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

About this book

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-Kroegers 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 everyone to create an ecologically valuable garden for the joy of doing so and for the salvation of our natural world. Diana Beresford-Kroeger is the author of Arboretum America. She is a botanist medical and agricultural researcher lecturer and self-defined "renegade scientist" in the fields of classical botany medical biochemistry organic chemistry and nuclear chemistry. She lives in Ontario Canada.