Designing Gardens with Flora of the American East / / Carolyn Summers.
Gardeners, with all good fortune and flora, are endowed with love for a hobby that has profound potential for positive change. The beautifully illustrated Designing Gardens with Flora of the American East approaches landscape design from an ecological perspective, encouraging professional horticultu...
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Summers, Carolyn, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Designing Gardens with Flora of the American East / Carolyn Summers. New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2010] ©2010 1 online resource (240 p.) : 87 illustrations. 16 color and 62 black and white halftones and 9 line art illustrations text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- List Of Abbreviations -- 1. Why Should We Garden with Indigenous Plants? -- 2. Wildlife in Field, Forest, and Garden -- 3. "Safe Sex"in the Garden -- 4. Showy Substitutes for Common Invasive Plants -- 5. Designing Traditional Gardens with Indigenous Plants -- 6. Designs Drawn from Indigenous Plant Communities -- 7. Shopping for Indigenous Trees, Shrubs, and Perennials -- Afterword -- Appendixes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Gardeners, with all good fortune and flora, are endowed with love for a hobby that has profound potential for positive change. The beautifully illustrated Designing Gardens with Flora of the American East approaches landscape design from an ecological perspective, encouraging professional horticulturalists and backyard enthusiasts alike to intensify their use of indigenous or native plants. These plants, ones that grow naturally in the same place in which they evolved, form the basis of the food web. Wildlife simply cannot continue to survive without them-nor can we. Why indigenous plants, you may ask? What makes them so special to butterflies and bees and boys and girls? For Carolyn Summers, the answer is as natural as an ephemeral spring wildflower or berries of the gray dogwood, "As I studied indigenous plants, a strange thing happened. The plants grew on me. I began to love the plants themselves for their own unique qualities, quite apart from their usefulness in providing food and shelter for wildlife. Emphasizing the importance of indigenous plant gardening and landscape design, Summers provides guidelines for skilled sowers and budding bloomers. She highlights . . . The best ways to use exotic and non-indigenous plants responsibly Easy-to-follow strategies for hosting wildlife in fields, forests, and gardens Designs for traditional gardens using native trees, shrubs, groundcovers as substitutes for exotic plants Examples of flourishing plant communities from freshwater streams to open meadows How to control plant reproduction, choose cultivars, open-pollinated indigenous plants, and different types of hybrids, and practice "safe sex in the garden From Maine to Kentucky and up and down the East Coast, Designing Gardens with Flora of the American East lays the "gardenwork" for protecting natural areas through the thoughtful planting of indigenous plants. Finally we can bask in the knowledge that it is possible to have loads of fun at the same time we are growing a better world. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) Biodiversity conservation East (U.S.). Endemic plants East (U.S.). Gardening to attract wildlife East (U.S.). Landscape gardening East (U.S.). Native plant gardening East (U.S.) United States, East. Native plant gardening East (U.S.). GARDENING / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 9783110688610 print 9780813547060 https://doi.org/10.36019/9780813549323 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780813549323 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780813549323.jpg |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- List Of Abbreviations -- 1. Why Should We Garden with Indigenous Plants? -- 2. Wildlife in Field, Forest, and Garden -- 3. "Safe Sex"in the Garden -- 4. Showy Substitutes for Common Invasive Plants -- 5. Designing Traditional Gardens with Indigenous Plants -- 6. Designs Drawn from Indigenous Plant Communities -- 7. Shopping for Indigenous Trees, Shrubs, and Perennials -- Afterword -- Appendixes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author |
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