Your Natural Garden

<b>As featured in <i>The New York Times</i> a valuable and artfully crafted guide to tending a naturalistic garden. </b> <p/>From plantsman Kelly Norris author of <i>New Naturalism</i> comes a <b>much-needed handbook to maintaining today's natural gardens</b>. Naturalistic plantings overflowing with biodiverse communities of plants are filling front and backyards around the globe with colorful blooms easy-care plants and wildlife habitat. But caring for a naturalistic garden is vastly different than caring for a traditional home landscape of carefully manicured plants separated by mulch and regularly primped and pruned. In Y<i>our Natural Garden</i> tending your garden properly means understanding its connection to the greater natural world and using <b>garden care methods that mimic nature instead of controlling it</b>. <p/>Page by page you're guided through all the seasons of a naturalistic garden's life and the tasks and to-dos that come with each of them. Including how to: <p/><ul><li>Encourage and establish complexity in a new garden</li><li>Promote growth and variation by letting your plants self propagate</li><li>Determine when and what to edit and when it's best to let chaos rein</li><li>Decide if and when weeding is necessary</li><li>Foster the insects and other animals that rely on your plants</li><li>Understand succession in the naturalistic garden and why it's important </li><li>Know when it's time to cut back your garden and how to do it right</li></ul><br><b>Verdant photographs</b> accompany the text throughout offering <b>examples of well-tended naturalistic plantings</b> and the tasks that are needed to properly care for them.