Design with Nature on Cape Cod and the Islands seeks to reverse this damaging trend by offering landscape professionals, local officials, and homeowners a sustainable approach to landscape design based on the ecoregion's native plants and plant communities. Presenting detailed discussions of Cape Cod's natural history, Jack Ahern focuses on the principal plant communities that define its landscape character and that are well adapted to local soils and growing conditions, including climate change. The book also includes strategies for ecological planting design and a portfolio of photographs of active ecologically designed landscapes.
- 198 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
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Design with Nature on Cape Cod and the Islands
About this book
Cape Cod and the islands of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket are special places known for their distinctive flora, including pine-oak forests, sandplain grasslands, and sand dunes peppered with bearberry shrubs. Unfortunately, this unique sense of place is under threat. In recent decades, contemporary landscape practices have come to depend on environmentally stressful fertilizers and irrigation systems, replacing this sensitive ecoregion's native flora with generic turfgrasses and popular commercial nursery trees and shrubs that could exist anywhere.
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Architecture GeneralTable of contents
- Cover
- Front Matter
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Front Photograph 1
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Front Photograph 2
- 1. An Ecological Approach to Landscape Design for Cape Cod and the Islands
- 2. Historical Context of Cape Cod and the Islands
- 3. Plant Communities of Cape Cod and the Islands
- 4. Ecological Landscape Design: Guiding Principles, Methods, and Tools
- 5. Portfolio of Ecologically Designed Landscapes on the Cape and Islands
- 6. Challenges, Benefits, and Rewards
- Back Photograph 1
- Back Photograph 2
- References and Resources
- Index
- Back Cover
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