Planting in a Post-Wild World

Name: Planting in a Post-Wild World
Brand: Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand
SKU: 9781604695533
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Designing Plant Communities for Resilient Landscapes

By Claudia West and Thomas Rainer

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Planting in a Post-Wild World by Claudia West and Thomas Rainer reimagines traditional gardening, offering a fresh perspective on landscape design. It emphasizes creating resilient, beautiful gardens that mimic natural plant communities while considering sustainability and ecological balance. The book aims to guide readers in crafting lush, life-filled spaces, fostering harmony between nature and design.
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You might enjoy this book if you're passionate about sustainable gardening and creating landscapes that embrace natural ecosystems. This guide offers innovative approaches to plant design, focusing on the ecological benefits and promoting the beauty of wild-inspired gardens. Perfect for those interested in transforming spaces into thriving, low-maintenance habitats.

Planting in a Post-Wild World

A richly illustrated and comprehensive guide to creating ecologically healthy landscapes that emulate nature from two of the leading names in landscape architecture.

A richly illustrated and comprehensive guide to creating ecologically healthy landscapes that emulate nature from two of the leading names in landscape architecture.

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As practical as it is poetic... an optimistic call to action. Chicago Tribune

Over time, with industrialisation and urban sprawl, we have driven nature out of our neighbourhoods and cities. But we can invite it back by designing landscapes that look and function more like they do in the wild: robust, diverse, and visually harmonious.

Planting in a Post-Wild World by Thomas Rainer and Claudia West is an inspiring call to action dedicated to the idea of a new nature—a hybrid of both the wild and the cultivated—that can flourish in our cities and suburbs. This is both a post-wild manifesto and practical guide that describes how to incorporate and layer plants into plant communities to create an environment that is reflective of natural systems and thrives within our built world.

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Planting in a Post-Wild World receives high praise for its groundbreaking approach to sustainable landscaping, blending aesthetics with ecological functionality. Esteemed reviewers commend it as an essential guide that offers a practical and poetic blueprint for cultivating landscapes akin to natural plant communities. The book is heralded as a 'game-changer' and is highly recommended for its clear writing and inspiring vision for nature-integrated design.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781604695533

Publisher: Workman Publishing

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 07 October 2015

Country: United States

Imprint: Timber Press

Illustration: 313 color photos, 18 illos.

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 20.0mm

Width: 222.0mm

Height: 256.0mm

Weight: 1100g

Pages: 272

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Claudia West Home & Garden Non-Fiction Thomas Rainer

About the Author

Thomas Rainer is a registered landscape architect, teacher, and writer. He has designed landscapes for the U.S. Capitol grounds, the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial, and The New York Botanical Garden. His work has been featured in the the New York Times, Landscape Architecture Magazine, and Home + Design. He is a principal for the landscape architectural firm Rhodeside and Harwell, teaches planting design for the George Washington University, and writer at the award-winning site Grounded Design.Claudia West is the ecological sales manager at North Creek Nurseries, a wholesale perennial grower in Landenberg, Pennsylvania. She holds a master s degree of landscape architecture and regional planning from the Technical University of Munich, Germany. West is a sought after speaker on topics such as plant community based design and the application of natural color theories to planting design.