The Living Landscape: Designing for Beauty and Biodiversity in the Home Garden

About this book

This "thoughtful intelligent" gardening book will help readers create a garden that nurtures the wildlife communities surrounding them (The New York Times Book Review). Many gardeners today want a home landscape that nourishes and fosters wildlife but they also want beauty a space for the kids to play privacy and maybe even a vegetable patch. Sure its a tall order but The Living Landscape shows you how to do it. Youll learn the strategies for making and maintaining a diverse layered landscapeone that offers all of the following: Beauty on multiple levels Outdoor rooms and turf areas for children and pets Fragrance and edible plants Shelter and sustenance for wildlife Richly illustrated The Living Landscape will enable you to build the garden of your dreams.