Planting Noah's Garden: Further Adventures in Backyard Ecology - Hardcover

Stein, Sara Bonnett

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0395709601 ISBN 13: 9780395709603

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1997

Synopsis

The ecology-minded author of Noah's Garden offers a guide to transforming suburban backyards into attractive gardens using the area's common native flora, along with advice on killing weeds, collecting wild seeds, and much more.

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Review:

In Noah's Garden, published in 1994, gardener and writer Sara Stein addressed the business of making a messy backyard--of restoring a naturally chaotic and dynamic "floral-faunal-microbial system" in the place of neatly tended, carefully selected and weeded, and ultimately artificial gardens. Just as charmingly written as its predecessor, Planting Noah's Garden furthers Stein's campaign to make lawns animated, full of disorder, life, and wildness. Studded with ringing tributes to alumroot, trillium, goldenrod, bellworts, and mayflowers, this is a lovely gardener's manifesto. Packed with practical instructions for planning and maintaining a garden of one's own, it's also wonderful entertainment for anyone with a green thumb.

About the Author:

Sara Stein is the author of many books, including My Weeds, The Evolution Book, The Science Book, and, of course, Noah's Garden. She lives in Pound Ridge, New York.

About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0395709601
• ISBN 13: 9780395709603
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 464