The living landscape : designing for beauty and biodiversity in the home garden / Rick Darke & Doug Tallamy ; principal photography by Rick Darke.
Material type:
TextPublisher: Portland, Oregon : Timber Press, 2014Description: 392 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1604694084
- 9781604694086 :
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book
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Main Library | NonFiction | 712.2 D219 | Available | 33111007572494 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
"This thoughtful, intelligent book is all about connectivity, addressing a natural world in which we are the primary influence." -- The New York Times Books Review
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, it's a tall order, but The Living Landscape shows you how to do it. You'll learn the strategies for making and maintaining a diverse, layered landscape--one 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 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 fulfills both human needs and the needs of wildlife communities.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-368) and index.
Layers in wild landscapes -- The community of living organisms : why interrelationships matter more than numbers -- The ecological functions of gardens : what landscapes do -- The art of observation -- Applying layers to the home garden.