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A guide to lawn care provides tips, techniques, and advice for an attractive yard, covering such topics as mowing, weeding, fertilizing, and getting rid of pests.
The site of political demonstrations, sporting events, and barbecues, and the object of loving, if not obsessive, care and attention, the lawn is also symbolically tied to our notions of community and civic responsibility, serving in the process as one of the foundations of democracy.
Written by a leading authority on turf and turfgrass maintenance. The Lawn Guide is a 100 page, easy to read, simple to use, guide to lawn care maintenance.Whether you want an ornamental lawn or a functional, family orientated, utility area, whatever you need, question or requirement the answer, together with explanation, advice and practical tips is all here in the Lawn Guide
In this jam-packed and revised edition, readers will learn how to recognize types of lawns, maintain excellent care, and diagnose and cure lawn troubles. The lawn care program and calendar continue to be reader favorites. Full-color illustrations.
Oliver is just back from the Spanish Civil War and world-weary at only nineteen. Calypso is gorgeous, utterly selfish and determined to marry for money. Polly and Walter, brother and sister, play their cards close to their chests. Then there's little Sophie, who nobody loves. Soon the world will be swept into war again and the five cousins will enter a whirligig of sex, infidelity, love and loss, but for now they have one last, gaspingly hot summer at the house by the cliffs with the camomile lawn. A beloved bestseller from an author ahead of her time, The Camomile Lawn is a waspishly witty, devil-may-care delight.
Learn how to keep your lawn in perfect condition all year round with this handy little guidebook from an experienced National Trust head gardener. This beautifully illustrated and practical guide is packed with invaluable advice on all aspects of lawn design, creation, and maintenance. The author discusses which types of mowers work best for different lawns, when and how to water and feed, and how to bring a neglected lawn back to life, as well as offering creative ideas for decorative elements.
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This book traces the changes in the lawn format from its origins to the modern day and offers information on how and why the tapestry lawn construct is now achievable. It provides guidance on how to create and maintain a tapestry lawn of your own and champions the potential benefits for wildlife that can follow.
This work explores the strange coming-together of means, opportunity and motive in the middle of the 19th century, and the lasting social changes that followed when the lawn emerged as the dominant feature of the modern built environment.