Trees category: 526 books
by Gideon Smith
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
Southern Africa is the natural home of the richest and most diverse succulent flora in the world. These plants come in all shapes and sizes, from trees such as the baobab at more than 20 m tall, to miniature soil huggers, just a few millimetres high, which mimic their pebble-desert surroundings. This...
The Bonsai Bible
The definitive guide to choosing and growing bonsai
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2014
The Japanese and Chinese have been creating bonsai trees for centuries and it is now an internationally popular pastime. This compact and stylish guide will provide everything you need to know to grow bonsai successfully, including shaping with wires, watering, seasonal maintenance, tackling common...
by Lauren Douglas
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Palm trees are popular landscaping plants in tropical regions, especially in coastal areas. They are resistant to storm winds, while offering a tropical ambiance to the landscape they are located in. Planting one can be a daunting job, so this book may help understand what it takes.
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by Errol Flynn
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2013
Growing your own oak trees from acorns is easy and is a great way to produce strong, healthy specimens to add back into your garden. It also provides children with a great opportunity to learn about a tree's life cycle, and the role that they can play in enabling this. This activity is an ideal one...
Wildflowers and Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont
A Naturalist's Guide to the Carolinas, Virginia, Tennessee, and Georgia
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
This richly illustrated field guide serves as an introduction to the wildflowers and plant communities of the southern Appalachians and the rolling hills of the adjoining piedmont. Rather than organizing plants, including trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants, by flower color or family characteristics,...
by Fernando Ramírez, Jose Kallarackal
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
This brief reviews the pollination aspects of both wild and domesticated fruit tree species in a global climate change context. It explores cross-pollination mediated by insects, vertebrates and abiotic factors, self-pollination and their global warming implications. The authors identify the link...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2013
Plant-driven volatile organic compound (BVOC) emissions play a major role in atmospheric chemistry, including ozone and photochemical smog formation in the troposphere, and they extend the atmospheric lifetime of the key greenhouse gas, methane. Furthermore, condensation of photo-oxidation products...
by Christopher Merrill
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2017
In the course of researching dogwood trees, beloved poet and essayist Christopher Merrill realized that a number of formative moments in his life had some connection to the tree named-according to one writer-because its fruit was not fit for a dog. As he approached his sixtieth birthday, Merrill began...
Hidden Treasure
A Story of Modern Farming
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
A few years ago the author visited the farm in Western Pennsylvania on which he had lived for a number of years when a boy. Much to his surprise there was not a boy of his acquaintance still on the neighboring farms, many of which had passed into other hands, and in some cases even the names of the...
The Wollemi Pine
The Incredible Discovery of a Living Fossil From the Age of the Dinosaurs
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
An enthralling detective story about evolution and natural history.
In mid-1994 a National Parks & Wildlife ranger abseiling in the Wollemi Wilderness outside Sydney, came upon an extraordinary sight: a canyon filled with massive pines. These trees towered above the surrounding foliage,...
The Pecan
A History of America's Native Nut
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
What would Thanksgiving be without pecan pie? New Orleans without pecan pralines? Southern cooks would have to hang up their aprons without America’s native nut, whose popularity has spread far beyond the tree’s natural home. But as familiar as the pecan is, most people don’t know the fascinating...
Mesquite
An Arboreal Love Affair
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2018
In his latest book, Mesquite, Gary Paul Nabhan employs humor and contemplative reflection to convince readers that they have never really glimpsed the essence of what he calls “arboreality.”
As a Franciscan brother and ethnobotanist who has often mixed mirth with earth, laughter with landscape,...
by Kimba Welch
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
One of the great things about growing pears is that well cared for trees can continue to put out fruit for 100 years. That’s a pretty good return on your investment. They are fairly cold tolerant and can be grown between zones 8 and 4, though some protected areas of zone 3 can have success with...
How to Grow Your Own Nuts
Choosing, Cultivating and Harvesting Nuts in Your Garden
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
This comprehensive book covers all aspects of growing, harvesting, processing and using nuts, based on forest gardening principles. Filled with gorgeous images of trees and nuts on the branch, as well as samples of nuts from different varieties, this book is essential reading for any nut-loving gardener....