Gardening with a Wild Heart. Judith Larner Lowry

      JUDITH LARNER LOWRY

      UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS

       Berkeley Los Angeles London

      University of California Press

      Berkeley and Los Angeles, California

      University of California Press, Ltd.

      London, England

      © 1999 by

      Judith Larner Lowry

      Second paperback printing 2007

      Botanical drawings © Ane Carla Rovetta. Title page: male flower of blue oak. Part I: wild grapes. Part II: blue oak. Part III: coyote bush, male and female. Part IV: native blackberries and grasshopper. Part V: soaproot bulb, with soaproot brush and mortar.

      Chapter 1 epigraph: W. David Shuford is quoted from David Shuford, The Marin County Breeding Bird Atlas (1993); used by permission of Bushtit Books. Chapter 4 epigraphs: Michael Barbour is quoted from Michael Barbour, Bruce Pavlik, Frank Drysdale, and Susan Lindstrom, California's Changing Landscapes: Diversity and Conservation of California Vegetation (1992); used by permission of the California Native Plant Society, Sacramento. Jack Turner is quoted from The Abstract Wild, © 1996 by John S. Turner; used by permission of the University of Arizona Press. Chapter 9 epigraph: Maria Copa is quoted from Mary E. T. Collier and Sylvia Barker Thalman, eds., Interviews with Tom Smith and Maria Copa: Isabel Kelly's Ethnographic Notes on the Coast Miwok Indians of Marin and Southern Sonoma Counties, California, © 1996 Mapom; used by permission. Chapter 10 epigraph: Henry David Thoreau is quoted from Faith in a Seed, edited by Bradley P. Dean, © 1993 by Island Press; used by permission. Chapter 11 epigraphs: the quotation from The Jepson Manual: Higher Plants of California, edited by James C. Hickman, © 1993 by the Regents of the University of California, is used by permission of the University of California Press. Gene Logsden is quoted from At Nature's Pace: Essays, © 1994 by Gene Logsden; used by permission of Pantheon Books. Chapter 12 epigraph: Marge Piercy is quoted from Circles on the Water, © 1982 by Marge Piercy; reprinted by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. Chapter 13 epigraphs: Rich Stallcup is quoted from “Fire in Birdland,” Point Reyes Observatory Quarterly Journal, Fall 1995; used by permission. Paul Shepard is quoted from Man in the Landscape: A Historic View of the Esthetics of Nature, © 1967 by Paul Shepard; used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.

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      Earth, be glad to see me.

       KARUK TOBACCO PRAYER

       CONTENTS

       Preface

       Acknowledgments

       PART I BEGINNINGS

       1. Gardening at the Seam

       PART II TIPPING THE BALANCE IN A NATIVE DIRECTION

       2. Planning Back-Yard Restoration Gardens

       3. Design Thoughts, Principles, and Guidelines

       4. In the Changeful Garden

       5. Examples of Back-Yard Restoration Gardens

       PART III DOING THE REAL WORK

       6. Along the Flower Trail

       7. The Land Wore a Tufted Mantle: The Challenge of Our Native Bunchgrasses

       8. To See All the Colors, to Hear All the Songs: Problems of Exotic Pest Plants

       9. Wildland Seed Harvest

       10. Seed Propagation and Planting Techniques

       PART IV RESOURCES FOR THE BACK-YARD RESTORATION GARDENER

       11. Naturalists and Field Trips

       12. Tools and Tricks of the Trade

       PART V RESTORATION AND COMMUNITY

       13. In My Town

       Resources

       Notes

       Recommended