The 60-minute video is formatted to play in it s entirety or the viewer can click on individual chapters with meadow experts Michael Nadeau, Larry Weaner and Neil Diboll, who walk the viewer through meadow. Urban and Suburban Meadows Companion DVD, by Catherine Zimmerman With Doug Tallamy,the DVD version of Urban & Suburban Meadows, Bringing Meadowscaping to Big and Small Spaces brings into focus the amazing diversity of life inhabiting meadows and prairies and the beautiful imagery inspires meadow and prairie creation! With over 48 million acres of lawn in the U.S., this video, directed by author and photographer Catherine Zimmerman, is aimed at helping people just say NO to thirsty, pesticide ridden, energy consuming lawns. Meadows can be big or small, short or tall. The book provides plant lists and resource sections for nine regions across the United States along with local sources to assist the meadow creator in bringing diversity back to urban and suburban landscapes. Four experts in meadow establishment lend their knowledge for site preparation, design, native plants, planting and maintenance. Zimmerman crafts a guide that provides step-by-step instructions on organically creating and maintaining beautiful meadow gardens. Urban and Suburban Meadows: Bringing Meadowscaping to Big and Small Spaces, by Catherine Zimmerman Author and photographer, Catherine Zimmerman, combines her expertise in photography, storytelling, environmental issues, horticulture and organic practices to offer meadowscaping as an alternative to reduce monoculture lawns. To help alleviate this problem, Energy-Wise Landscape Design presents hundreds of practical ways everyone can save money, time, and effort while making their landscapes more environmentally healthy, ecologically rich, and energy efficient. Residential consumption represents nearly one quarter of North America’s total energy use and the average homeowner spends thousands of dollars a year on power bills. If you are looking for low-cost, beautiful and earth-friendly ways to “green” those landscapes and outdoor spaces and supply an adequate habitat for a whole variety of declining species, including birds, native pollinators, honey bees, amphibians and turtles, this book will be invaluable.Įnergy-Wise Landscape Design, by Sue Reed
The Green Garden: A New England Guide to Planting and Maintaining the Eco-Friendly Habitat Garden, by Ellen Sousa.ĭesigned and written in a practical no nonsense comprehensive style The Green Garden is an inspirational guidebook.
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