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Product Description: Gardeners throughout the centuries have built up a common fund of horticultural knowledge. This instructive and beautifully illustrated guide revives and preserves our rich gardening heritage by combining advice and information on tried-and-true gardening methods with a fascinating investigation and analysis of gardening techniques and designs throughout history...read more

Product Description: Book by Sheen, Joanna

Introduces useful supplies, equipment, and techniques, shows how to create collages with dried flowers, spices, beads, and tissue papers, and suggests projects, including greeting cards, gift tags, and note papers

Product Description: An inspiring, beautifully produced guide to growing the perfect garden--how to design it, cultivate it, and enjoy its pleasures to the fullest. 250 full-color photos.

Forty original ideas for ways to use fresh, dried, and pressed flowers are divided into seasons and photographed in still-life settings around the author's rural Cornwall cottage. 25,000 first printing.

Provides information on finding and identifying the best of the world's varieties of mushrooms and truffles, and includes original recipes

Describes six hundred private gardens in each region of Britain which are opened to the public each year to raise money for the National Gardens Scheme