The text provides a thorough, how-to explanation of each of the steps of the design process--from initial contact with the client to a completed master plan. The text's numerous illustrations and useful case study examples offer a rich learning experience for students. Whether you are just starting your design career or are a current practitioner, this valuable resource is sure to enhance your skills and knowledge.

    This book brings together the best of Leopold's essays.

    It is presented in a concise, convenient form to facilitate quick and ready reference in the field. Tim Low has provided a truly reliable guide to our edible flora, making identification easy. Thus it is a perfect companion for bushwalkers, naturalists, scientists and, with emphasis on wild food cuisine, gourmets. Low describes more than 180 plants - from the most tasty and significant plant foods of southern and eastern Australia to the more important and spectacular inland and tropical foods. Distribution maps are provided with each description plus notes on how these plants were used in the past and can be used today. Beautifully illustrated with colour photographs and line drawings there is also a guide to poisonous and non-poisonous plants, and information on introduced food plants, the nutrients found in wild food plants, on bush survival, and how to forage for and cook with wild plants.

    Some 5,000 of the world's favorite flowering plants are depicted.

    Here are remedies for ridding lawns, gardens, and trees of destructive invaders.

    An understanding of plant form-plant morphology-is essential to appreciating the wonders of the plant world and to the study of botany and horticulture at every level. In this ingeniously designed volume, the complex subject becomes both accessible and manageable. The first part of the book describes and clearly illustrates the major plant structures that can be seen with the naked eye or a hand lens: leaf, root, stem, reproductive organs, and seedlings; special sections focus on vegetative propagation, and the morphology of grasses, orchids, and cacti. However, plants are dynamic organisms, constantly growing, changing, and becoming more elaborate, and understanding the development of a plant or plant part is as important as describing its final form. Part II focuses on how plants grow: bud development, the growth of reproductive organs, leaf arrangement, branching patterns, and the accumulation and loss of structures. This classic book, now revised and expanded to include the latest information on plant morphology, more than 1000 exquisite line drawings including 119 that are new to this edition, and nearly twice as many photographs as the previous edition, is remarkable for its user-friendly organization, high-quality illustrations, and extensive cross-referencing. Aimed at students of botany and horticulture, enthusiastic gardeners and amateur naturalists, it functions as an illustrated dictionary, a basic course in plant morphology, and an intriguing and enlightening book to dip into.

    In this unique presentation he focuses on the uses of a variety of garden plants--flowering and nonflowering--with which to create enduring garden designs that rescue roses from the stiff formality of most ornamental gardens. Here, Mr. Thomas employs the lessons of the magnificent garden at Mottisfont Abbey, first created by him in 1972 and extended in the 1980s, to demonstrate thrilling design choices and methods of lengthening the flowering seasons open to any alert gardener. As Henry Mitchell, the Washington Post's distinguished horticulturist, puts it: "It was Thomas who launched the revival of interest in roses long out of commerce...He found many of the unheard-of nineteenth-century roses at Bobbink and Atkins Nursery in New Jersey and the old Lester and Tillotson Nursery in California. The authority of Graham Stuart Thomas is by no means limited to roses. He writes authoritatively on perennials, garden design, the grouping of plants, on groundcovers and much else...Few gardeners are so catholic or such connoisseurs." The present book is a glorious display--in words and color illustrations--of Mr. Thomas's gardens, providing an education for the reader in the design of his own garden.  Photographs show roses close up and in garden settings with complementary plants that extend the flowering season of the gardens into the late fall. The author explores the origins of the roses selected and explains how he has employed their particular qualities in his designs. He includes a checklist to assist gardeners who wish to re-create these sumptuous plant combinations.

    The skin care industry is booming with more practitioners, more customers to service, more information, better instruments, and better products! The growth is incredible, which means that the educational materials need to be better than ever. The material in this book provides professionals with current information preparing them for the future of the skin care industry. The experienced esthetician is provided with current skin care science as well as advanced science to prepare for any and all industry developments. The reader is educated in chemistry, physiology, and pathology of the skin to prepare them for more in-depth treatments and methods. Another feature is a new model for skin typing called EA Isotypes that is based on hormonal markers and replaces the antiquated adry, normal, oilya system. There is also focus on a discussion of the methods and products designed to stimulate cellular skin repair without damage. The book includes a section on cosmetic chemistry that gives the reader the tools they need to evaluate any products based on basic performance parameters, and there is a special guest chapter by Scotlandas premier practitioner of herbal medicine addressing the use of botanicals. Many illustrations, sidebars, tables, and graphs are placed throughout the book helping to enhance the text and lead to a better understanding of the content. Other features include website and periodical references as well as a Latin pre-fix section. This book is the must-have reference for the serious professional practicing in the rewarding world ofskin care!

    With a foreword by Renoir's great-grandson. 125 full-color and 10 duotone photographs; 2 garden maps.

    By learning which plants to plant near each other, you can increase the productivity of your garden, improve plant health, reduce pests and disease and condition the soil. There are useful chapters on designing, composting, mulching and homemade liquid plant-foods, and a host of gardening tips.

    A Complete Guide to Gardening in Houston and the Gulf Coast

    Some 5,000 of the world's favorite flowering plants are depicted.

    A practical gardening guide as well as a book for reading and savoring, Uncommon Fruits will help garden enthusiasts--from novice to expert--successfully cultivate and enjoy such fruits as cold-hardy kiwis; the pawpaw, 'banana of the north'; the diminutive and delectable alpine and musk strawberries; cherries from 'Olde England' and Manchuria; the clove currant; Asian pears; the jujube; the maypop; the juneberry--and many others.

    It includes botanical names, trees and shrubs for selected soils and sites, for ornamental effect and much more.

    The story of this dramatic recovery from extinction is just one of the delights of "Passion Flowers." The book documents more than 150 species, with more than 120 of them illustrated in color.This edition has been updated throughout.

    There are chapters on structural planting with trees and shrubs, herbaceous borders and ground cover, walled gardens and vertical planting, rock and water gardens, rose and herb gardens and gardening under glass. A comprehensive catalogue describes over 1000 scented plants to grow for their fragrance as well as beauty.