastle to Nowra and west to the Dividing Range by Alan Fairley, Philip Moore
$60.00 AUD
Category: Gardens | Series: Newcastle to Nowra & West to Dividing Range
A completely revised new edition of this classic handbook of native plants found from Newcastle to Nowra. With 1,400 color photographs and its authoritative text, this is a magnificent reference for anyone who loves the Australian bush.In a handy portable format, "Native Plants of the Sydney Region" is ...Show more
Wildflower Country: Discovering Biodiversity in Australia's Southwest by Stanley Breeden, Kaisa Breeden
$75.00 AUD
Category: Gardens
There are few other places on earth where flowers are so all pervasive, so varied and as sumptuous as in southwest Western Australia. It is one of 39 special places in the world, named International Biodiversity Hotspots, where there have been explosions of evolution - veritable cauldrons of species mak ...Show more
The Garden at Charleston: A Bloomsbury Garden Through the Seasons by Sue Snell
$45.00 AUD
Category: Gardens
Set in the heart of the Sussex downs, Charleston Farmhouse is the most important remaining example of Bloomsbury decorative style. But the garden, described by Virginia Woolf in 1916 as 'charming!now run rather wild' became and remained central to life in the farmhouse. The walled garden, created by Van ...Show more
The Gardens of Japan by Helena Attlee
$33.95 AUD
Category: Gardens
In Japanese gardens, visitors find nature consdensed and brought to perfection: trees are trained and sculpted; the finest natural landscapes are reproduced in miniature; and the seasons are celebrated with spring blossom and the fiery leaves of autumn. In this introduction to Japanese gardens Helena At ...Show more
The Plot: A Biography of an English Acre by Madeleine Bunting
$49.99 AUD
Category: Gardens
On a remote edge of the North York moors, where a grassy hillside overlooks the Vale of York, there is a secluded acre of land, edged by woods, called Scotch Corner. A mysterious war memorial chapel stands there, a simple stone building, decorated with bold carvings. Madeleine Bunting's father - an arti ...Show more
Fountains and Water Features: From Ancient Springs to Modern Marvels by Rosalind Hopwood
$89.95 AUD
Category: Gardens
This fully illustrated book shows how fountains and water features have developed in Europe from antiquity to the present day and how the appreciation of water in the garden has changed. Water has played a central role since the very first gardens were created, and has been managed and directed in a sur ...Show more
Spirit: Garden Inspiration by Dan Pearson
$55.95 AUD
Category: Gardens
In this unique book influential garden designer Dan Pearson, weekly columnist for "The Observer", discloses his personal inspirations. Dan uses his own distinctive photographs as reference points giving the reader a direct and intimate insight into where and what he draws upon when working on his own pr ...Show more