Everything you need to make your garden grow! If you have never grown anything before, you are in for a real treat, and lucky to be starting young. Everyone gets a thrill from seeing seedlings emerge and flowers bloom - there's also a chance to be outdoors and make your environment a better place. This book is every young gardener's helping hand. Fun, lively and practical. It is clearly laid out with colourful step-by-step illustrations throughout. There are sections on sowing seeds, watering, looking after the soil, making compost, choosing and planting the right plants in the right places, attracting birds and butterflies to the garden, making a mini-pond, jobs to do all the year round. Original. New hardcover. 1999.
With this book, Craig Coussins aims to show the beginner how easy bonsai are to tend and style - whether you buy a finished tree or cultivate your own. Packed with varied and valuable information around a clean and uncluttered design, everything is here for both beginners and seasoned enthusiasts alike.
Put bonsai in context with a look at its rich history, then find out how you can bring bonsai into your life, form choosing trees to care and maintenance, and then creating beautiful and elegant trees, either for displaying indoors or out. You will learn how to transform a bushy spruce into an elegant cascade, discover the techniques of twisting and bending your branches, and truly appreciate the qualities of your tree through the secrets of displaying and positioning. Then observe the beautiful appearance of your bonsai and imagine how the shape will develop in the future with careful guidance and training. Over time it will become a truly valuable part of your environment.
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Window-box Allotment guides the container gardener through the year with month-by-month advice on all the tasks that need doing in the garden-from which seeds to sow, and when, to planting container-grown fruit trees and bushes. There are instructions for making organic compostin plastic sacks as well as keeping worms to make worm compost, recycling newspapers into logs, sprouting edible seeds, growing mushrooms indoors, and making a small pond. Original. New book, has small tear in dust jacket. 2001.
