Planting in a Post-Wild World

Rainer, Thomas

ISBN 10: 1604695536 / ISBN 13: 9781604695533

Published by Timber Press, 2015

About this Item

This groundbreaking guide presents a powerful alternative to traditional horticulture - designed plantings that function like naturally occurring plant communities. Thomas Rainer and Claudia West reveal how plants fit together in nature and how to use this knowledge to create landscapes that are resilient, beautiful, and diverse. Num Pages: 316 pages, 313 colour photographs. BIC Classification: WMD; WMP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 265 x 224 x 21. Weight in Grams: 1130. 2015. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Planting in a Post-Wild World
• Publisher: Timber Press
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1604695536
• ISBN 13: 9781604695533
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

This post-wild landscape guide is an "optimistic call to action" to help gardeners create a harmonious environment by incoporating plant communities (Chicago Tribune).

Over time, with industrialization and urban sprawl, we have driven nature out of our neighborhoods and cities. But we can invite it back by designing landscapes that look and function more like they do in the wild: robust, diverse, and visually harmonious. 

Featuring gorgeous photography and advice for landscapers, Planting in a Post-Wild World by Thomas Rainer and Claudia West is dedicated to the idea of a new nature—a hybrid of both the wild and the cultivated—that can nourish in our cities and suburbs. 

About the Author

Thomas Rainer is a registered landscape architect, teacher, and writer. He has designed landscapes for the U.S. Capitol grounds, the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial, and The New York Botanical Garden. His work has been featured in the the New York Times, Landscape Architecture Magazine, and Home + Design. He is a principal for the landscape architectural firm Rhodeside and Harwell, teaches planting design for the George Washington University, and writer at the award-winning site Grounded Design.


Claudia West is the ecological sales manager at North Creek Nurseries, a wholesale perennial grower in Landenberg, Pennsylvania. She holds a master’s degree of landscape architecture and regional planning from the Technical University of Munich, Germany. West is a sought after speaker on topics such as plant community based design and the application of natural color theories to planting design.