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Connecting to nature with native plants Landscaping with native
plants has encouraged gardeners from the Midwest and beyond to
embark on a profound scientific, ecological, and emotional
partnership with nature. Benjamin Vogt shares his expertise with
prairie plants in a richly photographed guide aimed at gardeners
and homeowners, making big ideas about design approachable and
actionable. Step-by-step blueprints point readers to plant
communities that not only support wildlife and please the eye but
that rethink traditional planting and maintenance. Additionally,
Vogt provides insider information on plant sourcing, garden tools,
and working with city ordinances. This book will be an invaluable
reference in sustainable garden design for those wanting both
beautiful and functional landscapes. Easy to use and illustrated
with over 150 color photos, Prairie Up is a practical guide to
artfully reviving diversity and wildness in our communities.
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Amnesty (Paperback)
Benjamin Vogt
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R659
R543
Discovery Miles 5 430
Save R116 (18%)
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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In a time of climate change and mass extinction, who we garden for
matters more than ever Our landscapes push aside wildlife and in
turn diminish our genetically-programmed love for wildness. How can
we get ourselves back into balance through gardens, to speak life's
language and learn from other species? Plenty of books tell home
gardeners and professional landscape designers how to garden
sustainably, what plants to use, and what resources to explore. Yet
few examine why our urban wildlife gardens matter, and not just for
ourselves, but for the larger human and animal communities. Author
Benjamin Vogt addresses why we need a new garden ethic, and why we
urgently need wildness in our daily lives - lives sequestered in
buildings surrounded by monocultures of lawn and concrete that
significantly harm our physical and mental health. He examines the
psychological issues around climate change and mass extinction as a
way to understand how we are short circuiting our response to
global crises, especially by not growing native plants in our
gardens. Simply put, environmentalism is not political, it's social
justice for all species marginalized today and for those facing
extinction tomorrow. By thinking deeply and honestly about our
built landscapes, we can create a compassionate activism that
connects us more profoundly to nature and to one another.
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Mutiny (Paperback)
Benjamin Vogt
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R665
R581
Discovery Miles 5 810
Save R84 (13%)
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Peeling off sheets of skin from a sunburned back. Visiting five
nurseries and spending $1,000 in an afternoon. Raising 200 monarch
butterflies. Hearing the wing beats of geese thirty feet overhead
at sunset. How one piece of mulch can make all the difference.
These are the stories of Benjamin Vogt's 1,500 foot native prairie
garden over the course of three years. After a small patio garden
at his last home teases him into avid tinkering, the blank canvas
of his new marriage and quarter acre lot prove to be a rich place
full of delight, anguish, and rapture in all four seasons. Full of
lyrical, humorous, and botanical short essays, SLEEP, CREEP, LEAP
will leave you inspired to sit a while with your plants, noticing
how the smallest events become the largest-and how the garden
brings us down to earth so that we can come home to our lives.
"Afterimage" moves from the southern to northern Plains and the
eastern Midwest, where the natural world calls out through deep
lakes and dark woods, and finally through transient moments framed
by gardens: a butterfly nectaring on a coneflower, planting
lavender with his future wife, or autumn leaves crashing against a
morning window. In a rich array of forms and evocative imagery, the
poems in "Afterimage" reach through prairie history until grass
becomes skin, and light becomes shadow.
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Nadine Gordimer
Paperback
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R398
R330
Discovery Miles 3 300
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