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Author : Gillian Mears
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780140264975
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (649 download)
Download or read book Mint Lawn written by Gillian Mears and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gillian Mears
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 1742697267
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (426 download)
Download or read book The Mint Lawn written by Gillian Mears and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2014-06-17 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 1990 Australian/Vogel Award, GIllian Meares' debut novel is set on the north coast of New South Wales and tells the story of the varied relationships and personal growth of a 25-year-old woman in a rural community.
Author : Laurie Clancy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 10 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (37 download)
Download or read book Discussion Notes on Gillian Mears's The Mint Lawn written by Laurie Clancy and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Pam Penick
Publisher : Ten Speed Press
ISBN 13 : 1607743159
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (77 download)
Download or read book Lawn Gone! written by Pam Penick and published by Ten Speed Press. This book was released on 2013-02-12 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A colorful guide covering the basics of replacing a traditional lawn with a wide variety of easy-care, no-mow, drought-tolerant, money-saving options that will appeal to today's busy, eco-conscious homeowner. Americans pour 300 million gallons of gas and 1 billion hours every year into mowing their lawns, not to mention 70 million pounds of pesticides and $40 billion for lawn upkeep. No Wonder the anti-lawn movement is thriving, as today's eco-conscious consumers realize that their traditional lawns are water-hogging, chemical-ridden, maintenance-intensive burdens. Lawn Gone!, from award-winning gardening blogger Pam Penick, is the first basic introduction to low-water, easy-care lawn alternatives for beginning gardeners, written in a friendly style with an approachable package. It covers all the available time-saving options: alternative grasses, ground cover plants, artificial turf, hardscaping, mulch, and more. In addition, it includes step-by-step lawn-removal methods, strategies for dealing with neighbors and homeowner associations, and how to minimize your lawn if you're not ready to go all the way.
Author : Nancy Lawson
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 1616896175
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (168 download)
Download or read book The Humane Gardener written by Nancy Lawson and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2017-04-18 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this eloquent plea for compassion and respect for all species, journalist and gardener Nancy Lawson describes why and how to welcome wildlife to our backyards. Through engaging anecdotes and inspired advice, profiles of home gardeners throughout the country, and interviews with scientists and horticulturalists, Lawson applies the broader lessons of ecology to our own outdoor spaces. Detailed chapters address planting for wildlife by choosing native species; providing habitats that shelter baby animals, as well as birds, bees, and butterflies; creating safe zones in the garden; cohabiting with creatures often regarded as pests; letting nature be your garden designer; and encouraging natural processes and evolution in the garden. The Humane Gardener fills a unique niche in describing simple principles for both attracting wildlife and peacefully resolving conflicts with all the creatures that share our world.
Author : Gillian Mears
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781761281181
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (811 download)
Download or read book The Grass Sister written by Gillian Mears and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trying to understand what might have happened to her sister, Ann-Clare, Avis reads through her letters. It's been more than ten years since she disappeared in mysterious circumstances in Africa, their parents' homeland. The story slowly reveals Ann-Clare's history, including her tragedies, as her sister uncovers and revisits them one by one. "The Grass Sister" is an evocative, moving, timeless novel about death, dying, sibling relationships and moving forward while making sense of the past.
Author : Gillian Mears
Publisher : Univ. of Queensland Press
ISBN 13 : 9780702223112
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (231 download)
Download or read book Fineflour written by Gillian Mears and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of short stories by the author of TRide a Cock Horse', winner of the 1989 South East Asian and South Pacific First Book Award in the British Commonwealth Writers Prize. The stories are linked together by the river Fineflour and its place in the lives of the characters through successive generations.
Author : Kirk Hiner
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595236839
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (952 download)
Download or read book Mowin' the Heavenly Lawn written by Kirk Hiner and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002-09 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guy Lindsey once killed somebody. A few years later, he confessed that he once killed somebody. In between, he watched a lot of wrestling, met a Fire God, dreamt of Andy Kauffman, and discovered an internet porn syndicate, all while working towards his college degree. What leads someone to murder? What leads him to confession? What leads him to discover who he really is? Hint: If you're thinking Jimmy Webb's MacArthur Park, you're not too far off.
Author : Barbara W. Ellis
Publisher : Storey Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1580176658
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (81 download)
Download or read book Covering Ground written by Barbara W. Ellis and published by Storey Publishing. This book was released on 2007-07-30 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ground covers are a pretty and practical way to bring diversity, elegance, and durability to open sweeps of lawn. Give your landscape a vibrant new palette that is both sustainable and low-maintenance through plantings of herbs, shrubs, mosses, and more. Barbara W. Ellis provides a variety of full-color lawn designs and professional planting advice to get you started. You’ll be amazed as your ordinary lawn transforms into a striking display of color and texture.
Author : Gillian Mears
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 174343118X
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (434 download)
Download or read book Foal's Bread written by Gillian Mears and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The long-awaited new novel from the award-winning author of The Grass Sister tells the story of two generations of the Nancarrow family and the high-jumping horse circuit prior to the Second World War. A love story of impossible beauty and sadness, it is
Author : Margaret Renkl
Publisher : Milkweed Editions
ISBN 13 : 1571319875
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)
Download or read book Late Migrations written by Margaret Renkl and published by Milkweed Editions. This book was released on 2019-07-09 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times columnist, a portrait of a family and the cycles of joy and grief that mark the natural world: “Has the makings of an American classic.” —Ann Patchett Growing up in Alabama, Margaret Renkl was a devoted reader, an explorer of riverbeds and red-dirt roads, and a fiercely loved daughter. Here, in brief essays, she traces a tender and honest portrait of her complicated parents—her exuberant, creative mother; her steady, supportive father—and of the bittersweet moments that accompany a child’s transition to caregiver. And here, braided into the overall narrative, Renkl offers observations on the world surrounding her suburban Nashville home. Ringing with rapture and heartache, these essays convey the dignity of bluebirds and rat snakes, monarch butterflies and native bees. As these two threads haunt and harmonize with each other, Renkl suggests that there is astonishment to be found in common things: in what seems ordinary, in what we all share. For in both worlds—the natural one and our own—“the shadow side of love is always loss, and grief is only love’s own twin.” Gorgeously illustrated by the author’s brother, Billy Renkl, Late Migrations is an assured and memorable debut. “Magnificent . . . Readers will savor each page and the many gems of wisdom they contain.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Author : Anne Trubek
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812205812
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book A Skeptic's Guide to Writers' Houses written by Anne Trubek and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-07-11 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are many ways to show our devotion to an author besides reading his or her works. Graves make for popular pilgrimage sites, but far more popular are writers' house museums. What is it we hope to accomplish by trekking to the home of a dead author? We may go in search of the point of inspiration, eager to stand on the very spot where our favorite literary characters first came to life—and find ourselves instead in the house where the author himself was conceived, or where she drew her last breath. Perhaps it is a place through which our writer passed only briefly, or maybe it really was a longtime home—now thoroughly remade as a decorator's show-house. In A Skeptic's Guide to Writers' Houses Anne Trubek takes a vexed, often funny, and always thoughtful tour of a goodly number of house museums across the nation. In Key West she visits the shamelessly ersatz shrine to a hard-living Ernest Hemingway, while meditating on his lost Cuban farm and the sterile Idaho house in which he committed suicide. In Hannibal, Missouri, she walks the fuzzy line between fact and fiction, as she visits the home of the young Samuel Clemens—and the purported haunts of Tom Sawyer, Becky Thatcher, and Injun' Joe. She hits literary pay-dirt in Concord, Massachusetts, the nineteenth-century mecca that gave home to Hawthorne, Emerson, and Thoreau—and yet could not accommodate a surprisingly complex Louisa May Alcott. She takes us along the trail of residences that Edgar Allan Poe left behind in the wake of his many failures and to the burned-out shell of a California house with which Jack London staked his claim on posterity. In Dayton, Ohio, a charismatic guide brings Paul Laurence Dunbar to compelling life for those few visitors willing to listen; in Cleveland, Trubek finds a moving remembrance of Charles Chesnutt in a house that no longer stands. Why is it that we visit writers' houses? Although admittedly skeptical about the stories these buildings tell us about their former inhabitants, Anne Trubek carries us along as she falls at least a little bit in love with each stop on her itinerary and finds in each some truth about literature, history, and contemporary America.
Author : Laureen Rama
Publisher : New Society Publisher
ISBN 13 : 1550924664
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (59 download)
Download or read book Eco-yards written by Laureen Rama and published by New Society Publisher. This book was released on 2011-02-08 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A gentle, practical and inspiring guide to help you transform your yard into a diverse, healthy and sustainable landscape.”—Myrna Pearman, coauthor of NatureScape Alberta Many urban yards are essentially unproductive patches of grass, requiring constant attention for no return. Through sustainable, organic landscaping, these small or large plots of land can become part of the solution to today’s environmental challenges. Eco-yards supports the vision of a healthy, abundant planet in which beautiful, richly varied urban yards contribute to restoring the natural ecosystem. This inspiring and practical, well-illustrated manual includes clear, easy-to-follow instructions for: Designing and maintaining an eco-yard Making your yard water-wise Understanding basic soil science Replacing your lawn with tree, shrub and flower beds or hardy, low-maintenance grass Growing vegetables in the eco-yard Visionary, hopeful and encouraging, Eco-yards is a must-read for anyone who wants to use environmentally sound practices when they garden, whether in a residential yard or on the balcony of a condo or high-rise apartment. If you’re sick of the backyard battle, this book will show you how to work with nature instead of fighting it, using simple steps that apply practically anywhere to turn your yard into an eco-friendly sanctuary. “A rich compost of the practical and scientific . . . this is a book for every gardener concerned for the health of the environment.”—Roberta Rees, author of Long After Fathers “Rama is a hands-on gardener who explains—in great detail—everything from building soil to creating sustainable landscapes. Read about it here and then get out and practice what Rama preaches.”—Donna Balzer, BScA, horticulturist and co-host of the internationally broadcast television show Bugs & Blooms
Author : Gillian Mears
Publisher : Picador Australia
ISBN 13 : 9780330363464
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (634 download)
Download or read book A Map of the Gardens written by Gillian Mears and published by Picador Australia. This book was released on 2002 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of short stories examining people, relationships and emotions. Includes stories of Farina the prostitute, Ron and Muriel's friendship garden, and Dr Took and his caged quarrion. Examines themes of love, loss and renewal. Author has previously written a collection of short stories 'Fineflour' and her Vogel-awarded novel 'The Mint Lawn'.
Author : Paul Robbins
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 1592135803
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (921 download)
Download or read book Lawn People written by Paul Robbins and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2007-06-15 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For some people, their lawn is a source of pride, and for others, caring for their lawn is a chore. Yet for an increasing number of people, turf care is a cause of ecological anxiety. In Lawn People, author Paul Robbins, asks, "How did the needs of the grass come to be my own?" In his goal to get a clearer picture of why people and grasses do what they do, Robbins interviews homeowners about their lawns, and uses national surveys, analysis from aerial photographs, and economic data to determine what people really feel about-and how they treat-their lawns. Lawn People places the lawn in its ecological, economic, and social context. Robbins considers the attention we pay our turfgrass-the chemicals we use to grow lawns, the hazards of turf care to our urban ecology, and its potential impact on water quality and household health. He also shows how the ecology of cities creates certain kinds of citizens, deftly contrasting man's control of the lawn with the lawn's control of man. Lawn People provides an intriguing examination of nature's influence on landscape management and on the ecosystem.
Author : Dean Halliday
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 760 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Your Garden and Home written by Dean Halliday and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes preliminary number dated Apr. 1927.
Author : Mary Wesley
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 144644337X
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (464 download)
Download or read book The Camomile Lawn written by Mary Wesley and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-03-31 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Escape to the Cornish cliffs in the dizzying heat of August 1939, where five cousins are making the most of the last summer of their youth. Oliver is just back from the Spanish Civil War and world-weary at only nineteen. Calypso is gorgeous, utterly selfish and determined to marry for money. Polly and Walter, brother and sister, play their cards close to their chests. Then there's little Sophie, who nobody loves. Soon the world will be swept into war again and the five cousins will enter a whirligig of sex, infidelity, love and loss, but for now they have one last, gaspingly hot summer at the house by the cliffs with the camomile lawn. A beloved bestseller from an author ahead of her time, The Camomile Lawn is a waspishly witty, devil-may-care delight.
