Natural Landscaping

Daniels, Stevie
The Wild Lawn Handbook: Alternatives to the Traditional Front Lawn
SB439.D36 1995
Are you tired of mowing the lawn every week and putting chemicals on it to keep it looking great? Here's a sustainable alternative.

Darke, Rick
The American Woodland Garden: Capturing the Spirit of the Deciduous Forest
q SB439.6.D27 2002
Darke, a landscape designer retired from Longwood Gardens, advocates a new aesthetic of gardening: "tending a modest piece of ground that is a part of the larger forest." Though focusing on the eastern deciduous forest, his philosophical and horticultural observations from longtime study of a native woodland stream habitat should appeal to all ecologically-responsible gardeners.

Druse, Kenneth
The Natural Garden
q SB457.53.D78 1989
The smartest thing in gardens now is the Natural Garden -- a landscape planted in harmony with nature that appears spontaneous, unstructured, and intentionally innocent. Taking inspiration for the environment--even from potential problems such as rock outcrops, wild trees, or steep slopes--and using native plants, wildflowers, and hardy perennials, natural gardeners have created colorful gardens that require a minimum of attention.

Druse, Kenneth
The Natural Habitat Garden
q SB439 .D66 1994
This classic by expert gardener and photographer Ken Druse shows how to create a beautiful garden using native plants. Druse has other books on natural gardening such as The Natural Shade Garden and his Natural Garden Guides

Forster, R. Roy and Alex Downie
The Woodland Garden: Planting in Harmony with Nature
SB439.6.F67 2004x
Viewing gardens as playing a key role in preserving threatened species and sharing favorite plants suitable for North America, master gardeners at Canadian botanical gardens explain woodland garden design, and plant selection and care.

Johnson, Lorraine
Grow Wild!: Low-Maintenance, Sure-Success, Distinctive Gardening with Native Plants
SB439.26.N7 J64 1998
An overview of native plant gardening with information covering the entire U.S.

Kingsbury, Noël
Natural Gardening in Small Spaces
q SB439.K55 2003
Kingsbury, from England, promotes naturalistic planting design (biodiversity, site-appropriate plantings and wildlife-friendly design) by explaining how to create a kind of mini-nature reserve in a backyard or other small space in urban and semi-urban areas -- even rooftops.

Thompson, Peter
The Self-Sustaining Garden: The Guide to Matrix Planting
SB439.T56 2007
Peter Thompson is an Englishman and the English tend to garden more than mow lawns. Many of the books on "natural landscaping" come from England and when reading them, you should keep in mind that what is "native" there, is not native in Pennsylvania.

Wiley, Keith
On the Wild Side: Experiments in New Naturalism
SB439.W5445 2004
This is another book from Timber Press by another Englishman who has abandoned the manicured garden for a more natural landscape.