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New Zealand Nature Heroes by Gillian Candler
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Flora
New Zealand Nature Heroes is designed to inspire and empower New Zealand kids to be naturalists and conservationists. Aimed at the 8-12 age range, the book features stories of 15 different nature heroes, people who, in the past, or currently, are working to protect and understand New Zealand's natural w ...Show more
A Photographic Guide to Rocks & Minerals of New Zealand by Nick Mortimer & others
$28.00 NZD
Category: NZ Flora | Series: Photographic Guide to
The twelfth book in the popular New Holland series examines New Zealand's fascinating geology. Almost every kind of rock found on Earth can be seen in New Zealand, and most of the common minerals too. This handy reference guide will help you recognise and make sense of common (and some rare) rocks and m ...Show more
New Zealand Fungi by Rebecca Bowater
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Flora
Fungi have no chlorophyll and obtain their nutrients from living plants and animals, or dead trees, plants and animals. The parts of fungi that we see are called fruiting bodies which grow in a variety of shapes, sizes and colours, ranging from vibrant to neutral tones. They are composed of densely comp ...Show more
A Forager's Treasury: A New Zealand Guide to Finding and Using Wild Plants by Johanna Knox
$36.00 NZD
Category: NZ Flora
A New Zealand guide to the art of foraging - the ultimate guide to finding sustainable, free and fascinating plants. In New Zealand's urban and rural wildernesses, there is an abundance of food just waiting to be discovered, if only you know what to look for. Foraged food is healthy, economical and sus ...Show more
New Zealand's Native Trees (revised edition) by JOHN DAWSON ET AL
$130.00 NZD
Category: NZ Flora
New Zealand's Native Trees is a landmark book, the kind that is published only once in a generation. It celebrates our unique and magnificent native forests, and describes and generously illustrates more than 320 species, subspecies and varieties. This edition has been completely brought up-to-date with ...Show more
A Photographic Guide to Alpine Plants of New Zealand by Lawrie Metcalf
$28.00 NZD
Category: NZ Flora
This new addition to New Holland's popular pocket Photographic Guide series showcases the flowers that add so much to the attractions of walking in New Zealand's alpine zone. The ideal size for slipping into a backpack when tramping, it will appeal to walkers, nature lovers, tour guides and educators, a ...Show more
A Photographic Guide to Mushrooms and Other Fungi of New Zealand by Geoff Ridley; Don Horne (Photographer)
$28.00 NZD
Category: NZ Flora
This new addition to New Holland's very popular pocket Photographic Guide series introduces readers to New Zealand's mushrooms and fungi, which number up to some 19,000 species and include extraordinarily diverse types, from the familiar 'mushroom' to brackets, coral and cup fungi and slime moulds. Over ...Show more
100 Best Native Plants For New Zealand Gardens by Fiona Eadie
$50.00 NZD
Category: NZ Flora
From trees to ground covers, ferns to hebes, an expert guide to the top 100 New Zealand native plants for gardens. Since its first publication, this book has been an indispensable guide for gardeners wishing to use New Zealand plants. Now extensively revised, it features inspirational and practical advi ...Show more
Rock Pools: A Guide for Kiwi Kids (PB) by Ned Barraud
$20.00 NZD
Category: NZ Flora
What New Zealand child is not delighted by a rockpool at low tide, with its colourful, fascinating array of creatures, some still, some flitting about? Rockpools is a book designed to enhance this experience, with each page presenting an intriguing glimpse into the creatures that inhabit these low-tide ...Show more
New Zealand Seaweeds: An Illustrated Guide by Wendy Nelson
$65.00 NZD
Category: NZ Flora
A fully revised and completely redesigned edition of the first photographic identification guide to New Zealand's unique marine algae, by the country's pre-eminent seaweed expert Wendy Nelson. Across three main sections covering green, brown and red algae, over 150 genera and 250 key species are describ ...Show more
Companion Planting in New Zealand by Brenda Little
$28.00 NZD
Category: NZ Flora
In this age of increasing hostility towards chemical control of the food we eat, Companion Planting in New Zealand is the ideal guide to working with nature to produce cabbages that 'squeak with health' and beans that 'snap like a gunshot'. Every tip in this book has worked for somebody - why it worked ...Show more
A Field Guide to the Native Edible Plants of New Zealand by Andrew Crowe
$32.00 NZD
Category: NZ Flora
A go-to, illustrated field guide of edible native New Zealand plants, including a section on poisonous plants. In this useful and attractive book, over 190 trees, shrubs, herbs, ferns, mushrooms, lichens and seaweeds are described in detail with information on which part is edible and when, how plants ...Show more
