Landscaping with Native Plants of Wisconsin

Landscaping with Native Plants of Wisconsin

Landscaping with Native Plants of Wisconsin

Landscaping with Native Plants of Wisconsin

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Overview

Aimed at beginners and veteran gardeners alike, this book is designed to help Wisconsin gardeners find, plant, and maintain the best native species for their specific sites, however modest or lavish. 

Gardening with native plants is an ever-more popular practice—and for good reason.  Naturally suited to a region’s climate and soil, native plants tend to thrive, and to reflect a true “fit” with the environment. 

The Native Plant Profiles section offers comprehensive descriptions of some 600 species of flowers and groundcovers, trees, shrubs, vines, evergreens, grasses, and ferns native to Wisconsin, as well as information on planting, maintenance, and landscape uses for each plant.

With advice on the process of designing a natural garden that fits each lifestyle and family, the book will guide readers to the level of native plant landscaping that is just right for them. 


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780760329696
Publisher: Harvard Common Press
Publication date: 04/15/2007
Edition description: First
Pages: 192
Sales rank: 689,297
Product dimensions: 8.62(w) x 11.12(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Lynn Steiner is one of the Upper Midwest's best-known garden writers and a frequent speaker at gardening and environmental events. She is the author and photographer of several books that advocate for the effective use of native plants in the typical home landscape. Landscaping with Native Plants of Minnesota, the first book designed to identify Minnesota's native plants and plant communities and to demonstrate how to use them effectively in a typical home landscape, was a finalist in the 2006 Minnesota Book Awards in the Science and Nature category.

Lynn is the author and photographer of several other books, including Rain Gardens: Sustainable Landscaping for a Beautiful Yard and a Healthy World, published in February 2012. Other titles include Landscaping with Native Plants of Wisconsin, published spring 2007, and Landscaping with Native Plants of Michigan, published in 2006 and named a Michigan Notable Book for 2007. She also helped develop, wrote, and provided photographs for The Complete Guide to Gardening series, ten regional gardening books published in 2012 by Cool Springs Press.

For fifteen years, Lynn was the editor of Northern Gardener magazine, the official publication of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society. Under her direction, Northern Gardener received several Overall Excellence awards from the Minnesota Magazine & Publication Association, and several individual contributors received Garden Writers Association Media awards. She now writes a column for the magazine titled "Northern Natives."

Lynn lives with her husband and two cats on a 115-year-old farmstead in northern Washington County, Minnesota, where she enjoys tending her gardens and watching the progress of her restored prairie, savannah, and oak woodland.

Table of Contents

Contents

PART ONE

Introduction

Landscaping with Native Plants of Wisconsin

 

Chapter 1

Understanding Native Plants

Classifying Native Plants

Benefits of Native Plants

Native Plants in the Landscape

Native Plant Conservation

Chapter 2

Wisconsin’s Natural Plant Life

Learning from the Natural World

Southern Grasslands

Prairies

Savannas

Prairie and Savanna in the Landscape

Southern Forests

Deciduous Forest in the Landscape

Northern Woodlands

Northern Mesic Forest

Boreal Forest

Pine Barrens

Northern Woodlands in the Landscape

Water and Shoreline Communities

Water in the Landscape

Chapter 3

Gardening with Native Plants

Hardiness Zones and Frost Dates

Soils and Soil Preparation

Composting Basics                  

Starting a New Garden

Planting

Mulching

Weed Control

Watering

Grooming

Pest Management

Chapter 4

Landscaping with Native Plants

Assessing Your Site

Choosing a Style

Placing Plants

Creating Mixed Borders

Shade Gardening

Attracting Butterflies

Creating a Hummingbird Habitat

Gardening Among Rocks

Water Gardens and Bog Gardens

Rainwater Gardens

Hardscapes and Accents

Using Non-native Plants

Turf Grasses and Groundcovers

Dealing with City Laws and Neighbors

PART TWO

 

Native Plant Profiles

Flowers and Groundcovers

Grasses and Sedges

Ferns

Evergreen Conifers

Deciduous Shrubs and Small Trees

Deciduous Trees

Vines

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

The Midwest Book Review, May 2007

“Beautifully illustrated … an essential instructional guide to successful native-plant gardening in Wisconsin … the definitive and strongly recommended reference for any Wisconsin gardener or landscaper wanting to utilize and incorporate Wisconsin native plants.”

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