Thrifty Household: More Than 1000 Budget-Friendly Hints and Tips for a Clean, Waste-free, Eco-friendly Home by Country Women's Association Victoria

$24.99 AUD

Category: Gardening

A modern classic for a new generation looking for environmentally friendly, thrifty, tried and true solutions for tackling everyday household tasks.  

Companion Planting in Australia by Brenda Little; Ken Gilroy (Illustrator)

$17.99 AUD

Category: Gardening

Companion Planting is a notebook of gardening tips compiled from Brenda Little's observations as well as suggestions from like-minded gardeners. Entertaining and often anecdotal, Brenda's notes are arranged alphabetically, allowing the reader to easily search for a particular plant or garden pest. Her s ummary of good and bad garden companions is a useful and quick reference tool for gardeners planting beds or containers of vegetables or herbs. In this age of increasing hostility towards chemical control of the food we eat, Companion Planting is the ideal guide to working with nature, to produce cabbages that squeak with health and beans that snap like gunshot. ...Show more

Plantastic! A to Z of Australian Plants by Catherine Clowes; Rachel Gyan (Illustrator)

$29.99 AUD

Category: Gardening

Did you know that there are plants that eat insects? Plants whose seeds spread in poo? Plants that move when you touch them? And plants that grow on other plants? Plantastic presents 26 of Australia's most unique and incredible native plants. Discover and identify native plants found in your local park, bushland, or even in your very own backyard. With its perfect balance of fun facts, activities, adventurous ideas and gorgeous illustrations, Plantastic will prove just how fantastic Australia's native plants really are Features: Full of interesting facts about Australian native plants that will get kids excited about the plant world and gently introduce general scientific concepts.Provides a Plantastic Activity for each featured species to encourage kids to search for and engage with the plants in their local area.Explains traditional Indigenous uses for some plants - including hunting, fishing, building and medicine.Includes common plants with wide distributions so that kids can discover more about their local flora, no matter where they live in Australia.The bright and beautiful illustrations will help kids easily recognize the plants from this book out in the wild.   ...Show more

Plantopedia: The Definitive Guide to Houseplants by Lauren Camilleri; Sophia Kaplan

$59.99 AUD

Category: Gardening

Houseplants have the power to transform any room. With their lush foliage, structural beauty and air-purifying qualities, they help create indoor oases that bring a sense of tranquility to our busy lives. In Plantopedia, Lauren Camilleri and Sophia Kaplan from Leaf Supply present the definitive guide to keeping happy, healthy houseplants in any space. This guide features over 150 plant profiles including foliage plants, succulents, and cacti and rarer gems of the plant world. Each profile includes detailed care information including troubleshooting tips and tricks to ensure that your houseplants thrive. There are plants for all levels of indoor gardeners, from budding novices to green thumbs and beyond.   ...Show more

Habitat Garden by Peter Grant; Bary Dowling (Foreword by)

$3.99 AUD

Category: Gardening | Series: Gardening Australia Ser.

Habitat Garden shows readers how to design and create a garden full of Australian native plants that, in turn will encourage Australian insects and animals to thrive.

Miniature Trees With Imagination

$39.99 AUD

Category: Gardening

Gardening with Emma - A Kid's Guide to Growing Food and Having Fun by Emma Biggs; Steven Biggs

$26.99 AUD

Category: Gardening

Thirteen-year-old Emma Biggs is passionate about gardening and eager to share her passion with other kids Gardening with Emma is a kid-to-kid guide to growing healthy food and raising the coolest, most awesome plants while making sure there's plenty of fun. With plants that tickle and make noise, tips f or how to grow a flower stand garden, and suggestions for veggies from tiny to colossal, Emma offers a range of original, practical, and entertaining advice and inspiration. She provides lots of useful know-how about soil, sowing, and caring for a garden throughout the seasons, along with ways to make play spaces among the plants. Lively photography and Emma's own writing (with some help from her gardening dad, Steve) capture the authentic creativity of a kid who loves to be outdoors, digging in the dirt. ...Show more

Stonefields by the Seasons by Paul Bangay

$59.99 AUD

Category: Gardening

Paul Bangay's celebrated Victorian property, Stonefields, has now been under his expert care for 15 years. Today, his vision is complete and the garden is mature and more beautiful than ever. In this new book, Paul takes the reader through the changing seasons to highlight different aspects of the garde n and the trusted design and planting principles he has applied at Stonefields. From the vibrant autumn colours in the woodland, to the jubilant flowering of the crab apple trees in October and the harvesting of vegetables in the summer, this is a delightful and exquisitely photographed journey through the garden that tells the story of its evolution since The Garden at Stonefields was published in 2013. Sharing practical advice, too, Paul explains the gardener's essential quarterly tasks as well as his favourite and recommended plants for each season. But this is also a beautiful book of reflection on a much-loved garden to which a gardener has dedicated many years of time and care. Looking back on all he has achieved in this treasured space, Paul muses on creativity, achievements and disappointments, the human connection to the changing Australian landscape and the inevitabilities of change and the passage of time. More than just an intimate tour around Stonefields today, this book is an invitation to reflect on the meaning and rich rewards of gardening itself.   ...Show more

The Earth In Her Hands by Jennifer Jewell

$59.99 AUD

Category: Gardening

"An informative and celebratory resource." --Booklist In this beautiful and empowering book, Jennifer Jewell--host of public radio's award-winning program and podcast Cultivating Place--introduces 75 inspiring women. Working in wide-reaching fields that include botany, floral design, landscape architect ure, farming, herbalism, and food justice, these influencers are creating change from the ground up. Profiled women include flower farmer Erin Benzakein; codirector of Soul Fire Farm Leah Penniman; plantswoman Flora Grubb; edible and cultural landscape designer Leslie Bennett; Caribbean-American writer and gardener Jamaica Kincaid; soil scientist Elaine Ingham; landscape designer Ariella Chezar; floral designer Amy Merrick, and many more. Rich with personal stories and insights, Jewell's portraits reveal a devotion that transcends age, locale, and background, reminding us of the profound role of green growing things in our world--and our lives. ...Show more

Rogue: Art of a Garden by Rick Eckersley

$95.00 AUD

Category: Gardening

Rick Eckersley’s garden at Musk Cottage is the culminating work of decades of design and experimentation in contemporary Australian landscape architecture. As Eckersley’s own private garden, it is an expression both of his respect for Australia’s unique flora and ecologies and his unfe ttered, almost painterly approach to garden design. Both wild and directed, ancient and contemporary, it is a landscape of contradictions – a rogue garden of hybrid vigour that engages the senses, celebrates intuition and inspires artistic expression. It is also, unquestionably, a work of art in itself. Rogue: Art of a Garden documents and explores this remark able Australian landscape and the sensibility that produced it. While evocative photography by Will Salter takes the reader on a journey through the garden’s plantings, textures, spaces and cycles, the book foregoes the typical series of accompanying explanatory essays. Instead, a selection of artworks by Australian artists, created in response to the garden, form richly subjective layers of interpretation and shifting perspectives. Short reflections by Eckersley reveal the philosophical under- pinnings of an approach that has transcended gardening’s strictures and conventions to create a uniquely Australian landscape. ...Show more

Plant Inspiration Frame-Ups - 50 Pop-Out Prints to Put You in a Fresh Frame of Mind by Mary Rose Amoresano; Katie Vernon (Illustrator)

$19.99 AUD

Category: Gardening

From the visual variety of foliage to the wide range of artfully designed pots and planters, keeping houseplants is an addictive hobby that's enjoying a renaissance in popularity. In Plant Inspiration Frame-Ups, 50 beautifully illustrated affirmation cards take inspiration from the world of indoor plant s, with each card featuring clever plant-art interpretations of classic phrases. "Don't be afraid to take up space" is juxtaposed with a monstrous monstera plant engulfing a living room; "Take a moment to breathe" features a collection of air plants suspended in hanging planters; and "Create something" comes alive with an illustration of a spider plant sprouting many pups. Bright, whimsical, and uplifting, these cards call out to be displayed, and the Frame-Ups format makes it easy to do just that. With a pull-out tabletop frame included, you don't need to have a green thumb to display your favorite saying or swap it out for another whenever you need fresh perspective. ...Show more

Guinea Pigs Go Gardening by DK; Kate Sheehy (Illustrator)

$19.99 AUD

Category: Gardening

Visit Bob and Ginger the guinea pigs in their garden and learn how they grow delicious fruits and vegetables in this colourful picture book. Bob and Ginger the guinea pigs plant delicious fruit and vegetables in their garden, enough to last them through the year. They love to nibble on lettuce, radishe s, peppers, peas, pumpkins, apples, and watermelon. Follow Bob and Ginger as they clear the garden of weeds, make compost to help their plants grow big, plant seeds, and finally harvest their crops, ready to make delicious treats like apple pie... Cheerful illustrations and sweet text by Kate Sheehy bring a rainbow of fruit and vegetables to life, from vibrant red strawberries to glossy green spinach. Children will love following Bob and Ginger as the adorable guinea pigs discover the ups and downs of gardening. After planting their crops, everything seems to be going well until the guinea pigs discover slimy slugs munching on their vegetables, and pesky pigeons diving for their strawberries! Will Bob and Ginger ever get the chance to eat their lovely fruit and veg? ...Show more