Skip to Content
American Meadows (USD) English
Home / Garden Tools & Fertilizers / The Living Landscape Book

The Living Landscape Book

SKU: HC007597
$39.95
per Book
Shipping:
Now shipping to zones 2-10.
Overview

The Living Landscape will give you strategies to create a garden that provides sustenance for wildlife but also provides for human needs as well. You’ll learn about how healthy ecologies work and gardening for beauty and usability--from creating outdoor rooms and turf areas for children and pets, to incorporating fragrance and edible plants.

key features
Common Name
The Living Landscape Book
Item Package Size
Book
Can Send To PO Box
No
Ships to Hawaii, Alaska & Canada
No
SKU
HC007597

Description

Learn to create a garden that is not only beautiful and usable but fosters wildlife communities as well. You’ll learn strategies for maintaining a diverse landscape with an understanding of how healthy ecologies work. The Living Landscape will enable you to create a garden that provides sustenance for wildlife but also provides for human needs as well. You’ll learn about gardening for beauty and usability on many levels, from creating outdoor rooms and turf areas for children and pets, to incorporating fragrance and edible plants.

Illustrated with superb photos, this is a revolutionary guide to designing an exquisitely diverse garden. Authored by Rick Darke, a renowned landscape design consultant, author, lecturer, and photographer and Doug Tallamy, professor and chair of the department of entomology and wildlife ecology at the University of Delaware. This collaboration includes design strategies to implement in the home garden and helpful charts that suggest a variety of plants including natives and regionally suited perennials.