Garden for Life The Natural Approach to Designing, Planting, and Maintaining a North Temperate Garden

Name: Garden for Life The Natural Approach to Designing, Planting, and Maintaining a North Temperate Garden
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ISBN: 9780472030125

ISBN-10: 0472030124

ISBN-13: 9780472030125

Edition: 2004

Authors: Diana Beresford-Kroeger

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The avid gardener will need no other resource than this book to plan and maintain a natural garden on the country farm or in the suburban backyard, a habitat congenial to the scarlet tanager, the monarch butterfly, and the toad. Unique to this book is author Beresford-Kroeger's concept of bioplanning, in which the gardener views the site as a biological system and the activity of gardening as an ecological task. To assist in bioplanning a garden, the author provides both plans that are adaptable to different garden sizes and shapes, as well as planting instructions emphasizing organic care, ecofunction, and environmentally friendly means of pest control. A Garden for Life challenges…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Publication date: 3/23/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 8.00" wide x 10.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 2.002
Language: English



Foreword



Introduction : of oatmeal, apricots & cardinals


Bioplanning for the future


Bioplans


Perennials


Biennials


Bulbs, corms and tubers


Garden controls


Glossary


References


Plant and seed sources


Acknowledgements