The Living Landscape: Designing for Beauty and Biodiversity in the Home Garden

Workman Publishing

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UPC:
9781604694086
Binding:
Hardcover
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Publication Date:
7/1/2014
Author:
Rick Darke;Douglas W. Tallamy
Language:
english
Edition:
First Edition
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Product Overview

Many gardeners today want a home landscape that nourishes and fosters wildlife. But they also want beauty, a space for the kids to play, privacy, and maybe even a vegetable patch. Sure, its a tall order, but The Living Landscape shows how to do it. By combining the insights of two outstanding authors, it offers a model that anyone can follow. Inspired by its examples, youll learn the strategies for making and maintaining a diverse, layered landscapeone that offers beauty on many levels, provides outdoor rooms and turf areas for children and pets, incorporates fragrance and edible plants, and provides cover, shelter, and sustenance for wildlife. Richly illustrated with superb photographs and informed by both a keen eye for design and an understanding of how healthy ecologies work, The Living Landscape will enable you to create a garden that is full of life and that fulfills both human needs and the needs of wildlife communities.