Hus og hage

A detailed and comprehensive A-Z reference book of plants and how they affect each other favourably and unfavourably, for improved results for farmers and gardeners.

In this easy-to-understand guide to plants and how to design with them, garden designer and lecturer Matt James de-mystifies the world of planting design, making it accessible, enjoyable and hugely rewarding.

This text is an introduction to harmonic analysis on symmetric spaces, focusing on advanced topics such as higher rank spaces, positive definite matrix space and generalizations.

Michel Baridon traces the history of the most famous gardens in the world from their inception through the three centuries of eventful history that they have witnessed.

A fascinating look at the life, influences, techniques and works of 18th-century landscape gardener Lancelot 'Capability' Brown. His transformation of unpromising countryside into beautiful parks changed the face of a nation and created a landscape style which for many of us defines the English countryside.

Offers an intervention in debates between literary scholars who focus on genre and those cultural geographers who are concerned that self-perpetuating literary tropes marginalise practical engagements.

The first book to offer suggestions about how to turn a domestic garden into a Noah's Ark to rescue endangered species. Influential conservation biologist, Georg Grabherr has created a private garden which is also an ecological gem and is photographed by an award-winning photographer in Lois Lammerhuber.

`When I am disturbed, even angry, gardening has been a therapy. When I don't want to talk I turn to Plot 29, or to a wilder piece of land by a northern sea. There, among seeds and trees, my breathing slows; my heart rate too. My anxieties slip away.'

The second edition of this two-volume history of garden design by Marie Luise Gothein was translated into English and published in 1928. The highly illustrated work, describing gardening worldwide from antiquity up to the early twentieth century, is still regarded as among the most thorough and important surveys of its kind.

Drawing on the synergies between the fields of architecture and photography, this collection takes a multidisciplinary approach, combining practice-based research with scholarly essays.

Using both common and botanical names, Suzanne McIntyre discusses in depth a wide variety of herbaceous perennials, biennials, annuals, and bulbs, providing sensible directions for choosing ideal plants. She illustrates her advice with personal accounts of successes and failures.

Westcott's Plant Disease Handbook identifies various types of diseases known to invade plants throughout North and South America. Causal disease agents are illustrated though specific examples in addition to measures for disease control.

Offers step-by-step guidance in planning a year-round horticultural program for therapy, recreation, or education. This volume features more than 250 activities, organised by month, ranging from designing a raised plant bed and building a wheelchair-accessible garden to constructing a plant press and creating crafts from natural plant materials. More than 200 illustrations complement the text.