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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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | Portland, Oregon : Timber Press, [2014], ©2014. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.