The Living Landscape Book
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.
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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.
