Chesapeake Gardening and Landscaping: The Essential Green Guide

by Barbara W. Ellis, Neil Soderstrom (Photographer)

Overview

What if, one step at a time, we could make our gardens and landscapes more eco-friendly? Barbara W. Ellis's colorful, comprehensive guide shows homeowners, gardeners, garden designers, and landscapers how to do just that for the large and beautiful Chesapeake Bay watershed region. This area includes Maryland, Virginia, Delaware, Washington, D.C., and part of West Virginia (translating to portions of USDA Zones 6, 7, and 8). Here, mid-Atlantic gardeners, from beginners to advanced, will find the essential tools for taking steps to make their gardens part of the solution through long-term planning and planting.

The guide is built from the ground up around six simple but powerful principles that anyone can use:

* Reduce lawn
* Build plant diversity
* Grow native plants
* Manage water runoff
* Welcome wildlife
* Garden wisely

Included are detailed instructions for assessing and designing your particular garden or landscape site; choosing and caring for trees, shrubs, vines, ground covers, and flowers; and succeeding with such conditions as shade or poor soil. From rain gardens to woodland gardens, meadow gardens to wildlife gardens, and much more, this indispensable guide features more than 300 color photographs.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781469620985
Publisher:	The University of North Carolina Press
Publication date:	03/30/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	328
File size:	29 MB
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About the Author

Former managing editor of gardening books at Rodale Press and publications director at the American Horticultural Society, Barbara W. Ellis is the author of Covering Ground: Unexpected Ideas for Landscaping with Colorful, Low-Maintenance Ground Covers, among other books.

What People are Saying About This

Mollie Ridout

An important, valuable, and timely resource for Chesapeake gardeners, and the only book of its kind for the region. The volume's structure and practical how-to nature will make it useful both to readers just starting their gardening endeavors and to experienced gardeners inspired to bring their landscapes into more conformity with their natural contexts.

Ann English

This book addresses an important topic for the 21st century: how better landcare practices in our gardens and landscapes at home can improve local watersheds as well as the overall health of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. The extensive plant lists and conversational tone make this a ready reference tool for the home gardener looking for direction on watershed-healthy garden practices. Using the plant lists and suggestions will help gardeners develop landscapes they can love and learn in while doing their part for the Bay.

From the Publisher

An important, valuable, and timely resource for Chesapeake gardeners, and the only book of its kind for the region. The volume's structure and practical how-to nature will make it useful both to readers just starting their gardening endeavors and to experienced gardeners inspired to bring their landscapes into more conformity with their natural contexts." —Mollie Ridout, Director of Horticulture, Historic Annapolis Foundation

This book addresses an important topic for the twenty-first century: how better landcare practices in our gardens and landscapes at home can improve local watersheds as well as the overall health of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. The extensive plant lists and conversational tone make this a ready reference tool for the home gardener looking for direction on watershed-healthy garden practices. Using the plant lists and suggestions will help gardeners develop landscapes they can love and learn in while doing their part for the Bay." —Ann English, RainScapes Program Manager, Department of Environmental Protection, Montgomery County, Maryland, and landscape architect

Editorial Reviews

Offers helpful advice on assessing, designing, planting, and maintaining earth friendly landscapes."—American Gardener

Both enjoyable reading and an invaluable reference. It lacks for nothing with elegant multiple entry points to satisfy a veteran or a novice gardener." — Association for Garden Communicators

From the Publisher