Sustainable Landscaping For Dummies
Erschienen am 24. März 2009
384 Seiten
978-0-470-48058-8 (ISBN)
Beschreibung
Sustainable Landscaping For Dummies provides hands-on, how-to instruction for realizing the benefits of a sustainable landscape, from selecting sutainable hardscape materials to installing a rain-water catchment system to choosing native plants.
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Owen E. Dell is the owner of County Landscape and Design in Santa Barbara, California. He has nearly 40 years of experience designing and building beautiful, sustainable, and soul-satisfying residential and commercial landscapes.
Inhalt
Introduction.
Part I: Sustainable Landscaping: The Basics.
Chapter 1: Landscaping the Sustainable Way.
Chapter 2: Making Good Decisions about What to Include in YourLandscape.
Chapter 3: Deciding Whether to Do It Yourself or Call in thePros.
Part II: Good Design: The Key to SustainableLandscaping.
Chapter 4: Getting Better Acquainted with Your Property.
Chapter 5: Brushing Up on Design Basics.
Chapter 6: Plotting Your Sustainable Landscape.
Part III: Water, Water, Everywhere: Water-ConservingIrrigation and Drainage.
Chapter 7: Surveying Your Watering Options.
Chapter 8: The Nuts and Bolts of Water Harvesting, Irrigation,and Drainage.
Chapter 9: Managing Water: The Other Half of the IrrigationEquation.
Chapter 10: Maintaining Water-Harvesting and IrrigationSystems.
Part IV: Hardscaping Made Easy: Creating Awesome Featureswithout Wrecking the Environment.
Chapter 11: Preparing Your Site.
Chapter 12: Exploring Basic Hardscape Elements and OutdoorRooms.
Chapter 13: Spicing Up Your Hardscape with Other Fun andFunctional Elements.
Chapter 14: Sustainable Hardscape Construction.
Chapter 15: Hardscape Maintenance.
Part V: Great Greenery for a Green Garden.
Chapter 16: Planting the Seed: Sustainable Plant Basics.
Chapter 17: Introducing Benefi cial Trees and Shrubs to YourLandscape.
Chapter 18: Enhancing Your Landscape's Sustainability withSmaller Plants.
Chapter 19: Exploring Lower Impact Lawns and Sustainable LawnAlternatives.
Chapter 20: Examining the Essentials of Sustainable GardenCare.
Chapter 21: Pest and Disease Control the Sustainable Way.
Chapter 22: Opting for Organic Lawn Care.
Part VI: The Par t of Tens.
Chapter 23: Ten Projects That Pay You and the Environment BackBig Time.
Chapter 24: Ten Totally Nonsustainable Landscaping Mistakes andHow to Avoid Them.
Appendix: Planning for Special Situations.
Index.
