Hus og hage

Growing and cooking food the natural way, with gardening advice and 150 recipes, shown step by step.

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Through this collection of delightful essays and beautiful illustrations, Sharon Lovejoy shares the boundless joys of a country garden. Lovejoy has chosen to focus on the natural world to be found just outside the door, including hummingbirds, caterpillars, and dragonflies, but her informative and witty prose also covers traditional plant care.

This wonderful book contains stunning images of 540 rugs crafted by 292 of today's contemporary rug hooking artists. They are rugs made by a group of artists exploring a common theme, as well as series or topic-related rugs by individual artists. Among the many subjects included are rugs from The American Folk Art Museum's "Icons of America" contest, "Circus Train" rugs from the Green Mountain Rug Hooking Guild, "Art Hits the Wall," from a Canadian fiber exhibit, "A Boy From Orient" by Gail Horton, and many more. Showcased are some of today's most noted rug hooking artists, along with artists making their debuts. Inspiring for all levels of fiber artists, this is a must-have book and a companion to Contemporary Hooked Rugs: Themes and Memories, also by Linda Rae Coughlin.

Over the course of the nineteenth century, gardening came to be considered a respectable profession, providing a means to an education, a good chance of advancement and decent working conditions. This book explores the gardening profession within the complexities of Victorian society and the advances in science and technology.

It all begins when the sandhill cranes leave, and it ends as they come back. When they leave, you plant. When they return, you harvest," writes Spragg-Braude in the opening to her deeply observant extended homage to orchard farmer Evelyn Curtis Losack and her village of Corrales, New Mexico. Corrales is an agricultural village where if you come on horseback to the local pizza place you get a discount. When she isn't in the fields or teaching piano to her students, or canning or making fruit leather or pickling, Evelyn loves to drive the roads between fields, scanning the landscape like pages in a scrapbook, moments and images fixed in time. She passes by the crumbled adobes of her ancestors that anchor old orchards where her grandchildren once played. This book is a journey with Evelyn as she drags the hoe through the earth making her furrows, and we follow on hands and knees behind her, dropping in the seeds. The story shares with readers how someone finds fulfillment, happiness, and a sense of self by connecting to those who came before her and those who will inherit all this when we're gone, to the land beneath her feet and the water flowing, to the seasons, to her food and to those who grow it, and to her community. In this way, it is at once a biography of a person and in the larger sense a valuable parable for our times.

From geraniums to fuchsia, many of your favourite plants can be overwintered and enjoyed for season after season. This book shows you the simple techniques you need.

If you live in Arizona, New Mexico, or Nevada, you'll discover the best edible plants for your garden in this beautiful step-by-step how-to guide€ ” and they'll be on your table before you know it.

The long-awaited follow-up to Doug Tallamy's 'Bringing Nature Home', this book provides homeowners with inspiration and strategies for creating beautiful, wildlife-sustaining landscapes

Furniture produced by the daring Knoll Furniture Company of New York between 1938 and 1960 are identified, cataloged, and shown in over 270 illustrations. Original furniture designs by such important and influential artists as Eero Saarinen, Harry Bertoia, Isamu Noguchi, George Nakashima, Jens Risom, and Ralph Rapson, among others, are presented along with a useful identification chart, index, and price guide.

Improve your gardening know-how with the easy-to-follow manual of techniques, covering all the basics such as digging, soil, compost, planting, sowing, watering, weeding, pruning, propagation and harvesting.

A plant guide, that is updated to include RHS Awards of Garden Merit so you know which plants are RHS recommended. It recommends over 3,000 trees, shrubs, perennials, bulbs, bedding plants, fruits and vegetables for every garden situation - all readily available from nurseries and garden centres.

A guide to the best fruits and vegetables with tips on how to grow them. It is packed with 100 full-colour illustrated profiles and quick reference recommendations to make choosing easy.

Collects 73 food garden plans from some of the author's favourite gardener superstars, including Amy Stewart, Amanda Thomsen, Barbara Pleasant, Jeff Lowenfels, Dave Dewitt, and Jessi Bloom. In this title, each plan is illustrated and includes a profile of the contributor, the inspiration behind the design, and a plant list.

A guide to organic vegetable growing and allotment life in general. It gives us: an overview of the plot; things to do this month; what to watch out for; key crops for the month; progress reports on all the standard veg; top variety tips; main tasks for the month; allotment; and tales.

Dig this !The Georgia Gardener's Guide gives gardeners easy-to-follow advice on how to choose, plant, grow, and care for the top landscape plant varieties for the Georgia climate.

Today Paul McCobb''s furniture and interior designs of the 1950s rank alongside Russell Wright, Gustav Stickley, and Heywood-Wakefield as marked staples in modern design. Paul McCobb''s Directional Designs furniture line exhibits the low-cost, functional, and versatile furniture components, storage units, and interiors that earned McCobb the title of "America''s decorator" during the mid-twentieth century. Containing over 100 coordinating room settings, including chairs, sofas, desks, benches, shelves, interiors, and much more, with information on McCobb''s achievements and design principles, up-to-date price guide, and index, this book presents one of the backbones of modern design.

This book offers a breakdown of the process involved in creating a garden, from making an initial assessment of the site's possibilities to applying design principles and choosing plants and landscaping materials. It is aimed at readers who have no previous knowledge of garden-making but will also be of value to professionals entering the trade.

With vivid stories and an infectious delight in the garden, Jo Ann Gardner shares her wisdom and useful tips on planting, growing, and harvesting more than 90 different kinds of herbs.

Lurie Garden, a botanic garden in the center of Chicago's lakefront in Millennium Park, is a veritable living lab of prairie perennials. The author brings a global perspective to the Lurie oasis through an introduction to the world of perennial gardening. He shows how perennials have much to offer home gardeners, from sustainability to continuity.

A wonderful history of the special relationship between England and America, influenced not by politics but by plants; exotic, exciting and dramatic.