A native plants reader
By: Niall Dunne, editor
Contributors: Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Series: Brooklyn Botanic Garden guides for a greener planet -- handbook #197; Brooklyn Botanic Garden guides for a greener planet -- handbook #197.
Publisher: Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Brooklyn, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 119
ISBN-13: 9781889538808
Subjects: Endemic plants; Native plant gardening
Description: This volume presents a collection of narratives extolling the virtues of native plantings, outlining their fundamental contributions to our natural ecosystems, detailing our connections with them, describing the perils they currently face, and advocating for their preservation in the garden and larger landscape. Full of adventures and insights from scientists, gardeners, and writers working in the trenches with native plants, the essays are designed to address and engage both gardeners and non gardening nature lovers alike. The 16 essays are loosely grouped into four themed sections: "Defining and Collecting," "Native Plants in Nature, ': "Native Plants in Gardens," and "Native Plants in Public."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 110-111) and index.
Table of contents: title: Defining "native plant"  -- Niall Dunne; title: Early botanical exploration and discovery in the Northeast  -- James L. Reveal; title: The metropolitan flora  -- Susan K. Pell and Steven Glenn; title: New York City's vanished natives  -- Mariellé Anzelone and Wendy Hollender; title: Seasons of a seed collector  -- Heather Liljengren; title: Nibbling on natives  -- Russ Cohen; title: Restoring native communities  -- Myla Aronson; title: The future of my forest  -- Bernd Heinrich; title: Conservation in the age of climate change  -- Janet Marinelli; title: Designing a restoration garden  -- Judith Larner Lowdry; title: Welcoming wildlife into the garden  -- Douglas W. Tallamy; title: Adventures in native plant propagation  -- William Cullina; title: Stopping garden plant invasions  -- Sarah Reichard; title: Native alternatives for notorious invaders  -- C. Colston Burrell; title: Creating connections with native plants  -- Mariellé Anzelone; title: The native flora garden -- Uli Lorimer.