Title: Planting Noah's garden : further adventures in backyard ecology /
Authors: Stein, Sara Bonnett.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin,
Year: 1997
Subjects: Garden ecology; Garden ecology United States.; Backyard gardens United States.; Natural gardens United States.; Gardening to attract wildlife United States.
Abstract: In this new book, Sara Stein travels beyond her own garden to report on the many and diverse ways in which people in all parts of the country are working to undo the damage and help restore their backyard ecosystems. Along the way, we watch her transform a new subdivision lot into the kind of natural landscape that existed before the bulldozers of suburban sprawl erased everything in their path; we are introduced to an Omaha man whose tiny city lot serves as a migration.
Contents: 1. Travels with Butterflies -- 2. New American Lawn: First Garden -- 3. Blueberries, Huh? -- 4. Ellen's Lot -- 5. In Search of Purple Lovegrass -- 6. Good-bye, Tomatoes -- 7. Speak Roughly to Your Little Plant -- 8. The Naturals -- 9. Questions of Collection -- 10. Lunch with Animals -- 11. The Weeds of Halloween -- 12. Just Add Water -- 13. And Through the Woods -- 14. Little Bluestem Meadow -- 15. Ladies of the Club on Tour -- USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map -- Vegetation of North America -- How to Use the Plant Charts -- 16. Starting the Garden -- 17. Assessing the Yard -- 18. Planning and Landscape -- 19. Choosing the Species -- 20. Growing the Seeds -- 21. Planting the Plants -- 22. Buying on a Budget -- 23. Collecting Wild Seeds -- 24. Constructing Habitats -- 25. Controlling Weeds -- 26. Creating Wetlands -- 27. Improving Woodlands -- 28. Managing Grasslands.