The Living Landscape

Designing for Beauty and Biodiversity in the Home Garden

von Rick Darke, Douglas W Tallamy

392 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

This "thoughtful, intelligent" gardening book will help readers create a garden that nurtures the wildlife communities surrounding them (The New York Times Book 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 all of the following: *Beauty on multiple levels *Outdoor rooms and turf areas for children and pets *Fragrance and edible plants *Shelter and sustenance for wildlife Richly illustrated, The Living Landscape will enable you to build the garden of your dreams.

• ISBN: 9781604694086
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.07.2014
• Größe: 261 x 222 mm
• Verlag: Timber Press (OR)