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Planting in a Post-Wild World : Designing Plant Communities for Resilient Landscapes by Thomas Rainer and Claudia West (2015, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherTimber Press, Incorporated
ISBN-101604695536
ISBN-139781604695533
eBay Product ID (ePID)210408618
Product Key Features
Book TitlePlanting in a Post-Wild World : Designing Plant Communities for Resilient Landscapes
Number of Pages272 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicLife Sciences / Botany, Landscape, Environmental / General, Garden Design
Publication Year2015
IllustratorYes
GenreTechnology & Engineering, Architecture, Science, Gardening
AuthorThomas Rainer, Claudia West
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight39.4 Oz
Item Length10.9 in
Item Width9.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2015-019338
Dewey Edition23
Reviews "In Planting in a Post-Wild World , Rainer and West describe how to translate natural plant relationships and ecological patterns into aesthetically pleasing yet functional landscapes. With their advice we can change gardening from an adversarial relationship with nature to a collaborative one. Expertly researched, and rife with witty advice, this is the universal how-to guide to sustainable landscaping we have all been waiting for. A masterful accomplishment!", In Planting in a Post-Wild World , Rainer and West describe how to translate natural plant relationships and ecological patterns into aesthetically pleasing yet functional landscapes. With their advice we can change gardening from an adversarial relationship with nature to a collaborative one. Expertly researched, and rife with witty advice, this is the universal how-to guide to sustainable landscaping we have all been waiting for. A masterful accomplishment!, "In Planting in a Post-Wild World , Rainer and West describe how to translate natural plant relationships and ecological patterns into aesthetically pleasing yet functional landscapes. With their advice we can change gardening from an adversarial relationship with nature to a collaborative one. Expertly researched, and rife with witty advice, this is the universal how-to guide to sustainable landscaping we have all been waiting for. A masterful accomplishment!" --Doug Tallamy, author of Bringing Nature Home and The Living Landscape "A real-world guide for creating beautiful, ecologically connected landscapes. There is not a designer or property owner that would not benefit from their approach." --Larry Weaner, APLD, founder of New Directions in the American Landscape "A useful and thorough guide to ecologically oriented designers." -- Metropolis "This lavishly illustrated manifesto...applies broadly, to everything from water features to rooftops and vast acreages to urban backyards. Using detailed examples and simple graphics, Rainer and West make a convincing case for rethinking our relationship to plant design." -- Architectural Digest Online "A beautifully written and illustrated guide to how we should be designing our landscapes from now on out... Thank heavens someone has finally written this book." -- Root Simple " "Thomas Rainer and Claudia West''s new book offers strategies for more resilient, self-sustaining landscapes, especially welcome after our drought-plagued summer... The gardens in the book are compelling in a more naturalistic, wilder way than typical beds and borders... the advice on creating harmonious communities of plants suited to the conditions where you live transcend style." -- Pacific Northwest Magazine "[ Planting in a Post-Wild World ] inspires us to design plantings that function like naturally occurring plant communities. It also instructs how to manage them, not doing painstaking and often impractical garden maintenance, plant by plant, as in traditional horticulture." --Margaret Roach, A Way to Garden "A groundbreaking guide that lays out an alternative to traditional horticulture: designed plantings that function like naturally occurring plant communities. As practical as it is poetic, theirs is an optimistic call to action." -- Chicago Tribune "We have driven nature out of our cities - but this need not be a one-way ticket. Thomas Rainer and Claudia West, two leading voices in ecological landscape design, present an optimistic call-to-action dedicated to the idea of a new nature - a hybrid of the wild and the cultivated that can flourish in cities and suburbs. The authors speak with conviction and authority, and offer a practical blueprint for the future." -- The English Garden " "The book is a guide, an inspiration, and essential reading for anyone interested in sustainable design." -- Garden Design Online " Planting in a Post-Wild World is an important book. It has potential to change the way we make gardens and landscapes...This is a ''how-to'' book that leaves other ''how-to'' books in the dust; I found it hard to put down...It offers a clear, thought-provoking and pleasurable reading experience, and step-by-step advice to achieving a garden or landscape that may offer more than you ever thought possible." -- thinkinGardens "Few books have the power to inspire your design sense, ignite your plant passion, and resonate with your ecological moral compass. Planting in a Post-Wild World is such a book." -- Ecological Landscape Alliance " Going beyond explaining how to use plant communities as the basic building blocks of design, Rainer''s lyrical, passionate and persuasive writing could convince even the most skeptical that it''s the right thing to do." -- Gardens Illustrated , A real-world guide for creating beautiful, ecologically connected landscapes. There is not a designer or property owner that would not benefit from their approach.
Dewey Decimal712
SynopsisA richly illustrated and comprehensive guide to creating ecologically healthy landscapes that emulate nature from two of the leading names in landscape architecture., 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., "As practical as it is poetic. . . . an optimistic call to action." -- 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. Planting in a Post-Wild World by Thomas Rainer and Claudia West is an inspiring call to action dedicated to the idea of a new nature--a hybrid of both the wild and the cultivated--that can ourish in our cities and suburbs. This is both a post-wild manifesto and practical guide that describes how to incorporate and layer plants into plant communities to create an environment that is reective of natural systems and thrives within our built world.
LC Classification NumberSB472.45.R35 2015
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