The living landscape
Subtitle: designing for beauty and biodiversity in the home garden
By: Rick Darke & Doug Tallamy ; principal photography by Rick Darke
Contributors: Tallamy, Douglas W.
Publisher: Timber Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9781604694086
Subjects: Natural landscaping; Ecological landscape design
Other titles: Designing for beauty and biodiversity in the home garden
Description: By combining the insights of two outstanding authors, it offers a model that anyone can follow.  Inspired by examples, you'll learn the strategies for making and maintaining a diverse, layered landscape - one 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. The Living Landscape is your roadmap to a richer, more satisfying garden.

Describes how home gardeners can help support sustainability and biodiversity through including in their garden plants that provide food for birds and bugs and serve as a pollination source for bees, including suggested plants for every climate and region.  --Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 367-368) and index.
Table of contents: title: Layers in wild landscapes; title: The community of living organisms: why interrelationships matter more than numbers; title: The ecological functions of gardens: what landscapes do; title: The art of observation; title: Applying layers to the home garden.