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
The Joy of Gardening by Lynda Hallinan
60.00 NZD
Category: Gardening and Self Sufficiency | Reading Level: near fine
Gardens teach us to live in the moment. They nourish us, provide solace in grief and offer sanctuary from the stresses of modern life. In a celebration of the healing power of nature, New Zealand gardening guru Lynda Hallinan focuses on the gentle delights that bring joy to our backyards, from birdsong ...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
Backyard Bees: A Complete Guide for the Beginner Beekeeper or Bee Enthusiast by Doug Purdie
45.00 NZD
Category: Gardening and Self Sufficiency
Fully revised and updated bestselling beginner's bee book, now with info on the Flow Hive and bee-friendly planting plus more on native bees. Australia's no. 1 bee book! 'A wealth of knowledge! This book will help many keen bee enthusiasts to start their journey in beekeeping.' Mat Lumalasi, Rooftop Hon ...Show more
The Edible Backyard: A Practical Guide to Growing Organic Fruit and Vegetables All Year Round by Kath Irvine
50.00 NZD
Category: Gardening and Self Sufficiency
In this practical step-by-step guide, gardening teacher Kath Irvine shares her wealth of knowledge from more than 20 years of helping Kiwi gardeners design, build, grow and maintain their own productive edible gardens. Kath's sage, hands-on, often humorous advice steps readers through everything they ne ...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
The Abundant Garden: A practical guide to growing a regenerative home garden by Niva Kay, Yotam Kay
50.00 NZD
Category: Gardening and Self Sufficiency | Reading Level: near fine
Home gardening the natural way. Niva and Yotam Kay of Pakaraka Permaculture, on the Coromandel Peninsula of Aotearoa New Zealand, share their long experience of organic gardening in this comprehensive book on how to create and maintain a productive and regenerative vegetable garden. Taking care of the s ...Show more