Subject Guide: Horticulture, Conservation and Land Management: Books/DVDs

The Australian Beekeeping Manual is the most comprehensive reference for both novice and experienced beekeepers in Australia. The accessible yet detailed text, supported by over 350 full-colour photographs and illustrations, covers all the key areas, including the beekeeping equipment needed, how to obtain bees, where to locate them in the garden, and the basics of colony management.

Most Australian grasses are as spectacularly beautiful and the finest the rest of the world has to offer, while naturally being better adapted to our varied Australian climate. It describes around 200 species of grasses, sedges, rushes, grasstrees and related plants, and is illustrated with photos.

The Australian Soil and Land Survey Field Handbook specifies methods, standards and terminology used in soil and land surveys. It has been widely used throughout Australia, providing one reference set of definitions for the characterization of landform, vegetation, land surface, soil and substrate. The handbook advocates that a comprehensive suite of land and soil attributes be recorded in a uniform manner. This approach is held to be more useful than the allocation of land or soil to preconceived types or classes.

The Australian Soil Classification provides a framework for organizing knowledge about Australian soils by allocating soils to classes via a key. Since its publication in 1996, this book has been widely adopted and formally endorsed as the official national system. It has provided a means of communication among scientists and land managers and has proven to be of particular value in land resource survey and research programs, environmental studies and education.

The Bee Friendly Garden is a guide for all gardeners great and small to encouraging bees and other good bugs to your green space.

Native flora and foliage offer a beautiful alternative in the sustainability-challenged cut-flower industry. Here are over 50 plant profiles with notes on growing, cutting, conditioning, arranging and drying, with florists' insights on what makes them so special.

This beautifully illustrated glossary comprises over 2400 terms commonly used to describe vascular plants. The majority are structural terms referring to parts of plants visible with the naked eye or with a x10 hand lens, but some elementary microscopical and physiological terms are also included, as appropriate. Each term is defined accurately and concisely, and whenever possible, cross referenced to clearly labelled line drawings made mainly from living material.

The greater Perth coast is a biodiverse and ecologically vulnerable region, with its unique native plant species threatened by clearing, invasive species, fire and climate change. This second edition of Coastal Plants has been updated and expanded to provide a definitive guide to 128 of the most common plants of the Perth coastal region.

This book describes in detail every eucalypt species occurring along the south-west coast and ranges of Western Australia being comprehensively described (147 species and subspecies in total). Designed and written for those with no botanical training, but also catering for the professional, this book will be valuable for all those interested in appreciating, identifying and growing the unique eucalypts of Western Australia's south-west coast and ranges.

The most comprehensive illustrated book on pests and diseases - and beneficial insects - for Australian gardeners. Have you ever asked yourself "What on earth is that on my plants"? Your garden is host to hundreds of insects and other invertebrates. Fortunately very few of them are pests.

The area bounded by the Margaret River region in the far south west of Western Australia, Lancelin to the north of Perth, Esperance on the mid-south coast and the inland township of Southern Cross is home to a surprisingly diverse range of wildlife, both plants and animals. The expert authors of this book have included a broad selection of the wildlife most likely to be encountered by those living in and travelling though the region.

With clear text, and detailed illustrations and photographs, this book describes the structure of Grasses and similar groups, explains the language used in their description, and describes the process of identification. It will greatly facilitate the successful use of the standard identification manuals available for most parts of the world.

Plant Namesis an invaluable guide to the use of scientific, commercial, and common names for plants and the conventions for writing them. This fourth edition is based on the recently updated International Code of Nomenclature for Algae, Fungi, and Plants and the International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants and makes this technical information readily understandable to a range of readers, including botanists, publishers, professional horticulturists, nursery workers, hobby gardeners and anyone interested in plant names.

This booklet provides easy identification of common weeds and methods of control using readily available cultural, biological and herbicidal control techniques. The weeds are divided into four colour-coded groups based on their life form - grasses, herbs, vines and shrubs or trees. Within each group, the weeds are listed alphabetically by their botanical name. A brief description of the herbicides used, a glossary and an index are included.

A few of the plants in this book are specific to the Margaret River-Augusta area, but most have a wide range throughout the Southwest of Western Australia, making this book a valuable addition to the reference library of anyone wanting to learn more about Western Australia’s fascinating flora.