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Home automation is a must for people who are too busy to bother about simple routines. However, home automation is a deep subject, and the 70+ page eBook, “Home Automation Inside Out,” can definitely enhance you understanding of it. The book explains home automation in a simple manner and presents...

This is volume V of “The Modern Flower Garden” series, dealing with the Iris. Irises are perennial flowering plants with showy flowers that take their name from the Greek word for a rainbow. This volume contains a classic guide to growing these beautiful flowers, including all the information...

Though it is an exaggeration to say that there are no flowers in Italian gardens, yet to enjoy and appreciate the Italian garden-craft one must always bear in mind that it is independent of floriculture. The Italian garden does not exist for its flowers; its flowers exist for it: they are a late and...

With their big mouths, these are the most gregarious garden pests ever! They are attracted to rose bushes, Pabst Blue Ribbon, and good conversation. These little slugs are sure to delight the amigurumi lover and softy knitter. The body is knit in one piece in the round, and the lips are knit...

There is nothing more stunning than a garden bursting with colour. Whether you want glorious borders or striking pots, 101 Bold and Beautiful Flowers is full of plant and garden ideas, plus essential advice on aftercare and maintenance. Grouped by colour and with advice on each flower, you can find...

72 pages. Illustrated This book explains in a simple, but complete, as you grow chiles. Anyone can start on a small balcony or in a corner of the garden.

This is volume VI of “The Modern Flower Garden” series, dealing with lilies. Lilies are a group of herbaceous flowering plants native to the temperate northern hemisphere and northern subtropics. This volume contains a wealth of information on the lily, as well as how they can be successfully...

Offers the elements of garden design necessary for an organic program, as well as companion plant ideas, cultivation and troubleshooting, fun extras such as rose recipes, and a timely organic perspective.

Bring the beauty of National Trust gardens to your own little patch. Some 80% of people who visit NT properties do so 'to look at the garden'. And one of the glories of NT gardens are their incredible beds and borders – plants that bring colour, drama and surprises year round. In this book, senior...

Country house kitchen gardens were designed as perfect ‘grow your own’ environments and ensured that households were supplied with their own fruit and vegetables throughout the year. This book offers an insight into the digging and sowing of these gardens, as well as exploring how walled gardens...

Volume IV in a series about the flower garden, this work deals with all aspects of growing dahlias. This is a fascinating work and is thoroughly recommended for the amateur gardener. This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before. The content has been carefully selected for its interest and relevance to a modern audience.

Veteran horticulturists Pamela Bennett and Maria Zampini have written Garden-pedia to fill the need for a clear, concise book of useful terms for the layman gardener. The authors give the reader easy access to the what, when, why and how of gardening – with 220 of the most common terms you’ll encounter, with color photos throughout.

Rosalind Creasy, the ingenue of edible landscaping, does it again with The Edible Italian Vegetable Garden—an invitation to grow and prepare some of the exceptional varieties of produce for which Italian cooking is so justly famous. This beautifully illustrated guide to growing Italian vegetables...

‘The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.’ Gertrude Jekyll Whether you are in need of some blossoming inspiration or your fingers are the colour of freshly mown grass, this compendium is overflowing with snippets of fascinating folklore and tips for making your...