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Title

The landscaping ideas of jays : a natural history of the backyard restoration garden / Judith Larner Lowry.

Author

Lowry, Judith Larner, 1945-

Publication

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2007], ©2007.

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Description

xi, 280 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 24 cm

Alternative Title

Natural history of the backyard restoration garden

Subjects

• Restoration ecology > California
• Native plant gardening > California
• Backyard gardens > California

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-262) and index.

Contents

My dream neighborhoods -- Fall -- 1. Esperando la Lluvia : waiting for rain -- 2. Birdsong ripens berries, wind brings the seeds -- 3. The keynote bird : creating habitat through focus on a single species -- 4. I live in a quail yard : a garden designed with quail in mind -- 5. The keynote plant : rules of thumb for garden design -- 6. Sing willow -- 7. The landscaping ideas of jays -- 8. In praise of the unleaving : deciduous trees and shrubs for the California gardener -- Winter -- 9. Eating the rain -- 10. Eternal vigilance : featuring Bermuda buttercup -- 11. Rain-time reading -- 12. Supreme advocate for California's native plants : lester rowntree -- 13. Bright were her days : Edith Van Allen Murphey -- 14. An inordinate number of good things : Gerda Isenberg -- 15. Forest gardens : the lessons of Coarse Woody Debris -- Spring -- 16. The flower dance in modern times -- 17. The weed dance in modern times -- 18. Do you talk to plants? -- 19. Rock knows : features for the restoration garden -- 20. Where's the clover? : the real California cuisine -- Summer -- 21. Saying farewell to spring : growing site-specific clarkias -- 22. The preservation of small things -- 23. The pollinators of small things -- 24. Animal assistants -- 25. Celebrations from the native plant palette -- 26. Fog flower : four guidelines for backyard restoration gardeners -- 27. Scale is all : large shrubs and small trees -- The fifth season -- 28. The quiet time -- 29. The berry harvest -- 30. Paths and trails : making our way through the restoration garden -- 31. Everything's here : the late summer riches of the pond scum production area -- 32. Life is maintenance -- Coda : we are not the first.

ISBN

• 9780520241640 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0520241649 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780520249561 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0520249569 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2006036219

OCLC

• ocm76261661
• 76261661
• SCSB-5352522

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Columbia University Libraries