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Designing California Native Gardens: The Plant Community Approach to Artful, Ecological Gardens
Glenn Keator
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Description for Designing California Native Gardens: The Plant Community Approach to Artful, Ecological Gardens
Paperback. Aims to convey the diversity and beauty of California's native plants and demonstrates how they can be brought into ecologically sound, attractive, workable, and artful gardens. This book includes sample plans for a native garden design accompanied by drawings, color photographs, a plant list, tips on successful gardening with individual species. Num Pages: 352 pages, 347 color illustrations, 17 line illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; WMD; WMP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 22. Weight in Grams: 930.
Inspirational, practical, and easy to use, this book was created with the aim of conveying the awesome diversity and beauty of California's native plants and demonstrating how they can be brought into ecologically sound, attractive, workable, and artful gardens. Structured around major California plant communities - bluffs, redwoods, the Channel Islands, coastal scrub, grasslands, deserts, oak woodlands, mixed evergreen woodlands, riparian, chaparral, mountain meadows, and wetlands - the book's twelve chapters each include sample plans for a native garden design accompanied by original drawings, color photographs, a plant list, tips on successful gardening with individual species, and more. Both residential ... Read more
Inspirational, practical, and easy to use, this book was created with the aim of conveying the awesome diversity and beauty of California's native plants and demonstrating how they can be brought into ecologically sound, attractive, workable, and artful gardens. Structured around major California plant communities - bluffs, redwoods, the Channel Islands, coastal scrub, grasslands, deserts, oak woodlands, mixed evergreen woodlands, riparian, chaparral, mountain meadows, and wetlands - the book's twelve chapters each include sample plans for a native garden design accompanied by original drawings, color photographs, a plant list, tips on successful gardening with individual species, and more. Both residential ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520251106
SKU
V9780520251106
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About Glenn Keator
Glenn Keator, a California plant specialist, is author of Introduction to Trees of the San Francisco Bay Area (UC Press), The Life of an Oak, Plants of the East Bay Parks, and Complete Garden Guide to the Native Perennials of California. Alrie Middlebrook is the founder and president of Middlebrook Gardens in San Jose, California, a design company that specializes ... Read more
Reviews for Designing California Native Gardens: The Plant Community Approach to Artful, Ecological Gardens
"This book not only tells you all about hundreds of these beautiful plants but
most important
how and where to deploy them to great effect." San Jose Mercury News "This excellent book is a must-read for anyone interested in cultivating native plants and working them into a landscape plan."
Robert Walch Salinas Californian "Here's a beautiful and ... Read more
most important
how and where to deploy them to great effect." San Jose Mercury News "This excellent book is a must-read for anyone interested in cultivating native plants and working them into a landscape plan."
Robert Walch Salinas Californian "Here's a beautiful and ... Read more