HORTICULTURE AND GARDENING

This plant glossary includes all descriptive terms used in floras, plant field guides and monographs. This is an essential companion for anyone wor...

As you travel through the Top Endand notice the plants, you may wonder at the distinctive spiralling pandanus or the striking fern-leaved grevillea...

Everyone loves fruit, especially when it's juicy, full of flavour and fresh from your garden. This beautifully illustrated book will show you how t...

Combining ecological, ethnographic, historical, and contemporary knowledge, author and mycologist Lawrence Millman discusses how mushrooms are much...

This book is a manual for managing native vegetation across northern Australia – particularly bush blocks.  Ranging across northern Western Austral...

This book is a species rich and a culturally detailed account of the biocultural knowledge of the Marri Amu and Marri Tjevin people. It is a powerf...

A guide to planning and caring for your garden so that pest and disease problems are minimised  This book is intended to help gardeners avoid garde...

The pinnacle of orchid hunting activity was in the nineteenth century when prices for individual plants reached astonishing levels. Such were the p...

Leonie Norrington blends horticultural science with personal experience to create a book full of sound advice, enthusiasm and a genuine love of the...

Orchid Species of the World is an epic illustrated encyclopedia of global wild native orchids from the Old and New Worlds, including temperate and ...

  This is the spectacular and comprehensive Revised Third Edition of a book that is the magnum opus of Australian orchid expert David L. Jones. It...

  Flowers, fruits, herbs, resins, woods, spices. From bloom to bottle, the subtle art of perfume has always had its roots in the natural world. F...

  Dazzling, diverse, durable - discover the remarkable drought-proof plants that flourish in the driest environments.     With rainfall unpredi...

  There is more folklore, mythology and magic associated with our trees and forests than with any other living things.     Known throughout the...

Learn how to create the perfect container garden with this handy little guidebook from an experienced National Trust head gardener. Packed with nif...

  This book covers more than 400 species, representing some 80 different genera.Ivan Holliday's A Field Guide to Australian Trees has been reprint...

Cacti and succulents are the plant of the moment. Beautiful, affordable and - if you know how - easy to care for, they're a short cut to creating b...

 Australia’s complex, beautiful and diverse flora is showcased in stunning botanic gardens across the continent. Through exquisite colour photograp...

A Guide to Keeping Happy Houseplants Fresh flowers are great—everyone loves receiving them. But inevitably they’re already on the way out the door...

This edition is updated to align with current systems of plant classification that incorporate advances in molecular DNA analysis. It includes more...

This beautifully illustrated field guide covers 504 of the most common fruiting plants found in Australia's eastern rainforests, as well as a few s...

This book introduces the new grower to practical growing information and a range of native and exotic tree-dwelling and ground-hugging species grou...

Features over 100 spectacular arid region plants. Contains helpful gardening tips and advice, 96 pages of beautiful images, local native Central Au...

Palms - an amazing group of plants - attract a dedicated following of enthusiasts. This is a great introduction to palms and their cultivation - es...