A personal herbarium notebook for you to collect your local state wildflowers and plants. Elegant in its simplicity! This wildflower herbarium notebook includes: 120 pages with a large blank space section for adding all the flowers you have found. You can include the name of the flower, the date, and location where you found it, the rarity of it, even the common or medicinal use of it. There's also a section for your notes and a place for you to add a photo of the flower in the wild. Everything you might need to make the wildflower collecting experience more personal and memorable! Premium matte finish beautifully colorful handmade cover Compact standard size - 6x9' Printed on bright white 60lb (90gsm) paper Simple and elegant interior design A wonderful gift for anybody who likes spending time in nature and collecting memories of its beauty! Grab a copy today and enjoy the calming experience wildflower collecting and drying is.
Native plants are drought tolerant, disease resistant, wildlife friendly, and environmentally sound. Experts increasingly encourage gardeners to use natives exclusively. This handy and practical guide focuses on 100 great native flowers, ground covers, shrubs, ferns, and grasses that will thrive in New England gardens. The presentation is aimed at gardeners, who want concise, practical information. It will also include material on the importance and desirability of using native plants. The heart of this book is 100 two-page spreads, one for each species. The spreads will include facts about the plant of use to a gardener (not a botanist)—where it grows best, when it blooms, the soil conditions in which it thrives, its appeal to wildlife, sunlight requirements, how high it grows, how to propagate it, and how to avoid any problems particular to the species. Each spread will also feature two color photos.
The word “meadow” conjures images of wide expanses of land, but a mini meadow — a kind of informal flower garden started with seed sown directly into the soil — can be any size; plus, it’s fun, easy to grow, and good for the planet. With as little as 50 square feet and for less than $20, gardeners can plant a colorful meadow that demands little in the way of space, mowing, or maintenance, uses less water than a traditional lawn, and provides habitat for pollinators — not to mention a natural exploration space for children. From choosing the right variety of seeds, preparing the soil, sowing evenly, and watering well, author Mike Lizotte guides readers through the process of successfully creating a miniature meadow that suits their climate, soil, and growing goals, whether planting to beautify a hellstrip, halt erosion, fill a boggy spot, or establish a nesting area for bees and butterflies. Mini Meadows offers gardeners of all levels the keys to creating, caring for, and reaping the rewards of thriving meadows through the seasons, year after year.
Title taken from cover page. "Books are all around us - in schools and homes, in libraries and bookstores. Mass-produced and relatively inexpensive, we take them for granted in today's culture. But behind every contemporary book is a long history of bookmaking and design, of materials and craft, and of learning and communication. The book you are holding was made by students in the 2003-04 Design classes at Lyndon Institute in Lyndonville, Vermont, in an effort to work in the tradition of scribes and bookmakers of the Middle Ages, who worked together in monasteries throughout Europe to produce books of great beauty. Written entirely by hand, these books were called manuscripts (from the Latin manus, meaning hand, and scribere, to write). Illustrations and decorations in these books were also made by hand, and, when embellished with gold or silver, were called illuminations (from the Latin lumen, light) because the bright metals caught and reflected the light. Illuminated manuscripts from the Middle Ages took months or years to complete. Ours was created over a period of three months, during the bookmaking unit of our course. Linda Lembke, a hand bookbinder from Guilford, Vermont, worked as an artist-in-residence for two days in February , introducing us to the hand tools and skills of the craft and to the longstitch binding, a book structure used in this period. This residency was funded by the Burklyn Arts Council, a longstanding supporter of the arts at Lyndon Institute. Our tools were slightly different - Radiograph pens rather than quill pens; acrylic inks rather than iron-gall ink, colored paint, and gold leaf; Arches paper rather than parchment (animal skin) for the writing/ drawing surface; and heavy decorated watercolor paper rather than vellum or leather covering material. But our approach was similar in spirit - to create a book entirely by hand, one which would require us to draw on skills of design, painting and illustration, lettering, and bookbinding. We began by researching and viewing illustrations of early manuscript books from the Middle Ages in Europe, the 1000-year period before the advent of the Renaissance in the 15th century. Working together each day in our new art room at the John L. Norris, Jr. Center for the Arts at Lyndon Institute, we listened to Medieval music and tried to imagine what it must have been like to work without computers, printing presses, and copy machines; without electricity and modern plumbing; and with only the simplest of hand tools and art materials. We chose wildflowers of Vermont as our theme, one which gave us rich visual choices and allowed us to draw from personal experience as well as from study and research. We began our illustrations by ruling out the pages with traditional margins but were then given the freedom to design as we pleased within these margins, as long as we included a clear illustration of the flower and its name. Our completed book was presented as a gift to the school library, following the tradition of early bookmakers who worked in collaboration to produce books of great beauty for their monastic and university libraries. From introductory text. "The original illustrations for this book were created on 7" x 10" Arches Text Wove paper with fluid acrylic inks and dry mounted onto larger book pages of Parsons Diploma paper. The cover was made with layers of fluid acrylics on 140 lb. Lanaquarelle watercolor paper. The wooden spine was made in the woodworking shop at Lyndon Institute. The book structure is a traditional longstitch binding used in Europe as early as the 13th century. The original book was presented as a gift to the school library on June 1, 2004. Half-size copies of the book were made by individual students during a residency with Linda Lembke. These hold reduced color photocopies of the original compositions. Two additional large format copies were made as teaching copies for instructors. Linda Lembke made the clamshell box for the gift book. The two-page illustrations were created by the students in the 2003-2004 Design classes at Lyndon Institute; their design instructor, Ellen Dorn Levitt, art instructor Barbara Follet and a [sic] three students from last year's design class were able to join the collaborative bookmaking project for a second year." From Colophon.
This classic book contains a guide to the growing and care of wildflowers, and would be a great addition to the bookshelf of any gardening enthusiast. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
This is a field guide to the diverse flora of Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont states. It comprises descriptions of both commonly encountered and rarer, protected species. The keys are set up to direct the reader easily to major groups based on flower colour and other physical characteristics.
This volume presents a detailed description of more than thirty-five wildflower species of the Northeast, describing their colors, habitats, range, pollination, history, cultural lore, medicinal uses, and literary and artistic references. The spring-blooming wildflowers looked at range from old favorites to lesser-known species. Featuring more than 500 full-color photos in large-sized format, the book delves deep into the life histories, lore, and cultural uses of more than 35 plant species. The narrative covers topics such as the naming of wildflowers; the reasons for taxonomic changes; pollination of flowers and dispersal of seeds; uses by Native Americans; related species in other parts of the world; herbivores, plant pathogens, and pests; medicinal uses; and wildflower references in history, literature, and art. The photos capture the beauty of these plants and also illustrate the concepts discussed in the text.
