Product Description

This comprehensive, feature-packed book shows how you can create more beauty around your home, grow delicious healthful produce, and save money and natural resources all at the same time - by landscaping with edible plants. It includes a 160-page "Encyclopedia of Edibles" with detailed horticultural information, landscaping and culinary uses, seed sources, and recipes, as well as an abundance of how-to illustrations and landscape diagrams.
Of special interest to all gardeners, this unique guide incorporates energy-, water-, and soil-saving techniques with specific designs for all geographic/climatic regions of the country.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #395806 in Books
• Published on: 2002-08-07
• Released on: 1982-06-12
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 394 pages

From the Back Cover
"Knowledge, appealing text... [and] glowing illustrations should make readers confirmed believers in the benefits of homegrown foods... This is an unusually rewarding how-to, full of practical advice for beginning and experienced gardeners."
----- Publishers Weekly

About the Author
Rosalind Creasy lives in Los Altos, California, where she also a partner in a landscaping consultant firm. She has lectured and taught on environmentally sound landscaping at many Bay Area colleges, including the Farallones Institute, as well as San Francisco's Strybing Arboretum. Ms. Creasy has served as a consultant to the California State Water Resources Board on drought-tolerant landscaping, and has worked as a landscape designer and consultant since 1973. She is the author and co-author of several articles in her field.