Item #22940 Designing California Native Gardens: The Plant Community Approach to Artful, Ecological Gardens. Glenn Keator, Alrie Middlebrook.

Designing California Native Gardens: The Plant Community Approach to Artful, Ecological Gardens.

U.C. Press, 04/07. Item #22940
ISBN: 9780520251106

From the Publisher:




Inspirational, practical, and easy to use, this book was created with the aim
of conveying the awesome diversity and beauty of California's native plants and
demonstrating how they can be brought into ecologically sound, attractive,
workable, and artful gardens. Structured around major California plant
communities--bluffs, redwoods, the Channel Islands, coastal scrub, grasslands,
deserts, oak woodlands, mixed evergreen woodlands, riparian, chaparral, mountain
meadows, and wetlands--the book's twelve chapters each include sample plans for
a native garden design accompanied by original drawings, color photographs, a
plant list, tips on successful gardening with individual species, and more. Both
residential and professional gardeners will learn the benefits of going native
with gardens that require less water and fewer fertilizers, attract wildlife,
engage the senses, create a sense of place, and, at the same time, preserve our
rich natural heritage. Designing Native California Gardens includes:






  • More than 600 selected native species recommended for the garden



  • More than 300 photographs of native plants, natural plant communities,
    and residential native gardens



  • Recommended places to visit for viewing each plant community





342 pages, paperback. University of California Press (April 2007)

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Price: $38.95

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