By Saxon Holt, John Greenlee
ISBN-10: 1604691328
ISBN-13: 9781604691320
If there's one lesson each home-owner needs to examine, it's this: the conventional garden is a giant, time eating, synthetic-chemical sucking mistake. The time has come to seem for brand new how one can create pleasant, livable areas round our homes.
In the yank Meadow backyard, decorative grass specialist John Greenlee creates a brand new version for householders and gardeners. For Greenlee, a meadow isn't a random collection of messy, nameless grasses. particularly, it's a shimmering mini-ecosystem, within which domestically acceptable grasses mix with colourful perennials to shape a wealthy tapestry that's pleasant to all existence — with minimum enter of water, time, and different scarce assets. childrens and pets can play in whole security, and birds and butterflies flock there. A prairie kind planting is a spot you must be.
With a long time of expertise as a nurseryman and fashion designer, John Greenlee is the right advisor. He information all of the practicalities of web site practise, plant choice, and upkeep; quite helpful are his reasons of ways decorative grasses practice in numerous climates and parts. beautiful images by way of Saxon Holt visually illustrates the message with gorgeous examples of meadow gardens from around the country.
We've reached a degree the place we will be able to now not stick with prior practices unthinkingly, really whilst these practices are wasteful and destructive to the surroundings. It's time to do away with the old school garden and include a sane and fit destiny: the yankee meadow backyard.