| Landscaping With Nature: Using Nature's Designs to Plan Your Yard | 
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Sales Rank: 1386583
Category: Book
Author: Jeff Cox
Publisher: Rodale Press
Studio: Rodale Press
Manufacturer: Rodale Press
Label: Rodale Press
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 344
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7.5 x 0.8
ISBN: 0875967426
Dewey Decimal Number: 712.6
EAN: 9780875967424
ASIN: 0875967426
Publication Date: February 1996
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Product Description
A garden transformation workbook, this text teaches readers a new way to garden--by working with nature to design a landscape. Detailed instructions for using nature's patterns or color schemes in a garden design, gardening for wildlife, landscaping with stones and/or water, and using native plants are combined with basic instruction. 80 color photos. 75 illustrations.
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Highly recommended for anyone with a yard July 28, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
The key to this book isn't to go out and loot our state parks, roadsides, and private lands to swipe what's growing there and transplant it in our own yards. The key is to go to state parks, roadsides, and other natural places and swipe ideas and concepts and apply them to our own home landscape. The color photo section near the center shows many pictures with a scene from the wild and another showing how that can be interpreted on a home scale, or how the idea can be transplanted from one region to another with entirely different plants.
I've read this book twice this year, cover to cover, as well as referred to small bits and pieces of it a number of other times. In a year or so, I will be implementing the fire pit. I have - and will - use the natural stairway project. And watch out for some melodic stone arrangements down by the meadow, and maybe more along Stone Stream, or on the back bank. In addition to projects and raw ideas, the book also serves as a source on various plants - I refer to it for supplemental information quite often. It's not intended to be an exhaustive list of plants that can be used, but it does provide nice collections of trees and shrubs with interesting bark or berries, as well as group plants by habitat and bloom color.
If I could only have one book on gardening, this would be it.
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