This new edition of a regional classic has been completely revised, updated, and expanded to include many more facets of the joys and challenges of gardening in the maritime Pacific Northwest. Included are new plant discoveries and information on container gardening, design trends, community education and stewardship, and shoreline habitats. The authors offer comprehensive details for using native plants to transform any garden into a low-maintenance, water-wise paradise that utilizes the beauty of native plants and creates habitats for wildlife.
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Enough information for anyone anywhere, not just on the coast, to make an informed start on a native plant garden. -- Cynthia Cushing, Western Living, November 2002
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This new edition of a regional classic has been completely revised, updated, and expanded to include many more facets of gardening in the maritime Pacific Northwest. The authors offer comprehensive details for using native plants to transform any garden into a low-maintenance, water-wise paradise that utilizes the beauty of native plants and creates habitats for wildlife.
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This review is from: Native Plants in the Coastal Garden: A Guide for Gardeners in the Pacific Northwest (Paperback)
This is a revised and updated version of a classic book about gardening with native plants in B.C and the Pacific Northwest. The writers, one with a strong belief in the role of native plants in ecological restoration, the other a botanist who spent 12 years as Assistant Curator in the Herbarium at the University of Victoria, have together produced the most useful book about the topic.Written with the gardener in mind (and a gardener who might not initially be knowledgeable about, or committed to, gardening with native plants) this book is both readable and packed with precisely focussed information. The book is in three parts. The first part, "Working with Native Plants" covers topics such as designing the garden, what to do about lawns, propagation and gardening for wildlife. I particularly liked the ideas for hedges - eliminating rows of pyramidal cedars and planting native deciduous shrubs. Even, dare I say it, a hedgerow of mixed native shrubs, which would make a more useful wildlife corridor. The second section, "Plants and their Habitats" picks up the theme of plant communities and their cultural requirements, describing in detail forest, shoreline, mountain habitats, etc., and native plants that would grow well there and be valuable to wildlife. The third section is a regional source guide, suggesting sources for plants, further information and education in both Canada and the US. Throughout the book each chapter has plants lists and a generous reading list. The writers, while offering a vast amount of information, are aware that many gardeners will want to move towards this kind of gardening gradually, and the book is full of suggestions for doing this. There are so many reasons for using native plants - for starters they maintain and restore our heritage of local plants and help sustain wildlife. But for those who wish their gardens to be avant garde the writers point out that native plant gardening is the leading edge of gardening today and that the focus is moving away from colour (bright beds of annuals) and towards more emphasis on form and texture. This book will help all Pacific Northwest gardeners have more trouble-free, ecologically responsible and leading edge gardens.
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This review is from: Native Plants in the Coastal Garden: A Guide for Gardeners in the Pacific Northwest (Paperback)
Looking for a real look at the 'Nature of Natural Gardening' in the NW-then this is your book. In a very readable format, you are taken from what naturally grows here and why-then into how to enhance and embellish the natural flora and fauna. Regional references for geographic areas are given, so you can find your area defined. A truly wonderful book for those of us who appreciate what nature has provided for us to begin with and how to succeed with appropriate "revisions" that will flourish in these climatic conditions.
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This review is from: Native Plants in the Coastal Garden: A Guide for Gardeners in the Pacific Northwest (Paperback)
This is a revised and updated version of a classic book about gardening with native plants in B.C and the Pacific Northwest. The writers, one with a strong belief in the role of native plants in ecological restoration, the other a botanist who spent 12 years as Assistant Curator in the Herbarium at the University of Victoria, have together produced the most useful book about the topic.Written with the gardener in mind (and a gardener who might not initially be knowledgeable about, or committed to, gardening with native plants) this book is both readable and packed with precisely focussed information. The book is in three parts. The first part, "Working with Native Plants" covers topics such as designing the garden, what to do about lawns, propagation and gardening for wildlife. I particularly liked the ideas for hedges - eliminating rows of pyramidal cedars and planting native deciduous shrubs. Even, dare I say it, a hedgerow of mixed native shrubs, which would make a more useful wildlife corridor. The second section, "Plants and their Habitats" picks up the theme of plant communities and their cultural requirements, describing in detail forest, shoreline, mountain habitats, etc., and native plants that would grow well there and be valuable to wildlife. The third section is a regional source guide, suggesting sources for plants, further information and education in both Canada and the US. Throughout the book each chapter has plants lists and a generous reading list. The writers, while offering a vast amount of information, are aware that many gardeners will want to move towards this kind of gardening gradually, and the book is full of suggestions for doing this. There are so many reasons for using native plants - for starters they maintain and restore our heritage of local plants and help sustain wildlife. But for those who wish their gardens to be avant garde the writers point out that native plant gardening is the leading edge of gardening today and that the focus is moving away from colour (bright beds of annuals) and towards more emphasis on form and texture. This book will help all Pacific Northwest gardeners have more trouble-free, ecologically responsible and leading edge gardens.
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It is reassuring to know that in order to embrace the concept of native plant gardening, there is no need to throw out all previous gardening knowledge-along with wheelbarrow-loads of garden exotics that have taken years to establish. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
wildlife habitat garden, native plant gardening, trailing snowberry, swamp lantern, native plant gardeners, rosy pussytoes, common harebell, coastal strawberry, coast penstemon, subalpine daisy, hairy manzanita, harvest lily, western buttercup, white fawn lily, woolly sunflower, common camas, oak ecosystems, stream violet, western trillium, hairy honeysuckle, shrubby penstemon, nodding onion, cold stratification, orange honeysuckle, warm stratification Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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It is reassuring to know that in order to embrace the concept of native plant gardening, there is no need to throw out all previous gardening knowledge-along with wheelbarrow-loads of garden exotics that have taken years to establish. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
wildlife habitat garden, native plant gardening, trailing snowberry, swamp lantern, native plant gardeners, rosy pussytoes, common harebell, coastal strawberry, coast penstemon, subalpine daisy, hairy manzanita, harvest lily, western buttercup, white fawn lily, woolly sunflower, common camas, oak ecosystems, stream violet, western trillium, hairy honeysuckle, shrubby penstemon, nodding onion, cold stratification, orange honeysuckle, warm stratification Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
British Columbia, Vancouver Island, New York, North America, United States, Timber Press, North Vancouver, Regional Source Guide, Houghton Mifflin, University of Washington Press, Lone Pine Publishing, Whitecap Books, Gertrude Jekyll, Noah's Garden, Olympic Peninsula, Site Plan, Queen Anne, Rodale Press, Sasquatch Books, Showy Jacob, Crazy About Gardening, Garden Habitats, San Francisco, Station Provincial Government New!
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- The Natural Habitat Garden by Ken Druse on page 33, page 40, and Back Matter
- The Book of Small by Emily Carr in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Garden Style: Decorating Ideas for Indoors & Out (Better Homes & Gardens) by Better Homes and Gardens on page 48, and page 110
- Plants of Coastal British Columbia Including Washington Oregon and Alaska by Jim Pojar on page 58, and page 130
- Gardening with Native Plants of the Pacific Northwest: Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged by Arthur R. Kruckeberg on page 63, and page 130
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- The New Twelve Month Gardener: A West Coast Guide by Elaine Stevens in Back Matter
- Garden City: Vancouver by Dannie McArthur on page 245
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