The Living Landscape: Designing for Beauty and Biodiversity in the Home Garden

The Living Landscape is a gardening book about creating a home garden that supports wildlife while meeting other household needs. Rick Darke shows how to design and maintain a diverse, layered landscape that combines beauty, outdoor spaces for children and pets, fragrance, edible plants, and habitat for wildlife. The book is illustrated with photographs and provides strategies for building a garden that incorporates local plants and creates shelter and sustenance for birds, butterflies, moths, turtles, bees, and other ecosystem members. It functions both as an introduction to how landscapes develop in nature and as a guide for observing wild areas and applying those principles to your own garden.