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Summary: What a delightful writer!
Review: Ms. Stein's way with words drew me in immediately. While already interested in native gardening, she made me want to jump out of bed and start native grass seed right then and there. This book isn't in the least a dry textbook, but a story, and includes a large reference section in the back for seed and plant sources, etc.
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Summary: A Gardening Treasure
Review: Noah's Garden is a lovely, gentle book that all home gardeners should read. I thought our over grown garden was an eyesore until I read this book. We now not only leave the "weeds" that grow next to our creek, we also do not mow the big patch of clover in the middle of our lawn. This is for the butterflies and bumble bees. Thank you Sara for a wonderful book.
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Summary: A Gardening Treasure
Review: Noah's Garden is a lovely, gentle book that all home gardeners should read. I thought our over grown garden was an eyesore until I read this book. We now not only leave the "weeds" that grow next to our creek, we also do not mow the big patch of clover in the middle of our lawn. This is for the butterflies and bumble bees. Thank you Sara for a wonderful book.
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Summary: BEST BOOK EVER
Review: This book actually changed my WHOLE outlook and approach to gardening. I've never had a garden book change me like this. Its just so incredible. I ate up every chapter and couldn't put it down and when I was done I went out into the garden and got my hands dirty like never before. This author completely breaks through the mysteries of gardening and basically shows us how we need to simply plant with nature (i.e. planting native plants, planting them where they will thrive) versus fighting against nature. She also wakes you up to the horrible ways that we are poisoning the early in this fight against nature by using pesticides and not realizing thhe impact. Oh its just such an incredible book. It more subtle than I'm making it sound and its not preachy at all. It just woke me up in such a way that I can't express enough how incredible this book is. And by the way, by following the ideas expressed in the book we've got some fantastic gardens growing where birds and bees and butterflies all come to vist. Its a wildloife adventure right in our back yard. I've given this book as a gift to friends and relatives and they agreed with how incredible it is. Her second book is ok, not as good as this one but still good
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Summary: BEST BOOK EVER
Review: This book actually changed my WHOLE outlook and approach to gardening. I've never had a garden book change me like this. Its just so incredible. I ate up every chapter and couldn't put it down and when I was done I went out into the garden and got my hands dirty like never before. This author completely breaks through the mysteries of gardening and basically shows us how we need to simply plant with nature (i.e. planting native plants, planting them where they will thrive) versus fighting against nature. She also wakes you up to the horrible ways that we are poisoning the early in this fight against nature by using pesticides and not realizing thhe impact. Oh its just such an incredible book. It more subtle than I'm making it sound and its not preachy at all. It just woke me up in such a way that I can't express enough how incredible this book is. And by the way, by following the ideas expressed in the book we've got some fantastic gardens growing where birds and bees and butterflies all come to vist. Its a wildloife adventure right in our back yard. I've given this book as a gift to friends and relatives and they agreed with how incredible it is. Her second book is ok, not as good as this one but still good
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Summary: Noah's Garden: Restoring the Ecology of Our Own Backyards
Review: This book is absolutely wonderful, it should be required reading for every lawn fanatic out there. An ecological viewpoint presented in an easy to understand and engrossing style. I would recommend this book to everyone. I am giving copies of this book as presents and loaning my copy to friends. This would be the perfect book to donate to your local or school library.
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Summary: instructional on the interdependence of plants and animals
Review: This book is that it is the story of one woman and her husband's journey toward unlandscaping and restoring their property. It chronicles their process of doing it but at least as much as the journey toward gathering the information, an ongoing effort. That can be the most difficult thing. It's really interesting and instructive to hear about their journey. I read this book cover to cover in a few days. I found it truly rivoting. I read a lot of native plant related books and even research about plant allies and plant communities. I had even been planning to my shady backyard with more understory woodland plantings. So of course this book was right up my alley. But what really impressed me and inspired me most about this book is her non-technical yet very instructional discussions of the interdependence of plants and animals on each other throughout the year for food habitat and precreation. This illustrates well how utterly crucial it is to have plant communities be as full abd widespread as possible. I plan to buy this book for several clients and friends.
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Summary: Best of type, without a doubt.
Review: Very likely the best "how to" book I've read, Sara Stein's masterpiece is unquestionably the best introduction to natural planting and landscaping. The prose is a delight too. I look forward to reading her recent sequel.
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Summary: Eye-Opening Garden Writing
Review: We are so disconnected from the natural world, we can't see the damage we are (maybe) permanently doing to our own backyards and other common areas. Sara Stein examines our disconnected state, and proposes some ways to reconnect and salvage our place in the natural world. This book is a breath of hope- read it and restore your own Eden!
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