Planting in a Post-Wild World: Designing Plant Communities for Resilient Landscapes
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| Rating | : | 4.93 (689 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1604695536 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-03-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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Now we have a guide Kelly Coyne After the long tyranny of the lawn and hedge, there's a revolution underway. We want to replace the old paradigm of lifeless landscapes with gardens which not only delight the eye, but heal the land. We want and need gardens that function on many levels: gardens which can capture water, build soil, support pollinators, preserve native species, etc. The problem is that for all of our good intentions--us lawn remover types--we don't necessarily know how to replace the lawn n’ hedge paradigm with something b. Some Day, Ecological Gardening for "The Rest of Us"? Katherine Seymour I picked up Rainer and West's book at the library recently, having read some favorable reviews here and on Garden Rant and elsewhere. I have a somewhat different take on it. I thought it's evangelism for an ecologically-focused gardening was, in general, a welcome antidote to the horticultural industry's single-minded focus (responding, in all fairness, to client desires) to promote "Flower Power" by marketing the most highly ornamental, often new and unproven hybrids, without consideration of their adaptabilit. "In the top 5 for sustainable, wildlife-firendly design books" according to Benjamin V.. This is a watershed moment in garden design publication, and Rainer & West's book leads the way. While I might disagree on some points, every gardener, home or pro, needs to read this to understand the practical reasons and methods to garden with nature in private and public spaces. Just a fantastic book that will be long lived.
an optimistic call to action.” —Chicago Tribune Over time, with industrialization and urban sprawl, we have driven nature out of our neighborhoods and cities. Planting in a Post-Wild World by Thomas Rainer and Claudia West is an inspiring call to action dedicated to the idea of a new nature—a hybrid of both the wild and the cultivated—that can ourish in our cities and suburbs. This is both a post-wild manifesto and practical guide that describes how to incorporate and layer plants into plant communities to create an environment that is reective of natural systems and thrives within our built world.. But we can invite it back by designing landscapes that look and function more like they do in the wild: robust, diverse, and visually harmonious. “As practical as it is poetic
beautiful and diverse. As practical as it is poetic, theirs is an optimistic call to action.” —Chicago Tribune “Sometimes one comes across a landscape design book that simply demands to be read from cover to cover without pause. Planting in a Post-Wild World is one such book. The authors speak with conviction and authority, and offer a practical blueprint for the future.” —The English Garden “In this award-winning book, landscape architect Thomas Rainer and landscape consultant Claudia West present a groundbreaking new philosophy of planting design inspired by the way plants work together in the wild.” —American Gardener “The book outlines how to design and maintain an ecological landscape, and does so in b