Landscaping Ideas of Jays : A Natural History of the Backyard Restoration Garden / Judith Larner Lowry; ed. by Judith Larner Lowry.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lowry, Judith Larner, Author.

Contributor:

Lowry, Judith Larner, 1945- Editor.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (292 p.) : 20 color illustrations, 6 b/w photographs, 6 line illustrations

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2007]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Elegantly organized by season, this lyrical yet practical guide to backyard restoration gardening celebrates the beauty, the challenges, and the rewards of growing native plants at home. Judith Larner Lowry, winner of the prestigious John Burroughs award, here builds on themes from her best-selling Gardening with a Wild Heart, which introduced restoration gardening as a new way of thinking about land and people. Drawing on her experiences in her own garden, Lowry offers guidance on how to plan a garden with birds, plants, and insects in mind; how to shape it with trees and shrubs, paths and trails, ponds, and other features; and how to cultivate, maintain, and harvest seeds and food from a diverse array of native annuals and perennials. Working in passionate collaboration with the scrub jays, quail, ants, and deer who visit her garden, and inspired by other gardeners, including some of the women pioneers of native plant horticulture, Lowry shares the delights of creating site-specific, ever-changing gardens that can help us better understand our place in the natural world.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Preface

My Dream Neighborhoods

FALL

1. Esperando la Lluvia: Waiting for Rain

2. Birdsong Ripens Berries, Wind Brings the Seeds

3. The Keynote Bird: Creating Habitat through Focus on a Single Species

4. I Live in a Quail Yard: A Garden Designed with Quail in Mind

5. The Keynote Plant: Rules of Thumb for Garden Design

6. Sing Willow

7. The Landscaping Ideas of Jays

8. In Praise of the Unleaving: Deciduous Trees and Shrubs for the California Gardener

WINTER

9. Eating the Rain

10. Eternal Vigilance: Featuring Bermuda Buttercup

11. Rain-time Reading

12. Supreme Advocate for Californias Native Plants: Lester Rowntree

13. Bright Were Her Days: Edith Van Allen Murphey

14. An Inordinate Number of Good Things: Gerda Isenberg

15. Forest Gardens: The Lessons of Coarse Woody Debris

SPRING

16. The Flower Dance in Modern Times

17. The Weed Dance in Modern Times

18. Do You Talk to Plants?

19. Rock Knows: Features for the Restoration Garden

20. Wheres the Clover? The Real California Cuisine

SUMMER

21. Saying Farewell to Spring: Growing Site-Specific Clarkias

22. The Preservation of Small Things

23. The Pollinators of Small Things

24. Animal Assistants

25. Celebrations from the Native Plant Palette

26. Fog Flower: Four Guidelines for Backyard Restoration Gardeners

27. Scale Is All: Large Shrubs and Small Trees

THE FIFTH SEASON

28. The Quiet Time

29. The Berry Harvest

30. Paths and Trails: Making Our Way through the Restoration Garden

31. Everythings Here: The Late Summer Riches of the Pond Scum Production Area

32. Life Is Maintenance

Coda: We Are Not the First

Acknowledgments

Notes

Recommended Reading

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Nov 2023)

ISBN:

9780520940178

0520940172

OCLC:

1408682359