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<p>Make your garden and home look and smell heavenly with this accessible gardening guide that explains how to grow fragrant flowers outdoors and bring natural scents indoors by creating floral arrangements, scented beauty products, and more. </p><p>There is nothing like the beauty and scent of a flower-filled garden and home. The Fragrant Flower Garden shows you how to grow flowers that are a feast for the nose as well as the eyes, from a naturally perfumed carpet of sweet alyssum and the warm, spicy scent of gardenia to the heavenly aroma of lilacs. </p><p>A beautiful garden is one where you can find joy in every sense--literally. The Fragrant Flower Garden makes this dream a reality with garden design guidance for a year s worth of flowers, foliage, and fragrance. Then, reap the wellness benefits of your fragrant flowers through DIY projects such as making floral arrangements, perfumes, tub soaks, and tinctures. </p><p>Whether you prefer the smell of classic lavender or something more adventurous like chocolate cosmos, The Fragrant Flower Garden opens the door to creating a scented flower garden that is a delight for all.</p>

<p><b>LONGLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING<br/>SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKSHOP.ORG INDIE CHAMPION AWARDS<br/>SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKS ARE MY BAG READERS AWARD FOR NON-FICTION<br/><i>THE TIMES</i> / WATERSTONES TOP 10 BESTSELLER<br/>AN <i>INDEPENDENT</i> BEST BOOK TO READ IN 2023<br/>A <i>STYLIST </i>NONFICTION MUST-READ FOR 2023</b><br/><br/>Women have always gardened, but our stories have been buried with our work. Alice Vincent is on a quest to change that: to understand what encourages women to go out, work the soil, plant seeds and nurture them, even when so many other responsibilities sit upon their shoulders. To recover the histories that have been lost among the soil and to understand women's lives, their gardens and what the ground has offered them.<br/><br/>Wise, curious and sensitive, <i>Why Women Grow</i> follows Alice in her search for answers, with inquisitive fronds reaching and curling around the intimate anecdotes of others.</p>

<b>Darryl Cheng, bestselling author of <i>New Plant Parent</i>, is back with the first book for indoor gardeners who want to step up from basic plant care to creating rewarding plant collections.</b><br/><br/>The world of indoor gardening is exploding with desirable new and unusual plants. Thanks to the resources of the internet and social media, finding amazing varieties has never been easier-but knowing how to get maximum enjoyment from this enticing world is not so easy. Darryl Cheng brings his knowledge-based approach to the quest, offering collecting suggestions to suit every level of experience, and describing the riches of twenty-two different plant groups, from anthuriums to tillandsias. As always, he focuses on meeting each plant's requirements for light and moisture, and he provides practical ways to create optimal growing conditions at home. To inspire readers, there are photographs showing the dazzling variety of colors, forms, and patterns that each group offers.<br/><br/>For Cheng, the happy indoor gardener learns to appreciate plants as living things that undergo stages of growth, decline, and rebirth. He teaches the joys of propagation, so that anyone can produce new life from old, increasing and sharing the world's wealth of beautiful plants.

<b>Take a master class by one of the world's greatest living bonsai masters!</b><br/><br/>Kunio Kobayashi is one the world's most recognized bonsai artists. In this comprehensive book, he presents all the essential techniques needed to plant and maintain the most popular types of bonsai-from pines, cypress and cedar to flowering trees and other beloved varieties, including grasses.<br/><br/><b><i>Bonsai Master Class</i> is a book for new fans and longtime aficionados alike, showing you how, with the help of human hands, a bonsai tree can evolve and thrive over centuries. This book provides you with all the vital information you need, including:</b><br/><ul><li>A thorough explanation of the basic bonsai types and styles, and their characteristics</li><li>Guidance in the art of selecting the right plants, pots and spaces to display your bonsai</li><li>Tips on getting started including purchasing the plants, assembling the necessary tools and choosing the soils</li><li>Advice and techniques for planting, repotting, watering, pruning, shaping, wiring and protecting your plants, including a seasonal schedule of tasks for each type of bonsai</li><li>Detailed lessons for specific bonsai varieties like Japanese cypress, red pine, maple, zelkova, sakura and more! </li></ul><br/>You'll be inspired by Kobayashi's award-winning bonsai ranging from classic types to out-of-the-box originals, showing how this art form is as individual as it is traditional. His book will become your bible as you nurture and cultivate your skills and knowledge of these venerable plants.