A groundbreaking volume in the field of viticulture to this day, "Venture into Viticulture" covers all the intricacies of wine grape growing; providing information on vineyard establishment, irrigation, pruning, trellising, soil management, nutrition, weed control, pests and diseases of grapevines, harvesting wine grapes, and vine improvement. The book is a product of Tom Crossen's some 25 years spent in the Australian and New Zealand viticulture industries. If there is one volume required in the field, this is it.

Venture into Viticulture: An Introduction to the Principles and Practices of Viviculture

Science & Math

Tom Crossen

Agricultural Sciences

Bloomings Books Pty Ltd

Cranes, Herons and Storks of Australia

David Hollands

Field Guide to Eucalypts Volume 2

Brooker, Ian

Since the 1988 publication of their first book on Edna Walling’s work, Garden in Time, Trisha Dixon and Jennie Churchill have maintained their strong interest in her life and career, leading to the discovery of many unpublished, original Walling plans – some treasured, many tucked into forgotten dusty corners, others thought lost forever. Edna Walling excelled as an artist, translating her design concepts into superb watercolor plans which exquisitely convey the ambience of the finished gardens she intended to create, as well as providing valuable insight into her design principles. The Vision of Edna Walling contains over 50 of these beautiful and evocative watercolors. Unique works of art, the plans trace Walling’s long and productive career and provide a lasting legacy of her extraordinary talent. Edna Walling’s consummate skill lay in the creation of gardens of intelligent design – yet they were also romantic gardens and peaceful retreats for their owners. In her own words: ‘There should be intellectual enjoyment as well as emotional pleasure in the contemplation of our gardens, and this will only come with good but simple design.’ As Australia’s most significant landscape designer, Walling’s garden designs and publications remain influential; motivating, delighting and educating the Australian gardening public as much today as when they were first produced.

The Vision of Edna Walling: Garden Plans 1920-1951

Arts & Photography

Dixon, Trisha

Churchill, Jennie

Architecture

Herbal Harvest: Commercial Organic Production of Quality Dried

Business & Money

Greg Whitten

Economics

For too long, Australians have been dominated by European gardening trends. Gordon Ford, like no other landscape designer before him, mastered the natural Australian style. Australia has unique conditions and, in terms of our indigenous species, this ancient continent can boast high levels of floristic integrity quite unknown to Europeans. Gordon Ford was early influenced by the English natural style landscape school of the eighteenth century. But his great skill has been to work with Australia’s natural elements and to develop gardens that not only honored the rugged beauty of the Australian landscape, but did so in a way that captured its apparent timelessness – his hardens look as if they have always been there. Long revered as a landscaper, carrying on in the tradition of Ellis Stones and Edna Walling, Gordon Ford is now recognized as one of Australia’s leading contemporary ‘design visionaries’. In shaping our visual world, Gordon focused on the essential balance between mass and void in his designs. This balance of the natural elements of rocks, water, trees and other plants achieves a timeless harmony, so that we feel totally satisfied but uncertain s to where Mother Nature starts and Gordon Ford finishes.

Gordon Ford: the Natural Australian Garden: the Natural Australian Garden

Stokes, Julie

Ford, Gordon

Ford, Gwen

Lavender : The Grower's Guide

Virginia McNaughton

This book has a twofold purpose – to give pleasure, as a thing of beauty, while also providing practical help to those making new gardens or intending to reconstruct old ones. 
Numerous books concerning gardening have been written from the point of view of the cultivation of plants, but few, as this one, on the subject of garden building. 
The pictures and text are the work of one who has practiced the art of garden making in Australia for the past twenty years, embracing gardens of but 50 feet frontage to those of acres in country districts. 
Inspiration and help will be derived from the examples of work and from the practical solutions given to problems met with every day in garden making. 
Those who have not much to spend upon their gardens need not be discouraged by the pictures of gardens in this book showing no restriction on the use of their owners’ purses, because, in garden design, the main consideration is that it be a fit setting to the architecture of the house, and it is obvious that these large gardens surround residences of corresponding size. 
Moreover, very often gardens planned for and constructed upon large estates are quite applicable to much smaller areas, as will be seen from pictures and planting plans given in this book. 
Many examples are given of work that any owner can quite well carry out himself on a limited area, and with materials at modest cost. 
Thus, this book is confidently recommended to all who are contemplating the making of a garden, whether it be a large or small one, or whether funds are limited or in plenty. 
Much care has been taken that tit shall worthily show those outside Australia how beautiful our gardens can be.

Gardens in Australia: Their Designs and Care

History

Walling, Edna

Australia & Oceania

European Gardens have flourished for over 2,000 years and provided the greatest single influence upon gardening throughout the world. In this new and authoritative guide to the gardens of Europe, Charles Quest-Ritson has produced a comprehensive survey, ranging from Ireland to Georgia and from Russia to Sicily. It embraces the vast sweep of Europe's horticultural and garden design heritage - a guide to all the best and most exciting gardens, both public and private, that are open to visitors - making this a reference source without peer. This book describes all types of gardens, including ancient Roman remnants in Italy, Moorish gardens in Spain, tiled gardens in Portugal, baroque masterpieces and English-style landscape gardens throughout the continent, the giardini segreti of renaissance Italy, English flower gardens and woodland gardens, great botanic gardens of Germany and Scandinavia, arboreta of northern Europe, high-level alpine gardens in Switzerland and cutting-edge contemporary gardens in

Gardens of Europe: The Traveller's Guide

Quest-Ritson, Charles

Leonie Norrington blends horticultural science with personal experience to create a book full of sound advice, enthusiasm and a genuine love of the natural world. Have you ever wondered how to grow such exotic vegetables as snake beans, water chestnuts and loofahs? Luscious fruits such as rambutans, mangoes, carambolas and abiu? Hervs like vanilla, turmeric and galangal? Tropical Food Gardens will show you how to propagate, grow and use these and a wide range of other herbs, vegetables and fruits in tropical and sub-tropical climates. This lively engaging book, laced with anecdotes, is full of practical gardening information from an author with years of experience. It’s also great fun.

Tropical Food Gardens: A Guide for Fruit, Herbs and Vegetables in Tropical and Sub-tropical Climates

Norrington, Leonie

Campbell, Colwyn

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