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A Garden for Life: The Natural Approach to Designing, Planting, and Maintaining a North Temperate Garden (Paperback)

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The avid gardener will need no other resource than this book to plan and maintain a natural garden on the country farm or in the suburban backyard, a habitat congenial to the scarlet tanager, the monarch butterfly, and the toad.

Unique to this book is author Beresford-Kroeger's concept of bioplanning, in which the gardener views the site as a biological system and the activity of gardening as an ecological task. To assist in bioplanning a garden, the author provides both plans that are adaptable to different garden sizes and shapes, as well as planting instructions emphasizing organic care, ecofunction, and environmentally friendly means of pest control.

A Garden for Life challenges everyone to create an ecologically valuable garden for the joy of doing so, and for the salvation of our natural world.

Diana Beresford-Kroeger is the author of Arboretum America. She is a botanist, medical and agricultural researcher, lecturer, and self-defined "renegade scientist" in the fields of classical botany, medical biochemistry, organic chemistry, and nuclear chemistry. She lives in Ontario, Canada.

About the Author


Diana Beresford-Kroeger is the author of Arboretum America. She is a botanist, medical and agricultural researcher, lecturer, and self-defined "renegade scientist" in the fields of classical botany, medical biochemistry, organic chemistry, and nuclear chemistry. She lives in Ontario, Canada.

Praise For…


"A Garden for Life provides one answer to Silent Spring as it brings happiness onto the doorstep. . . ."
---Miriam Rothschild


"A Garden for Life provides one answer to Silent Spring as it brings happiness onto the doorstep. . . ."
---Miriam Rothschild

Product Details
ISBN: 9780472030125
ISBN-10: 0472030124
Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN REGIONAL
Publication Date: March 23rd, 2004
Pages: 264
Language: English