Description: In this introduction to sustainable landscaping practices, Linda Chalker-Scott addresses the most common myths and misconceptions that plague home gardeners and horticultural professionals. Her practical advice, based on basic and applied research from university faculty and landscape professionals, will help readers understand landscape and garden plants as components of a living system, saving time and money and reducing the use fertilizers and pesticides.Linda Chalker-Scott is an extension urban horticulturist and associate professor at Puyallup Research and Extension Center, Washington State University.
Brief description: Linda Chalker-Scott is associate professor of horticulture and extension specialist at Washington State University and cohost of The Garden Professors blog. She is the author of The Informed Gardener, The Informed Gardener Blooms Again, and Sustainable Landscapes and Gardens: Good Science--Practical Application, and How Plants Work: The Science behind the Amazing Things Plants Do.
Review Quotes:
"Linda Chalker-Scott is gardening's version of television's 'MythBusters.' Ok, so she isn't so keen on blowing things up, but she does use scientific research to explain why many traditional horticultural practices aren't suitable for urban landscapes."
-- "Tacoma News"