Daffodil and Tulip Year Book 1966

RHS 1965 200, 26 figs. . HB. In d/w, top edge of text slightly soiled. Vg.. .

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Book number: S27995

Catalogue: Botany,Garden Plants & Gardening

Keywords: Daffodils; Gardening; Tulips

B B [Watkins-Pitchford, D.J.]

A Stream in your Garden

Eyre & Spottiswoode 1948 viii, 104, frontis, text figs. 185x125mm. HB. Vg in price-clipped d/w (d/w with a few short marginal tears; in protective sleeve). Light foxing to rear endpaper and edges. Previous owner's name on front paste-down heavily inked out (but largely concealed under d/w flap).. 1st edition. 'How the amateur may install running water in rock gardens and the costruction of pools'. 'The purpose of this book … is to tell anyone how they can have running water in the garden, even if they live miles from the nearest stream. The cost will not be prohibitive, a ten pound note will cover it …' Illustrations by Watkins-Pitchford.

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Book number: S28431

Catalogue: Botany,Garden Plants & Gardening

Allan, M.

E.A. Bowles & his Garden at Myddelton House 1865-1954

Faber 1973 264, 8 col + 46 b/w plates. . HB. Good in d/w (several short edge tears, repaired). Small bookplate removed with minor surface damage to front pastedown. From the library of Keith Hyatt (d. 2021), acarologist at the Natural History Museum, London, and prominent member of the London Natural History Society, and with inscription from him to his father A.R. Hyatt (also with his small ownership stamp/label to endpaper). A.R. Hyatt and his brother were among the 'Bowles Boys', a group of local boys who were invited by Bowles to help and play in the garden at Myddelton House.Also enclosed are several relevant press cuttings; a folding leaflet, 'E.A. Bowles & Myddelton House' (1985) by Frances Perry, with A.R. Hyatt's initials; a printed Order of Service for E.A. Bowles' funeral at Jesus Church, Forty Hill, Enfield, May 11th, 1954 and a manuscript note of corrections to the text of the book.. First edition.. [9780571103065]

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Book number: S49284

Catalogue: Botany,Garden Plants & Gardening

Keywords: Biography; Gardening

Allwood, Montagu C.

Carnations Pinks and All Dianthus

Allwood Bros 1954 xxviii, 354, col frontis, 151 b/w photos. . HB. Vg in d/w (wear to head of spine).. 4th and last edition. Based in Hayward's Heath, Sussex, Allwood Bros. was the largest carnation growers in the world..

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Book number: S52500

Catalogue: Botany,Garden Plants & Gardening

Ashton, J.; Ashton, J.

Wild Your Garden: Create a sanctuary for nature

Dorling Kindersley 2020 192, col photos. 224x176mm. HB. NEW. . A practical guide to rewilding your outdoor space with advice, inspiration, and step-by-step projects. It's up to every single one of us to do our bit for wildlife, however small our gardens, and The Butterfly Brothers know just how that can be achieved. Join the rewilding movement and share your outdoor space with nature. We all have the potential to make the world a little greener. Wild Your Garden, written by Jim and Joel Ashton (aka The Butterfly Brothers), shows you how to create a garden that can help boost local biodiversity. Transform a paved-over yard into a lush oasis, create refuges to welcome and support native species, or turn a high-maintenance lawn into a nectar-rich mini-meadow to attract bees and butterflies. You don't need specialist knowledge or acres of land. If you have any outdoor space, you can make a difference to local wildlife, and reduce your carbon footprint, too.. [9780241435816]

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Book number: N41595

Catalogue: Botany,Garden Plants & Gardening

Keywords: Wildlife Gardening

Bland, B.

Silver Saxifrages: A Guide to Ligulatae Saxifrages and their Cultivars

AGS Publications Ltd 2000 184, 53 col photos, text figs. . PB. Good. Spotting to top edge and occasional foxing.. . [9780900048692]

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Book number: S40726

Catalogue: Botany,Garden Plants & Gardening

Keywords: Mountain flora; Saxifraga

Bowles, E.A.

Books for a Gardener's Library

Royal Horticultural Society 1938 6, . . PB. 8bo, orig. wrappers. Some foxing. Vg.. Reprinted from the Journal of the Royal Horticultural Scoiety Volume LXIII, Part 2..

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Book number: R57017

Catalogue: Botany,Garden Plants & Gardening

Keywords: Books

Bowles, E.A.

A Handbook of Narcissus

Martin Hopkinson 1934 248, 24 b/w plates, text fig. . HB. 8vo, orig. cloth. Endpapers tape marked. Vg in d/w.. First edition. Scarce. A standard work on Narcissus by renowned gardener, Edward Augustus Bowles (1865-1954) of Myddelton House, Bull's Cross. He wrote many books on gardening, and garden plants..

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Book number: S49419

Catalogue: Botany,Garden Plants & Gardening

Keywords: Garden Plants; Narcissus

Bowles, E.A.

A Handbook of Narcissus

Waterstone 1985 248, 32 plates (14 col). . HB. Vg.. A new edition of the standard work on Narcissus by renowned gardener, Edward Augustus Bowles (1865-1954) of Myddelton House, Bull's Cross. With a preface by Brian Mathew and new colour illustrations.. [9780947752552]

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Book number: S49449

Catalogue: Botany,Garden Plants & Gardening

Keywords: Garden Plants; Narcissus

Bowles, E.A.

My Garden in Spring [... Summer] [Autumn and Winter]

Timber Press 1997-1998 xii, xx, 322; x, viii, 331; xii, viii, 282, b/w illus. . HB. 3 vols, orig. bds. Fine in d/w's.. Facsimile reprints of the author's trilogy of gardening classics (first published by T.C. & E.C. Jack in 1914), with the addition of a new Foreword by Brigadier Andrew Parker Bowles, new Prefaces by Charles Elliott and Nomenclatural Update by Peter Barnes..

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Book number: S49418

Catalogue: Botany,Garden Plants & Gardening

Keywords: Gardening; Gardens

Boys, C.V.

Weeds, Weeds, Weeds

Wightman & Co. 1938 115, . . HB. Boards slightly foxed, a few marks to rear board.. Second enlarged edition. Chapters include Poison for Nettles, Weeds on Gravel Paths and Drives, Rag-wort, Horse-tail, and more..

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Book number: S47644

Catalogue: Botany,Garden Plants & Gardening

Keywords: Weeds

Bradbury, K.

Wildlife Gardening: For Everyone and Everything

Bloomsbury Wildlife 2019 176, 300 col photos.
     205x191mm. PB. NEW. . If you want to attract more bees, birds, frogs and hedgehogs into your garden, look no further than Wildlife Gardening for Everyone and Everything. Kate Bradbury offers tips on feeding your neighbourhood wildlife and explains how you can create the perfect habitats for species you'd like to welcome into your garden.With handy charts tailored to the needs of every size and style of garden, this easy-to-use book also includes practical projects such as making bee hotels or creating wildlife ponds, compost corners and wildflower meadows, as well as fact files for the UK's most common garden species.Everyone can garden with wildlife in mind, and in this practical new guide, Kate has teamed up with the Wildlife Trusts and the RHS to help you discover how you can make your garden, balcony, doorstep or patio a haven for garden wildlife.. [9781472956057]

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Book number: N50926

Catalogue: Botany,Garden Plants & Gardening

Keywords: Wildlife Gardening

Buchmann, S.

The reason for flowers: their history, culture, biology, and how they change our lives

Scribner 2015 x, 342, b/w photos. . HB. Fine in d/w.. . [9781476755526]

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Book number: S52262

Catalogue: Botany,Garden Plants & Gardening

Keywords: Ethnobotany; Flower

Buchmann, S.

The reason for flowers: their history, culture, biology, and how they change our lives

Scribner 2015 x, 342, b/w photos. . HB. Fine in d/w.. . [9781476755526]

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Book number: S52263

Catalogue: Botany,Garden Plants & Gardening

Keywords: Ethnobotany; Flower

Cameron, E.

A Book of White Flowers

K.D. Duval 1980 , 24 col plates. . HB. Folio, orig. dec. boards, cloth spine, with orig. cloth-covered slipcase. Fine copy. Includes a printed prospectus for this work and a typed note from the author requesting a review of the book in The Observer newspaper.. Scarce. The book was issued as a limited edition of 250 signed copies - this is an out-of-series, unnumbered and unsigned copy, sent for review. 24 fine colour plates by the botanical artist Elizabeth Cameron (1915-2009), printed under the supervision of Martino Mardersteig at the Stamperia Valdonega in Verona. The artist trained at the Slade Art School and exhibited at The Royal Academy and Royal Scottish Academy. All the illustrations in this work are of flowers from her garden, Allangrange House in Ross-shire, Scotland. Cameron states 'for me white flowers are made up of so many subtle shades and soft colours; in fact in defiance of the title of this book I do not think there is such a thing as a white flower'. With preface by one of Britain's best known gardeners, Christopher Lloyd (1921-2006)..

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Book number: S46521

Catalogue: Botany,Garden Plants & Gardening

Keywords: Botanical Art; Garden Plants