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Evelyn Hadden
National speaker and award-winning author of _Beautiful No-Mow Yards_ and _Hellstrip Gardening_
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Spring 2014 CALENDAR OF EVENTS
Thinking about shrinking your lawn or making it more environmentally friendly this year? We are here to help! Here's a quick run-down of what our Coalition members are up to this Spring. February 20 at 6:30 pm: "Saving Water in the Landscape" (Susan Morrison) - Contra Costa Master Gardeners, Lafayette... Continue reading
Posted Feb 16, 2014 at Lawn Reform Coalition
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Commonweeder, the Conway School sounds like a great resource! I am glad to know about it.
Lawn Alternatives for the Front Yard: Three Helpful NEW Books
by Evelyn Hadden I remember how thrilled I was back in 2003 to find Liz Primeau's excellent book, Front Yard Gardens: Growing More Than Grass. How unusual to see a design book focusing on the topic of lawnless (or less lawn) landscapes right out front in the public view. It even showcased a n...
Lawn Alternatives for the Front Yard: Three Helpful NEW Books
Posted Mar 10, 2013 at Lawn Reform Coalition
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Thanks for the overview! Love the pressed flower art, and I'm all for more gabion too... pillars, pots, rock walls, whatever. Nice for a DIY person because you can carry a small load of rocks at a time but end up with a large, sturdy rock feature.
Philadelphia Flower Show goes Hawaiian
The largest and oldest flower show in the U.S., the Philly Flower Show is a always grand, but especially this year (to this visitor) because it brought the lushness of Hawaii to green-deprived Easterners. Starting with this 30-foot waterfall festooned with orchids and Anthuriums. Below, don't...
One of my local garden centers stocks a decent supply of books in a cozy little reading nook that I browse whenever I shop there. I enjoy supporting them by buying both books and plants from them.
When traveling, I like to visit garden centers and if they have an enticing region-specific gardening book (or 2!), I will often buy it as a special treat for myself.
It's great to run across a garden center (or public garden, for that matter) with a local flavor, stocking regionally adapted plants and books as well as local art, music, even food. I'm rooting for more.
Home Depot to Stop Selling Books, and My Advice to Publishers
This just in from Publishers Weekly: Home Depot has announced they will no longer sell books. It may be that you never bought a book at Home Depot. Last time I looked, they sold an array of how-to books on home improvement and gardening, some of which were fairly humdrum (Ortho books, that ...
Susan, so many different looks and styles in your photos! You really reinforce the book's point that there are a lot of options for those who don't want a traditional turfgrass-dominated yard.
Cheryl, if it fits your climate zone, what about a low mint like pennyroyal (Mentha Pulegium) for a scented path? Or if that's too much of a spreader for you, Mazus reptans is flat with fresh green foliage. I think both would do well in moist part shade and handle some foot (and cart) traffic.
An Anti-Valentine to the Lawn
For Valentine's Day, Timber Books has invited some bloggers to write anti-valentines to lawns, to help spread the word about Beautiful No-Mow Yards. (Click here to see the anti-Valentines of my blogging buddies.) I'll start with a photo that shows lawn at its most perfect and ridiculous. Next...
Landscapes That Love Us Back
Posted Feb 13, 2012 at Lawn Reform Coalition
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For Sally and others who may have tried to order through Amazon: their glitch is now fixed, pre-ordering works. Hope you will enjoy the book!
Beautiful No-Mow Yards is just what American gardeners need. And you can win it right here
In the last year or so, we're hearing that there are better uses for our land than turfgrass, that unless it's needed for sport or play, you can save on resources and probably your labor, too, by switching to an array of alternatives - meadows, vegetable gardens, native grasse, and so on. All ...
Just a quick update that the Amazon glitch is now gone... pre-ordering the book is allowed once again. And Marte, your garden is lovely and I'm proud to share your great idea of mini-monocultures in the book!
Beautiful No-Mow Yards - we have a winner!
Our winner, chosen at random, is Kris Peterson in Rancho Palos Verdes, California. Congrats to her and thanks to all the 157 people who entered to win. The book will be available in early February but can be ordered now from Timber Press, from any online bookseller or your local bookstore, i...
Has anyone here tried a chicken moat? Similar to Michelle's idea, only there are two fences making a wide, arbor-covered chicken run around the vegie garden. I first read of it and saw a cool diagram in some permaculture book, and after a frantic search I cannot find out which book, but here's a link to an article about them (with a diagram) in Mother Earth News: http://www.motherearthnews.com/Sustainable-Farming/1988-05-01/Garden-Pest-Control.aspx
My Chicken Gardening Dilemma
Please excuse the dismal condition of my backyard. It is winter, after all, In a few months, the perennials will be in flower and the whole thing will be quite cheerful. But here's my problem--and if you've got an idea, you might win a book, so read on: I've been growing very little in the ...
Sally, thanks for asking!
The book is going to publish in a couple of weeks, but you can pre-order it now from any online bookseller or from your local bookstore. (The Amazon page currently has a glitch, but I've notified them and it should be fixed in a couple days at most.)
You can also support Timber Press by ordering it directly from them at this page: http://www.timberpress.com/books/beautiful_no_mow_yards/hadden/9781604692389
Beautiful No-Mow Yards is just what American gardeners need. And you can win it right here
In the last year or so, we're hearing that there are better uses for our land than turfgrass, that unless it's needed for sport or play, you can save on resources and probably your labor, too, by switching to an array of alternatives - meadows, vegetable gardens, native grasse, and so on. All ...
Hi, everyone, and thank you for your enthusiastic response to Beautiful No-Mow Yards! To answer a few of your questions about what it covers :
There’s a chapter on design inspiration for each of the following: shade gardens, living carpets, prairie and meadow gardens, patios, rain gardens, play areas, ponds, xeric gardens, stroll gardens, edible gardens, and smarter lawns. Part two of the book discusses how to get there: how to convert your lawn to a garden, elements of an eco-friendly garden, maintenance, and even making your lawn more eco-friendly. Part three presents 100 choice ground-layer plants, categorized by their general behavior to help you site and combine them successfully.
Not all the plants, designs, or strategies presented will work for everyone in the country, but I aimed to include enough information and discussion to help you make educated choices about what might work best for your site and your style of gardening.
And yes, I’m all about making it fun and not scary!
Beautiful No-Mow Yards is just what American gardeners need. And you can win it right here
In the last year or so, we're hearing that there are better uses for our land than turfgrass, that unless it's needed for sport or play, you can save on resources and probably your labor, too, by switching to an array of alternatives - meadows, vegetable gardens, native grasse, and so on. All ...
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Cutting Back on Lawn Chemicals
Five strategies for cutting back on your use of lawn and garden chemicals. Continue reading
Posted Nov 17, 2011 at Lawn Reform Coalition
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Jennifer, like our city boulevards, those areas with easements do require something low-cost and easily replenishable (is that a word?) after "they" do their maintenance. An extra design challenge, to be sure.
Daricia, I want to see those "unintentional ditch gardens" -- now that's exciting!
Mamaholt, thanks for sharing those photos of your garden's transformation. I'm thinking you all get very little rain (especially this year...) and that's why you have no problems with erosion of the mulch? Also does it smell as yummy as I am imagining it does? (Though I confess I see it as a perfect blank slate and wouldn't be able to keep myself from adding large patches of low groundcovers, just to bring in more color and life.)
Thanks for the comments, folks.
Garden Designers Roundtable: Ditching the Lawn
By Evelyn Hadden Of all the picture-perfect lawns I've seen, some of the most puzzling are located in ditches. Yes, some folks are spending time, energy, and resources to keep their ditch bottoms covered with short green carpets of turfgrass. Are they doing it for the rest of us? I don't know ab...
Thank you all for the compliments and for participating in this fascinating online discussion of different lawn alternatives. So many gardeners with great ideas out there!
Garden Designers Roundtable: Ditching the Lawn
By Evelyn Hadden Of all the picture-perfect lawns I've seen, some of the most puzzling are located in ditches. Yes, some folks are spending time, energy, and resources to keep their ditch bottoms covered with short green carpets of turfgrass. Are they doing it for the rest of us? I don't know ab...
Garden Designers Roundtable: Ditching the Lawn
Posted Aug 22, 2011 at Lawn Reform Coalition
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