{"product_id":"b0dvzqkrvq","title":"Native Gardening In The South: The Joy of Gardening with Indigenous Plants in the Southeastern U.S.","description":"\u003cp\u003eThey say “Third time’s a charm”, and I do hope that is the case with this third edition of Native\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGardening in the South. So many new discoveries and game-changing events have occurred since\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ethis book first came out in 1992, and I really felt compelled to produce a 3 rd  Edition based on this\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003efact alone. I also wanted to do a more thorough job of presenting the information. I’m not exactly\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003esure of the number of plant species treated in this edition, but I’d guess it’s somewhere north of\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e500 -- substantially more than the 1 st  Edition’s 160. In fact, every part of this 3 rd  Edition has been\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eheavily beefed up.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHere we are 19 years after the publication of the 2 nd  Edition of this book, and so much has changed\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ein such a short time. Foremost has been the resurgence of interest in gardening with indigenous\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eplants, wrought almost single-handedly by University of Delaware entomology professor Doug\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTallamy and the publication of his two native-gardening-based books, Bringing Nature Home\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e(2007) followed by Nature’s Best Hope (2020). Both of these books were based on experimental\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eresults that revealed the tight mutual connections and survival strategies existing between native\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eplants and wildlife – both of which are presently declining as humanity continues to look after its\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eown interests. So, Doug and his students are now proving what longtime native plant and wildlife\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eadvocates have been speculating for many years prior. This speculation about the importance of\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003enative plants began in the southeastern U.S. with Caroline Dormon and Elizabeth Lawrence in the\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eearly twentieth century, and continued on in drips and drabs into the beginning of the twenty-first\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ecentury.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn my own life, this constitutes the Third Wave of native gardening interest here in eastern North\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAmerica. And now with the aid of the digital revolution and social media, certainly the biggest\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ewave. Today, people are actually planting wild plants all over the place, as opposed to merely\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eappreciating them and learning about them in their wild habitats, and merely looking on from the\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003esidelines at the tiny percentage of those who were growing, designing, and planting wild plants.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eToday, it looks like we’ve finally got some traction.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ANT","offers":[{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":54222693204331,"sku":"YSL23513","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0978\/1674\/0203\/files\/61J0x9Z_wxL._SY1500.jpg?v=1792814500","url":"https:\/\/www.booktavero.com\/products\/b0dvzqkrvq","provider":"BookTavero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}