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Hardcover The Self-Sustaining Garden: The Guide to Matrix Planting Book

ISBN: 0881928372

ISBN13: 9780881928372

The Self-Sustaining Garden: The Guide to Matrix Planting

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This book explores the theme that the plants themselves can do much of the hard work gardeners believe is an essential part of gardening. The Self-Sustaining Garden advocates using plants as partners in self-sustaining communities to create low maintenance gardens rather than being a slave to spades and hoes. In a series of compelling case studies, Peter Thompson shows how to transform a conventional garden into a self-sustaining garden. Updated from...

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Helpful book, good information

Although Peter Thompson considers matrix planting an "unorthodox" way of gardening, the concept has been around for awhile. Ann Lovejoy devoted about 20 pages to it in her book, Ann Lovejoy's Organic Garden Design School (2001), and she covers it briefly in The Ann Lovejoy Handbook of Northwest Gardening (2003). She called it sandwich planting, but it's the same as matrix planting. Peter Thompson's book provides more depth, guidance, and rationale on the topic. I use his book to complement and enhance Ann's books. The practice of layering or intermingling site-adaptive plants really makes a lot of sense. In response to reviewer, MuffieNH, below: I didn't notice the size of the font until I read her(?) review. The font is a bit smaller than some other books, but it didn't bother me. She denied herself all the helpful information in this book...
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