Using Nature's Designs to Plan Your Yard
Gardeners are by nature in love with beauty. We react to beauty in nature with a sense of awe, appreciation, and even wonder. And yet when it comes to designing home gardens, we follow an English style, or an American style, or some style invented by someone else. Landscaping With Nature encourages you, on the other hand, to visit nature and look closely at the beauty you find there, and then shows you in words and in color photos how you can bring that natural beauty home, to your own yard, where you can enjoy the sight of it every day. And the best part is that you decide what's beautiful, not a garden designer or landscape architect. It's your own sense of beauty that becomes revealed when you landscape with nature. This book is so original and important that it is used as a text in colleges and universities that teach landscape design. But it reads as easily as a letter from a friend: Once youve learned how to plant your natural landscape, Cox says in his introduction, and added natural enhancements such as wood, stone, and water, you'll discover the ultimate pleasure of the natural garden-how to encourage wildlife to feel at home. And the next time you feel the urge to see some beautiful natural scenery, you can just step outside! "This book shows how to create long-lasting plantings of the most environmentally sound trees, shrubs, grasses, and groundcovers. The best native and exotic plants form the basis of a pleasing and sustaining landscape." Dr. H. Marc Cathey, director, U.S. National Arboretum, Washington, DC. "Landscaping With Nature tells how to use familiar plants and even rocks to achieve the same effects seen in natural landscapes. It portrays a garden landscape that is both elevating to the spirit and filled with beauty. I am impressed." John V. Dennis, author of Gardening With Wildlife. "Landscaping With Nature is an earth manual that will lead you down the true garden path in all its splendor." Paul Hawken $16.95 paperback Order Back