Landscaping Revolution Book - Garden with Nature for Home & Outdoor

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In The Landscaping Revolution, award-winning gardening experts deliver a call to arms for gardeners searching for a better way to plant and maintain their gardens. The Wasowskis' landscaping approach for gardeners of any climate is environmentally friendly and promotes the use of native plants, natural alternatives to man-made chemicals, and easy-to-maintain landscape designs."What if your car needed a tune-up every month, an oil change every week, and the tires rebalanced every five hundred miles. You'd call it a lemon and get rid of it—fast! Now consider that your own traditional American landscape demands watering two or three times a week all summer, mowing at least once or twice a week, periodic pruning, lots of weeding, and ongoing applications of herbicides, pesticides, and artificial fertilizers. Face it, my friend, that landscape is a sun-ripened, grade-A, all-American lemon!"—from Chapter 1In The Landscaping Revolution, you will learn commonsense approaches to gardening that will make you wonder why you never looked at your yard this way before. Here you will Why the plants that are best adapted to a particular region are the ones that were there in the first place Grass and ground cover alternatives that conserve precious water supplies and reduce the time spent on lawn maintenance to as little as a few hours each year A wealth of hard-to-find information on native plants, shrubs, and trees, complete with profiles of the environments in which they thrive Andy Wasowski helps you remove your landscape from the artificial life-support system fertilizers—that demands your constant attention just to keep itgoing.