The living landscape : designing for beauty and biodiversity in the home garden /
Describes how home gardeners can help support sustainability and biodiversity through including in their garden plants that provide food for birds and bugs and serve as a pollination source for bees, including suggested plants for every climate and region. Inspired by examples, you'll learn th...
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| Published: | Portland, Oregon : Timber Press, [2014], ©2014. |
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| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The living landscape : |b designing for beauty and biodiversity in the home garden / |c Rick Darke & Doug Tallamy ; principal photography by Rick Darke. |
| 246 | 1 | |a Designing for beauty and biodiversity in the home garden. | |
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| 300 | |a 392 pages : |b color illustrations ; |c 27 cm. | ||
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-368) and index. | ||
| 520 | |a Describes how home gardeners can help support sustainability and biodiversity through including in their garden plants that provide food for birds and bugs and serve as a pollination source for bees, including suggested plants for every climate and region. Inspired by examples, 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. -- |c From publisher's description. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a 1. Layers in wild landscapes : The literal layers ; Canopy ; Understory trees ; Shrubs ; Herbaceous plants ; The ground layer ; The dynamic edge ; Wet edges ; Wetlands ; Meadows and grasslands ; Birds in every layer ; The cultural layers ; The temporal layers: time and community ; The temporal layers: time and opportunity ; What do we mean by native? -- 2. The community of living organisms: why interrelationships matter more than numbers : The prominence of specialized relationships ; Biodiversity and ecosystem productivity ; Biodiversity and ecosystem stability ; Time and relationships -- 3. The ecological functions of gardens: what landscapes do : Species conservation ; Ecological benefits for humans ; Ecological benefits for wildlife ; Ecosystem complexity -- 4. The art of observation : Charting landscape colors ; Life at a different scale ; Banking on old logs ; Going with the flow of opportunity ; Safety in recycling ; Avoiding detection: crypsis -- 5. Applying layers to the home garden : Space-making with organic architecture ; Life below ground ; The ground layer ; The herbaceous layer ; The shrub layer ; The understory tree layer ; The canopy layer ; Vines in multiple layers ; Creating edges ; The layering process ; Wet and moist spaces ; Meadow gardens ; The cultural layers -- Landscape and ecological functions of plants for the Mid-Atlantic including all the plants featured in this book ; Selected plants for the Southeast ; Selected plants for the Southwest ; Selected plants for the Pacific Northwest ; Selected plants for the Midwest and Mountain States ; Selected plants for New England. | |
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