Are you interested in any of the following horticultural trends?
1) Enjoying a succession of beautiful lawnflowers blooming throughout
the entire growing season long. 2) Transforming lawns into botanically diverse conservation preserves for native and naturalized wildflowers.
3) Growingg lawnflower lawns to create habitat for the many beneficial insects that protect landscapes and garden plantings.
4) Celebrating family life through participation in backyard horticulture. 5) Eliminating the far reaching harms caused to humans and environment by lawn pesticides. 6) Owning an “ecological performance lawn”. If so, here is a book for you, your family, and your lawn:  Retailers interested in purchasing copies may do so by contacting ISBN-10: 1424177596 ISBN-13: 978-1424177592 The presence of lawnflowers in lawns is as ancient as the presence of lawns in human culture. The Lawnflowers story speaks of that cultural heritage. So does the Lawnflowers name list. Lawnflower names are clues through which we can contemplate our ancestors’ impressions of the botanical world in which they were immersed, the botanical world they integrated into their culture. The Lawnflowers story speaks of a healthy, wholesome lifestyle different from the lifestyles most of us live today. The lawnflowers’ names, so poetic, describing, and intriguing, yield glimpses of that lifestyle, a lifestyle which need not be bygone.
Lawnflowers, A Story describes a family and a neighborhood that manage their lawns, orchards, and gardens in an ancient natural way. It is the story of what happened when a new family moved to the neighborhood, naively attempting a new way of doing things.
Lawnflowers, A List of Names is a listing of nearly four hundred species of lawnflowers that may be used to grace lawns and enhance lawn ecology. Collectively, the growing requirements of this sampling of lawnflower species should accommodate many varying combinations soil type, soil moisture content, soil fertility, traffic, and shading and lighting conditions. This is a list to begin your lawn's renewal.
I have walked countless miles of sidewalks and roadsides. I have looked at countless acres of lawns. My favorite lawns are lawnflower lawns. Lawnflower lawns always invite my attention, capture my curiosity, and return them satiated, contented, and pleased. ************************************************************************************************** |