This journal will help with planting and lawn care maintenance! Features: ✓ Size: 6 x 9 inches, 114 pages. ✓ It will be your essential tool in recording your plants which are taken the care needed, thoughts, and ideas. ✓ Update and change your priorities and focus when needed. ✓ Note your plants to improve each and every day. ✓ This book is an ideal gift for your family, your friends, your loved ones... and yourself
In a time of climate change and mass extinction, how we garden matters more than ever: “An outstanding and deeply passionate book.” —Marc Bekoff, author of The Emotional Lives of Animals Plenty of books tell home gardeners and professional landscape designers how to garden sustainably, what plants to use, and what resources to explore. Yet few examine why our urban wildlife gardens matter so much—not just for ourselves, but for the larger human and animal communities. Our landscapes push aside wildlife and in turn diminish our genetically programmed love for wildness. How can we get ourselves back into balance through gardens, to speak life's language and learn from other species? Benjamin Vogt addresses why we need a new garden ethic, and why we urgently need wildness in our daily lives—lives sequestered in buildings surrounded by monocultures of lawn and concrete that significantly harm our physical and mental health. He examines the psychological issues around climate change and mass extinction as a way to understand how we are short-circuiting our response to global crises, especially by not growing native plants in our gardens. Simply put, environmentalism is not political; it's social justice for all species marginalized today and for those facing extinction tomorrow. By thinking deeply and honestly about our built landscapes, we can create a compassionate activism that connects us more profoundly to nature and to one another.
A colorful guide covering the basics of replacing a traditional lawn with a wide variety of easy-care, no-mow, drought-tolerant, money-saving options that will appeal to today's busy, eco-conscious homeowner. Americans pour 300 million gallons of gas and 1 billion hours every year into mowing their lawns, not to mention 70 million pounds of pesticides and $40 billion for lawn upkeep. No Wonder the anti-lawn movement is thriving, as today's eco-conscious consumers realize that their traditional lawns are water-hogging, chemical-ridden, maintenance-intensive burdens. Lawn Gone!, from award-winning gardening blogger Pam Penick, is the first basic introduction to low-water, easy-care lawn alternatives for beginning gardeners, written in a friendly style with an approachable package. It covers all the available time-saving options: alternative grasses, ground cover plants, artificial turf, hardscaping, mulch, and more. In addition, it includes step-by-step lawn-removal methods, strategies for dealing with neighbors and homeowner associations, and how to minimize your lawn if you're not ready to go all the way.
This journal will help with planting and lawn care maintenance! Features: ✓ Size: 6 x 9 inches, 114 pages. ✓ It will be your essential tool in recording your plants which are taken the care needed, thoughts, and ideas. ✓ Update and change your priorities and focus when needed. ✓ Note your plants to improve each and every day. ✓ This book is an ideal gift for your family, your friends, your loved ones... and yourself
This journal will help with planting and lawn care maintenance! Features: ✓ Size: 6 x 9 inches, 114 pages. ✓ It will be your essential tool in recording your plants which are taken the care needed, thoughts, and ideas. ✓ Update and change your priorities and focus when needed. ✓ Note your plants to improve each and every day. ✓ This book is an ideal gift for your family, your friends, your loved ones... and yourself
In this eloquent plea for compassion and respect for all species, journalist and gardener Nancy Lawson describes why and how to welcome wildlife to our backyards. Through engaging anecdotes and inspired advice, profiles of home gardeners throughout the country, and interviews with scientists and horticulturalists, Lawson applies the broader lessons of ecology to our own outdoor spaces. Detailed chapters address planting for wildlife by choosing native species; providing habitats that shelter baby animals, as well as birds, bees, and butterflies; creating safe zones in the garden; cohabiting with creatures often regarded as pests; letting nature be your garden designer; and encouraging natural processes and evolution in the garden. The Humane Gardener fills a unique niche in describing simple principles for both attracting wildlife and peacefully resolving conflicts with all the creatures that share our world.
This journal will help with planting and lawn care maintenance! Features: ✓ Size: 6 x 9 inches, 114 pages. ✓ It will be your essential tool in recording your plants which are taken the care needed, thoughts, and ideas. ✓ Update and change your priorities and focus when needed. ✓ Note your plants to improve each and every day. ✓ This book is an ideal gift for your family, your friends, your loved ones... and yourself
This journal will help with planting and lawn care maintenance! Features: ✓ Size: 6 x 9 inches, 114 pages. ✓ It will be your essential tool in recording your plants which are taken the care needed, thoughts, and ideas. ✓ Update and change your priorities and focus when needed. ✓ Note your plants to improve each and every day. ✓ This book is an ideal gift for your family, your friends, your loved ones... and yourself
This journal will help with planting and lawn care maintenance! Features: ✓ Size: 6 x 9 inches, 114 pages. ✓ It will be your essential tool in recording your plants which are taken the care needed, thoughts, and ideas. ✓ Update and change your priorities and focus when needed. ✓ Note your plants to improve each and every day. ✓ This book is an ideal gift for your family, your friends, your loved ones... and yourself
The definitive guide to botanical Latin Unlock the secrets of botanical Latin with this beautifully illustrated encyclopedia. The Gardener's Botanical contains definitions of more than 5,000 plant names—from abbreviatus ("shortened") to zonatus ("with bands")—along with more than 350 color illustrations. Scientific plant names are an invaluable tool for those who understand them. Formed from Greek and, more commonly, from Latin root words, not only do they make it possible for gardeners and botanists to communicate, they also contain a wealth of hidden information. The Gardener's Botanical is the key to unlocking these secrets. This guide contains a breathtaking array of botanical names in alphabetical order. Each word is listed with a pronunciation guide, definition, example plant, and, where appropriate, etymology. Also included in this illuminating guide are special features on important plant genera, fact boxes, essays focusing on the history and importance of Latin names and botanical illustrations, and an index of common names with more than 2,000 popular plants, cross-referenced with their binomial name in Latin.
