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The Landscaping Revolution : Garden With Mother Nature, Not Against Her Paperback – December 30, 2002

by Andy Wasowski (Author), Sally Wasowski (Author)
3.9 3.9 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
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The Landscaping Revolution is a call to arms for gardeners like you who are searching for a better way to plant, maintain, and enjoy their gardens.
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  1. Print length
    176 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    McGraw-Hill
  4. Publication date
    December 30, 2002
  5. Dimensions
    7.75 x 0.5 x 10 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    007141312X
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0071413121
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"An enjoyable, instructive polemic against the American greensward. . . . A wealth of good ideas and trenchant observations."
--New York Times Book Review

"A delightful and lighthearted romp. . . . Wasowski's wry approach is empowering and entertaining."
--The American Gardener

"It's a friendly book, not holier than thou." --Chicago Tribune

"What if your car needed a tune-up every month, an oil change every week, and the tires rebalanced every five hundred miles. You'd call it a lemon and get rid of it--fast! Now consider that your own traditional American landscape demands watering two or three times a week all summer, mowing at least once or twice a week, periodic pruning, lots of weeding, and ongoing applications of herbicides, pesticides, and artificial fertilizers. Face it, my friend, that landscape is a sun-ripened, grade-A, all-American lemon!"

--from Chapter 1

In The Landscaping Revolution, you will learn commonsense approaches to gardening that will make you wonder why you never looked at your yard this way before. Here you will discover:

  • Why the plants that are best adapted to a particular region are the ones that were there in the first place
  • Grass and ground cover alternatives that conserve precious water supplies and reduce the time spent on lawn maintenance to as little as a few hours each year
  • A wealth of hard-to-find information on native plants, shrubs, and trees, complete with profiles of the environments in which they thrive

    Andy Wasowski helps you remove your landscape from the artificial life-support system fertilizers--that demands your constant attention just to keep it going.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ McGraw-Hill (December 30, 2002)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 176 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 007141312X
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0071413121
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.26 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.75 x 0.5 x 10 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.9 3.9 out of 5 stars 9 ratings

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3.9 out of 5 stars
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Jan H.
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book, great ideas, a must-have for native landscaping enthusiasts!
Reviewed in the United States on November 8, 2021
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The book is very easy to read and understand. Lots of colorful photographs, pertinent information and common sense.
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Traveler
4.0 out of 5 stars Join the Revolution to natural gardening
Reviewed in the United States on January 29, 2012
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This book is a humorous, common sense inspiration, a joy to read about intelligent, native plant gardening. Get rid of your grass, mower, leaf blower, edger, pesticides, herbicides, fertilizers. Spend you weekends enjoying and admiring your natural lawn and garden, not slaving in it and poisoning your self and your evironment.
This book would rate five stars if it offered actual
landscape planning advice. But it is a book to get you started, the best one I know.
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JZ
1.0 out of 5 stars What a WASTE of paper
Reviewed in the United States on May 5, 2013
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This book is worthless! No real gardening ideas that would qualify as a revolution unless less lawn and more plants is considered revolutionary! This book is for amateurs who don't know anything about plants or landscaping. The authors Andy and Sally made a fast buck on this ($27.95) book in 2000, but don't bother even looking at it or buying it. One star rating is way too high a mark.
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Pipperz
5.0 out of 5 stars Wow
Reviewed in the United States on August 28, 2013
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this book certainly gave me a lot to think about. It gives me a lot of ammunition to continue replacing my lawn with what nature intended. The birds, bugs, and animal friends are very glad that I am moving in this direction. This book is a must for anyone who is beginning the war on the lawn.
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James R. H.
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on February 14, 2015
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Get rid of your lawn.
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WAmazon Customer
4.0 out of 5 stars Very nice photos but get the same thing in a less expensive magazine
Reviewed in the United States on July 13, 2010
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Pretty, but any landscaping or nursery catalog has as much or more info. Nice photos, but nothing new in "revolution" of landscaping.
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Thomas Leo Ogren
5.0 out of 5 stars A Darn Good Book!
Reviewed in the United States on December 17, 2002
I was kind of shocked to see that this title is now out of print. This is a real shame as this book deserves to be widely read. One reader here suggested that the book's cover may have put off too many possible readers--too radical. He might be right about that. But the author here is trying to kick off a sort of gentle green revolution and the cover certainly didn't offend me!
I liked Landscape Revolution, very much and I would like to see the book used as a text for landscape classes. I do some landscape design myself and have taught it and this book would be a good one for students. All too often only one side of the coin is taught in our universities when it comes to horticulture and especially to landscape. The conventional way of thinking, with its heavy reliance on pesticides and chemicals and cloned cultivars, this is always taught. But the flip side, the holistic, organic approach, as found here, this is too often excluded. Landscape Revolution is well written, makes plenty of sense, and is a pleasure to read too. I heard Andy talk once in Columbus, Ohio, and he was a big hit, very dynamic speaker. He writes the same way. I write myself (Safe Sex in the Garden, Ten Speed Press) and I appreciate a job well done. I am not positive this book is for everyone, but for someone who likes to garden, who appreciates a fine landscape, and for someone who isn't too hung up on better living through chemistry, I'd certainly recommend this excellent book.
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Sheldon Weisgrau
4.0 out of 5 stars I'm ready to join
Reviewed in the United States on July 5, 2000
In an easy to read format with great illustrative photos, the authors do a fantastic job of convincing the reader to opt out of the suburban lawn fantasy and boldly go into the next century of gardening. They make a convincing case for a no hassle garden and lawn(if you must), but could have provided more resources for do-it-yourself gardeners-most of the gardens were designed by professionals. I'm planning my new garden now with the help of anybody I can talk to. I enjoyed the chapter on people who had been taken to court for their gardening efforts.
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