This book shows you how to have healthy soil and recommends environmentally safe products and even some homemade remedies to control pests and diseases in your garden. It describes more than 100 food plants and gives specific information on the growth habits, culture, harvest, and storage of each.
NatGeo takes you on a photographic tour of the world’s most spectacular destinations, inspiring tangible ideas for your next trip. Travel to hundreds of the most breathtaking locales—both natural and man-made—illustrated with vivid images taken by the organization's world-class photographers. These images, coupled with evocative text, feature a plethora of visual wonders: ancient monoliths, scenic islands, stunning artwork, electric cityscapes, white-sand seashores, rain forests, ancient cobbled streets, and both classic and innovative architecture. Loaded with hard service information f... [Read More]
The all-inclusive reference to starting and operating a landscape architecture firm The Professional Practice of Landscape Architecture, Second Edition is completely revised to keep up with the latest developments driving the day-to-day operation of a successful private-practice landscape architecture office. Whether helping a landscape architecture student identify a career track, providing direction on starting a new office, guiding an owner seeking to jumpstart a stagnant or fledgling business, or assisting a landscape architect-in-training study for the national Landscape Architecture Regi... [Read More]
New edition of the popular Texas Parks & Wildlife book, now with fully searchable DVD containing all the plant and animal information you need to customize your backyard habitat.Whether you have an apartment balcony or a multi-acre ranch, the Texas Wildscapes™ program provides the tools you need to make a home for all the animals that will thrive in the native habitat you create.In Texas Wildscapes, Kelly Conrad Bender identifies the kinds of animals you can expect when you give them their three basic needs: food, water, and shelter. She then provides guidelines for designing and planting y... [Read More]
Our TSI Texas Success Initiative Reading and Writing Study Guide covers all of the reading and writing skills assessed on the actual TSI assessment. This study guide contains six practice tests with answers and in-depth explanations. When you study the explanations for the answers to each question, you will learn useful exam strategies and the pitfalls to avoid when taking the actual TSI test. Since you are asked to write a persuasive essay on a controversial topic for the TSI assessment, an essay writing guide is provided in the last section of the book. All of the texts and questions in ... [Read More]
In this indispensable guide, you'll find landscape designs for every type of terrain found in Texas―from the Gulf Coast to the Panhandle, and from East Texas to West of the Pecos. This book also includes 21 landscaping design plans that are sure to inspire even the most traditional homeowner to go native.
#4 on Publishers Weekly's Bestselling Gardening Books list! This new, completely revised edition has over 500 new photographs, 400 new illustrations, 400 new plants and trees, the latest pest control recommendations, fruit and vegetable recommendations, new tips and plants specifically for Southern Texas, plus everything in the first edition.
Gardening is now the favorite leisure pastime in America. Homeowners are realizing the health benefits derived from gardening and the increase in their home's property value.
In this invaluable new book, Jim Stanley charts a practical course for understanding and handling a variety of problems that both new and established landowners in the Texas Hill Country will confront—from brush control, grazing, and overpopulation of deer to erosion, fire, and management of exotic animals and plants. Filled with advice that landowners can easily absorb and implement, this book conveys basic knowledge Stanley has gained from personal experience and from other experts during his years in the Hill Country.
Think of Doug Welsh’s Texas Garden Almanac as a giant monthly calendar for the entire state—a practical, information-packed, month-by-month guide for gardeners and “yardeners.” With nearly 20,000 copies sold and now in its second printing, this book provides everything you need to know about flowers and garden design; trees, shrubs, and vines; lawns; vegetable, herb, and fruit gardening; and also soil, mulch, water, pests, and plant care to create beautiful, productive, healthy gardens—and have fun doing it!Praise for Doug Welsh's Texas Garden Almanac:" . . . a must for all Texas gar... [Read More]
A guide to growing beautiful gardens in drought-prone areas utilizing minimal water for maximum results.With climate change, water rationing, and drought on the rise, water conservation is more important than ever—but that doesn’t mean your gardening options are limited to cacti and rocks. The Water-Saving Garden provides gardeners and homeowners with a diverse array of techniques and plentiful inspiration for creating sustainable gardens that are so beautiful and inviting, it’s hard to believe they are water-thrifty. Including a directory of 100 plants appropriate for a variety of drou... [Read More]
Gardening/Flowerscaper Series -Flip pages -Height and zone guides -Watercolor illustrations for bloom, color, and texture Kathy's creative format will delight "lazy gardeners!" Her promotion of hardy plants for Texas' unique growing climates will help gardeners succeed where they may have failed before using nationally written horticultural guides. --Brenda Beust Smith, Houston's "Lazy Gardener" Kathy Huber's Flowerscaper will bring to Texas gardeners an easy-to0use, practical-yet-informative source for plant selection. Her choice of plants is excellent." --Sally McQueen Squire, Houston's ... [Read More]
The story of Austin food is equal parts deep Texan traditions and a booming food scene. It is this atmosphere that has fostered some of the hottest restaurants in the country, a lively food truck community, and a renaissance in the most Texan of foods: barbecue. Austin food is also tacos and Tex-Mex, old fashioned Southern cooking, and street food and fine dining, with influences from all over the globe. And above all, it’s a source of intense pride and inspiration for chefs and diners alike. Organized by Austin’s “major food groups”—like barbecue, tacos, and Tex-Mex—The Austin ... [Read More]
Filled with beautiful photos and entertaining, informative entries, "Southern Birds: The Backyard Guide" is the perfect no-nonsense pocket manual for the 55 most common species in the Southern United
"From Big Bend to Pine Island Bayou, these Texas paddling trips offer easy access, secure environments, good facilities, great fishing and wildlife viewing, and beautiful scenery. "Paddling Texas" gives recreational paddlers and anglers all the
Photographer Rollin Geppert lives in Olympia, Washington and through eBooks, his website, www.Geppertphotography.com, fine art prints and other published works, shares his 40 years of experience in searching out the best views in Washington State
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