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Planting Noah's Garden: Further Adventures in Backyard Ecology Hardcover – January 1, 1997

by Sara Bonnett Stein (Author)

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The ecology-minded author of Noah's Garden offers a guide to transforming suburban backyards into attractive gardens using the area's common native flora, along with advice on killing weeds, collecting wild seeds, and much more.

Print length

464 pages
Language

English
Publisher

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Publication date

January 1, 1997
Dimensions

7.5 x 1.25 x 9.5 inches
ISBN-10

0395709601
ISBN-13

978-0395709603
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In Noah's Garden, published in 1994, gardener and writer Sara Stein addressed the business of making a messy backyard--of restoring a naturally chaotic and dynamic "floral-faunal-microbial system" in the place of neatly tended, carefully selected and weeded, and ultimately artificial gardens. Just as charmingly written as its predecessor, Planting Noah's Garden furthers Stein's campaign to make lawns animated, full of disorder, life, and wildness. Studded with ringing tributes to alumroot, trillium, goldenrod, bellworts, and mayflowers, this is a lovely gardener's manifesto. Packed with practical instructions for planning and maintaining a garden of one's own, it's also wonderful entertainment for anyone with a green thumb.

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In Noah's Garden (LJ 4/1/93), Stein described how she rehabilitated her landscape in Westchester County, New York, by reintroducing native plants and other features designed to attract and support wildlife. This sequel relates her experiences in lecturing around the country and meeting other gardeners who are putting her recommendations into practice. She also expands upon the complexities of reestablishing native habitats. For example, it's not enough simply to let fields and woods go "wild" when they are already choked by invasive alien species such as the frightening "mile-a-minute" vine. The answer lies in researching plants native to the locale, replanting, and removing weeds. The results often run counter to traditional gardening tastes, e.g., poison ivy, a native plant that feeds wildlife, is good, while barberry, which invades woodlands, is bad. But this will surely become a bible for anyone interested in a rehabilitation project, as it provides a wealth of information. Recommended for all gardening collections.?Beth Clewis Crim, Prince William P.L., Va.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product details

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; First Edition, First Printing (January 1, 1997)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 464 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0395709601
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0395709603
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.25 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 1.25 x 9.5 inches

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Heather Folsom

Great Book

Reviewed in the United States on October 4, 2023

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Great book with practical information. I love how she describes a natural yard the way God intended. It really makes you look at yards completely different! I found this book learning about food forests and this one certainly makes you appreciate what that is.

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DNP

Thought-provoking...worth every penny

Reviewed in the United States on August 9, 2001

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I bought this book because I have two children and one of the other reviewers spoke about how the author views children as part of the "mega fauna" of a landscape and gives her suggestions on how to make an interesting outdoor "habitat" for them, so to speak. In addition, I've always tried to take an ecologically sound approach to landscaping in my yard by gardening organically.
Truth to tell, I never really thought about whether or not it's ecologically sound to plant mostly exotic plants in my yard versus native ones. I congratulated myself that I let a meadow emerge in my back yard when I moved in. I never gave much thought to exactly what was growing in it. I've always believed that it is just plain wrong to collect plants from the wild...but are there times when it is not only justified but perhaps actually beneficial? If so, when?
In any case, the book definitely stretched my perceptions and gave me a whole lot to think about in terms of my own typical, "newly developed" suburban lot. I felt like the chapter about the author's niece, also about such a suburban lot, could have been about my own.
I recommend this book to anyone interested in gardening or ecology...and even those not currently interested could probably benefit! Worth every penny I paid...not just an enjoyable read, but a very informative one.

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BHilton

Well-written and documented narrative on gardening for sustainability

Reviewed in the United States on May 7, 2019

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One of the first, and still one of the best books about ecological gardening

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katydid

Wish I'd read Noah's Garden first

Reviewed in the United States on March 28, 2011

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At a native gardening workshop I attended recently, the presenter said that she loved Noah's Garden, but that this book - Planting Noah's Garden - was an even better book. I hadn't read either, and so I decided to go with the one that she said was best. It's a bit hard to fully understand the context without having read the first book. However, I like Sara's practical approach to gardening, and the way she questions some advice from traditional landscapers, instead looking at how plants grow in the wild, and using that as her guide.

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Howard K. Pfeferman

I'm a gardener I now allow a lot of volunters ...

Reviewed in the United States on October 19, 2015

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I'm a gardener I now allow a lot of volunters to grow in my yard where I haven't been able to get things to grow without a lot of soil amendment and expense.

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Christine B. .

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on January 7, 2017

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Very entertaining and a lot of great information on going native in the garden.