Random House New Releases - Gardening - Between May 25, 2012 and June 24, 2013.

The Tudor Garden by Twigs Way

2013-06-18T00:30:00-05:00

The Tudor Garden 1485-1603
Written by Twigs Way

Contrived, colourful, and cultured, the garden of the Tudor period was a paradise on earth, given over to pleasurable pastimes. Artificiality was the fashion of the age, with clipped and twined plants vying for space between brightly painted woodwork, and patterned beds of coloured soils. Renaissance discoveries reared their head in royal gardens, as traditional gold and green heraldic figures mingled with fantastical sundials and glittering fountains. Walls kept out the wild world beyond, whilst mounts permitted glimpses to new parklands, and provided raised platforms for the banqueting houses of the wealthy. Ever-changing with newly introduced exotic plants and yet never changing with year round knot gardens, the Tudor garden was an exciting pageant which this book seeks to explore.

TOC: Introduction / Planting Paradise / Knots, Allees and Arbours / Moats, Ponds and Water Gardens / Mounts, Terraces, Pavillions and Banqueting Houses / Royalty and Pageant / Courting the Garden Queen / Gardens to Visit / Index

The Tudor Garden by Twigs Way

2013-06-18T00:30:00-05:00

The Tudor Garden 1485-1603
Written by Twigs Way

Backyard Farming: Growing Vegetables & Herbs by Kim Pezza

2013-05-28T00:30:00-05:00

Backyard Farming: Growing Vegetables & Herbs From Planting to Harvesting and More
Written by Kim Pezza

Trade Paperback, 96 pages | Hatherleigh Press | House & Home - Sustainable Living; Gardening - Vegetables | $5.95 | May 28, 2013 | 978-1-57826-459-9 (1-57826-459-6)

Your Backyard Farming Experience Begins Here!

A bountiful vegetable garden is a mainstay of the backyard farm; when done right, it can form the foundation for all your future farming successes. Whether you’re aiming at self-sufficiency or just looking to add the freshest ingredients possible to your own kitchen table, starting your own backyard vegetable garden is the best possible first step.

Backyard Farming: Growing Vegetables & Herbs is your guide to ensuring that your first garden is a success. Intended to serve as a comprehensive primer for first-time gardeners, detailed illustrations and informative photographs help to eliminate confusion and ease new homesteaders into the world of backyard farming.

Growing Vegetables & Herbs takes you from start to finish: from planning out your garden, to planting and nurturing, to enjoying your first home harvest.

Growing Vegetables & Herbs shows you:
• How to design the best gardening layout for your space
• The ins and outs of weeding, watering, and pest control to keep your garden fresh and healthy
• Ways to organize your plantings to take advantage of natural complements
• The equipment you will need to make your garden a success
• How to harvest your vegetables and prepare your garden for the coming winter
…and many more tips and tricks from experienced growers to help you avoid the most common mistakes.

Join the growing movement of homemakers and homesteaders looking to make a return to a healthier, happier way of life—right in your own backyard. Growing Vegetables & Herbs will show you how.

Backyard Farming is a series of easy-to-use guides to help urban, suburban, and rural dwellers turn their homes into homesteads. Whether planning to grow food for the family or for sale at the local farmers market, Backyard Farming provides simple instruction and essential information in a convenient reference.

Backyard Farming: Growing Vegetables & Herbs by Kim Pezza

2013-05-28T00:30:00-05:00

Backyard Farming: Growing Vegetables & Herbs From Planting to Harvesting and More
Written by Kim Pezza

eBook, 128 pages | Hatherleigh Press | House & Home - Sustainable Living; Gardening - Vegetables | $5.95 | May 28, 2013 | 978-1-57826-460-5 (1-57826-460-X)

The Indoor Plant and Flower Expert by D.G. Hessayon

2013-05-28T00:30:00-05:00

The Indoor Plant and Flower Expert
Written by D.G. Hessayon

Trade Paperback, 256 pages | Transworld | Gardening | $19.95 | May 28, 2013 | 978-1-909663-00-8 (1-909663-00-X)

In Britain we spend £2,000,000,000 each year on house plants and cut flowers. Dr Hessayon’s books on house plant care and flower arranging have sold a world record-breaking 16 million copies. Yet in most homes this plant material ends up as a few isolated pots on the windowsill or sideboard, or as a vase stuffed with a bunch of flowers. Ornaments - not decor features which change the look of the room.

We can do so much more with living plants. Dr Hessayon’s new book reveals the craft of Roomscaping. This is the way plants and cut flowers can be used to add beauty to a room in the way we use plants when we landscape our gardens.

In its pages the basics of design are clearly explained, and the magical effect of grouping indoor plants together in Pot Groups and Indoor Gardens is described and illustrated. The design secrets of producing professional-looking flower arrangements which turns them into focal points are revealed. There’s more - an A-Z guide to 350 plants and over 400 cut flowers is included.

Roomscaping - the new craft which helps you get so much more from your house plants and cut flowers.

Touch a Butterfly by April Pulley Sayre

2013-04-23T00:30:00-05:00

Touch a Butterfly Wildlife Gardening with Kids--Simple Ways to Attract Birds, Butterflies, Toads, and More to Your Garden
Written by April Pulley Sayre

Turn your garden into a hummingbird hotspot, a haven for butterflies, and a thriving ecosystem that will delight and inspire the young and young-at-heart.

Gardening with children is a pleasure in itself, but when you learn to include wildlife in your plans, gardening becomes an even more joyful family experience. Creating a garden that invites wildlife opens up a wider world of nature for investigation, inspiration, and delight. Begin to see your yard from an animal’s perspective; discover plants that attract colorful birds and bugs; embrace sensory experiences that native plants and creatures bring; and understand how your yard fits into the surrounding landscape. Along the way you will discover simple ways you can actively support wildlife in your immediate environment, no matter where you live. This family-friendly guide to wildlife gardening leads you on a path to discovery, where trees are transformed into bird and animal habitats, where sunny spots are revered for dragonfly viewing, and where your entire garden becomes an animal-welcoming kingdom.

Cooking with Flowers by Miana Jun

2013-04-02T00:30:00-05:00

Cooking with Flowers Sweet and Savory Recipes with Rose Petals, Lilacs, Lavender, and Other Edible Flowers
Written by Miche Bacher
Photographed by Miana Jun

Here are more than 100 recipes that will bring beautiful flower-filled dishes to your kitchen table! This easy-to-use cookbook is brimming with scrumptious botanical treats, from sweet violet cupcakes, pansy petal pancakes, daylily cheesecake, and rosemary flower margaritas to savory sunflower chickpea salad, chive blossom vinaigrette, herb flower pesto, and mango orchid sticky rice.

Alongside every recipe are tips and tricks for finding, cleaning, and preparing edible blossoms. You’ll also learn how to infuse vinegars, vodkas, sugars, frostings, jellies and jams, ice creams, and more with the color and flavor of your favorite flowers. Fresh from the farmers’ market or plucked from your very own garden, a world of delectable flowers awaits!

Cooking with Flowers by Miana Jun

2013-04-02T00:30:00-05:00

Cooking with Flowers Sweet and Savory Recipes with Rose Petals, Lilacs, Lavender, and Other Edible Flowers
Written by Miche Bacher
Photographed by Miana Jun

Dead Snails Leave No Trails, Revised by Janet Hogan Taylor

2013-04-02T00:30:00-05:00

Dead Snails Leave No Trails, Revised Natural Pest Control for Home and Garden
Written by Loren Nancarrow and Janet Hogan Taylor

A practical guide to repelling indoor and outdoor pests using organic methods, updated with new information on getting rid of bedbugs and dust mites, plus includes updated online resources.

If you’ve ever had a swarm of fruit flies in your kitchen or a gopher wreaking havoc in your yard, you may have wondered what a conscientious gardener or homeowner can do short of heavy-duty chemical warfare. Dead Snails Leave No Trails is a comprehensive guide to repelling both indoor and outdoor pests using organic methods—it’s the perfect DIY solution to eliminate unwelcome visitors in your home and garden while keeping yourself,your family, and the environment safe from harmful chemicals.With a few easy-to-find items, you’ll learn how to:

• Make your own all-purpose pest repellents with simple ingredients like chile peppers and vinegar
• Use companion planting to attract beneficial insects and animals or repel harmful ones
• Keep four-legged intruders—including squirrels, deer, rabbits, and skunks—away from your prized vegetables and flowers
• Safely eliminate ants, roaches, and rodents from your house or apartment
• Protect your pets from critters like ticks and fleas

This revised edition contains newly updated information on today’s pest epidemics, like bedbugs, as well as new online resources for finding beneficial organisms that act as predators for specific pests. Full of tips, tricks, and straightforward instructions, Dead Snails Leave No Trails is the most user-friendly guide to indoor and outdoor natural pest solutions.

Dead Snails Leave No Trails, Revised by Janet Hogan Taylor

2013-04-02T00:30:00-05:00

Dead Snails Leave No Trails, Revised Natural Pest Control for Home and Garden
Written by Loren Nancarrow and Janet Hogan Taylor

There Is a Garden in the Mind by Paul A. Lee

2013-03-12T00:30:00-05:00

There Is a Garden in the Mind A Memoir of Alan Chadwick and the Organic Movement in California
Written by Paul A. Lee

There Is a Garden in the Mind presents an engaging look at the work and life of pioneering organic gardener Alan Chadwick and his profound influence on the organic farming movement. In this wide-ranging and philosophical memoir, author Paul Lee recounts his first serendipitous meeting with Chadwick in Santa Cruz, California, in 1967, and their subsequent founding of the Chadwick Garden at UC Santa Cruz, the first organic and biointensive garden at a U.S. university.

Today, there are few who would dispute the ecological and health benefits of organically produced food, and the student garden project founded by Chadwick and Lee has evolved into a world-renowned research center that helps third-world farmers obtain high yields using organic gardening. But when Chadwick and Lee first broke ground in the 1960s, the term "organic" belonged to the university's chemists, and the Chadwick Garden spurred a heated battle against the whole system of industrial existence. Lee's memoir contextualizes this struggle by examining the centuries-old history of the conflict between industrial science and organic nature, the roots of the modern environmental movement and the slow food movement, and the origin of the term "organic." His account of Chadwick's work fills in a gap in the history of the sustainable agriculture movement and proposes that Chadwick's groundwork continues to bear fruit in today's burgeoning urban garden, locavore, and self-sufficiency movements.

Table of contents:
Chapter one The English Gardener Arrives
Chapter two The English Gardener Goes to Work
Chapter three The Garden Plot
Chapter four Goethe the Vitalist contra Newton the Physicalist
Chapter five Urea! I Found It!
Chapter six USA and Earth Day
Chapter seven The Method
Chapter eight Chadwick Departs
Chapter nine A Moral Equivalent of War
Chapter ten The Death of Chadwick
Chapter eleven California Cuisine and the Homeless Garden Project
Chapter twelve A Biodynamic Garden on Long Island
Chapter thirteen Chadwick's Legacy

From the Trade Paperback edition.

There Is a Garden in the Mind by Paul A. Lee

2013-03-12T00:30:00-05:00

There Is a Garden in the Mind A Memoir of Alan Chadwick and the Organic Movement in California
Written by Paul A. Lee

The Garden Club of America by William Seale

2013-03-05T00:30:00-05:00

The Garden Club of America One Hundred Years of a Growing Legacy
Written by William Seale

How women changed the American landscape from planting war victory gardens to saving the redwoods, beautifying the highway to creating horticultural standards.

In 1904, Elizabeth Price Martin founded the Garden Club of Philadelphia. In 1913, twelve garden clubs in the eastern and central United States signed an agreement to form the Garden Guild. The Garden Guild would later become the Garden Club of America (GCA), now celebrating its 100th anniversary in 2013. GCA is a volunteer nonprofit organization comprised of 200 member clubs and approximately 18,000 members throughout the country.

Comprised of all women, GCA has emerged as a national leader in the fields of horticulture, conservation, and civic improvement. As an example, in 1930, GCA was a key force in preserving the redwood forests of California, helping to create national awareness for the need to preserve these forests, along with contributing funds to purchase land on which they stood. The Garden Club of America Grove and the virgin forest tract of Canoe Creek contain some of the finest specimens of the redwood forests.

The Garden Club of America is a centennial celebration of strong women who nurtured the country, helped spread the good word of gardening, and continue to plant seeds of awareness.

The Garden Club of America by William Seale

2013-03-05T00:30:00-05:00

The Garden Club of America One Hundred Years of a Growing Legacy
Written by William Seale

The Beautiful Edible Garden by Stefani Bittner

2013-02-26T00:30:00-05:00

The Beautiful Edible Garden Design A Stylish Outdoor Space Using Vegetables, Fruits, and Herbs
Written by Leslie Bennett and Stefani Bittner

From the founders of landscape design firm Star Apple Edible & Fine Gardening in the San Francisco Bay Area comes a stylish, beautifully-photographed guide to artfully incorporating organic vegetables, fruits, and herbs into an attractive modern garden design.

We’ve all seen the vegetable garden overflowing with corn, tomatoes, and zucchini that looks good for a short time, but then quickly turns straggly and unattractive (usually right before friends show up for a backyard barbecue). If you want to grow food but you don’t want your yard to look like a farm, what can you do? The Beautiful Edible Garden shares how to not only grow organic fruits and vegetables, but also make your garden a place of year-round beauty that is appealing, enjoyable, and fits your personal style. Written by a landscape design team that specializes in artfully blending edibles and ornamentals together, The Beautiful Edible Garden shows that it’s possible for gardeners of all levels to reap the best of both worlds. Featuring a fresh approach to garden design, glorious photographs, and ideas for a range of spaces—from large yards to tiny patios—this guide is perfect for anyone who wants a gorgeous and productive garden.

The Beautiful Edible Garden by Stefani Bittner

2013-02-26T00:30:00-05:00

The Beautiful Edible Garden Design A Stylish Outdoor Space Using Vegetables, Fruits, and Herbs
Written by Leslie Bennett and Stefani Bittner

Culture and Horticulture by Larry Berger

2013-02-19T00:30:00-05:00

Culture and Horticulture The Classic Guide to Biodynamic and Organic Gardening
Written by Wolf D. Storl
Foreword by Larry Berger

Various studies have shown time and again that small organic farms and home gardens are capable of producing more food per acre with less fossil energy than large-scale commercial agricultural installations dependent on machines and toxic chemical fertilizers and pesticides. This classic book by Wolf D. Storl, a respected elder in the practice of permaculture, details how food is grown holistically and beautifully by traditional communities around the world, and shows how to apply their ancient wisdom to our own gardens.

With interest in natural, sustainable, organic and local food at an all-time high, people are looking beyond their farmers markets and CSA cooperatives to hyperlocal ways of growing healthy, delicious produce in urban gardens and their own backyards. Culture and Horticulture details time-tested methods that are as effective today as they were hundreds of years ago. On the practical front, the book works as a manual for creating and maintaining a bountiful harvest. It explains how to build the soil to maintain fertility; how to produce compost; how to plant, sow, and tend the various fruit and vegetable plants; how to rotate crops and practice companion planting; how to set up a favorable microclimate; how to deal with so-called weeds and pests; how to harvest at the right time; and finally how to store vegetables and herbs. Special emphasis is given to the art and science of composting, the compost being the "heart" of any self-sufficient garden and a model for the cycle of life, death, and rebirth.

At the same time the reader is introduced to the wider aspects of horticulture, to its historical, philosophical, and cosmological contexts and social relevance. Gardening is a cultural activity, shaped by peoples' thoughts, wishes, and needs as well as by their cultural traditions. The author, an anthropologist by profession who has investigated the gardening practices of indigenous people throughout the world and worked for many years on biodynamic farms and in his own food garden, will introduce the reader to Rudolf Steiner's vision of the garden as an organic unit, embedded in the context of terrestrial and cosmic forces. Storl explains the importance of cosmic rhythms (solar, lunar, and planetary), the role of biodynamic herbal preparations as "medicines" for the garden organism, and the so-called "etheric" and "astral" forces. The book presents a vision of the garden as seen through the eyes of "Goethean science," a magical place where alchemical transformations of material substances take place.

Culture and Horticulture by Larry Berger

2013-02-19T00:30:00-05:00

Culture and Horticulture The Classic Guide to Biodynamic and Organic Gardening
Written by Wolf D. Storl
Foreword by Larry Berger

Growing Medical Marijuana by Dave DeWitt

2013-02-19T00:30:00-05:00

Growing Medical Marijuana Securely and Legally
Written by Dave DeWitt

A beginner's guide to growing weed at home, featuring straightforward advice for designing indoor and outdoor cannabis gardens, choosing seed varieties, buying equipment, planting, pot harvesting, storage, stash security, troubleshooting, and more.

This beginner’s guide to growing cannabis at home features straightforward advice for designing both indoor and outdoor marijuana gardens, from choosing and obtaining the most potent and prolific seed varieties to buying the right equipment and setting up your grow room. Steering clear of unnecessary scientific and technical jargon, Growing Medical Marijuana offers step-by-step instructions, 125 helpful photographs, and detailed illustrations to help you plant, harvest, and store your crop, whether you’re a novice pot gardener or an experienced grower who wants to go legit.

Outlining the ins and outs of marijuana cultivation in the states in which it’s legal, this guide also presents easy-to-master approaches to fertilizing, pruning, controlling pests, maximizing flower production, cloning, producing your own seeds, and more. And once your stash is trimmed, cured, and ready to enjoy, nearly thirty recipes—along with dosage instructions—provide a delicious alternative to smoking your healing herb.

Growing Medical Marijuana by Dave DeWitt

2013-02-19T00:30:00-05:00

Growing Medical Marijuana Securely and Legally
Written by Dave DeWitt

Random House New Releases - Gardening - Between May 25, 2012 and June 24, 2013.

The Tudor Garden by Twigs Way

The Tudor Garden 1485-1603Written by Twigs Way

The Tudor Garden by Twigs Way

The Tudor Garden 1485-1603Written by Twigs Way

Backyard Farming: Growing Vegetables & Herbs by Kim Pezza

Backyard Farming: Growing Vegetables & Herbs From Planting to Harvesting and MoreWritten by Kim Pezza

Backyard Farming: Growing Vegetables & Herbs by Kim Pezza

Backyard Farming: Growing Vegetables & Herbs From Planting to Harvesting and MoreWritten by Kim Pezza

The Indoor Plant and Flower Expert by D.G. Hessayon

The Indoor Plant and Flower Expert Written by D.G. Hessayon

Touch a Butterfly by April Pulley Sayre

Touch a Butterfly Wildlife Gardening with Kids--Simple Ways to Attract Birds, Butterflies, Toads, and More to Your GardenWritten by April Pulley Sayre

Cooking with Flowers by Miana Jun

Cooking with Flowers Sweet and Savory Recipes with Rose Petals, Lilacs, Lavender, and Other Edible FlowersWritten by Miche Bacher Photographed by Miana Jun

Cooking with Flowers by Miana Jun

Cooking with Flowers Sweet and Savory Recipes with Rose Petals, Lilacs, Lavender, and Other Edible FlowersWritten by Miche Bacher Photographed by Miana Jun

Dead Snails Leave No Trails, Revised by Janet Hogan Taylor

Dead Snails Leave No Trails, Revised Natural Pest Control for Home and GardenWritten by Loren Nancarrow and Janet Hogan Taylor

Dead Snails Leave No Trails, Revised by Janet Hogan Taylor

Dead Snails Leave No Trails, Revised Natural Pest Control for Home and GardenWritten by Loren Nancarrow and Janet Hogan Taylor

There Is a Garden in the Mind by Paul A. Lee

There Is a Garden in the Mind A Memoir of Alan Chadwick and the Organic Movement in CaliforniaWritten by Paul A. Lee

There Is a Garden in the Mind by Paul A. Lee

There Is a Garden in the Mind A Memoir of Alan Chadwick and the Organic Movement in CaliforniaWritten by Paul A. Lee

The Garden Club of America by William Seale

The Garden Club of America One Hundred Years of a Growing LegacyWritten by William Seale

The Garden Club of America by William Seale

The Garden Club of America One Hundred Years of a Growing LegacyWritten by William Seale

The Beautiful Edible Garden by Stefani Bittner

The Beautiful Edible Garden Design A Stylish Outdoor Space Using Vegetables, Fruits, and HerbsWritten by Leslie Bennett and Stefani Bittner

The Beautiful Edible Garden by Stefani Bittner

The Beautiful Edible Garden Design A Stylish Outdoor Space Using Vegetables, Fruits, and HerbsWritten by Leslie Bennett and Stefani Bittner

Culture and Horticulture by Larry Berger

Culture and Horticulture The Classic Guide to Biodynamic and Organic GardeningWritten by Wolf D. Storl Foreword by Larry Berger

Culture and Horticulture by Larry Berger

Culture and Horticulture The Classic Guide to Biodynamic and Organic GardeningWritten by Wolf D. Storl Foreword by Larry Berger

Growing Medical Marijuana by Dave DeWitt

Growing Medical Marijuana Securely and LegallyWritten by Dave DeWitt

Growing Medical Marijuana by Dave DeWitt

Growing Medical Marijuana Securely and LegallyWritten by Dave DeWitt

The Tudor Garden 1485-1603
Written by Twigs Way

The Tudor Garden 1485-1603
Written by Twigs Way

Backyard Farming: Growing Vegetables & Herbs From Planting to Harvesting and More
Written by Kim Pezza

Backyard Farming: Growing Vegetables & Herbs From Planting to Harvesting and More
Written by Kim Pezza

The Indoor Plant and Flower Expert
Written by D.G. Hessayon

Touch a Butterfly Wildlife Gardening with Kids--Simple Ways to Attract Birds, Butterflies, Toads, and More to Your Garden
Written by April Pulley Sayre

Cooking with Flowers Sweet and Savory Recipes with Rose Petals, Lilacs, Lavender, and Other Edible Flowers
Written by Miche Bacher
Photographed by Miana Jun

Cooking with Flowers Sweet and Savory Recipes with Rose Petals, Lilacs, Lavender, and Other Edible Flowers
Written by Miche Bacher
Photographed by Miana Jun

Dead Snails Leave No Trails, Revised Natural Pest Control for Home and Garden
Written by Loren Nancarrow and Janet Hogan Taylor

Dead Snails Leave No Trails, Revised Natural Pest Control for Home and Garden
Written by Loren Nancarrow and Janet Hogan Taylor

There Is a Garden in the Mind A Memoir of Alan Chadwick and the Organic Movement in California
Written by Paul A. Lee

There Is a Garden in the Mind A Memoir of Alan Chadwick and the Organic Movement in California
Written by Paul A. Lee

The Garden Club of America One Hundred Years of a Growing Legacy
Written by William Seale

The Garden Club of America One Hundred Years of a Growing Legacy
Written by William Seale

The Beautiful Edible Garden Design A Stylish Outdoor Space Using Vegetables, Fruits, and Herbs
Written by Leslie Bennett and Stefani Bittner

The Beautiful Edible Garden Design A Stylish Outdoor Space Using Vegetables, Fruits, and Herbs
Written by Leslie Bennett and Stefani Bittner

Culture and Horticulture The Classic Guide to Biodynamic and Organic Gardening
Written by Wolf D. Storl
Foreword by Larry Berger

Culture and Horticulture The Classic Guide to Biodynamic and Organic Gardening
Written by Wolf D. Storl
Foreword by Larry Berger

Growing Medical Marijuana Securely and Legally
Written by Dave DeWitt

Growing Medical Marijuana Securely and Legally
Written by Dave DeWitt