Author : F. Herbert Bormann
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 12,23 MB
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9780300086942
This new edition, which is being reissued in a more artistic format and with many additional illustrations, updates the original text and adds a chapter showing what progress has been made in the ecological management of landscapes over the past decade."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Jerry Baker
Publisher : Jerry Baker
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,39 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Lawns
ISBN : 9780922433612
"Learn how to grow perfectly green and gorgeous grass without toxic chemicals and expensive lawn care treatments using methods in this compendium of thousands of lawn care tips, tricks, and tonics. Say goodbye to weeds, disease, and bare spots with these simple yet effective homemade remedies for improving the lawn... Practical problem solvers include techniques that will keep grass alive during a drought, a treatment that is deadly to bugs but harmless to everything else, and a four season routine for growing the greenest grass year round while special features... provide additional information and answers."--from publisher description.
Author : Ted Steinberg
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 28,73 MB
Release : 2006-03-17
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 0393866998
“Ted Steinberg proves once again that he is a master storyteller as well as our foremost environmental historian.”—Mike Davis The rise of the perfect lawn represents one of the most profound transformations in the history of the American landscape. American Green, Ted Steinberg's witty exposé of this bizarre phenomenon, traces the history of the lawn from its explosion in the postwar suburban community of Levittown to the present love affair with turf colorants, leaf blowers, and riding mowers.
Author : Georges Teyssot
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 38,62 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781568981604
The site of political demonstrations, sporting events, and barbecues, and the object of loving, if not obsessive, care and attention, the lawn is also symbolically tied to our notions of community and civic responsibility, serving in the process as one of the foundations of democracy.
Author : Paul Robbins
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 49,68 MB
Release : 2007-06-15
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 1592135803
For some people, their lawn is a source of pride, and for others, caring for their lawn is a chore. Yet for an increasing number of people, turf care is a cause of ecological anxiety. In Lawn People, author Paul Robbins, asks, "How did the needs of the grass come to be my own?" In his goal to get a clearer picture of why people and grasses do what they do, Robbins interviews homeowners about their lawns, and uses national surveys, analysis from aerial photographs, and economic data to determine what people really feel about-and how they treat-their lawns. Lawn People places the lawn in its ecological, economic, and social context. Robbins considers the attention we pay our turfgrass-the chemicals we use to grow lawns, the hazards of turf care to our urban ecology, and its potential impact on water quality and household health. He also shows how the ecology of cities creates certain kinds of citizens, deftly contrasting man's control of the lawn with the lawn's control of man. Lawn People provides an intriguing examination of nature's influence on landscape management and on the ecosystem.
Author : John Greenlee
Publisher : Timber Press (OR)
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 34,40 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 0881928712
Offers guidance for designing, planting, and taking care of a meadow with information on plants, styles, and examples from all over the country.
Author : Pam Penick
Publisher : Ten Speed Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 27,53 MB
Release : 2013-02-12
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 1607743159
A colorful guide covering the basics of replacing a traditional lawn with a wide variety of easy-care, no-mow, drought-tolerant, money-saving options that will appeal to today's busy, eco-conscious homeowner. Americans pour 300 million gallons of gas and 1 billion hours every year into mowing their lawns, not to mention 70 million pounds of pesticides and $40 billion for lawn upkeep. No Wonder the anti-lawn movement is thriving, as today's eco-conscious consumers realize that their traditional lawns are water-hogging, chemical-ridden, maintenance-intensive burdens. Lawn Gone!, from award-winning gardening blogger Pam Penick, is the first basic introduction to low-water, easy-care lawn alternatives for beginning gardeners, written in a friendly style with an approachable package. It covers all the available time-saving options: alternative grasses, ground cover plants, artificial turf, hardscaping, mulch, and more. In addition, it includes step-by-step lawn-removal methods, strategies for dealing with neighbors and homeowner associations, and how to minimize your lawn if you're not ready to go all the way.
Author : Nick Christians
Publisher : Meredith Books
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 28,45 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9780696212703
A guide to lawn care provides tips, techniques, and advice for an attractive yard, covering such topics as mowing, weeding, fertilizing, and getting rid of pests.
Author : Gary Paulsen
Publisher : Yearling
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 27,65 MB
Release : 2009-03-24
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0553494651
One day I was 12 years old and broke. Then Grandma gave me Grandpa's old riding lawnmower. I set out to mow some lawns. More people wanted me to mow their lawns. And more and more. . . . One client was Arnold the stockbroker, who offered to teach me about "the beauty of capitalism. Supply and Demand. Diversify labor. Distribute the wealth." "Wealth?" I said. "It's groovy, man," said Arnold. If I'd known what was coming, I might have climbed on my mower and putted all the way home to hide in my room. But the lawn business grew and grew. So did my profits, which Arnold invested in many things. And one of them was Joey Pow the prizefighter. That's when my 12th summer got really interesting.
Author : Virginia Jenkins
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 16,94 MB
Release : 2015-05-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1588345165
Lawns now blanket thirty million acres of the United States, but until the late nineteenth century few Americans had any desire for a front lawn, much less access to seeds for growing one. In her comprehensive history of this uniquely American obsession, Virginia Scott Jenkins traces the origin of the front lawn aesthetic, the development of the lawn-care industry, its environmental impact, and modern as well as historic alternatives to lawn mania.
