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Planting Noah's garden

Name: Planting Noah's garden
Author: Sara Stein
ISBN: 9780395709603

by Sara Stein

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Sarah Stein's brilliant book Noah's Garden placed the author at the forefront of the new field of ecological gardening. Now, in Planting Noah's Garden, she tells the even more fascinating story of the many ways people in all parts of the country are redesigning their surroundings to welcome back the birds, butterflies, fireflies, and other creatures driven away by the sterility of the typical suburban landscape. In the second half of the book she offers specific information readers will find nowhere else: how to learn the common flora of your region; how to handle group wholesale orders; how to kill invasive plants; how to collect and plant wild seeds; how to start a tree island; how to plan a patio habitat - and much, much more. Planting Noah's Garden is both a call to action and a blueprint for a new gardening aesthetic.

Award-winning garden writer Sarah Stein (Noah's Garden: Restoring the Ecology of Our Own Backyards) advocates anew a responsible approach to gardening in Planting Noah's Garden: Further Adventures in Backyard Ecology. In Part One, she offers musings and tales of the ways in which people are changing their gardens and surrounding environs to encourage the return of birds, butterflies and other creatures lost to today's suburbs. Part Two delivers a practical blueprint for creating a "Noah's Garden" of one's own. Stein offers advice on how to plan a landscape; choose regional plantings; kill invasive plants (with properly applied glyphosate, an herbicide not toxic to fauna); gather and plant wild seeds; create wetlands, etc.

About the Author, Sara Stein

Sara Stein is the author of many books, including My Weeds, The Evolution Book, The Science Book, and, of course, Noah's Garden. She lives in Pound Ridge, New York.

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Library Journal

In Noah's Garden (LJ 4/1/93), Stein described how she rehabilitated her landscape in Westchester County, New York, by reintroducing native plants and other features designed to attract and support wildlife. This sequel relates her experiences in lecturing around the country and meeting other gardeners who are putting her recommendations into practice. She also expands upon the complexities of reestablishing native habitats. For example, it's not enough simply to let fields and woods go "wild" when they are already choked by invasive alien species such as the frightening "mile-a-minute" vine. The answer lies in researching plants native to the locale, replanting, and removing weeds. The results often run counter to traditional gardening tastes, e.g., poison ivy, a native plant that feeds wildlife, is good, while barberry, which invades woodlands, is bad. But this will surely become a bible for anyone interested in a rehabilitation project, as it provides a wealth of information. Recommended for all gardening collections.Beth Clewis Crim, Prince William P.L., Va.