Gardening with a wild heart : restoring California's native landscapes at home / Judith Larner Lowry.

By: Lowry, Judith Larner, 1945-Material type: TextTextPublisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, [1999]Copyright date: 1999Description: 1 online resource (280 pages) : colored illustrationsContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780520933873Subject(s): Landscape gardening -- California | Native plant gardening -- California | Native plants for cultivation -- CaliforniaGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Gardening with a wild heart.LOC classification: SB439.24.C2 | L68 1999Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Part I Beginnings -- 1 Gardening at the Seam 3 -- Part II Tipping the Balance in a Native Direction -- 2 Planning Back-Yard Restoration Gardens 23 -- 3 Design Thoughts, Principles, and Guidelines 35 -- 4 In the Changeful Garden 55 -- 5 Examples of Back-Yard Restoration Gardens 65 -- Part III Doing the Real Work -- 6 Along the Flower Trail 77 -- 7 The Land Wore a Tufted Mantle: The Challenge of Our Native Bunchgrasses 104 -- 8 To See All the Colors, to Hear All the Songs: Problems of Exotic Pest Plants 123 -- 9 Wildland Seed Harvest 145 -- 10 Seed Propagation and Planting Techniques 153 -- Part IV Resources for the Back-Yard Restoration Gardener -- 11 Naturalists and Field Trips 171 -- 12 Tools and Tricks of the Trade 192 -- Part V Restoration and Community -- 13 In My Town 209.
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Second paper printing 2007.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-235) and index.

Part I Beginnings -- 1 Gardening at the Seam 3 -- Part II Tipping the Balance in a Native Direction -- 2 Planning Back-Yard Restoration Gardens 23 -- 3 Design Thoughts, Principles, and Guidelines 35 -- 4 In the Changeful Garden 55 -- 5 Examples of Back-Yard Restoration Gardens 65 -- Part III Doing the Real Work -- 6 Along the Flower Trail 77 -- 7 The Land Wore a Tufted Mantle: The Challenge of Our Native Bunchgrasses 104 -- 8 To See All the Colors, to Hear All the Songs: Problems of Exotic Pest Plants 123 -- 9 Wildland Seed Harvest 145 -- 10 Seed Propagation and Planting Techniques 153 -- Part IV Resources for the Back-Yard Restoration Gardener -- 11 Naturalists and Field Trips 171 -- 12 Tools and Tricks of the Trade 192 -- Part V Restoration and Community -- 13 In My Town 209.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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