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Gardening Like a Ninja: A Guide to Sneaking Delicious Edibles into Your Landscape

Angela England · Hobble Creek Press
Pages: 175
Format: Print book

Turn your yard into the envy of the neighborhood while adding to your dinner table! Learn how to garden like a ninja as you sneak in plants that you can use for everyday cooking, creating a sustainable and beautiful landscape that's easy to maintain. Save time and money using the visually...
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The Plant Lover's Guide to Magnolias

Andrew Bunting · Timber Press
Pages: 232
Format: Print book

Magnolias - beloved for their iconic spring blossoms - are among the most popular flowering trees. In The Plant Lover's Guide to Magnolias expert Andrew Bunting shares information on garden use, design, culture, and maintenance. The plant directory includes hundreds of the best cultivars...
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The Four Elements of Design: Interiors Inspired By Earth, Water, Air and Fire

Vicente Wolf · Rizzoli, 2016.
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

From interior design icon Vicente Wolf, an inspirational guide for home decorators to designing unforgettablespaces based on the four natural elements. Based on Vicente Wolf's belief that the classical elements - earth, water, air, and fire - form the basic building blocks of great...
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Hollywood Interiors: Style and Design in Los Angeles

Anthony Iannacci · Monacelli Press
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Hollywood individualism pervades every aspect of life in Los Angeles including interior design, where it manifests as highly original spaces from Malibu to Silver Lake in a dizzying assortment of styles - from 1920s and 1930s Spanish Revival houses in the Hollywood hills, to highly adorned...
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Microgreens: How to Grow Nature's Own Superfood

Fionna Hill · Firefly Books
Pages: 119
Format: Print book

"The book is informative and accessible, delivering in a buoyant voice all you need to know about the ultimate in local eating -- making a meal of houseplants. It is nicely illustrated as well, with tantalizing photographs of microgreens at every stage, from seed to planting to plate....
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The Garden Classroom: Hands-On Activities in Math, Science, Literacy, and Art

Cathy James · Roost Books

Creative ways to use the garden to inspire learning, for kids ages 4-8Packed with garden-based activities that promote science, math, reading, writing, imaginative play, and arts and crafts, The Garden Classroom offers a whole year of outdoor play and learning ideas - however big or small...
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150 Best Tiny Home Ideas

Manel GutiÃrrez Couto · Harper Design
Pages: 480
Format: Print book

A lavish, full-color guidebook showcasing the most up-to-date innovations and latest trends in efficient and successful small space design.Packed with detailed color photographs, comprehensive layout illustrations, and essential information, 150 Best Tiny Homes is the ideal solution for making...
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Garden Revolution: How Our Landscapes Can Be a Source of Environmental Change

Larry Weaner · Timber Press
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

"This beautiful book shows us that guiding natural processes rather than fighting them is the key to creating healthier landscapes and happier gardeners. An essential addition to our knowledge of sustainable landscapes." - Doug Tallamy, author of Bringing Nature Home This lushly-photographed...
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Landscape and Garden Design Sketchbooks

Tim Richardson · Thames & Hudson, 2015.
Pages: 318
Format: Print book

An intimate glimpse into the private sketchbooks of the world's foremost landscape and garden designers Garden and landscape designers are adept at interpreting outdoor spaces and transforming them into creatively conceived environments. Their ideas rarely come spontaneously: rather,...
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The Box - Architectural Solutions with Containers

Sibylle Kramer · Braun Publish,Csi; New edition
Format: Hardcover

Shipping containers are the most conspicuous symbol of the globalized world economy – 20 or 40 feet of pure steel reduced to the essentials. They are robust, standardized, inexpensive, universally available, and quickly assembled. Whether as single units, piled on top of each other,...
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