Gardening
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£20.00'As Good As A Holiday': Potato Harvesting In The Lothians From 1870 To The Present - - Paperback
In Scotland the potato harvest has been the last large-scale agricultural process to be mechanized. Until recently, it was undertaken by a large number of people. This text examines that work in an area of Scotland famous for its potato growing. -
£5.99The Biodynamic Sowing And Planting Calendar 2007: The Original Biodynamic Sowing And Planting Calendar Showing The Optimum Days For Sowing, Pruning And Harvesting Various Plant Crops, As Well As For Beekeeping - Paperback
Presented in colour with clear symbols and explanations, this useful guide shows the optimum days for sowing, pruning, and harvesting various plant-crops, as well as beekeeping. -
£7.99A Bunch Of Sweet Peas - - Paperback
Based upon a true story, Henry Donald describes how a young parish minister wrote to the Daily Mail for entry forms for its competition to find the finest bunch of sweet peas in Britain in 1911. The top prize was £1000! Just two weeks before the deadline a drought threatened the whole country. -
£9.95The Charmed Garden - - Paperback
The garden can be a place of secrets and mysteries - what else is more mysterious than the secret curled within a seed? In this book, Diane Morgan demonstrates how to create botanical magic in a spiritual sense, naming the flowers that will lift your spirits and nourish your soul. -
£12.99Early Scottish Gardens: A Writer's Odyssey - - Paperback
Illustrated with over 90 photographs, paintings, sketches, plans and line drawings, this book describes a personal journey around the 16th, 17th and 18th-century gardens of Scotland. -
£30.00The Edinburgh New Town Gardens: 'Blessings As Well As Beauties' - - Hardback
For most people, a garden is a private refuge where they can satisfy their need for beauty, tranquillity and order. These concepts were very much to the fore during the planning, building and maintenance of the gardens in Edinburgh's New Town, and this book features some of the most elegant and beautiful examples. -
£14.99Extraordinary Plant Qualities For Biodynamics - - Paperback
This title looks at the characteristics of seven common plants and the benefits they can bring to biodynamic and organic gardening and agriculture. -
£8.99A Garden In The Hills - - Paperback
Month by month we are taken through a year in the life of Katharine Stewart's garden. The circle of the seasons is luminously evoked as we are told of the practicalities of gardening, cooking, bee-keeping and wine-making. -
£35.00The Garden Of Cosmic Speculation - - Hardback
Telling the story of one of the most important gardens in Europe, this book looks at The Garden of Cosmic Speculation. It is a landscape that celebrates the new sciences of complexity and chaos theory and consists of a series of metaphors exploring the substance of the Universe. -
£9.99A Garden Of Herbs: Traditional Uses Of Herbs In Scotland - - Hardback
There is an ever-increasing use of herbs in the kitchen and medicine cabinet. Is this good or bad? Not all medicinal herbs are safe, some being powerful drugs especially when used with other medicines. Agnes Walker investigates the evidence and describes herbs grown and used traditionally in Scotland.
