Gardening & Landscape
Dahlias: A Little Book of Flowers
$14.95
This charming little hardcover book includes:
- 60+ full-color botanical illustrations
- basic botany and history
- everything you need to know to grow gorgeous blooms in the garden (including dividing tubers to propagate more flowers)
- tips for creating beautiful arrangements and preserving flowers
- quotes, lore, and notable gardens and growers
By Tara Austen Weaver
144 pages
Published by Sasquatch Books, 2022
Hardcover
4.66 x 0.65 x 7.01 inches
Floriography: An Illustrated Guide to the Victorian Language of Flowers
$19.99
Floriography is a full-color guide to the historical uses and secret meanings behind an impressive array of flowers and herbs. The book explores the coded significances associated with various blooms, from flowers for a lover to flowers for an enemy.
The language of flowers was historically used as a means of secret communication. It soared in popularity during the 19th century, especially in Victorian England and the U.S., when proper etiquette discouraged open displays of emotion. Mysterious and playful, the language of flowers has roots in everything from the characteristics of the plant to its presence in folklore and history. Researched and illustrated by popular artist Jessica Roux, this book makes a stunning display piece, conversation-starter, or thoughtful gift.
By Jessica Roux
224 pages
Published by Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2020
Hardcover
6.2 x 1.1 x 8.2 inches
Garden: Elements & Styles
$49.95
The definitive reference guide to garden design, its rich history, and the creative art of gardening – a luxuriously illustrated A-Z compendium of more than 200 garden elements, styles, features, and ornaments for gardeners around the globe
With its easy-to-use A-Z format, The Garden examines over 200 modern and historical garden styles, features, types and ornaments, with definitions and informative descriptions and more than 500 spectacular images. This accessible, inspirational book is perfect for both amateur gardeners and specialists alike.
Its entries, written by garden expert and historian Toby Musgrave – author of Phaidon's bestselling book The Gardener's Garden – range from Allée, Borrowed Landscape and Coastal Garden, to Minimalism, New Perennial Planting, Pool, Vista and Xeriscape Garden and form a unique, illustrated 'glossary' for gardeners, featuring more than 400 gardens, both public and private, iconic and lesser known.
Examples include spaces such as the Baroque gardens of Versailles and rarely published tropical courtyards from contemporary designers, alongside artist creations such as Frida Kahlo’s courtyard in Mexico and Derek Jarman's coastal garden in Dungeness, England. Alongside the work of private garden owners and makers, the book also showcases the work of emerging and eminent designers, including Andrea Cochran, Emily Erlam, Raymond Jungles, Dan Pearson, and Piet Oudolf.
Whether creating an English cottage garden or tending a Japanese Zen landscape, the range and beauty of The Garden will inspire gardeners and garden lovers everywhere as never before.
By Toby Musgrave
304 pages
Published by Phaidon Press, 2023
Hardcover
8.65 x 1.25 x 9.95 inches
Images of America: Boston Common
$21.99
The nation's oldest and most venerated public park, Boston Common has belonged to the people of Boston since 1634. Throughout its history, it has been a centerpiece of civic life; the scene of executions, sermons, protests, and celebrations; and in each century, host to famous visitors from Generals Washington and Lafayette to Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Pope John Paul II. In Colonial times, it served as a meeting place, pasture, and military training field. Bostonians in the 19th century added treelined malls and paths and, following the Civil War, monuments and fountains. However, for all its adaptation to modern life, Boston Common remains a green retreat remindful of its storied past.
Written by Friends of the Public Garden128 Pages
Published by Arcadia Publishing, 2005
Paperback
6.5 x 9.2 inches
Images of America: Fenway Park
$21.99
Five days after the sinking of the Titanic, Boston's Fenway Park held its grand opening. Since that day, millions have witnessed the Red Sox play baseball. Their "Royal Rooters" evolved into the "Fenway Faithful" and are now commonly referred to as "Red Sox Nation." Nine World Series have been staged upon Fenway's turf, along with three Major League All-Star Games. Aside from baseball, Fenway has been host to professional and amateur football games, ice hockey, basketball, soccer, lacrosse, hurling, boxing and wrestling matches, and even a circus. Music from concerts has reverberated across its lawn, religious services have been held, and political rallies staged—all adding patches to the quilt of Fenway's rich, illustrious history. The structure that noted author John Updike referred to many decades ago as "a lyric little band box" has become one of New England's most beloved historical landmarks.
Written by David Hickey, Raymond Sinibaldi, & Kerry KeeneForeword by Jim Lonborg
128 Pages
Published by Arcadia Publishing, 2012
Paperback
6.5 x 0.3 x 9.2 inches
In Pursuit of Color: From Fungi to Fossil Fuels: Uncovering the Origins of the World's Most Famous Dyes
$49.95
An engrossing look at the rich and turbulent history of coloring cloth
Over the centuries our manipulation of the natural world has resulted in an explosion of synthetic dye production and application globally. To gain insight into the history of how folk practices have been lost and technical processes found, anthropologist and textile artist Lauren MacDonald explores a practice that is both ancient and wholly modern: coloring cloth. The pursuit of color has long spurred economic and social contest, and through this deeply researched volume we explore the stories that the materials used to dye cloth tell us about our complex relationship to nature, our troubling ideas about progress and our understanding of power and labor.
In Pursuit of Color brings together historic techniques, archive photography, specimens and present-day events to tell the histories of some of the world’s most important dyestuffs. A 32-page supplement accompanies the volume, detailing practical applications and the chemistry behind dyeing processes. The book comes in three different covers (red, yellow and blue) which are shipped randomly as a further happy surprise.
By Lauren MacDonald, edited by Ananda Pellerin
272 pages
Published by Atelier Éditions/D.A.P., 2023
Hardcover
7 x 1 x 9.5 inches
The Secret Life of Bees
$19.95
Follow Buzzwing the honeybee on a beautifully illustrated journey through the world of bees filled with amazing science and intriguing folklore.
Welcome to my honey hive home.
It’s where I live with my family.
I’m small and fuzzy and striped black and gold.
I’m Buzzwing the hard-working honey bee!
Did you know that bees love to dance? Or that they have an amazing sense of smell to help them find the best flowers? In The Secret Life of Bees, Buzzwing shares with you all the details of her life as a bee, in and out of the hive, starting with the day she was born.
Learn the secrets of this worker bee’s tiny world, including:
- The bee life cycle
- Bee anatomy
- How bees collect nectar and make honey
- What happens inside the hive
- The different types of bees
- Why bees are so important to humans
- How bees can thrive in the city
- Bee folk tales from around the world
With things to search for and find throughout, tips for making your own environment welcoming to bees, and even a poetry-writing exercise, The Secret Life of Bees is brimming with reasons to admire and respect the hardworking honeybee.
Sumptuous and detailed illustrations have pride of place in this magical guide to bees that mixes natural history with a splash of fantasy—a book to be pored over time and again.
By Moira Butterfield with illustrations by Vivian Mineker
48 pages
Published by Stars of Nature
Hardcover
9.55 x 0.45 x 11.7 inches
The Story of Flowers: And How They Changed the Way We Live
$29.99
Throughout history flowers have been an integral part of human survival and culture – as food, for medicine, to express feelings, as symbols, to commemorate and celebrate, and to decorate. Their shapes, colors, scents and textures have always attracted us, as they do animals and insects. Flowers are used as luxury spices (saffron), and as coloring and flavoring agents – marigolds fed to chickens make eggs more yellow and lavender was Elizabeth I's favorite flavor of jam. Flowers are full of symbolic meaning: violets represent modesty, daises purity and daffodils unrequited love. And they have always played an important role in culture through myths and legends, literature and the decorative arts. This delightful new book brings together 100 of the world's flowers to tell their remarkable stories. Each flower is richly illustrated in color and accompanied by facts about each species and what role it has played in our culture and history.By Noel Kingsbury, illustrated by Charlette Day
216 pages
Published by Laurence King Publishing, 2023
Hardcover
7.85 x 1 x 11 inches
Wildsam Field Guides: New England
$24.00
Take a road trip and discover the best of New England. Wildsam Field Guides: New England leads travelers into the most authentic experience of this American region, working closely with an eclectic team of trusted locals.
Independent and idyllic, visit New England, including:
- 24 hours to see iconic Boston
- The five best lobster shacks in Maine
- How to catch the first sunrise in America
- An interview with an LL Bean bootmaker
- Our favorite country inn for a winter escape
- Alpine huts in the White Mountains of New Hampshire
- An illustrated map to summer on Cape Cod
- Three days seeing fall color in Vermont's North Country
- Words from Louisa May Alcott and Henry David Thoreau
144 pages
Published by Wildsam, 2018
Paperback
6.5 x 0.31 x 4.2 inches
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