Designing Gardens for Beauty, Sanctuary and Wildlife

Resources and Literature – April 2019

By Betsy Washington - bwash99@verizon.net

LITERATURE ON DESIGNING WITH NATIVE PLANTS

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  • Bringing Nature Home: How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants. Douglas W. Tallamy.

  • Garden Revolution. Larry Weaner & Thomas Christopher 2016
    (One of the best books on Ecological Landscaping) …and anything written by Larry Weaner.

  • Planting in a Post Wild World. Thomas Rainer & Claudia West 2015.

  • Principles of Ecological Landscape Design. Travis Beck 2013.

  • The Living Landscape Designing for Beauty and Biodiversity in the Home Garden. Rick Darke and Doug Tallamy 2014.

  • Urban and Suburban Meadows. Catherine Zimmerman 2012.

DESIGN WEBSITES

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PLANT/SEED SOURCES:

Literature on REGIONAL GUIDES TO NATIVE PLANTS

  • Native Plants of the Northern Neck
    This has loads of useful information and should be your first “go to guide” for this area! It can be accessed online along with design plans and other useful brochures at: https://nnnps.squarespace.com/go-native-grow-native

  • Wildflowers and Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont. Timothy P. Spira 2011.

  • Wildflowers & Grasses of Virginia’s Coastal Plain. Helen Hamilton & Gustavus Hall 2013.

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REGIONAL PLANT WEBSITES

LITERATURE on POLLINATORS & WILDLIFE

  • Attracting Native Pollinators, Protecting North America’s Bees and Butterflies. The Xerces Society 2011.

  • Gardening for Butterflies, How You Can Attract and Protect Beautiful Beneficial Insects. The Xerces Society 2016.

  • Bees an Identification and Native Plant Forage Guide. Heather Holm 2017.

  • Pollinators of Native Plants: Attract, Observe, and Identify Pollinators and Beneficial Insects with Native
    Plants.     Heather Holm 2014.

  • The Audubon Society Guide to Attracting Birds. Stephen W. Kress. (2nd Ed.) 2006.

  • The Humane Gardener. Nancy Lawson 2017.

POLLINATOR WEBSITES

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