num_pages: 392
description: This thoughtful intelligent book is all about connectivity addressing a natural world in which we are the primary influence.  The New York Times Books ReviewMany 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 its a tall order but The Living Landscape shows you how to do it. Youll learn the strategies for making and maintaining a diverse layered landscapeone that offers beauty on many levels provides outdoor rooms and turf areas for children and pets incorporates fragrance and edible plants and provides cover shelter and sustenance for wildlife. Richly illustrated and informed by both a keen eye for design and an understanding of how healthy ecologies work The Living Landscape will enable you to create a garden that fulfills both human needs and the needs of wildlife communities. 
language: English
title: The Living Landscape: Designing for Beauty and Biodiversity in the Home Garden
publisher: Timber Press