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Design with nature on Cape Cod and the islands

Title
Design with nature on Cape Cod and the islands / Jack Ahern.
Author
Ahern, Jack (John F.)
Publication
Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2022]

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Description
180 pages : color illustrations, maps; 22 x 27 cm
Summary
"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. 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"--
Subject
  • Ecological landscape design > Cape Cod
  • Ecological landscape design > Nantucket Island
  • Ecological landscape design > Martha's Vineyard
  • Ecological landscape design
  • Massachusetts > Cape Cod
  • Massachusetts > Martha's Vineyard
  • Massachusetts > Nantucket Island
Genre/Form
Handbooks and manuals.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Additional Formats (note)
  • Also available online.
Call Number
SB472.45
ISBN
  • 9781625346339
  • 1625346336
  • 9781613769089 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
  • 2021054321
  • 40031093314
OCLC
  • on1285121262
  • 1285121262
  • SCSB-14252467
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries