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Author
Publisher
Storey Pub
Pub. Date
©2007
Language
English
Description
A resource on selecting woody plants for the home landscape covers every aspect of choosing trees and shrubs, with profiles of each plant's hardiness, cultivation requirements, history, size, growth rate, availability, and special characteristics, as well as complete maintenance and care guidelines.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Once, farmers knew how to make a living hedge and fed their flocks on tree-branch hay. Rural people knew how to prune hazel to foster abundance: both of edible nuts, and of straight, strong, flexible rods for bridges, walls, and baskets. Townspeople cut their beeches to make charcoal to fuel ironworks. Shipwrights shaped oaks to make hulls. No place could prosper without its inhabitants knowing how to cut their trees so they would sprout again. ...
93) The giving tree
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young boy grows to manhood and old age experiencing the love and generosity of a tree which gives to him without thought of return.
Author
Publisher
Abbeville Press Publishers
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Throughout much of the world, night skies are growing increasingly brighter, but the force that protects the remaining naturally dark sky, unpolluted by artificial light, is the same that saves its ancient trees?isolation. Staking out some of the world?s last dark places, photographer Beth Moon uses a digital camera to reveal constellations, nebulae, and the Milky Way, in rich hues that are often too faint to be seen by the naked eye. As in her acclaimed...
96) Picture a tree
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman
Pub. Date
2013, c2011
Language
English
Description
"Explores in words and pictures different ways of seeing and experiencing trees"--
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Pub
Pub. Date
©2008
Language
English
Description
An artist shares his love of trees with his brilliant paintings and thoughtful words. According to Peter Stone, "any book about trees can't help but be a book about people," and so his book is about our connection to the magnificence, the transcendence, and the essential nature of trees. Throughout human history, they have served as shelter and as symbol. And today, more than ever, our destiny is tied to theirs. The Untouchable Tree is a unique exploration...
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