Garden revolution how our landscapes can be a source of environmental change
Garden Revolution shows how an ecological approach to planting can lead to beautiful gardens that buck much of conventional gardening's counter-productive, time-consuming practices. Instead of picking the wrong plant and then constantly tilling, weeding, irrigating, and fertilizing, Larry Weaner adv...
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Portland, Oregon :
Timber Press,
2016.
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Table of Contents:
- Ecological gardening : An introduction
- The learning process
- The rise and fall (and rise) of a cardinalflower patch
- Influences and innovators
- The making of a garden star
- The garden ecologist's primer
- Design
- The plant that wants to be here
- Site analysis : Where are you, ecologically speaking?
- Reversing succession
- Creating an ecologically connected master plan
- Inspiration from Uncle Max
- Developing a synergistic plant list
- In the field
- Weeds and the ecological garden
- Setting the ecological process in motion
- A do-nothing attitude
- Creating meadows and prairies
- Growing pains
- Creating shrublands
- Sedges in the landscape
- Creating woodlands
- Postscript
- Living in it
- My house.
