{"product_id":"the-landscaping-ideas-of-jays-a-natural-history-of-the-backyard-restoration-garden-9780520249561","title":"The Landscaping Ideas of Jays: A Natural History of the Backyard Restoration Garden","description":"Elegantly organized by season, this lyrical yet practical guide to backyard restoration gardening celebrates the beauty, the challenges, and the rewards of growing native plants at home. Judith Larner Lowry, winner of the prestigious John Burroughs award, here builds on themes from her best-selling \u003ci\u003eGardening with a Wild Heart, \u003c\/i\u003ewhich introduced restoration gardening as a new way of thinking about land and people. Drawing on her experiences in her own garden, Lowry offers guidance on how to plan a garden with birds, plants, and insects in mind; how to shape it with trees and shrubs, paths and trails, ponds, and other features; and how to cultivate, maintain, and harvest seeds and food from a diverse array of native annuals and perennials. Working in passionate collaboration with the scrub jays, quail, ants, and deer who visit her garden, and inspired by other gardeners, including some of the women pioneers of native plant horticulture, Lowry shares the delights of creating site-specific, ever-changing gardens that can help us better understand our place in the natural world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor the past twenty-eight years \u003cb\u003eJudith Larner Lowry\u003c\/b\u003e has been the proprietor of Larner Seeds in Marin County, California. She is author of \u003ci\u003eGardening with a Wild Heart: Restoring California's Native Landscapes at Home\u003c\/i\u003e (UC Press) and her essays have appeared in \u003ci\u003eOrion, Bay Nature, \u003c\/i\u003e and other magazines and anthologies, including \u003ci\u003eAmerican Nature Writing 1996\u003c\/i\u003e, edited by John A. Murray. She lives in northern California.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50412582011154,"sku":"9780520249561","price":38.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_6b620d4b-7918-4490-ba51-9484a47d2539.jpg?v=1729317819","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-landscaping-ideas-of-jays-a-natural-history-of-the-backyard-restoration-garden-9780520249561","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}