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?En la vastedad de mis dominios no busco expansiones sino mejora?, decía Felipe II, un monarca que plasmó su visión del mundo no sólo en los territorios que gobernó, sino también en la serie de palacios y jardines que construyo alrededor de Madrid, como la Casa de Campo, Aranjuez, El Pardo o Valsain. Entre estos se encuentra el Parque de la Fresneda, conocido como La Granjilla. Esta obra de Felipe II, diseñada para su descanso y disfrute, se ha visto revitalizada gracias a los esfuerzos de Santiago Aguirre Gil de Biedma y Maria Aviles, quienes, con una enorme dedicacion, han liderado una restauracion meticulosa y apasionada. Tras años de trabajos costosos y complejos, este emblematico sitio ha recobrado su esplendor renacentista, demostrando que el arte y la naturaleza son un refugio eterno de belleza y paz. Este libro recorre la historia y la restauracion de La Granjilla, explorando la interaccion entre la vision historica de un rey y la moderna pasion por preservar su obra.

Learn how to bring foraging to your back garden by growing 30 types of wild food in containers then find out how to cook them too

Discover 60 of the world s most spectacular gardens plus 120 travel ideas to ignite a love of outdoor spaces Featuring the history of every botanical gem beautiful photography and trip planning tips this uplifting book explores the restorative effects of flora and fauna and the joy to be experienced from each of the inspiring gardens inside it

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A SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERFill your garden with flowers all year round with inspiration planting ideas and expert advice from Sarah Raven Colour and scent are the hallmarks of Sarah Raven s style and they are simple luxuries that everyone can bring into their garden A Year Full of Flowers reveals the hundreds of hardworking varieties that make the garden sing each month together with the practical tasks that ensure everything is planted staked and pruned at just the right time Tracing the year from January to December at her home Perch Hill Sarah offers a complete and transporting account of a garden crafted over decades Sharing the lessons learned from years of plant trials she explains the methods that have worked for her and shows you how to achieve a space that s full of life and colour Discover long lasting divinely scented tulips roses that keep flowering through winter the most magnificent dahlias and show stopping alliums as well as how to grow sweet peas up a teepee take cuttings from chrysanthemums and stop mildew in its tracks This is passionate life enriching gardening it s also simple adaptable and can work for you Sarah has made the garden central to her life this book shows you how you can too

Learn all about common weeds and how they affect your garden to make informed decisions about the plants you want in your patch and how to manage those that you don t Figuring out which weed is which can be tricky for new and seasoned gardeners alike In this book garden expert Guy Barter lifts the lid on how weeds grow and in what conditions Discover each weed s benefit to wildlife biodiversity and its role in the environment plus whether it has ornamental herbal or edible properties that you might want to make the most of This identification guide covers 40 weeds commonly found in gardens in Europe and North America Alongside well known weeds such as nettles dock dandelions and bindweed you ll find hawksbeard pearlwort ivy leaved speedwell and pennycress In this book you will find Detailed photographs and diagrams of each element of the plant from roots to leaves Specific tools to help you recognise weeds throughout their entire life cycles from starting out as seedlings before growing into mature flowers The best way to manage each weed and curate the perfect plants for your patch Each weed s place within the ecosystem is listed along with benefits such as use as an ornamental herbal or edible plant Every element of the 40 weeds al

Charles Darwin (1809-1882), eminente naturalista, destacado fisiólogo vegetal y un excelente criador de plantas, nunca se consideró a sí mismo como un experto botánico, según lo expresa al comienzo de esta obra: el tema del presente volumen, es decir, las distintas formas que habitualmente presentan las flores de ciertos tipos de plantas [] deberia haber sido abordado por un botanico ducho, distincion que no puedo otorgarme. Botanico de gabinete, para sus investigaciones devoro infinitos libros y conto con el apoyo y la inestimable ayuda de botanicos e investigadores como j. D. Hooker (1817-1911), asa gray (1810-1888), william thiselton dyer (1843-1928), daniel oliver (1830-1916) y fritz muller (1821-1897), ademas de con la asistencia de sus hijos, tanto para la realizacion de sus experimentos como para su ilustracion. En esta obra se recogen los trabajos de experimentacion y las hipotesis que darwin planteo para dar una explicacion a la variabilidad de la estructura floral de las plantas y averiguar su razon de ser. En esta ocasion se analiza parte de un amplio fenomeno denominado en la actualidad hercogamia, es decir, la separacion espacial de anteras y estigmas dentro de una misma flor, lo que reduce o impide completamente la autofecundacion intrafloral; concretamente, se estudia la hercogamia reciproca o heterostilia, asi como el fenomeno de las flores cleistogamas o aquellas que se autofecundan a si mismas al madurar sus estambres y estigmas mientras se encuentran encerrados en la corola floral que presenta forma de capullo.

Figure de proue du symbolisme belge, Maurice Maeterlinck reste aujourd'hui célèbre pour son mélodrame Pelléas et Mélisande (1892), sommet du théâtre symboliste mis en musique par Debussy en 1902, pou

Un libro de referencia que combina la detallada precisión de una guía de campo enriquecida con consejos de primera mano para la recolección de las setas, con una atractiva colección de deliciosas rec

Get in tune with the rhythms of nature with this month by month guide to foraging Learn how to identify wild plants correctly harvest them at their prime and use them in delicious recipes and relaxing wildcrafting projects Each plant is accompanied by photography to help with accurate identification Gathering wild food summons us to become active participants in our environment fostering a profound sense of connection to the natural world around us At the heart of foraging lies an intricate understanding of the changing seasons the landscape and the delicate ecosystems that thrive within Danielle Gallacher has been foraging for over 20 years and in The Forager s Almanac she shares her expertise on how to safely harvest our countryside s edible bounties and how to use them in your cooking such as pickles preserves ciders and lemonades Danielle also shares her top wildcrafting ideas including resin firelighters home remedies salves and balms to sooth irritated skin Fully illustrated throughout and divided into 12 months you will find practical information on how to get started and what kit to bring when and where to forage each plant with photographs for accurate identification medicinal and nutritional information for edible plants imag

Now in its third edition this is the ultimate guide to becoming self sufficient all year round by storing your garden produce Even half acre plots can grow enough to feed a family of four for an entire year yet with most produce ready to harvest in the summer and autumn many gardeners struggle to use all of their fresh fruit and vegetables before it spoils With proper storage techniques there s no need for any of your hard work to go to waste and you can enjoy home grown goodness all year round while saving money lowering your food miles and avoiding the plastic packaging of a typical supermarket shop Jam packed with creative storage techniques and 92 delicious recipes How to Store Your Garden Produce is beautifully organised to showcase the best ways to preserve your produce including dehydrating freezing fermenting and pickling Illustrated with aspirational photographs throughout the new edition features a useful A Z of garden produce with each entry detailing up to date recommended varieties improved storage methods and vegan alternatives in recipes to make the most of your harvests From strawberry wine and peach chutney to mushroom ketchup and celeriac soup learn simple and enjoyable techniques for preserving your produce with this handy guide

This brand new title in our ever popular series of Concise Guides will bring the delights of foraging to a new audience A practical pocket guide to the edible berries shoots leaves roots flowers and fungi of Britain and Europe This field guide includes accurate artwork to help with identification as well as information on where to find different species their descriptions and habitats and ideas on how to prepare and eat them

SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER The Garden Jungle is a wonderful introduction to the hundreds of small creatures with whom we live cheek by jowl and of the myriad ways that we can encourage them to thrive The Garden Jungle is about the wildlife that lives right under our noses in our gardens and parks between the gaps in the pavement and in the soil beneath our feet Wherever you are right now the chances are that there are worms woodlice centipedes flies silverfish wasps beetles mice shrews and much much more quietly living within just a few paces of you Dave Goulson gives us an insight into the fascinating and sometimes weird lives of these creatures taking us burrowing into the compost heap digging under the lawn and diving into the garden pond He explains how our lives and ultimately the fate of humankind are inextricably intertwined with that of earwigs bees lacewings and hoverflies unappreciated heroes of the natural world The Garden Jungle is at times an immensely serious book exploring the environmental harm inadvertently done by gardeners who buy intensively reared plants in disposable plastic pots sprayed with pesticides and grown in peat cut from the ground Goulson argues that gardens could become places where we can reconnect with nature

Crisp and refreshing Pen Vogler The Spectator Sin cider and apple crumble the 10 000 year story of the world s most tempting fruit The Apple A Delicious History takes the reader on an extraordinary journey from the apple s prehistoric beginnings in the Tian Shan mountains of Kazakhstan to the explosion of commercial apple growing in twenty first century China Zigzagging across the centuries and straddling the globe Sally Coulthard explores how the apple travelled along the Silk Road from Central Asia to Europe appearing as an erotically charged symbol in Greek myth and poetry and even featuring in the shopping list of a senior Roman officer stationed on Hadrian s Wall She samples the cider that flowed from the emperor Charlemagne s orchards in the early Middle Ages and relishes the crispness of the yellow sweeting the first new apple variety to be cultivated in seventeenth century America And she discovers why despite the existence of more than 7500 varieties of apple from the ubiquitous Granny Smith to the purple skinned Black Diamond of Tibet only a handful of cultivars are available in modern supermarkets Amplified by mouth wateringly appley recipes and the stories behind them The Apple A Delicious History embraces not only culinary horticul

Shortlisted for the 2024 Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing What a wonderful book this is I loved the enchanting and beautifully written story but also the fascinating and thoughtful excursions along the way Nigel Slater A garden contains secrets we all know that buried elements that might put on strange growth or germinate in unexpected places The garden that I chose had walls but like every garden it was interconnected wide open to the world In 2020 Olivia Laing began to restore a walled garden in Suffolk an overgrown Eden of unusual plants The work drew her into an exhilarating investigation of paradise and its long association with gardens Moving between real and imagined gardens from Milton s Paradise Lost to John Clare s enclosure elegies from a wartime sanctuary in Italy to a grotesque aristocratic pleasure ground funded by slavery Laing interrogates the sometimes shocking cost of making paradise on earth But the story of the garden doesn t always enact larger patterns of privilege and exclusion It s also a place of rebel outposts and communal dreams From the improbable queer utopia conjured by Derek Jarman on the beach at Dungeness to the fertile vision of a common Eden propagated by William Morris New modes of living can and have

A special important book of hope action and integrity Mark Diacono food and garden writer After reading Adam s book I won t look at a handful of seed the same way again Joe Swift garden designer writer presenter BBC s Gardeners WorldAcross the world chefs farmers plant scientists and backyard growers are doing something extraordinary creating new generations of fruit vegetables and cereals all bred specifically to flourish locally taste delicious and contribute to our food future In The Accidental Seed Heroes Adam Alexander dons his seed detective homburg to meet these twenty first century seed heroes who are not only championing traditional varieties but also breeding delicious new ones that will help create a sustainable future for our planet We don t all need to become backyard breeders or even like Adam accidental ones We don t even need to eschew as growers the modern hybrid cultivars our seed catalogues are stuffed with or as consumers boycott those same uninspiring specimens that populate our supermarket shelves Adam just wants that choice to be better informed and infinitely more diverse and enjoyable This story is a celebration of the locally and sustainably grown produce whether traditional or innovative that is at the hear

Esta magnífica colección ha sido especialmente concebida para satisfacer el creciente interés que experimenta nuestra sociedad por el conocimiento de la naturaleza. En ella se hallan de manera exhaustiva todos aquellos temas vinculados con el entorno de prácticamente cualquier especie vegetal o animal. Las Guías de Naturaleza Blume constituyen una fuente de información sorprendente y están totalmente ilustradas con bellas fotografías tomadas directamente sobre el terreno de investigación. Minuciosas descripciones, detalles interesantes sobre costumbres, determinación del hábitat, incidencias en el entorno y datos generales de interés científico convierten a estas guías en rigurosos trabajos de campo.