Rick Darke

The Living Landscape

Designing for Beauty and Biodiversity in the Home Garden

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The Living Landscape is your roadmap to a richer, more satisfying garden. Many gardeners today want a home landscape that nourishes and fosters wildlife. But they also want beauty, a space for the kids to play, privacy, and maybe even a vegetable patch. Sure, it’s a tall order, but The Living Landscape shows how to do it. By combining the insights of two outstanding authors, it offers a model that anyone can follow. Inspired by its examples, you’ll learn the strategies for making and maintaining a diverse, layered landscape—one that offers beauty on many levels, provides outdoor rooms and turf areas for children and pets, incorporates fragran… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Tallamy, Douglas W.

ISBN: 978-1-60469-408-6
EAN: 9781604694086
Produktnummer: 20552426
Verlag: Workman
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
Seitenangabe: 392 S.
Masse: H26.4 cm x B22.8 cm x D3.2 cm 1'530 g
Abbildungen: Hardback - With dust jacket; 500 color photos
Gewicht: 1530

Über den Autor

Rick Darke is a landscape design consultant, author, lecturer, and photographer based in Pennsylvania who blends art, ecology, and cultural geography in the creation and conservation of livable landscapes. His projects include scenic byways, public gardens, corporate and collegiate campuses, mixed-use conservation developments, and residential gardens. Darke served on the staff of Longwood Gardens for twenty years and received the Scientific Award of the American Horticultural Society. His work has been featured in the New York Times and on National Public Radio. Darke is recognized as one of the world's experts on grasses and their use in public and private landscapes. For further information visit www.rickdarke.com.Doug Tallamy is a professor in the Department of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology at the University of Delaware, where he has taught insect-related courses for 40 years. His most recent book with Timber Press, Nature’s Best Hope, is a New York Times Best Seller.