Essays
epub |eng | 2019-03-18 | Author:Naoko Abe

The infantry soldiers’ collar was scarlet, the same colour as some cherry petals. And Yoshino was a popular cherry-viewing destination, which Collingwood Ingram had visited in 1926. The ‘Yamato race’ ...
( Category: Environmentalists & Naturalists March 20,2019 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2018-03-05 | Author:Kate Frey

Rule 58 For a (relatively) weed-free garden, don’t let a single weed go to seed. Weeds can easily take over a garden—and if you let them go to seed, you’ll ...
( Category: House Plants March 6,2019 )
epub |eng | 2013-12-31 | Author:Barbara Burn

Planting Sow seed generously. One for the rook, one for the crow, One to die and one to grow. —AUTHOR UNKNOWN • • • In seed time learn, in harvest ...
( Category: Organic March 1,2019 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2016-05-20 | Author:Johanna Silver [Silver, Johanna]

Ruth saved bed 6, with its permanent shade structure, for small, tender succulents that prefer filtered light to full sun. Ruth’s favorite way to plant these succulents was to create ...
( Category: West May 21,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2017-05-04 | Author:Nancy Lawson [Nancy Lawson]

Time your tree trimming. Countless squirrels, raccoons, and birds are displaced when gardeners and landscapers cut down trees during nesting season. Before pruning or removing vegetation, check for signs of ...
( Category: Wildlife May 5,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-03-16 | Author:DIANA WELLS

* * * The golden larch of China isn’t a true larch. Its botanical name Pseudolarix amabilis means “lovable false larch,” and it surely is, with the most wonderful golden ...
( Category: Trees March 17,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Vita Sackville-West

Philadelphus coronarius. Starting with philadelphus, its name ‘seems to suit it nicely, meaning brotherly or sisterly love in Greek, suggesting a purity of love distinct from any sexual passion. ‘Yet ...
( Category: England February 15,2016 )
epub, mobi |ara, eng | 2015-01-04 | Author:Carol Deppe [Deppe, Carol]

‘Candystick Dessert Delicata’ Squash There is a large chapter in The Resilient Gardener on growing and using summer and winter squash, so in this book I limit myself to discussing ...
( Category: Taoism November 22,2015 )
mobi, epub, pdf |ara | 2015-01-29 | Author:Carol Deppe

‘Candystick Dessert Delicata’ Squash There is a large chapter in The Resilient Gardener on growing and using summer and winter squash, so in this book I limit myself to discussing ...
( Category: Taoism November 22,2015 )
mobi |eng | 0100-12-31 | Author:Beverley Nichols

Where I should begin is any man's guess. Probably at the National Gallery, in front of the Annunciation by Piero della Francesca; for of all the works of man that ...
( Category: Essays November 10,2015 )
mobi |eng | 0100-12-31 | Author:Beverley Nichols

I was seized by a wild idea, of revolutionary import. Trees grew from seeds, did they not? They did. Seeds, if sown, might come up? They might. This was a ...
( Category: Reference November 10,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-01-12 | Author:Margaret Roach [ROACH, MARGARET]

THE DAY IS SUNNY AND CLEAN, but then, as if it heard me harboring a death wish, the daylight is extinguished. The birds go quiet as a storm flies in ...
( Category: Essays October 5,2015 )
mobi |eng | | Author:Burroughs, John [Burroughs, John]

* * * V SPRING AT THE CAPITAL WITH AN EYE TO THE BIRDS I came to Washington to live in the fall of 1863, and, with the exception of ...
( Category: Nature Writing & Essays May 30,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-12-09 | Author:Margery Fish [Fish, Margery]

13. Some Failures As a gardener I was a great trial to my husband and I marvel now that he was so patient with me. He wanted me to concentrate ...
( Category: Essays May 27,2015 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-01-13 | Author:Graham Kerr

The Numbers For each 100 g raw (3.5 oz; ½ cup): 73 calories, 10 g fat, 0 g saturated fat, 17 g carbohydrate, 2 g protein, 2 g dietary fiber, ...
( Category: Essays April 5,2015 )