Search Results: American Garden Books from Carrageen Books

Sweetwater Pr, 1999. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. Near fine condition, signed with inscription in protective cover. Rare Signed copy of this essential book on Alabama Wildflowers. All About Alabama Wildflowers: Your Complete Guide to Plant Communities, Identification, Cultivation, & Traditional Uses.

Very Good condition, unused, 1st printing. Rare 1st edition of a really useful book by Ann Larkin Hansen. Slight shelf wear. This hardworking addition to the best-selling Backyard Homestead series offers expert advice on what tasks to do around your farm and when to do them no matter where on the planet you call home. Author Ann Larkin Hansen sets the priorities for each area of the farm, including the barn, garden, orchard, field, pasture, and woodlot. For every critical turn of the year (12 in all), Hansen provides an at-a-glance to-do list along with tips and a more in-depth discussion of key topics for the season. Easy-reference charts, checklists, and record-keeping sections help you keep track of it all.

W. W. Norton & Company, 2011. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Very good condition, clean, unread. Nestled all along the northeast corridor, a profusion of horticultural gems and designed landscapes beckons visitors, from celebrated formal parks, estates, and arboretums to less familiarand often hard to find-gardens. This unique guidebook features 148 of them, providing readers with an incomparable resource for locating and exploring the green spacesmany with historic homes at their centerof the region. Whether large, sumptuous, and impressively maintained, or modest in size, budget, and staff, all have distinctive historical, artistic, and horticultural offerings that make them well worth a trip. Mt. Cuba Center and Winterthur in Delaware, Longwood Gardens in southeastern Pennsylvania, Grounds For Sculpture and the Leonard J. Buck Garden in New Jersey, the Humes Japanese Stroll Garden on Long Island, Stonecrop Gardens and Innisfree in the Hudson Valley, and Elizabeth Park and Hollister House in… Read More

Garden Conservancy, 2006. Soft cover. Very Good. Very good condition , clean & bright book.

Timber Press, 2017. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. As New in near fine condition, 260 pages. Your garden, just like your house, sometimes needs a makeover. The change can be as minor as replacing a shrub or as major as pulling everything up and starting from scratch. No matter the size of your space or the scope of the project, the sage advice in Garden Renovation will help you turn your yard into a paradise. Bobbie Schwartz draws on her years of experience as a garden designer to teach you how to evaluate your yard, determine what to keep and what to remove, and choose the right plants and design plan.

Timber Press, 2018. 1st Edition . Hardcover. New/New. New book, Gardenlust: A Botanical Tour of the Worlds Best New Gardens. 440 pages, published September 2018.

Storey Publishing, LLC, 2019. 1st Edition . Soft cover. As New. New book, 141 pages, with index, glossary and resources at end. Beautifully photographed by Rob Cardillo written by Mike Lizotte, owner of American Meadows.

Rizzoli, 1994. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Signed by Mary Phipps President Of Old Westbury Gardens to Gardener Helen Dillon. Very good condition, unmarked other than inscription. The Old Westbury Gardens book of Days is fittingly dedicated to Peggie Phipps Boegner, who has called Old Westbury home throughout her life. No one has laboured more diligently and lovingly to preserve the unique treasure that is Westbury House and its Gardens as they were established by her parents, John S. and Margarita Grace Phipps. This lovely book captures the parade of the seasons, the changing weather, and the hours of the day at Old Westbury Gardens as Peggie knew then as a child and as she continues to enjoy them today.

Dioscorides Press, 1992. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Very good condition, clean copy. Some sunning on spine, and some shelf wear. A revised edition of Agriculture Handbook 450 issued by the U.S. Forest Service, this encyclopedia of woody plant seeds covers 386 genera, adds more than 1,000 literature citations to the original, and treats all aspects of collection, storage, and germination.

Timber Press, 2017. 3rd Edition . Hardcover. New. Brand new, completly revised & expanded The Well-Tended Perennial Garden the essential guide to planting + Pruning Techniques.

Alaskakrafts Inc, 1993. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 1st edition & 1st printing, signed by the Author to the gardener Helen Dillon, "Enjoy the flowers! Verna E. Pratt." beautiful book, with 410 photos, colour coded and illustrationed. A brilliant resource for Alaskan Wildflowers.

Harry N. Abrams, 1995. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1st edition, some light shelf wear, inscribed as a gift to Gardener Helen Dillon. The Winterthur Garden is the story of Henry Francis du Pont's lifelong love affair with his home, as well as a biography of one of America's great public gardens. Author Denise Magnani, curator of landscape at Winterthur, offers an engagingly intimate portrait of the man and his environment, documenting the evolution of a single garden and detailing its relationship to the interior of the house, from which it can be viewed. The masterpiece that du Pont created in Wilmington, Delaware, is now open for the public to enjoy, but for years it functioned as a private horticultural laboratory where du Pont - primarily known as a visionary collector of works of the American decorative arts - experimented as much with the landscape as with individual plant species gathered from the far corners of the globe. While, today, the garden may appear to be an… Read More

The University of North Carolina Press, 2001. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Near fine, with VG DJ, beautiful copy of this wonderful book.