num_pages: 185
description: Landscape designer Owen Wormser explains how to replace the deadscape we call lawn with low-maintenance eco-friendly meadows. In this second edition of his award-winning book he includes photos of meadows in progress plus more ways to cultivate your own organic meadow.This how-to book on growing your own wildflowers and native grasses is also about sustainability regeneration and beauty. In a world where lawns have wreaked havoc on our natural ecosystems meadows offer a compelling solution. It is garden landscaping that is beautiful all year round.Meadows establish wildlife and pollinator habitats are low-maintenance and low-cost have a built-in resilience that helps them weather climate extremes and can draw down and store far more carbon dioxide than any manicured lawn.Wormser describes how to plant an organic meadow garden or traditional meadow thats right for your site. His book includes guidance on:Preparing your siteDesigning your meadowPlanting without using synthetic chemicalsGrowing 21 starter native grasses and wildflowers including butterfly weed smooth blue aster purple coneflower wild bergamot blue grama grass switchgrass and many moreBuilding support in neighborhoods where a tidy lawn is the standard.He also shares 28 color photos that highlight the multitude of ways you can cultivate your own organic meadow.To illuminate the many joys of meadow-building Wormser draws on his own stories including how growing up off the grid in northern Maine with no electricity or plumbing prepared him for his work.
language: English
title: Lawns Into Meadows: Growing a Regenerative Landscape
publisher: Stone Pier Press