An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children
An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children

Author: Jamaica Kincaid

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published: 2024-05-07

Total Pages: 88

ISBN-13: 0374608261

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A unique collaboration from two of America’s leading artists that explores the fascinating and hidden history of the plant world. In this witty, deeply original book, the renowned novelist Jamaica Kincaid offers an ABC of the plants that define our world and reveals the often brutal history behind them. Kara Walker, one of America’s greatest visual artists, illustrates each entry with provocative, brilliant, enthralling, many-layered watercolors. There has never been a book like An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children—so inventive, surprising, and telling about what our gardens reveal.

Gardening with Children
Gardening with Children

Author: Kim Wilde

Publisher: HarperCollins (UK)

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780007246519

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Bursting with fun ideas for getting—and keeping—kids interested in the outdoors, this title offers projects in which children play an active role in gardening, along with insightful tips for making a family garden educational and exciting. Along with guidelines for safety in the garden, ideas for maintaining a child’s attention span throughout the sometimes slow gardening process are also included. Illustrated, step-by-step projects range from creative ways to plant and making scarecrows, to creating wormeries and tile mosaics. Indoor projects for rainy days are also included, as well as a plant directory identifying child-friendly plants, chosen for their speedy growth, enticing smell, cost effectiveness, and ease of handling.

My Garden (Book)
My Garden (Book)

Author: Jamaica Kincaid

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published: 2001-05-15

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 1466828749

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One of our finest writers on one of her greatest loves. Jamaica Kincaid's first garden in Vermont was a plot in the middle of her front lawn. There, to the consternation of more experienced friends, she planted only seeds of the flowers she liked best. In My Garden (Book) she gathers all she loves about gardening and plants, and examines it generously, passionately, and with sharp, idiosyncratic discrimination. Kincaid's affections are matched in intensity only by her dislikes. She loves spring and summer but cannot bring herself to love winter, for it hides the garden. She adores the rhododendron Jane Grant, and appreciates ordinary Blue Lake string beans, but abhors the Asiatic lily. The sources of her inspiration -- seed catalogues, the gardener Gertrude Jekyll, gardens like Monet's at Giverny -- are subjected to intense scrutiny. She also examines the idea of the garden on Antigua, where she grew up. My Garden (Book) is an intimate, playful, and penetrating book on gardens, the plants that fill them, and the persons who tend them.

Gardening with Children
Gardening with Children

Author: Monika Hanneman

Publisher: BBG Guides for a Greener Plane

Published: 2015-09

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781889538907

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Brooklyn Botanic Garden--home of the oldest continuously operating children's garden in North America--offers a groundbreaking handbook that helps parents, teachers, and community gardeners introduce kids to the pleasures of gardening. In addition to growing common plants from seed, children will become more aware of nature's cycles and earth's ecology, and enjoy a variety of fun projects.

The Children's Book of Gardening
The Children's Book of Gardening

Author: Mrs. Paynter

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2019-12-11

Total Pages: 147

ISBN-13:

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"The Children's Book of Gardening" is a book by Mrs. Alfred Sidgwick and Mrs. Paynter that aims to enlighten children about the art of gardening with due instructions and illustrations. This book covers the different types of plants that can be found in the garden, and their classifications into annuals, perennials, and biennials. It contains information about popular flowers including roses, carnations, lilies, etc. with an explanation of important practices that are worth knowing.

The No-Dig Children's Gardening Book
The No-Dig Children's Gardening Book

Author: Charles Dowding

Publisher: Welbeck Children's Books

Published: 2023-01-17

Total Pages: 64

ISBN-13: 1783129999

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Don't like endless digging and weeding? Don't let that stop you from gardening with your kids! “This ambitious, attractively presented book encourages children to become not only gardeners, but also nature observers, scientists, and data collectors.”—Kirkus Reviews The simple and achievable gardening projects in this book are perfect for parents and young children to do together. All are based on Charles Dowding's trademark no-dig technique, which perfectly lends itself to gardening with little ones who can't manage heavy digging and who will quickly grow bored of endless weeding. Projects are broken down into easy, step-by-step processes, designed to be carried out by children. Attractive, full-bleed photography is supplemented with fun illustration and fully illustrated factual spreads. Running throughout the gardening projects are extra little facts about plants and wildlife, as well as things to look out for when you are outdoors.

The Book of Gardening Projects for Kids
The Book of Gardening Projects for Kids

Author: Whitney Cohen

Publisher: Timber Press

Published: 2012-01-01

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 1604693738

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Features gardening advice, including how to design a play-friendly garden, ideas for fun-filled theme gardens, and how to cook and preserve the garden's bounty.

The Children's Book of Gardening
The Children's Book of Gardening

Author: Mrs Alfred Sidgwick

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 1909

Total Pages: 235

ISBN-13: 9781506170688

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The first thing to decide is that you really want a garden of your own, and mean to work in it and keep it clean and tidy. The next thing is to learn a little about situation and soil, because you cannot choose which plants to grow until you know what conditions you can give them. You must not think that you can ram any plants into any patch of ground with success. There are a few that are obliging and will live almost anywhere, but even these will generally show you by their size and health whether they like their home or not. Many will just exist, but not do well without the food or place that suits them, while others will die unless they have what they want.