New Zealand Gardens to Visit by Juliet Nicholas, Rosemary Barraclough
55.00 NZD
Category: Gardening and Self Sufficiency | Reading Level: near fine
Visiting a beautiful garden feeds your soul and lifts your spirits. Here are more than 50 remarkable New Zealand gardens, all of them open to visit. Well-known garden photographer Juliet Nicholas and experienced journalist Rosemary Barraclough travelled from the top of Aotearoa to its southernmost regio ...Show more
Companion Planting for Beginners by Brian Lowell
37.00 NZD
Category: Gardening and Self Sufficiency
If you want a vibrant, chemical-free vegetable garden, companion planting is the solutionIf you want a vibrant, chemical-free vegetable garden, companion planting is the solution.Did you know tomatoes produce a natural insecticide that can help protect carrots against pests? Or that planting mint near l ...Show more
RHS Gardener's Five Year Record Book by Unnamed
37.00 NZD
Category: Gardening and Self Sufficiency
The Gardener's Five-Year Record Book from the RHS is the perfect place to record what happens in your garden over a several years. Structured week by week, with five years to a view, it is flexible enough to personalise to suit your needs. Gardeners know how helpful it is to be aware of what is happenin ...Show more
Secrets From A Herbalist's Garden: A Magical Year of Plant Remedies by Jo Dunbar
35.00 NZD
Category: Gardening and Self Sufficiency
A beautifully illustrated guide to providing safe herbal remedies for common health conditions, while restoring our comforting connection to the year's natural rhythm. During the pandemic, surgeries closed their doors to their patients, and told them to self-isolate and take paracetamol. People beca ...Show more
Self-Sufficiency: Grow Your Own by Ian Cooke
27.00 NZD
Category: Gardening and Self Sufficiency
This is a simple and systematic guide to growing a selection of the tastiest fruit and vegetables. The aim of this book is to start you off with some easy-to-grow produce such as carrots, onions, radishes, tomatoes and strawberries. Once you have the confidence of the first growing season behind you, yo ...Show more
The Complete Language of Herbs: A Definitive and Illustrated History by S. Theresa Dietz
40.00 NZD
Category: Reference, Science and Geography | Series: Complete Illustrated Encyclopedia Ser.
The Complete Language of Herbs is a comprehensive encyclopedia providing the meanings, powers, facts, and folklore for over 500 herbs and spices. Along with a beautiful visual depiction, each entry provides the herb or spice's scientific and common names, characteristics, and historic meanings and pow ...Show more
Private Gardens of Aotearoa - Suzanne Turley by Suzanne Turley
60.00 NZD
Category: Gardening and Self Sufficiency
Suzanne Turley - one of New Zealand's most sought-after landscape designers - has created many of the country's most desirable private gardens, all set against the spectacular backdrop of the natural environment. From the pristine Pacific beaches of the North Island to the breathtaking peaks of the Sou ...Show more
Pruning Fruit Trees - A Beginner's Guide by Kath Irvine
30.00 NZD
Category: Gardening and Self Sufficiency
Pruning Fruit Trees: A Beginners Guide is here to unbundle the complicated world of pruning and provide step-by-step instructions to beginners. Calm trees is the overall aim. A less is more approach to cutting with a focus on training as well as pruning. This doesn’t mean wild, woolly things that need l ...Show more
Floret Farms: A Year in Flowers: Designing Gorgeous Arrangements for Every Season by Erin Benzakein; Jill Jorgensen; Julie Chai
70.00 NZD
Category: Gardening and Self Sufficiency | Series: Floret Farms X Chronicle Bks.
Learn how to buy, style, and present seasonal flower arrangements for every occasion.With sections on tools, flower care, and design techniques,Floret Farm's A Year in Flowers presents all the secrets to arranging garden-fresh bouquets.Featuring expert advice from Erin Benzakein, world-renowned flower f ...Show more
Yates Top 50 Indoor Plants and How Not to Kill Them! by Angie Thomas, Yates Australia
40.00 NZD
Category: Gardening and Self Sufficiency
The top 50 indoor houseplants for Australia and New Zealand - what's best and how to keep them alive. Bring the outdoors in and breathe new life to your home with plants! House plants are well and truly back on trend - they instantly lift an area, make a room feel fresh and welcoming, and brighten your ...Show more
Backyard Chickens: How to Keep Happy Hens by Dave Ingham
40.00 NZD
Category: Gardening and Self Sufficiency | Series: How to Keep Happy Hens
A henkeeping companion to the bestselling Backyard Bees, covering everything you need to know about keeping chickens even in urban areas.
Self Sufficiency: Spinning, Dyeing and Weaving by Penny Walsh
20.00 NZD
Category: Gardening and Self Sufficiency | Series: Self-Sufficiency Ser.
This book explains where different fibers come from, how to grow and harvest your own vegetable fibers, and how to prepare them for spinning. The principles of spindle and spinning wheel spinning are covered, along with home dyeing using natural dyestuffs, and hand weaving with or without a loom. Finall ...Show more