Secrets from the Flower Farm: Growing Abundant Flowers in Unpredictable Conditions by Rebecca Starling and Christine McCabe | Thames & Hudson
Learn how to grow exquisitely beautiful cut flowers wherever you live in this climate-conscious guide.
Waterwise Gardening: Everything You Need to Know About Efficient Watering to Grow a Healthy Yard by Richard Restuccia | Rizzoli
Whether home gardeners want to conserve water for ecological or purely monetary reasons, each is becoming more acutely aware that water is an increasingly scarce and expensive resource. This volume will be the first to actually give scientific guidance on how much to water, with what methods, and when.
The Rose Book by the Phaidon Editors | Phaidon
From a couture Dior gown and a rose-adorned Barbie to ancient mosaics and Victorian Valentine’s cards, this curated collection of more than 200 stunning images celebrates the world’s most iconic flower. Discover the extraordinary ways the universally beloved bloom has been depicted through time and across cultures, both within and beyond the garden.
The New Sustainable House: Planet-Friendly Home Design by Penny Craswell | Thames & Hudson
Designing with the environment in mind is not new. What is new is the increasing number of ways houses can be more sustainably built. With a fresh focus on design ingenuity and innovative technologies and materials, The New Sustainable House demonstrates that there is more to ecologically motivated construction than solar panels and water tanks.
Designing Therapeutic Environments: Social and Cultural Practice for Health and Well-Being edited By Bruno Marques, Jacqueline McIntosh | Routledge
Therapeutic environments are settings that comprise the physical, ecological, psychological, spiritual and social environments associated with treatment and healing. Throughout these chapters, the understanding of therapeutic environments is broadened through the exploration of specific Indigenous cultural and social dimensions.
The New Romantic Garden by Jo Thompson | Rizzoli
From one of today’s leading garden designers — known for her keen eye for color and modern romanticism — comes a volume that reveals in thirty exquisitely planted gardens, dozens of ideas on how to adapt traditional garden design elements for today’s more ecologically based aesthetics.
Wild Dyeing: From the Garden to Color – An Introduction to Natural Vegetable Dyes by Céline Philippe | Rizzoli
This book is an artfully presented resource for enthusiasts and crafters seeking authoritative information about the natural dyeing process from sourcing plants, extracting dyes, and materials to use.
The Healing Garden: Cultivate Your Garden to Treat, Feed, and Soothe by Caroline Parker and Lucy Mora | Thames & Hudson
An invaluable guide to growing your garden and herbal first-aid kit from herbs, flowers, and foraged weeds.
Gardens for Modern Houses: Design Inspiration for Home Landscapes by Beth Dunlop | Rizzoli
Modernist-style architecture remains one of the most popular in housing markets all across the U.S., and this volume explores the full range of what’s actually possible when plants and hardscape are considered as critical elements of the indoor-outdoor lifestyle the movement promotes, with ample inspiration for homeowners and fans of midcentury-to-contemporary home design.
Gardening with Nature at the New York Botanical Garden by Todd A. Forrest | Monacelli
An exploration of the balance between the hand of the gardener and the power of nature in the New York Botanical Garden landscape.
The Spirited Garden: Creative Private Retreats photographs by Doreen Wynja | Rizzoli
A private view of intensely creative residential gardens, lovingly designed and tended by the plant-obsessed owners themselves. Hundreds of inspiring photographs show home gardeners how to successfully inject elements of their own personality — as well as plants in unique combinations — into their own yards.
Grow Food Anywhere: How to Plant the Right Crops in the Right Places and Help Your Garden Thrive by Lucy Chamberlain | DK
In this book, expert gardener and vegetable grower Lucy Chamberlain breaks down the environments you may find in your garden into seven zones, from sunny and sheltered to shady and dry – as well as using indoor space.
Bosco Verticale: Morphology of a Vertical Forest edited by Stefano Boeri Architetti | Rizzoli
This book celebrates an architectural work that has become the symbol of a renewed collective sensibility toward care for the environment and the plant world.”The Bosco Verticale is one of the few ‘living’ buildings whose life is still followed ten years later.” This was the inspiration behind the editorial structure of the volume, which is formed of three sections that evoke the growth of a tree: roots, trunk, and branches and leaves.
Practising Wood in Architecture: Connecting Design, Construction and Sustainability by James Benedict Brown, Francesco Camilli | Routledge
In the stark light of the climate emergency, using wood instead of concrete, steel, or masonry is increasingly seen as a way of reducing the environmental impact of architecture and construction. This book explores how architecture students are learning to build with wood and interrogates the consequences for architectural practice.
Aerin Lauder: Living with Flowers by Aerin Lauder | Rizzoli
Legendary hostess and style icon Aerin Lauder shares ideas for how to bring flowers into our home, entertaining and décor, inspiring both special occasions and the everyday moments with beauty and joy.
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