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The Meaning of Trees: The History and Use of New Zealand's Native Plants by Robert Vennell
$55.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non-Fiction
A guide and gift book in equal measure, this treasure of a book pays homage to New Zealand's native plant species. The Meaning of Trees tells the story of plants and people in Aotearoa New Zealand. Beautifully illustrated with botanical drawings, paintings and photographs, it shows us how a globally uni ...Show more
Sanctuary in Nature by Sally Tagg
$25.00 NZD
Category: Photography
Photographer and artist Sally Tagg is famous for her botanical photography and exquisite mandala artworks. During the Covid-19 lockdown, she compiled this lovely wee limited edition gift book, sanctuary in nature.
Māori Healing Remedies: Rongoā Māori (Maori) by Murdoch Riley
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Maori
A useful book of timetested Maori herbal therapies. By quoting the words of many skilled practitioners of the art of herbal medicine, and by describing some of the spiritual practices and karakia associated, the book becomes a useful compendium of proven therapies, whether for arthritis, headaches, inse ...Show more
Yates Top 50 Edible Plants for Pots and How Not to Kill Them! by Angie Thomas; Yates
$40.00 NZD
Category: Gardening
How to grow your own food in the smallest spaces - in pots on balconies, courtyards and windowsills Increasingly people are keen to grow some of their own food, giving them fresh, delicious and healthy ingredients right on their doorstep. Homegrown food also means reduced food miles and packaging, and r ...Show more
A Women's Health and Wellbeing Kete: A DIY Guide by Isla Burgess & Mary Allan
$45.00 NZD
Category: Gardening
This book is a beautiful photo-rich A-Z guide expertly written to inspire women to look to their garden and into the wilds for plant medicine that will inspire, empower and uplift them, carrying them into a place of improved wellbeing. This book is for: Gardeners, plant lovers and plant medicine ma ...Show more
A Forager's Treasury: A New Zealand Guide to Finding and Using Wild Plants by Johanna Knox
$37.00 NZD
Category: Gardening
A New Zealand guide to the art of foraging - the ultimate guide to finding sustainable, free and fascinating plants. In New Zealand's urban and rural wildernesses, there is an abundance of food just waiting to be discovered, if only you know what to look for. Foraged food is healthy, economical and sus ...Show more
Suzanne Turley - Private Gardens of Aotearoa by Suzanne Turley; Thomas Cannings (Editor)
$90.00 NZD
Category: Gardening
Suzanne Turley is one of New Zealand's most sought-after landscape designers. Across her 30-year career, from her Auckland studio, she has crafted some of the country's most prestigious gardens. Today, Suzanne works with young Italian landscape architect Ermanno Cattaneo; with their combined experience, ...Show more
Petal Power - 12 plants with personality to grow for garden and vase by Julia Atkinson-Dunn
$45.00 NZD
Category: Gardening
Petal Power is written in reflection of Julia Atkinson-Dunn’s own adventure as a beginner gardener, sharing a fun selection of flowering plants that can be grown in her homeland of New Zealand. It’s the friendly volume she wished she could have got her hands on while still sussing out her perennials fro ...Show more
Companion Planting in New Zealand by Brenda Little
$28.00 NZD
Category: Gardening
In this age of increasing hostility towards chemical control of the food we eat, Companion Planting in New Zealand is the ideal guide to working with nature to produce cabbages that 'squeak with health' and beans that 'snap like a gunshot'. Every tip in this book has worked for somebody - why it worked ...Show more
Life in the Garden by Penelope Lively
$28.00 NZD
Category: Gardening
**A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week 2017** 'Rich and unusual, this is a book to treasure' Alex Preston, Observer Penelope Lively has always been a keen gardener. This book is partly a memoir of her own life in gardens: the large garden at home in Cairo where she spent most of her childhood, her grandmoth ...Show more
Ultimate Wonder Plants - Your Urban Jungle Interior by Irene Schampaert; Judith Baehner
$90.00 NZD
Category: Gardening
- Selects the most beautiful interiors of the greatest plant lovers from all over the world and brings them together in one book - Follows on the worldwide success of volumes 1 & 2: more than 18,000 copies sold - Includes practical tips and plant index "The botanical trend tends to grow" - Style-fil ...Show more
Adventures in Eden - An Intimate Tour of the Private Gardens of Europe by Carolyn Mullet
$100.00 NZD
Category: Gardening
A Bucket List Tour of Europe's Private Gardens Acres of white-blooming garden rooms on the island of Mallorca. A seven-tiered wonder of stone, plants, and water above Germany's Rhine River. The Garden of Cosmic Speculation in a quiet Scottish valley. These sumptuous landscapes are just three of the fift ...Show more
