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    • Gardeningx
    • Trusted Partner
      The Arts
      February 2017

      The factory in a garden

      A history of corporate landscapes from the industrial to the digital age

      by Helena Chance, Christopher Breward

      When we think about Victorian factories, 'Dark Satanic Mills' might spring to mind - images of blackened buildings and exhausted, exploited workers struggling in unhealthy and ungodly conditions. But for some employees this image was far from the truth, and this is the subject of 'The Factory in a Garden' which traces the history of a factory gardens movement from its late-eighteenth century beginnings in Britain to its twenty-first century equivalent in Google's vegetable gardens at their headquarters in California. The book is the first study of its kind examining the development of parks, gardens, and outdoor leisure facilities for factories in Britain and America as a model for the reshaping of the corporate environment in the twenty-first century. This is also the first book to give a comprehensive account of the contribution of gardens, gardening and recreation to the history of responsible capitalism and ethical working practices.

    • Trusted Partner
      The Arts
      February 2017

      The factory in a garden

      A history of corporate landscapes from the industrial to the digital age

      by Helena Chance, Christopher Breward

      When we think about Victorian factories, 'Dark Satanic Mills' might spring to mind - images of blackened buildings and exhausted, exploited workers struggling in unhealthy and ungodly conditions. But for some employees this image was far from the truth, and this is the subject of 'The Factory in a Garden' which traces the history of a factory gardens movement from its late-eighteenth century beginnings in Britain to its twenty-first century equivalent in Google's vegetable gardens at their headquarters in California. The book is the first study of its kind examining the development of parks, gardens, and outdoor leisure facilities for factories in Britain and America as a model for the reshaping of the corporate environment in the twenty-first century. This is also the first book to give a comprehensive account of the contribution of gardens, gardening and recreation to the history of responsible capitalism and ethical working practices.

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      Lifestyle, Sport & Leisure
      December 2020

      New Directions in Garden Tourism

      by Richard W Benfield

      Following on from the success of Garden Tourism, this book providesan update on the statistics and growth of the global phenomenon ofgarden visitation. It delves into new themes and contemporary trends,from art and culture to psychographic profiling of visitors and howsocial media and semiotics are used to enrich visitor experience andfuel motivation.In addition to these new topics, the book also expands on importantareas such as the continued rise of urban gardens, garden events,historic gardens and garden economics. It features:Visitor statistics for gardens around the world up to 2019.New case studies of The National Garden of Wales, MissouriBotanic Garden, Queens Botanic Garden, and Bombay SapphireGin Distillery in Hampshire, UK.Full-colour images that show gardens in airports, new structuresand initiatives in botanic gardens, the use of botanicals in gindistilling, animals and birds and the importance of gardens to theirsurvival, and garden responses to the restrictions imposed onthem by the COVID -19 pandemic.This new book provides a wealth of information for garden managersand tourism students. It is written in an engaging style that will appealto garden managers, students of horticulture and tourism, and casualreaders interested in the phenomena of gardens. Table of contents 1: Introduction: Philosophy of New Directions in Garden Tourism 2: Gardens Around the World, 2013–2019 3: New Directions in Gardens 4: New Audiences for Gardens 5: The New Media Landscape 6: Tourists in the Garden; Human Health and Happiness and the Semiotics of Garden Visiting 7: Events and Festivals 8: Impacts of Botanic Gardens: Economic, Social, Environmental and Health 9: Urban Garden Tourism 10: Gardens and Historic Homes; New Directions in Historic Garden Tourism 11: Future Directions 12: The Effect of the Coronavirus on Garden Tourism

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      Literature & Literary Studies
      November 2020

      EcoGothic gardens in the long nineteenth century

      Phantoms, fantasy and uncanny flowers

      by Sue Edney

    • Trusted Partner
      Literature & Literary Studies
      November 2020

      EcoGothic gardens in the long nineteenth century

      Phantoms, fantasy and uncanny flowers

      by Sue Edney

    • Trusted Partner
      Literature & Literary Studies
      May 2024

      EcoGothic gardens in the long nineteenth century

      Phantoms, fantasy and uncanny flowers

      by Sue Edney

      EcoGothic gardens in the long nineteenth century provides fresh approaches to contemporary ecocritical and environmental debates, providing new, compelling insights into material relationships between vegetal and human beings. Through eleven exciting essays, the collection demonstrates how unseen but vital relationships among plants and their life systems can reflect and inform human behaviours and actions. In these entertaining essays, human and vegetal agency is interpreted through ecocritical and ecoGothic investigation of uncanny manifestations in gardens - hauntings, psychic encounters, monstrous hybrids, fairies and ghosts - with plants, greenhouses, granges, mansions, lakes, lawns, flowerbeds and trees as agents and sites of uncanny developments. The collection represents the forefront of ecoGothic critical debate and will be welcomed by specialists in environmental humanities at every level, as a timely, innovative inclusion in ecoGothic studies.

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      Gardening

      Regenerative Landscaper

      Design and Build Landscapes That Repair the Environment

      by Erik Ohlsen, Penny Livingston

      An awe-inspiring guide that weaves together permaculture design, food resiliency, climate adaptation, community organizing, and indigenous wisdom that you can implement in your own backyard. This book has been crafted for beginner gardeners and large scale permaculturists alike. It is a step-by-step manual starting from your landscaping ideas and ending with seeds and trees confidently planted. However, this is more than just a guide to landscaping, it is a motivational read. Throughout The Regenerative Landscaper, Erik addresses climate change, species extinction, and ecological collapse with encouragement that each of us can indeed become stewards of the land. We can do this by installing healthy ecosystems in our own yards. His words offer hope and tangible action, inspiring his readers to restore planetary health one garden at a time. The Regenerative Landscaper gives a collection of case studies, step-by-step processes, prevention and mitigation methods, and regenerative land management techniques to steward your land. If you are looking for an easy-to-read manual on designing and implementing your permaculture haven, The Regenerative Landscaper is it.

    • Trusted Partner
      Literature & Literary Studies
      November 2020

      EcoGothic gardens in the long nineteenth century

      Phantoms, fantasy and uncanny flowers

      by Sue Edney

      EcoGothic gardens in the long nineteenth century provides fresh approaches to contemporary ecocritical and environmental debates, providing new, compelling insights into material relationships between vegetal and human beings. Through eleven exciting essays, the collection demonstrates how unseen but vital relationships among plants and their life systems can reflect and inform human behaviours and actions. In these entertaining essays, human and vegetal agency is interpreted through ecocritical and ecoGothic investigation of uncanny manifestations in gardens - hauntings, psychic encounters, monstrous hybrids, fairies and ghosts - with plants, greenhouses, granges, mansions, lakes, lawns, flowerbeds and trees as agents and sites of uncanny developments. The collection represents the forefront of ecoGothic critical debate and will be welcomed by specialists in environmental humanities at every level, as a timely, innovative inclusion in ecoGothic studies.

    • Lifestyle, Sport & Leisure

      Forest School Wild Play

      Outdoor Fun with Earth, Air, Fire & Water

      by Jane Worroll & Peter Houghton

      This is the third book in the brilliant Worroll & Houghton Forest School series, packed full of new games and activities. The theme is the four elements.

    • Lifestyle, Sport & Leisure

      Day by day permaculture

      by Damien Dekarz

      The author explains the core principles of permaculture and gives insightful advice on how to set up our own permaculture garden. It pushes us to better observe & connect with our natural environment before planting our garden. This book will show us how to gradually grow our garden, while focusing on its versatility, which takes the form of a full range of fruits, vegetables & herbs.

    • Lifestyle, Sport & Leisure

      The Edible forest

      by Damien Dekarz

      Here's concrete examples allowing you to create your own forest garden. With this illustrated book everyone will be able to create a place of abundance that preserves biodiversity. No need for insecticides, herbicides or fungicides to obtain countless fruiting plants. The author provides a lot of simple, practical and accessible information on grafting, pruning, pollination, planting...

    • Gardening
      February 2020

      Plant Compositions in Natural Gardens

      by Richard, Peter

      Natural gardens don't have to be wild and messy. The author, a landscaper and natural garden specialist, shows how native flowers, shrubs and trees can be used to create a deliberately designed yet natural garden paradise. He explains which plants feel at home next to each other and where they thrive and prosper, which points to bear in mind when buying and transporting the plants – and how to plant and cultivate them properly. With helpful planting sketches, numerous ideas for semi-natural plant compositions and detailed plant lists.

    • Gardening
      January 2019

      Butterflies in My Garden

      Gardening with butterfly-friendly plants

      by Kremer, Bruno P.

      Many species of butterflies are disappearing due to their loss of natural habitat. What would make more sense than to create a garden for butterflies? Simply grow the plants the caterpillars like to eat, and plants that adult butterflies feed on. This book portrays 40 butterfly species that can be supported efficiently in the garden, and furthermore introduces 80 butterfly-friendly plants. With a wide variety of plants and the additional arrangement of suitable garden structures your garden can make an important contribution to butterfly conservation.

    • Lifestyle, Sport & Leisure
      February 2022

      Inside Your Japanese Garden

      A Guide to Creating a Unique Japanese Garden for Your Home

      by Joseph Cali, Sadao Yasumoro

      Learn how to create a tranquil outdoor space at home with this practical and inspiring guide!With instructive drawings and step-by-step techniques, Inside Your Japanese Garden walks you through designing and creating your very own Japanese garden. From small projects like benches and gates, to larger undertakings like bridges and mud walls, this book provides a wide variety of ways to enhance the space around your home, no matter the size. Instructions on how to work with stone, mud and bamboo—as well as a catalogue of the 94 plant varieties used in the gardens shown in the book—round out this complete guide.This book also features 20 gardens that author Sadao Yasumoro has designed and built in Japan, and some—like those at Visvim shop in Tokyo and at Yushima Tenjin in Tokyo—are open to the public. From small tsuboniwa courtyard gardens to a large backyard stroll garden with water features, stairs and walls, these real-life inspirations will help spark your own garden plan.These inspirational garden projects include: Tea Garden for an Urban Farmhouse featuring a clay wall with a split-bamboo frame and a stone base The Landslide That Became a Garden with a terraced slope, trees, bushes, long grasses and moss A Buddha's Mountain Retreat of Moss and Stone with vertical-split bamboo and brushwood fencing Paradise in an Urban Jungle with a pond, Japanese-style bridge, and stone lanterns Each garden is beautifully photographed by Hironori Tomino and many have diagrams and drawings to show the essential elements used in the planning and construction.

    • Gardening: plants
      April 2024

      Plant magic

      by Gayoso, Ana

      In this manual, you will learn all about plants and plant signatures as well as their active principles (primary and secondary metabolites); how to collect and dry plants under the influence of the moon; the different procedures of extraction such as distillation, maceration, solvents, enfleurage… and how to use surfactants, preservatives, and antioxidants in the elaboration of, among others, essential oils, tinctures, infusions, butters, hydrolats, resins, concretes, absolutes as basic preparations of your remedies, cosmetics, perfumes, and food. You will also delve into the meaning and the emotions century-old traditions confer to plants. The manual consists in four volumes, corresponding to the seasons and their corresponding elements (air, fire, earth and water) In the first volume we focus on the element Air, seduced by its volatility and enjoying its flow.In the first chapter, when the Sun transits through the sign of Aries, we will get familiar with the basic concepts of spagyrics and prepare the ritual of Ostara and the springequinox. We will learn how to extract the active principles from the plants through distillations, tinctures, infusions, and macerations.In the second chapter, with the Sun in Taurus, we will prepare the fertility ritual of Beltane. It is the time of the fragrances, so we will prepare perfumes and other aromatics for cosmetic, magic and healing purposes. We will extract essential oils and classify them according to their elements and strengths.With the Sun in Geminis, we will analyse plants, how and when to collect them, following the cycles of the Moon to enhance their properties, and how to process them for properpreservation. We will learn to see their strengths, which will give us clues about their possible uses. We will signature them and get to know the zodiacal climates in our bodies.Also, on a more scientific level, we will focus on the active principles of the plants and their solubility in different solvents.Featured plants are nettles, hawthorn, roses, elder, lavender and sage.In the kitchen, we’ll prepare peas with mint, pasta with clams and potatosalad with capers.

    • Agriculture & farming
      April 2012

      How to Grow Perennial Vegetables

      Low-maintenance, Low-impact Vegetable Gardening

      by Martin Crawford

      Perennial vegetables are a joy to grow and require a lot less time and effort than annuals. In this book Martin Crawford gives comprehensive advice on all types of perennial vegetable (edible plants that live longer than three years), from ground-cover plants and coppiced trees to plants for bog gardens and edible woodland plants. There are many advantages to growing perennial vegetables, for example: they need less tillage than conventional vegetables and so help retain carbon in the soil the soil structure is not disturbed in their cultivation they extend the harvesting season, especially in early spring and, of course, they are much less work. Part One looks at why and how to grow these crops, and how to look after them for maximum health. Part Two features over 100 perennial edibles in detail, both common and unusual – from rhubarb to skirret; Jerusalem artichoke to nodding onions. This book offers inspiration and information for all gardeners, whether experienced or beginner, and also includes plenty of cooking tips. It includes beautiful colour photographs and illustrations throughout.

    • Mind, Body, Spirit: thought & practice

      Conscious Gardening

      by Michael J. Roads

    • Specialized gardening methods

      Ask Mother Nature

      A Conscious Gardener's Guide

      by Ellen Vande Visse

      ASK MOTHER NATURE takes the reader, step-by-step, into Vande Visse's garden to encounter the onslaught of root fly, eel worms, slugs and spider mites and introduces the idea that you can come to a deal with these pests by talking to them rather than waging chemical warfare on them.So, how do you contact a slug? Vande Visse's awkward attempts to plead for crop mercy will have readers chuckling but will ultimately surprise them when the pests, soil and vegetables offer advice and when they see what continual miracles happen when humans co-create with the angelic realms.ASK MOTHER NATURE is a unique combination: it is both a spiritual development manual and a gardening guide. The narrative challenges spiritual seekers and gardeners to actually live, apply and demonstrate a conscious life by directly communicating with nature. Just how does one do this? This is what Ask Mother Nature uniquely provides:·A plentiful supply of earthy examples. Entertaining first-person stories spell out the steps necessary to garden in conscious cooperation with the joyful spirits of nature.·A simplicity of communicating. Readers develop self-confidence as they realize that the strategy is easy and fun. One need not be highly psychic or even good at meditation.·The Devic perspective. Reading how Nature Intelligences voice their viewpoint is both surprising and touching.

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