The American Meadow Garden: Creating a Natural Alternative to the Traditional Lawn

John Greenlee

ISBN 10: 0881928712 / ISBN 13: 9780881928716

Edité par Timber Pr, 2009

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• Titre: The American Meadow Garden: Creating a Natural Alternative to the Traditional Lawn
• Éditeur: Timber Pr
• Date de parution: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0881928712
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780881928716
• Reliure: Hardcover
• État de l'article: Good
• État de la jaquette: No Jacket
• Poids: 3,45 livres

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Synopsis

If there's one lesson every homeowner must learn, it's this: the traditional lawn is a huge, time consuming, synthetic-chemical sucking mistake. The time has come to look for new ways to create friendly, livable spaces around our homes. In "The American Meadow Garden", ornamental grass expert John Greenlee creates a new model for homeowners and gardeners. For Greenlee, a meadow isn't a random assortment of messy, anonymous grasses. Rather, it is a shimmering mini-ecosystem, in which regionally appropriate grasses combine with colorful perennials to form a rich tapestry that is friendly to all life - with minimal input of water, time, and other scarce resources. Kids and pets can play in complete safety, and birds and butterflies flock there. A prairie style planting is a place you want to be. With decades of experience as a nurseryman and designer, John Greenlee is the perfect guide. He details all the practicalities of site preparation, plant selection, and maintenance; particularly valuable are his explanations of how ornamental grasses perform in different climates and areas. Gorgeous photography by Saxon Holt visually illustrates the message with stunning examples of meadow gardens from across the country. We've reached a stage where we can no longer follow past practices unthinkingly, particularly when those practices are wasteful and harmful to the environment. It's time to get rid of the old-fashioned lawn and embrace a sane and healthy future: the American meadow garden.

À propos de l?auteur

John Greenlee has been creating grass ecologies in gardens of all sizes all over the United States and Canada since 1984. He owns Greenlee Nursery, the oldest grass nursery in California. He has appeared frequently on television and was named horticulturist of the year in 2002 by the Southern California Association of Horticulturists. His previous book is The Encyclopedia of Ornamental Grasses (Rodale 1992). He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in ornamental horticulture from Cal Poly, Pomona, California. Saxon Holt is widely recognized as one of the top photographers in the world of garden photography. His images are in demand from publishers worldwide and he has worked for magazines as diverse as Pacific Horticulture and Architectural Digest. Over the past 20 years Saxon has won awards for his magazine work, calendars, books and his portfolio, including four awards from the Garden Writers of America. Books are his main interest as they provide an opportunity to explore subjects in depth. His book The American Meadow Garden with John Greenlee looks at a changing aesthetic in gardening that is more sustainable and naturalistic. With an understanding of the power of the media to define our gardening style, Saxon seeks to use photography to change the aesthetic of what we expect to see in a garden photograph.