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Rain Gardens For the Pacific Northwest: Design and Build Your Own (Design & Build Your Own)
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Product Description Rain pounds the Pacific Northwest, gushing through dirty downspouts, across chemically treated lawns, over oily streets and through public storm drains into bays, rivers, lakes, streams, and wetlands where nature struggles to survive among the pollutants. It’s a problem caused by population density and it’s one that you can help solve. Rain Gardens for the Pacific Northwest shows you how to trap and filter dirty water safely in your yard―and how to do that with a beautiful addition to your home. Zsofia Pasztor, a Certified Professional Horticulturalist, shares what she’s learned over the years experimenting with rain gardens in the challenging clay and hardpan soils of the region. The book answers questions that Zsofia regularly encounters in her workshops, including: • Can I build a rain garden myself? • Can a rain garden be too big or too small? • Can I create a low-maintenance rain garden? • Will my rain garden attract mosquitos? • How do you know if your infiltration system is in a “safe” location? • If my rain garden isn’t working (e.g., not draining), how can I fix it without starting over? With photos and illustrations throughout, lists of best plants, and a comprehensive resources section, this easy-to-use guide shows Northwest gardeners, homeowners, and DIY-ers how to plan, design, install, and maintain their own healthy, natural, and beautiful rain garden. Review "After reading this informative book, I guarantee you'll want to include a rain garden in your landscape. Not only to protect our waterways and the environment, but to add spectacular beauty to your home--all who visit your garden will exclaim, 'Oh, la,la'!" --Ciscoe Morris, gardening advice columnist, radio/TV host, and author --Gardening with Ciscoe " Rain Gardens for the Pacific Northwest: Design and Build Your Own offers practical ideas on working with nature to protect our waterways. Case studies include rain gardens as good-looking as they are functional, and there's a list of top plants for Northwest rain gardens as well as plenty of drawings, photos and charts. The book's big accomplishment is grounding all the details of construction, plants and aesthetics within the bigger picture of environmental concerns." --Valerie Easton, garden columnist, Seattle Times About the Author Zsofia Pasztor is an award-winning landscape designer and owner of innovate Landscape Technologies which focuses on sustainable site management. She is an instructor in the horticulture department of a local community college and a rain garden workshop instructor for Stewardship Partners. Learn more at innovativelandscapetechnologies.com Co-author Keri DeTore is a landscape designer with a degree in horticultural restoration. Her writing has appeared in the People for Puget Sound website, the West Seattle Blog, The Daily Journal of Commerce, Prime Time Newspaper, and Northwest Construction News. Illustrator Jill Nunemaker was born and raised in the Northwest and is an award-winning landscape designer and horticulturist. Find her at verterradesign.com
