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Understanding what makes plants happy: A new way to think about gardening
Wonderful interview in New York Times on 5/3/2017 with Thomas Rainer (business partner & co-author with Claudia West of their 2015 book Planting in a Post-Wild World: Designing Plant Communities for Resilient Landscapes). The interview is a Q&A with Margaret Roach of a favorite gardening blog, A Way to Garden.
"The big shift in horticulture in the next decade will be a shift from thinking about plants as individual objects to communities of interrelated species. We think it’s possible to create designed plant communities: stylized versions of naturally occurring ones, adapted to work in our gardens and landscapes. This is not ecological restoration, it’s a hybrid of ecology and horticulture. We take inspiration from the layered structure in the wild, but combine it with the legibility and design of horticulture." -- Thomas Rainer
"The big shift in horticulture in the next decade will be a shift from thinking about plants as individual objects to communities of interrelated species. We think it’s possible to create designed plant communities: stylized versions of naturally occurring ones, adapted to work in our gardens and landscapes. This is not ecological restoration, it’s a hybrid of ecology and horticulture. We take inspiration from the layered structure in the wild, but combine it with the legibility and design of horticulture." -- Thomas Rainer
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Free lecture series at Cambridge Public Library - Grow Native, Massachusetts: Evenings with Experts, first Wednesday of the month (February to May)
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