Author: Sean Carrington
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781405094078
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Enables the reader to identify the flowering plants found in the wild in Barbados - plants many people would regard as 'just bush'. This title features over 500 entries all with colour photographs, and easy-to-follow descriptions to allow for identification.
Wild Plants of Barbados
Author: Sean Carrington
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781405094078
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Enables the reader to identify the flowering plants found in the wild in Barbados - plants many people would regard as 'just bush'. This title features over 500 entries all with colour photographs, and easy-to-follow descriptions to allow for identification.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781405094078
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Enables the reader to identify the flowering plants found in the wild in Barbados - plants many people would regard as 'just bush'. This title features over 500 entries all with colour photographs, and easy-to-follow descriptions to allow for identification.
The Wild Plants of Antigua and Barbuda
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Irish Wild Plants
Author: Niall Mac Coitir
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781905172696
Category : Eccentrics and eccentricities
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The wild plants of Ireland have been bound up in our culture and folkore from the earliest times. They appear in the ancient Irish brehon laws and early nature poetry for which Ireland is famous. As with its companion 'Irish Trees', this book is illustrated with specially commissioned watercolours by Grania Langrishe.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781905172696
Category : Eccentrics and eccentricities
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The wild plants of Ireland have been bound up in our culture and folkore from the earliest times. They appear in the ancient Irish brehon laws and early nature poetry for which Ireland is famous. As with its companion 'Irish Trees', this book is illustrated with specially commissioned watercolours by Grania Langrishe.
Gardening in the Caribbean
Author: Iris Bannochie
Publisher: MacMillan Education, Limited
ISBN:
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
The warm climate and generous rainfall of the Caribbean islands, together with rich soils, provide excellent conditions for growing a great variety of plant life. Columbus discovered that the indigenous peoples of the region were successfully growing an extensive range of plants and crops, and successive settlers of many cultures have introduced their familiar species. There are few places in the world with as great a diversity of plants as found in today`s Caribbean. This book tells the reader how to acheive the best results by learning more about the plants and how to grow them in particular situations. It covers all aspects of Caribbean and tropical gardening. It discusses climate, soils, drainage and irrigation, feeding, pruning and propagation. A chapter on landscape introduces the basics of garden design, and shows what to grow where. The section on plant competitors focuses on pest, disease and weed control in a tropical context. Iris Bannochie won the Gold Medal on three occasions at the Chelsea Flower Show in London, and was awarded the Gold Vietch Memorial Medal by the Royal Horticultural Society in 1977 for her contribution to tropical horticulture.
Publisher: MacMillan Education, Limited
ISBN:
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
The warm climate and generous rainfall of the Caribbean islands, together with rich soils, provide excellent conditions for growing a great variety of plant life. Columbus discovered that the indigenous peoples of the region were successfully growing an extensive range of plants and crops, and successive settlers of many cultures have introduced their familiar species. There are few places in the world with as great a diversity of plants as found in today`s Caribbean. This book tells the reader how to acheive the best results by learning more about the plants and how to grow them in particular situations. It covers all aspects of Caribbean and tropical gardening. It discusses climate, soils, drainage and irrigation, feeding, pruning and propagation. A chapter on landscape introduces the basics of garden design, and shows what to grow where. The section on plant competitors focuses on pest, disease and weed control in a tropical context. Iris Bannochie won the Gold Medal on three occasions at the Chelsea Flower Show in London, and was awarded the Gold Vietch Memorial Medal by the Royal Horticultural Society in 1977 for her contribution to tropical horticulture.
The Plant Communities of Barbados
Author: Evelyn Graham Beaujon Gooding
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Edible and Medicinal Wild Plants of the Midwest
Author: Matthew Alfs
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781681341750
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
An authoritative and easy-to-use reference to the medicinal and edible properties of wild plants from throughout the upper Midwest. An essential guide for anyone interested in natural healing.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781681341750
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
An authoritative and easy-to-use reference to the medicinal and edible properties of wild plants from throughout the upper Midwest. An essential guide for anyone interested in natural healing.
The Plants of Monterey County
Author: Mary Ann Matthews
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780943460567
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780943460567
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Wildflowers of Nevada and Placer Counties, California
Author: California Native Plant Society. Redbud Chapter
Publisher: California Native Plant Society
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
"Describes and illustrates with color photos 520 species of wildflowers found in Nevada and Placer Counties, California. Also provides a physical description of the area, places to see wildflowers, Native American uses, and a complete plant checklist, which includes thirty-eight percent of the plants known to grow wild in California"--Provided by publisher.
Publisher: California Native Plant Society
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
"Describes and illustrates with color photos 520 species of wildflowers found in Nevada and Placer Counties, California. Also provides a physical description of the area, places to see wildflowers, Native American uses, and a complete plant checklist, which includes thirty-eight percent of the plants known to grow wild in California"--Provided by publisher.
Wild Edible Plants of Western North America
Author: Donald R. Kirk
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Plants, Edible
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
This book describes or mentions the great bulk of the edible plants found in the western United States west of the Great Plains and in southwestern Canada and northwestern Mexico. Carefully illustrated, it helps you identify many hundreds of edible plants that may give you helpful food on a camping trip or someday save your life.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Plants, Edible
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
This book describes or mentions the great bulk of the edible plants found in the western United States west of the Great Plains and in southwestern Canada and northwestern Mexico. Carefully illustrated, it helps you identify many hundreds of edible plants that may give you helpful food on a camping trip or someday save your life.
Barbados in bloom : [tropical gardens and plants]
Author: Derek St. Romaine
Publisher: Miller Publishing Co. Ltd.
ISBN: 9768081120
Category : Gardens
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
Publisher: Miller Publishing Co. Ltd.
ISBN: 9768081120
Category : Gardens
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description