A Garden for Life: The Natural Approach to Designing, Planting, and Maintaining a North Temperate Garden

By Diana Beresford-Kroeger

The avid gardener will need no other resource than this book to plan and maintain a natural garden on the country farm or in the suburban backyard, a habitat congenial to the scarlet tanager, the monarch butterfly, and the toad.

Unique to this book is author Beresford-Kroeger's concept of bioplanning, in which the gardener views the site as a biological system and the activity of gardening as an ecological task. To assist in bioplanning a garden, the author provides both plans that are adaptable to different garden sizes and shapes, as well as planting instructions emphasizing organic care, ecofunction, and environmentally friendly means of pest control.

A Garden for Life challenges everyone to create an ecologically valuable garden for the joy of doing so, and for the salvation of our natural world.

Diana Beresford-Kroeger is the author of Arboretum America. She is a botanist, medical and agricultural researcher, lecturer, and self-defined "renegade scientist" in the fields of classical botany, medical biochemistry, organic chemistry, and nuclear chemistry. She lives in Ontario, Canada.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472030124
• ISBN13: 9780472030125
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: University of Michigan Regional
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.1" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

Bioplanning-A Northern Temperate Garden

Bioplanning is Diana Beresford-Kroeger name for gardening within nature. Using the characteristics of the Northern Temperate Bioregion and the ecological needs and values of all of her favorite plants, Beresford-Kroeger offers plans and reasoning for wonderful gardens. She also lists many invaluable ecologically friendly techniques and products (many made from common household products) to use for reducing common garden problems ie. using wood ash as a fungicide.This book is my new must have in gardening book.