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The Forager's Treasury by Johanna Knox
$45.00 NZD
Category: Gardening
A New Zealand guide to the art of foraging - a comprehensive guide to finding sustainable, free and fascinating plants. In the 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 sustainabl ...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
The RHS Book of Garden Verse by Unnamed
$23.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
From the RHS comes this celebration of the garden through poetry, illustrated with botanical prints, engravings and watercolour drawings from the world-famous Lindley Library. From the RHS comes this celebration of the garden, spanning the centuries and the globe. From the Garden of Eden to small backya ...Show more
Te Mahi Oneone Hua Parakore : A Maori Soil Sovereignty and Wellbeing Handbook by Edited by Jessica Hutchings and Jo Smith
$40.00 NZD
Category: Gardening
Soil health and security are key components of our wellbeing. Even so, soil is faced with many environmental challenges under the current iteration of capitalism. A paradigm shift is needed to encourage care for this resource. In te ao Maori, soil is taonga. It is also whanaunga - it holds ancestral co ...Show more
The Healing Power of Flowers: Discover the Secret Language of the Flowers You Love by Claire Bowen; Éva Németh (Photographer)
$37.00 NZD
Category: Gardening
Live life in full bloom.This beautiful book features your favourite flowers grouped by their purpose - for love, for joy, for luck, for calm, to console, and to celebrate. Discover their traditional meanings, holistic benefits, and when flowers are in season so that they can be sourced locally with a mi ...Show more
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom by Robin Wall Kimmerer
$26.00 NZD
Category: Gardening
An inspired weaving of indigenous knowledge, plant science, and personal narrative from a distinguished professor of science and a Native American whose previous book, Gathering Moss, was awarded the John Burroughs Medal for outstanding nature writing. As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Rob ...Show more
The Gardener's Journal 2:1 (Feb 2021) by Margaret Long
$30.00 NZD
Category: Gardening
Publishing three times a year, this longed-for journal of articles and photographs returns, catering for readers with a wide range of interests in the gardening world, including: * Gardens and Gardeners * Plants and Trees * Landscape and Design * Garden History * Travel Experiences MARGARET LONG is a vo ...Show more
Sally Tagg - 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.
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
Dream Plants for the Natural Garden by Piet Oudolf
$45.00 NZD
Category: Gardening
In this book, pioneering garden designers Henk Gerritsen and Piet Oudolf describe their ideal perennials, bulbs, grasses, ferns and small shrubs. An ideal plant is one that is both beautiful and robust, performing reliably with very little input from the gardener. Gerritsen and Oudolf have a genuinely i ...Show more
Easy Peasy: Gardening for Kids by Kirsten Bradley
$40.00 NZD
Category: Gardening
An introduction to easy gardening so you can grow everywhere and anywhere.Whether you live in the city or the countryside, there are plenty of places you can plant and grow. For a new generation of green fingers there are different ways to bring nature into the home. Make your own pots, build balcony bo ...Show more
Rongoa Maori: A practical guide to traditional Maori Medicine by Rob McGowan
$25.00 NZD
Category: Gardening
Rongoa is the Maori term for medicines that are produced from native plants in New Zealand. Use of these medicines prevented many sicknesses, and provided remedies for the sick. Rob McGowan has wriiten this to help those interested in the field of traditional Maori medicine. Rob McGowan's Rongoa Maori ...Show more
