Are you ready for flip flops, warmer weather, sunshine, blooming flowers, birds singing, green grass….It’s Spring!
Presenting books to assist you in the mood even if it is still a bit “Wintery”.
And as Robin William said,
“Spring is nature's way of saying, 'Let's party!'”
Washington, D. C. National Geographic Books, 2000. Fine Hardcover in a Near Fine Dust Jacket. Seeing Gardens lets its 150 pictures speak for themselves with a spare text that offers context rather than commentary. The book is at once thoughtful and elegant, and the anecdotes, recollections and aesthetic philosophy amount.....
![Item #15481 A Nature Diary [Isle of Man]. Richard Adams](https://blindhorsebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/15481.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1651081463)
New York: Viking, 1985. Illustrations by John Lawrence. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good Hardcover in a Near Fine Dust Jacket. This charming diary will appeal to bird watchers, gardeners, walkers and anyone else who enjoys nature. Lawrence's drawings are exquisite.For a full year, Richard Adams (Watership Down) kept a......
London: W. Mears, 1718. Full leather in a slipcase. Full Title: New improvements of planting and gardening, both philosophical and practical; explaining the motion of the sapp and generation of plants. With other Discoveries never before made Publick, for the Improvement of Forest-Trees, Flower-Gardens or Parterres; with a New Invention.....
Rochester, New York: Chase Brothers Company, 1924. Very Good in Illustrated Wraps. A lovely illustrated promotional and informative booklet. Three sections: 1) Ornamental Shrubs, Tree Clinging Vines, Roses and Other Flowers, 2) How to Lay Out the Home Grounds, 3) The Home Orchard - How to Plant, How to Utilize.....
The Lyons Press, 1998. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. The late son of the Huxley dynasty of scientists chronicles the derived-from-agriculture gardening techniques and implements invented and used across cultures and the centuries (everything but power mowers it seems). Huxley also considers more recent trends: greater numbers.....
New York: , 1931: John Scheepers Inc., 1931. A Very Good Soft cover. A very attractive Advertising catalog; full of descriptions for each flower, a price list for varieties, and poetry.
![Item #16178 The Azalea Book [An American Horticultural Society Book]. Frederick P. Lee](https://blindhorsebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/16178.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1665675981)
Princeton, NY: Van Nostrand Reinhold Inc., 1965. Second Revised Edition; Reprinted 1968. A Good Hardcover. A Classic study of the azalea varieties.
Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1999. Stiff Laminated Wraps. With individual photos (taken in the field) of more than 450 wildflower species, the most accurate range information available, and organization by ecological community, Taylor's guide aids not only in wildflower identification, but also in appreciation of the Florida landscapes that.....
Ames: Iowa State Press, 1993. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. 'Kitchen gardeners, the traditional backyard growers of edible plants, have been tending family gardens for some ten thousand years, and Kitchen Gardening in America is their first written history.Starting in the ancient days of.....