Landscaping With Wildflowers: An Environmental Approach to Gardening

By Jim Wilson and James W. Wilson

Book Overview

Gardeners concerned with their role as conservers of nature are increasingly interested in growing wild flowers and saving or re-creating natural landscapes. This illustrated book shows how gardeners in all parts of America introduce the most beautiful wild flowers into their gardens.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0395565200
• ISBN13: 9780395565209
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 2.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.1" x 9.9"

Customer Reviews

Landscaping with Wildflowers

This book discusses ways in which the home gardener can successfully cultivate natural gardens that are self-sustaining and environmentally-friendly using native plants. I purchased this book as a gift for a relative who built a Prairie-style home and then landscaped with a true prairie garden. She appreciated this book and told me it added significantly to the "prairie" section of her library. Inspired by sustainable gardening and her mid-western (U.S.) prairie home, she designed and executed a lovely, natural garden using this and many other books. Last time I visited her garden (last week), there were too many wild birds to count, from owls to wrens, and woodpeckers (4 kinds that I saw) to meadowlarks. The garden was lovely, even in spring thaw mode, and alive with activity.