Gardening with a Wild Heart: Restoring California's Native Landscapes at Home
About the Author:\ Judith Larner Lowry has been the proprietor of Larner Seeds in Marin County, California
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"Judith Lowry is among the most graceful of the new matchmakers who are arranging marriages between ourselves and the unique landscapes around us. Lowry gently guides us home by teaching us how to learn from the plants that grow wild outside our doorways. If native plant gardening is the way you'd like to spend your courtship of place, this book illuminates better than any I've seen the delights and surprises of such a path."—Freeman House, author of Totem Salmon"Gardening with a Wild Heart has earned my highest recommendation. Judith Larner Lowry provides an insightful, inspirational, and timely account of the need to understand and foster our ecological heritage through the lens of one's own garden. Ideas and concepts important to the home restoration gardener are presented and discussed in a thought-provoking and enjoyable manner. The author's practical methods and down-to-earth observations are used to both illuminate and clarify many of the themes of this compelling book."—Bart O'Brien, Director of Horticulture, Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, Claremont, California"This book is destined to become a classic for the gardener's shelf both for its inspired and enlightened language, and its acute observation and practical information. Judith Lowry introduces us to the plants of her restoration garden, with their names and descriptions of their uniqueness. She gives us a heavenly view of California wildflower fields and describes the special beauty of seeds and the delicate taste of native plants. This is a living book, aware of the dignity of the plants themselves, with a love of place and value of what it is to be 'home'."—Joanne Kyger, author of Just Space
PrefaceAcknowledgments1Gardening at the Seam32Planning Back-Yard Restoration Gardens233Design Thoughts, Principles, and Guidelines354In the Changeful Garden555Examples of Back-Yard Restoration Gardens656Along the Flower Trail777The Land Wore a Tufted Mantle: The Challenge of Our Native Bunchgrasses1048To See All the Colors, to Hear All the Songs: Problems of Exotic Pest Plants1239Wildland Seed Harvest14510Seed Propagation and Planting Techniques15311Naturalists and Field Trips17112Tools and Tricks of the Trade19213In My Town209Resources219Notes223Recommended Reading231Index237
