Horticulture: eBooks

The Dictionary of Science for Gardeners is the first of its kind to provide practical scientific descriptions for gardening terms.

This new fourth edition has been completely revised and updated, covering all aspects in the field of plant sciences including biochemistry, plant physiology, cytology, ecology, genetics, evolution, biogeography, earth history, and earth sciences.

This is an invaluable guide to the use of scientific, commercial and common names for plants and the conventions for writing them. Written by horticultural botanists at the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria.

Through fanciful botanical illustrations, matched with fun and detailed descriptions, author and illustrator Mel Baxter (aka Moonshine Madness) guides you through 100 native Australian flowering plants.

This comprehensive guide describes techniques for creating a wide range of new plants from seed, from cuttings, by division, by layering, and by grafting.

In The Propagation Handbook, plant stylist Hilton Carter reveals how to grow and increase your own plant family by propagating existing plants.

A practical guide to the various methods of propagation suitable for a wide range of trees, shrubs, herbaceous perennials, bulbs and tender plants.

Paul Anderton and Robin Daly show just how easy home propagation is, with instructions on how to regrow your favourite houseplants and some allotment crops.

The best groomed and most productive garden is easy when you know what to prune when and how your plants work.

Grafting and Budding: A Practical Guide for Fruit and Nut Plants and Ornamentals is an updated and expanded version of Grafting and Budding Fruit and Nut Trees and now includes the grafting of ornamental plants.

This book offers clear descriptions and full colour images to aid in identifying insects or other organisms, and provides useful advice on how to recognise and treat problems. The book also covers feeding habits, life cycles and insect biology.

Integrating Biological Control into Conservation Practice is suitable for graduate courses in invasive species management and biological control.

4 downloadable eBooks
Plant Protection 1: Pests, Diseases and Weeds, Plant Protection 2: Control Methods and their Management, Plant protection 3: Selected Ornamentals, Fruit and Vegetables, Plant Protection 4: How to Diagnose Plant Problems

Simple DIY ideas and solutions for eco-conscious gardeners. Every gardener needs clever ideas to make the most of their green space.

Hints, tips and know-how for would-be green fingers from the trusted and authoritative CWA of Victoria Inc.

The inner workings of the plants you love are revealed and celebrated in this guide by botany expert Dr. Scott Zona.

The Compost Coach is a colourful, comprehensive and accessible guide to creating the very best compost AKA garden gold.

This book will help gardeners to reappraise their climate, select appropriate plants and modify gardening practices to create beautiful gardens featuring native and exotic plants with minimal weed potential.

A practical guide to creating and maintaining a water-efficient garden, including a comprehensive photographic plant directory.

Good Gardens with Less Water presents the reader with concise and easy-to-understand advice on how to care for garden soils and grow good quality plants even under the toughest of conditions.

This new edition guides the reader through all the stages of designing a new garden and helps to visualise the garden through an understanding of space, light, earth form, structures and vegetation.

Examines types of public and private communities as well as state and federal programs to promote urban horticulture, including their history, management and administration, programming, evaluation, funding, and the benefits they provide to individuals and communities.

Habitat is a practical guide for those of us who want to encourage insects, reptiles, frogs, birds and animals into our garden.

This comprehensive guide describes the 447 species of wild orchids that occur in Victoria, Australia. This region is one of the richest in the world for its diversity of temperate terrestrial orchids. Orchid diversity in Victoria spans some of the smallest to some of the largest orchids in Australia.

Plants: Past, Present and Future calls for new ways of understanding and engaging with Country, and reveals the power and possibility of Indigenous ecological expertise.

The first authoritative reference book on both the theoretical and practical aspects of growing plants without the use of soil.

A practical reference enabling readers to better understand and interpret a range of soil test methods.

The Australian Soil Classification provides both a framework for organizing knowledge about Australian soils and a means of communication among scientists and land managers.

Soils for Landscape Development provides a clear, practical and systematic template for specifying landscape soils based on scientific criteria.

This book will benefit scientists, conservation managers, policy makers and those with an interest in threatened species monitoring and management.

Monitoring Biodiversity will be an essential resource for students at all levels of environmental monitoring, assessment, and management.

This second edition of the highly acclaimed Effective Ecological Monitoring describes what makes monitoring programs successful and how to ensure that long-term monitoring studies persist.

Provides a comprehensive introduction to the pollination ecology, evolution and conservation of Australian rainforest plants.

Contributions by more than 200 researchers and managers with involvement in the conservation of the biodiversity affected by the Black Summer wildfires.

Drawing on numerous examples and a wealth of research, this book offers a profoundly renewed strategic diagnosis as well as levers for activating regenerative processes to benefit the living world.

Wildlife Conservation in Farm Landscapes communicates new scientific information about best practice ways to integrate conservation and agriculture in the temperate eucalypt woodland belt of eastern Australia.

Restoring Farm Woodlands for Wildlife focuses on why restoration is important and describes best practice approaches to restore farm woodlands for birds, mammals and reptiles.

Reducing the Impacts of Development on Wildlife contains a comprehensive range of practical measures to assist others to reduce the impacts resulting from development on terrestrial flora and fauna.

Rocky outcrops are landscape features with disproportionately high biodiversity values relative to their size. They support specialised plants and animals, and a wide variety of endemic species.

Recovering Australian Threatened Species showcases successful conservation stories and identifies approaches and implementation methods that have been most effective in recovering threatened species.

Wildlife of the Otways and Shipwreck Coast is a photographic field guide to the vertebrate wildlife of Victoria’s south-west. It covers all the mammals, birds, reptiles and frogs that occur in the region, including on land and in coastal waters.

Australian Forest Woods describes about 130 of the most significant Australian forest trees and their wood.

Forest Trees of Australia is the essential reference for observing, identifying and obtaining information on the native trees in this country.

The book integrates data on forests, carbon, fire dynamics and other factors, building on 6 years of high-quality, multi-faceted research.

This long-awaited guide to rainforest seed propagation unlocks the secrets to growing 300 rainforest species.

In search of answers, Viki Cramer takes us on a journey through the richest botanical corner of the continent, exploring forests of rugged jarrah and majestic karri, woodlands of enduring salmon gum and burnished-bark gimlet.

This book summarises the main discoveries, management insights and policy initiatives in the science, management and policy arenas associated with temperate woodlands in Australia.

Recently we have begun to move from a culture of exploitation of river red gum forests and woodlands to one of conservation and sustainable use.

Planting Wetlands and Dams is a step-by-step, plain language guide to the creation of conditions in which wetland plants will thrive, from design and construction to collecting plants, seeds and propagation.

More than a natural history, this book explains the underlying forces that drive ecological change and movement in Australian wetlands.

Ecological Restoration and Environmental Change addresses and challenges some of these issues which question the core values of the science and practice of restoration ecology.

Future Park invites Australian built environment professionals and policymakers to consider the future of parks in our cities. Including spectacular images of public spaces throughout the world, the book describes the economic, social and environmental benefits of urban parks.

Provides procedures and guidelines for routine and advanced characterisation of biochars.

Could plants be intelligent? Could it be true that they talk to each other, assist and defend each other, etc.? What is the scientific truth behind this idea of plant intelligence? Tackling the issue of intelligence in any organism requires us to study and theorize its behavior.