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Ahern, Jack

 
9781625346339: Design with Nature on Cape Cod and the Islands
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ISBN 10: 1625346336 ISBN 13: 9781625346339
Editorial: University of Massachusetts Press, 2022

Sinopsis

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 ecologically designed landscapes from the region.

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JACK AHERN is professor emeritus of landscape architecture at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

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Editorial
University of Massachusetts Press
Año de publicación
2022
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1625346336
ISBN 13 
9781625346339
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
238
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