The Naturescaping Workbook: A Step-by-Step Guide for Bringing Nature to Your Backyard - Softcover

Young, Beth O'donnell

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1604691182 ISBN 13: 9781604691184

Publisher: Timber Pr, 2011

Synopsis

“This step-by-step guide will teach you how to work in concert with nature, creating a lush landscape.” —Cabin Life

If you’re an eco-conscious homeowner, the best garden designer is Mother Nature, and following her lead can result in a beautiful low-maintenance landscape that requires fewer resources, attracts natural wildlife, and saves time and money. In The Naturescaping Workbook, Beth O'Donnell Young offers an easy-to-follow, do-it-yourself plan for gardeners of all skill levels. Her step-by-step approach teaches you how to understand your garden’s natural habitat and to nurture the native eco-systems that exist in your yard. And the payoff is huge. By simply becoming aware of the natural wonders in the backyard, you can have a more beautiful garden and take a big step toward bringing nature home.

About this title

About the Authors

Beth O'Donnell Young is the owner of Beth Young Garden Design, a residential landscape design firm. She has taught do-it-yourself landscaping classes for more than a decade.

Karen Bussolini is a garden photographer, writer, speaker and an eco-friendly garden coach. A lifelong hands-on organic gardener and lover of nature, she has been contributing articles and photographs informed both by her fine arts background and her immersion in ecological landscaping and native plants, for more than 30 years. Her work has appeared in publications such as The New York Times, Garden Design, House Beautiful, The American Gardener, Wildflower, and in hundreds of books.
 
Her six books (as sole photographer) include Storey Publishing’s The Homeowner’s Complete Tree and Shrub Handbook, authored by Penelope O’Sullivan,  The Naturescaping Workbook: A Step-by-Step Guide for Bringing Nature to Your Backyard, and Elegant Silvers, (which she co-authored), both published by Timber Press.
 
Karen’s slide talks and workshops engage, inform and inspire audiences in venues across the nation. Closer to home, she gardens on a deer-infested mountainside in South Kent, CT.  She puts her NOFA Organic Land Care Professional accreditation to work in her eco-friendly garden coaching practice, teaching homeowners sustainable garden practices and creating healthy yards that are resilient, full of life, diversity and delight. Find her online at karenbussolini.com.
 

Reviews

Call it sustainable landscaping, ecological gardening, or the loftier-sounding “gardening for the new century.” Whatever label is affixed to it, naturescaping is really just a matter of good old common sense. When viewed in terms of an ecosystem with its own natural ebbs and flows, residents, and resources, backyard gardens thrive when they are designed, maintained, and enjoyed with a natural approach that eschews the overly managed, sterile, and environmentally harmful manicured landscapes so often found in suburban neighborhoods. A dedicated landscape designer, author, lecturer, and instructor, Young breaks down the often daunting process of analyzing and evaluating sites and conditions through an extensive series of thought-provoking questionnaires and step-by-step worksheets that will help novice gardeners, professionals, or anyone in between who wishes to swap their existing gardening regimen for a more environmentally friendly form of landscaping. Practical advice about materials, soil, and plant selection is augmented by inspiring photographs by Karen Bussolini and instructive illustrations to seamlessly guide gardeners through the rewarding process of working with nature’s bounty and beauty. --Carol Haggas

Edition details

• Publisher: Timber Pr
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1604691182
• ISBN 13: 9781604691184
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 225