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Tapestry lawns :

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Tapestry lawns :

[Book]

freed from grass and full of flowers /

author: Lionel Smith.

Boca Raton, FL :

CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group,

2019.

1 online resource.

Includes bibliographical references.

"Lawn": a word that is strangling itself -- Tapestry lawns -- Aesthetic roles that plant species play in tapestry lawns -- Wildlife -- How to make one -- Maintenance -- Outcomes -- Tapestry lawn plants.

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Swathes of the human world are covered in ornamental grass lawns; they are the single most commonly encountered horticultural feature on the planet. Unfortunately, they are now often viewed as resource-draining green deserts due to the lack of plant and animal diversity, the need for frequent mowing and watering, and addition of lawn greening products to keep them looking at their best. It is a venerable horticultural feature that is essentially frozen in time, and with few alternatives to whet the appetite, the lawn has languished in its current grass-only format for decades. Until now. Tapestry lawns are a new, practically researched and timely development of the ornamental lawn format that integrates both horticultural practice and ecological science and re-determines the potential of a lawn. Mown barely a handful of times a year and with no need for fertilisers or scarifying, tapestry lawns are substantially richer in their diversity of plant and animal life compared to traditional grass-only lawns and see the return of flowers and colour to a format from which they are usually purposefully excluded. Tapestry Lawns: Freed from Grass and Full of Flowers traces the changes in the lawn format from its origins to the modern day and offers information on how and why the tapestry lawn construct is now achievable. It provides guidance on how to create and maintain a tapestry lawn of your own and champions the potential benefits for wildlife that can follow. Features Accessible and informative to all types of readers from academic to amateur Includes a refined and tested set of useful tapestry lawn plants Contains step-by-step instructions for creation and management methods of grass-free lawns Illustrated in full colour If you have ever thought about mowing your lawn much less, making it much more colourful and wildlife friendly, then this book will inform and guide you to create a perfect, grass-free lawn.

Taylor & Francis

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Tapestry lawns.

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Gardening.

Lawns.

Ornamental horticulture.

GARDENING / Essays

GARDENING / Reference

GARDENING / Vegetables

Gardening.

Lawns.

NATURE / Ecology

Ornamental horticulture.

SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Botany

SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Horticulture

TECHNOLOGY / Agriculture / General

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Smith, Lionel, (Lionel Stephen),1965-

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