Description
| Product ID: | 9780760378151 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | CN |
| Title: | Groundcover Revolution |
| Subtitle: | How to use sustainable, low-maintenance, low-water groundcovers to replace your turf - 40 alternative choices for: - No Mowing. - No fertilizing. - No pesticides. - No problem! |
| Authors: | Author: Kathy Jentz |
| Page Count: | 184 |
| Subjects: | Gardening: flowers and ornamental plants, Gardening: flowers, Landscape gardening, Natural and wild gardening, Landscape gardening, Natural & wild gardening |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Groundcover Revolution features 40 eco-friendly alternatives to a turfgrass lawn so you can stop mowing, watering, and fertilizing while enhancing biodiversity and creating a beautiful landscape. Tired of spending your weekends mowing, trimming, and edging? Then it’s time to say goodbye to your standard grass lawn and join the Groundcover Revolution! Turns out you’re not alone in your desire to ditch the lawn and replace it with something prettier, more diverse, lower maintenance, welcoming to pollinators, and good for Earth’s climate health. Reducing the lawn is among the biggest trends in homeownership, with an endless stream of homeowners looking for an eco-friendly alternative to a traditional turfgrass lawn. In the last few years alone, over 23 million American adults converted part of their lawn to a natural landscape, and now they’re looking to do even more. The biggest challenge to adopting this new ideal of the perfect lawn? Knowing how and when to replace your turf, and which plants are the best ones for the job. Groundcover Revolution is here with all the answers you need (and some you didn’t even know you needed!). Those answers include:
Also included are 40 in-depth profiles of plants that are perfect choices for replacing a grass lawn. There are options for sun, for shade, for dry and wet sites, and for various climates around the globe. There are choices that bloom, options that are evergreen, and selections that are deer resistant. Author Kathy Jentz has also included an incredibly useful chart that gives youall the specifics on each of the 40 choices for quick reference and to make your groundcover selection process even easier. Don’t let a lack of information stop you from creating the no-mow groundcover lawn of your dreams. Join the revolution and say goodbye to the burden of lawn care and hello to summer weekends relaxing by the pool or camping with family and friends. Whether you want to replace the entire lawn or just reduce the amount of land dedicated to turf, it’s time to usher in a new and improved idea of what a beautiful lawn should be. |
| Imprint Name: | Cool Springs Press |
| Publisher Name: | Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-02-23 |
