Chesapeake Gardening and Landscaping
The Essential Green Guide
By Barbara W. Ellis
Neil Soderstrom, Principal Photographer
328 pp., 7.625 x 8.75, 317 color plates., 20 figs, 49 sidebars, bibl., index
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Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4696-2097-8
Published: March 2015 -
E-book EPUB ISBN: 978-1-4696-2098-5
Published: March 2015 -
E-book PDF ISBN: 979-8-8908-4287-9
Published: March 2015
Buy this Book
- Hardcover $45.00
- E-Book $19.99
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.
Published in association with The Adkins Arboretum
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.
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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
"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
Multimedia & Links
Visit Ellis's blog, Eastern Shore Gardener.
See the Author's Calendar of Events on her website.