Design with Nature on Cape Cod and the Islands (Paperback)

Cape Cod and the islands of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket are special places known for their distinctive flora, including pine-oak forests, sandplain grasslands, and sand dunes peppered with bearberry shrubs. Unfortunately, this unique sense of place is under threat. In recent decades, contemporary landscape practices have come to depend on environmentally stressful fertilizers and irrigation systems, replacing this sensitive ecoregion's native flora with generic turfgrasses and popular commercial nursery trees and shrubs that could exist anywhere.Design with Nature on Cape Cod and the Islands seeks to reverse this damaging trend by offering landscape professionals, local officials, and homeowners a sustainable approach to landscape design based on the ecoregion's native plants and plant communities. Presenting detailed discussions of Cape Cod's natural history, Jack Ahern focuses on the principal plant communities that define its landscape character and that are well adapted to local soils and growing conditions, including climate change. The book also includes strategies for ecological planting design and a portfolio of ecologically designed landscapes from the region.

General

Imprint:	University of Massachusetts Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	April 2022
Authors:	Jack Ahern
Dimensions:	216 x 267mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	238
ISBN-13:	978-1-62534-633-9
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Architecture > Landscape art & architecture > General Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Applied ecology > General Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Conservation of the environment > General Promotions
LSN:	1-62534-633-6
Barcode:	9781625346339

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