The Living Landscape: Designing for Beauty and Biodiversity in the Home Garden

Many gardeners today want a home landscape that nourishes and fosters wildlife. But they also want beauty, a space for the kids to play, privacy, and maybe even a vegetable patch. Sure, it’s a tall order, but The Living Landscape shows how to do it. By combining the insights of two outstanding authors, it offers a model that anyone can follow. Inspired by its examples, you’ll learn the strategies for making and maintaining a diverse, layered landscape—one that offers beauty on many levels, provides outdoor rooms and turf areas for children and pets, incorporates fragrance and edible plants, and provides cover, shelter, and sustenance for wildlife. Richly illustrated with superb photographs and informed by both a keen eye for design and an understanding of how healthy ecologies work, The Living Landscape will enable you to create a garden that is full of life and that fulfills both human needs and the needs of wildlife communities.

• Bringing Nature Home: How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants, Updated and Expanded
• Garden Revolution: How Our Landscapes Can Be a Source of Environmental Change
• Planting in a Post-Wild World: Designing Plant Communities for Resilient Landscapes
• Planting: A New Perspective
• The Humane Gardener: Nurturing a Backyard Habitat for Wildlife
• Essential Native Trees and Shrubs for the Eastern United States: The Guide to Creating a Sustainable Landscape
• A New Garden Ethic: Cultivating Defiant Compassion for an Uncertain Future
• Native Plants of the Northeast: A Guide for Gardening and Conservation
• Pollinators of Native Plants: Attract, Observe and Identify Pollinators and Beneficial Insects with Native Plants
• Bringing Nature Home: How Native Plants Sustain Wildlife in Our Gardens