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Excellent = Little or no visual wear.

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An Illustrated Guide to Popular Houseplants by Peter Chapman, William Davidson and Margaret Martin (Paperback)

Sizes: 488 pages, h 21.5 cm, w 11.5 cm, t 3.5 cm. Condition: Excellent. Comment: Packed with practical advice on how to grow over 450 exciting and colourful plants to enhance your home. 75,000 words plus 450 line drawings and over 350 colour photographs. Published 1987.

Price: $18.00 + Postage & Handling

 

Cacti by Wilhelm Barthlott

Sizes: 250 pages, h 21 cm, w 15 cm, t 2.5 cm. Condition: Very Good. Comments: "This book has three special features. It provides a broad view of the great diversity of the cacti, a view which is extended and enhanced by the large array of beautiful colour illustrations; and it gives the information which the user needs in order to grow the subjects successfully. Very importantly through his great experience in the field of distribution, the author gives an insight into the fascination of the adaptability of the Cactaceae to extreme habitats, information which has previously been confined to specialist literature and not available in any broad survey hitherto published. Published 1977.

Price: $18.00 + Postage & Handling

BONUS

Propagating House Plants by Arno and Irene Nehrling (Paperback)

Sizes: 303 pages, h 18 cm, w 10.5 cm, t 3.3 cm. Condition: Good (normal wear). Comment: The home gardeners most valuable do-it-yourself book. Everything you need to know to grow lush, healthy new plants from old favourites. The easy, inexpensive way to multiply greens, blooms, tropicals, herbs.  Rejuvenate failing favourites. Cultivate great gifts. Replenish costly plants. In window, greenhouse or artificial light.  Published 1975.

 

An Illustrated Guide to Garden Flowers by David Papworth, Bob Legge and Noel Prockter

Sizes: 488 pages, h 21.5 cm, w 11.5 cm, t 3.5 cm. Condition: Excellent. Comments: Packed with practical advice on how to grow over 450 exciting and colourful plants to enhance your garden. 488 pages plus 75,000 words, 450 line drawings and over 350 colour photographs. Published 1987.

Price: $18.00 + Postage & Handling

 

Collins Complete Book of Houseplants by Halina Heitz

Sizes: 239 pages, h 27cm, w 22cm, t 2.2cm. Condition: Excellent. Comments: Over 300 plants for indoors, balconies and patios. "The book is full of innovative ideas for decorating your home or workplace with plants, such as how to create a bottle garden or an indoor water garden, or even plant seeds from fruit......Lavishly illustrated throughout with outstanding colour photography and packed with useful explanatory diagrams and easy to follow instructions". Published: 1991.

Price: $14.00 + $8.00 Postage & Handling

 

Your Kitchen Garden - Gardening by George Seddon, Cookery by Helena Radecka

Sizes: 240 pages, h 30 cm, w 23 cm, t 2 cm. Condition: Very Good. Comments: The complete illustrated guide to growing what you eat and cooking what you grow. Includes the history of the kitchen garden, layout, cropping and intensive cropping, cultivation, tools and machinery, a gardening guide, plus the how-to of growing many fruits and vegetables. The cookery section includes in the kitchen, salad plants, spinach and other leaves, pods and seeds, mushrooms, etc. The book also includes preserving and bottling by Sally Ashworth. Wines by Leo Zanelli. Many historical and colour plates. Published 1975.

Price: $25.00 + $9.00 postage and handling. +

 

Woman's Day Complete Book of Handicrafts Edited by Jill Blake & Joan Fisher

Sizes: 304 pages. h 30.5cms, w 22.5cms, w 3cms. Condition: Excellent. Comments: Includes new ones and old ones with over 20 differing handicrafts to explore such as sewing, leatherwork, smocking, applique', knitting, patchwork, collage, jewellery, tatting, rugmaking, picture framing, felt & fabric craft, tapestry, macrame', hatmaking, toymaking, lampshades, etc. A quality bound book with heavy pages. Published: 1978.

Price: $19.00 + $9.00 Postage & Handling. +

 

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The Readers Digest Practical Guide to Home Landscaping

Sizes: 456 pages, h 23 cm, w 23 cm, t 3.8 cm. Condition: Very Good. Comments: "Landscaping today is  more important than ever before. As the highways, parks and beaches become more crowded, beautiful places and quiet retreats where we can relax and enjoy nature become more essential. This book is intended to enable you to discover that such a retreat can be created in your own backyard." Book includes ideas for your garden, styles of the home landscape, examples from Japan and Europe, elements of the home package, analyzing the problem, putting the layout on paper, the heavy work of landscaping, enclosing the land, paving the ground surfaces, three ways of changing the level, structures in the garden, water in the garden, lighting the garden, pottery and sculpture, using trees and shrubs and flowers in the landscape, planting and caring for lawns, special plants for the garden, etc. Also includes dozens of colour and black and white plates. Published: 1973.

Price: $25 + $9.00 Postage & Handling

 

The National Association of Flower Arrangement Societies Book of Flower Arranging

A step by step guide to decorating your home with flowers. Compiled by Mary Newnes

Sizes:  128 pages, h 28.5 cm, h 20.5 cm, t 1.6cm. Condition: Very Good. (small tear in dust cover) Comments: "This sumptuous book would inspire you to create a more beautiful environment in your home, whether for everyday enjoyment or for a special occasion such as a party or a wedding. Original flower arrangements have been created with great flair to complement houses of different periods from Tudor to modern times and every flower arranger can adapt these ideas to suit his or her own home and decorative style." Includes flower in a setting, flowers for entertaining, flowers for a wedding, and enhanced treasures, etc. Published: 1988

Price: $18.00 + $9.00 Postage & Handling

 

The Discovery of Animal Behaviour by John Sparks

Sizes: 288 pages, h 25.5cm, w 18cm, t 2.2cm. Condition: Excellent. Comments: "It is a story that includes the migration of butterflies, the beautiful courtship rituals of birds, the fearce gladiatorial contests of the breeding season and the complex languages of signs and sounds by which animals communicate........with the help of more than a hundred colour plates, John Sparks gives us a fascinating insight into a new and strange world". Published: 1982

Price: $15.00 + $9.00 Postage & Handling +

 

The Great Book of Handicrafts Edited by Edna Richards

Sizes: 185 pages, h30.5, w22cm, t2cm. Condition: Excellent. Comments: "All the techniques needed to tackle twenty-five traditional and modern crafts are explained in this handicrafts book. Full instructions are given for over a hundred original and exciting things to make." Basket making, leather work, tatting, applique', quilting, felt making, crochet, weaving, beadwork, smocking and many more crafts. Published: 1981

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Australia & New Zealand Complete Book of Handcrafts (semi hardback)

Sizes:511 pages, h 28cm, w 20.2cm, t 3.8cm. Condition: Very Good. Comments: "This deluxe volume of handcrafts contains a wealth of information. It covers a wide and varied range of needlecrafts and includes knitting, crochet, sewing, dye craft, batik, spinning and weaving, rug making, patchwork, embroidery, tapestry, machine embroidery, macrame', leather craft, soft furnishings and a section on gift and bazaar items". "Its' pages are packed with something of interest to all". Published: 1973

Price: $34.00 + $10.00 Postage & Handling + 

 

Colours for an Australian Native Garden By Margaret Hanlon Dunn

Sizes: 287 pages, h 28.5cm, w 22cm, t 2.5cm. Condition: Very Good. Comments: "Colours for an Australian Native Garden is an encyclopaedia of all the best native plants. Every plant can be easily identified by colour, then by type, and finally by species. All the information a gardener needs about the growth and appearance , and special requirements of each plant is clearly set out. Lots of colour pics included. Published: 1989.

Price: $15.00 + $8.00 Postage & Handling. +

 

Looking at Pictures with Rolf Harris

Sizes: 63 pages, h 28.5cm, w 22cm, t 1cm. Condition: Excellent. Comments: A children's introduction to famous paintings. "Pictures are fun. Just think what a painter can do. He can take you instantly to any country in the world, or to a place that has never existed-except in his imagination." Rolf Harris. Includes prints of famous paintings. Published: 1978

Price: $12.00 + $8.00 Postage & Handling. +

 

The Australian Gardening A-Z. A Practical Handbook by W. G. Sheat

Sizes: 398 pages, h 28.5cm, w 22cm, t 3cm. Condition: Excellent. Comments: Revised Edition. Includes Detailed entries on Planning your garden, Equipment & Tools, Shrubs and Roses, Orchids, Pruning, Children's Gardens, Water Gardens, Propagation, Trees, Lawns and Grasses, Herbs, Weeds and Control, Free Trees and Vines, Ground Covers and much more. Glorious colour plates throughout. Published: Re Printed 1992.

Price: $15.00 + $9.00 Postage & Handling. +

 

The Encyclopedia of Practical Photography by Michael Freeman

Sizes: 320 pages, h 28.5cm, w 20cm, t 3cm. Condition :Excellent. Comments: "A comprehensive guide to modern photography, from basic equipment to the latest technical developments. (1985). Over 500 illustrations, more than 200 in colour. Technical data on everything from film formats to filter colours. Practical advice to make your photography more effective. Detailed analysis of current style and approaches". Published: 1985.

Price: $15.00 + $9.00 Postage & Handling. +

 

"Banjo" Patterson's HIGH COUNTRY Photography by Tim Hall and Trisha Dixon.

Sizes: 136 pages, h 26cm, w 26cm, t 1.5cm. Condition: Excellent. Comments: "Timothy Hall and Trisha Dixon have both made their homes in the high country. Their love and knowledge of this part of Australia is evident in every chapter of this magnificent book. This is Australia at it's most beautiful." Beautifully photographed colour plates of Australia's high country with accompanying descriptive text. Published: 1989

Price: $15.00 + $9.00 Postage & Handling +

 

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